The Large Hadron Collider at CERN

[Budr]

Been in the news a lot recently due to explosion-induced set-backs and black-hole related worries. I've seen Half-Life references on a few forums whenever the topic comes up but it seems someone at Aunty Beeb has done a funny also:

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.

The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm

Countdown to switch on

Some science-fiction shizzle muthafuckas.

[Dave]

who gives a fuck if the world ends, if it does we will be to dead to care anyway.

[Surf314]

I saw a funny rebuttal, it was something like:

There is this theory that if there is a great amount of danger and the risk is greater than 0, than you must never do it no matter how low that risk is.

Based on this I think we should turn it on as soon as possible.  What if there is some unforeseen space-time catastrophe that we could avoid with the right knowledge.  What if aliens come and realize we haven't even discovered x particle, and they laugh while slaughtering us at our primitive planet.

Anyways I thought it was a good rebuttal.  Ducks probably got the link.

[Budr]

who gives a fuck if the world ends, if it does we will be to dead to care anyway.

Every morning when I wake, I feel a deep-seated sense of pride and satisfaction knowing that I have you, Dave, as a fellow countryman.

[Neonie]

and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....

[ZargonX]

I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass  that it would only effect the area millimeters around it.  And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything.  Portable black holes!?  We are living in an FPS!

[Neonie]

I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass  that it would only effect the area millimeters around it.  And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything.  Portable black holes!?  We are living in an FPS!

or a bugs bunny cartoon.

[Surf314]

I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass  that it would only effect the area millimeters around it.  And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything.  Portable black holes!?  We are living in an FPS!

So it would be like those shells in Outlaw Star?

[Geoff]

and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....

And then you would go to furry hell.

[CaffeinePowered]

Prepare...for unforeseen...consequences

[Luinbariel]

I heard Unforseen Consequences and couldn't help myself...

Also, I've been hearing a lot about this in various metaphysical/paranormal forums, and I personally think its a bunch of BS. So many people are calling for the end of the world with this thing, but I honestly doubt it... There are one and one-half billion theories about how the world is going to end and to me this is just another one, albeit a highly publicised one.

[Surf314]

The thing that bothers me about little black holes is don't they eventually become big black holes?  I mean it's sort of like the zombies of matter, it doesn't die it just continues to eat until it converts everything into itself.

Can you ever get rid of a black hole?  What if we shoot it into space and it gets a hold of something important like Mars or the sun?

*edit: everyone knows that the Tralfamadorians destroy the universe so there is nothing to worry about.

[A. Crow]

.... Little black holes exist on very small time scales, it's likely no one will notice.  The LHC isn't probably going to generate anything terribly useful/interesting to the general public for about 20 years.

That is all citizen, go back about your business.

[Neonie]

The thing that bothers me about little black holes is don't they eventually become big black holes?  I mean it's sort of like the zombies of matter, it doesn't die it just continues to eat until it converts everything into itself.

Can you ever get rid of a black hole?  What if we shoot it into space and it gets a hold of something important like Mars or the sun?

*edit: everyone knows that the Tralfamadorians destroy the universe so there is nothing to worry about.

Mars is not important.

[Surf314]

.... Little black holes exist on very small time scales, it's likely no one will notice.  The LHC isn't probably going to generate anything terribly useful/interesting to the general public for about 20 years.

That is all citizen, go back about your business.

Yes voice in the sky.

[A. Crow]

I mean seriously, the probability of the LHC created a blackhole that swallows the planet is on the order of that of the entire universe suddenly dissolving into fresh, quarky sweetnlow through proton decay- not zero, but pretty damn small.

[hawtpawkithero]

I really don't care.

[copulatingduck]

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.

The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.

I'd hit that. It probably sucks harder than any dame I've met. =D

[Neonie]

[quote author=Neonie link=topic=761.msg19530#msg19530 date=1215444468]
and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....

And then you would go to furry hell.
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S'cool. I hear theres a lot of yiffing there.

[Budr]

[quote author=Budr link=topic=761.msg19524#msg19524 date=1215442422]

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.

The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.

I'd hit that. It probably sucks harder than any dame I've met. =D
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Shit Duck, that's like the third time you've made me crack up today. Can we get a laughing smilie, I detest typing lol