Large Hadron Collider again

[Tadao]

http://quegrande.org/countdown/

[Dixie]

I wish.

[Tadao]

Shhhhh, don't wish out loud! It wont come true!

[Esuohlim]

Has anyone called this the Large Hardon Collider yet? lol

[DuFresne]

Yeah, Encyclopedia Dramatica did :(

[Esuohlim]

Oh ok, then it must not be funny after all.

[RaNkeri]

Does somebody actually take this shit seriously?

[Dixie]

Yeah, stupid people. Lots of them. One chicken little retard screams about something they don't know anything about and all of a sudden they have the whole chicken coop squawking and parroting them.
Who needs education when you can just speculate that scientists want to kill everybody?

[El Blanco]

It could be worse. They could be playing that fucking song by Europe all the time.

And how can I get to be the guy that turns it on?

[pac-man]

And how can I get to be the guy that turns it on?

Put on cologne and wear something sexy.

[El Blanco]

Hai Karate and a silk robe. Got it.

Anybody got a Barry White CD I can borrow?

[DuFresne]

Thursday at noon.

Crowbar by my side.

Those headcrabs won't know what hit 'em.

>: >:

[Colonel Flagg]

Black holes and strangelets are a-coming. And they want our wimmins.

[Pub Lover]

I'd be more amused by them being unable to spot the Higgs boson. :(

I need to find the number for my old physics professor so I can call her up and mockingly screech Neener Neener Nyner.

[Dimnos]

Did you physics prof say they would never do this or something?

[Tadao]

I'd be more amused if they actually turn the fucking thing on.

[wobzire]

I'd be more amused by them being unable to spot the Higgs boson. :(

I need to find the number for my old physics professor so I can call her up and mockingly screech Neener Neener Nyner.
I heard Hawking bet someone $100 they wouldn't find it.

[El Blanco]

Thursday at noon.

Crowbar by my side.

Those headcrabs won't know what hit 'em.

>: >:

Wait, no. Can't they hold it off for another 10 days or so? My birthday is the 18th. I'd like to get one last hurrah in.

[Pub Lover]

Did you physics prof say they would never do this or something?

I had an argument with her right before I dropped out that her science would all fall apart if they couldn't find the Higgs boson.

She assured me that she had faith in it being found.

I stamped my foot, wagged my finger and stuttered something about faith's place in science.

Then I went and sat in a stairwell and had a good cry.

[fluffkomix]

im going to the local kindergarten to tell little kids they're going to die tomorrow!

[Esuohlim]

The "local kindergarten", you say

[DuFresne]

:( Oh... Thursday's activation is just going to be a test of the beams. There won't be any actual particle collisions going on until October 21. Looks like you're good, El Blanco.

[VaporTrailx1]

I don't think it could create a black hole. That requires the collapse of a star. Which is really really really big. I don't think two protons colliding at the speed of light can do much.

but perhaps, just perhaps theyll rip a hole straight through to another dimension!

[Pub Lover]

Hey New Guy, you should've just stopped at "I don't think" because your opinion on physics seems to indicated that you do not at all.

[Esuohlim]

Better yet what if the collider created SUPER PARTICLES and like fuckin' QUASARS

BOOM KABOOM KAPOW

[Dixie]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/20/science_fiction_death_ray_2.jpg

[Dimnos]

Because im fat and lazy and dont really want to research it, can anyone tell me how this collider is any different from other collieders that they have used? Aside from it being "bigger" that is. And how would it create a black hole when a black hole is dense body of so much mass that the gravitational force is strong enough to pull in light photons and they didnt put that much matter into the collider in the first place?

[Pub Lover]

You humans, when're you gonna learn that size doesn't matter? Just 'cause something's important, doesn't mean it's not very, very small.

[RaNkeri]

I and few of my friends had this idea of skipping todays lectures and instead roam around the city with signs like "The end is near". Then after the h-hour we would have had a valid reason to go celebrate to a local bar with "physics kick ass" signs.

However, this plan turned out to be way too spontaneous and stupid for us to bear :/

[ItalianStereotype]

Some girl in India killed herself because she was afraid of dying when the LHC is turned on.

She killed herself because she was afraid of dying.

[Grislygus]

Huh

I guess that's what happens when you call an Indian suicide hotline

[fluffkomix]

most of the time people kill themselves because they were afraid of "living"

so yea, now its 40 more days again. why?

[executioneer]

because they ain't collided shit yet

first they had a countdown because they were testing PART of the track, then they were panicking because they were just sending PROTONS thru it

people need to learn to fucking read already

[Pub Lover]

The problem isn't so much with the reading, it's the comprehension that is failing to pass muster.

[pac-man]

More to the point: who gives a shit anymore?

[Pub Lover]

The people that like getting worked up over bullshit? IE, most people.

[pac-man]

Touche. :\

[Esuohlim]

I hear Y2K might try to kill us again

[pac-man]

If I survive Hurricane Ike, I might start caring about the LHC again.

[Dixie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[VaporTrailx1]

is there a quantum physicist in the house?

[DuFresne]

Now that you mention it, where the hell has Seth been through all of this?

[Pub Lover]

[15:06] Pub: Hello, would you like to tell people that you don't know, but are assured have displayed all the signs of being moronic, that they are far too stupid for the activities of the Cern LHC to be interesting to them?
[15:07] Seth: oh, hello Internet
[15:07] Seth: in short, I would love to do so.
[15:07] Seth: unfortunately, however, you are being neglected in favor of spending time with a girlfriend whom I actually like (for now).
[15:07] Seth: I'm sorry, Internet.
[15:08] Pub: I perfectly understand. Good luck with her not being crazy & here is hoping the ways she brings ruin to your life are at least enjoyable at the time.

[MattJack]

are we dead yet?

[executioneer]

only on the inside :goth

[Sethomas]

[15:06]
[15:08] Pub: I perfectly understand. Good luck with her not being crazy & here is hoping the ways she brings ruin to your life are at least enjoyable at the time.

Well, she linked me to this:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[Dimnos]

Well, she linked me to this:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/


ROFL! :bestthread

[Tadao]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pre_game_coin_toss_makes

[Colonel Flagg]

I don't think it could create a black hole. That requires the collapse of a star. Which is really really really big. I don't think two protons colliding at the speed of light can do much.

:rolleyes

Hey New Guy, you should've just stopped at "I don't think" because your opinion on physics seems to indicated that you do not at all.

:lol

[McClain]

Huh

I guess that's what happens when you call an Indian suicide hotline

I heard they farm out their hotline services to Americans. The statement "Don't bite the bullet" gets lost in translation.

[pac-man]

Is that part of some exchange program? Every time I call a helpdesk or hotline the dude on the other end sounds like Apu from The Simpsons.

[DuFresne]

I THINK THAT'S THE JOKE

[pac-man]

Oh... I get it now. :rolleyes

[executioneer]

you just had to bring up the simpsons again

[pac-man]

Surely you didn't think I was done.

[bigtimecow]

even though we aren't going to die and nothing is going to happen that could harm ANYTHING at all, people who actually think they are going to die kinda have no reason to be freaking out anyway:

if you believe in an afterlife everyone will be there with you + god and whoever so it'll be like nothing happened anyway

if you don't believe in an afterlife then who gives a shit you won't even know you died. it'll just happen and then nothing

:(

[Tadao]

But what if a portal to a demon dimension is opened and we are kept alive as slaves :(

[DuFresne]

Like I said: CROWBAR.

[Evil Robot]

I wonder what would happen if air were to leak in at some point.

[Bod]

NSFW

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/8246/largehardoncolliderme5.png

[Guitar Woman]

Thanks for the NSFW warning, Encyclopedia Dramatica.

[Tadao]

They have a couple of live cams working right now.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[DuFresne]

:lol

[Dimnos]

Nice :lol

[Tadao]

Argument on if this is all money well spent.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/13/brian-cox-oh-snaps-sir-david-king/

[DevilWearsPrada]

SMASHING DICKS TOGETHER HARD

[Dixie]

Your fantasies have no place in this thread.

[DevilWearsPrada]

You have the same one, except it's my penis being smashed

[Dixie]

No, I'm more creative than that.

[DevilWearsPrada]

kinky :eek

[pac-man]

Turns out the fucking thing malfunctioned after last week's start up. Guess that's what was going on in the vids Tadao posted. Glad they're getting all the kinks out before they start smashing hardons together.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_re_eu/eu_big_bang