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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message zedz    Member since: 2/15/2007
 Posted - 9/10/2008 3:30:53 PM
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I find the theories on how long a black hole would take to do anything to the earth to be humorous. We can't even know for sure if it will rain today, but we know it will take a black hole x amount of time to destroy the earth?

I hear what youre saying, its I roll my eyes when I read ppl say they know how the universe was 0.0000001 seconds after its existence :)
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message polymorphed    Member since: 2/18/2007
 Posted - 9/10/2008 4:19:47 PM
If you honestly believe the world is going to end, what's the point of suicide? I'd stick around to watch the show.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Driv3MeFar  GDNet+  Member since: 4/24/2006  From: Bellevue, WA, United States
 Posted - 9/10/2008 4:45:17 PM
Obligatory:
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Platinum314    Member since: 7/7/2003  From: USA
 Posted - 9/10/2008 4:46:17 PM
This whole media frenzy has convinced me that basic particle physics should be taught to everybody. Of course I think the same thing about differential equations... :)
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message EmptyVoid  Banned  Member since: 5/27/2007  From: Greensboro, NC, United States
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 Posted - 9/10/2008 5:08:56 PM
Funny didn't see this before I opened my thread >.< Anyway the good news is we have another month before they actually start smashing protons. So even if the world does end, you have one more month so you better live it up! =D
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message ROBERTREAD1    Member since: 10/13/2005  From: Clapham
 Posted - 9/10/2008 5:47:53 PM
Live Webcams!

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message EnigmaticCoder    Member since: 2/17/2007  From: Temecula, CA, United States
 Posted - 9/10/2008 6:33:50 PM
I'm concerned. ;)

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message d000hg    Member since: 1/21/2002  From: Durham, United Kingdom
 Posted - 9/10/2008 8:15:40 PM
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This whole media frenzy has convinced me that basic particle physics should be taught to everybody. Of course I think the same thing about differential equations... :)
The thing is, the BBC are reporting this like it's a whole new idea to "recreate the Big Bang". When it's simply a bigger version of what was already used. Maybe 1 or 2 orders of magnitude more powerful... which isn't that much when you're talking 10^-30. It just gives a bit more resolution...
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Trapper Zoid  GDNet+  Member since: 5/20/2005  From: Melbourne, Australia
 Posted - 9/10/2008 8:30:52 PM
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This whole media frenzy has convinced me that basic particle physics should be taught to everybody. Of course I think the same thing about differential equations... :)

I don't know if that would help. I took a semester of quantum mechanics at university, and even I'm still not convinced that the whole thing isn't just a big practical joke being played on us by the physicists.



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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Diodor    Member since: 3/17/2001  From: Bucharest, Romania
 Posted - 9/10/2008 10:16:44 PM
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Live Webcams!


Heh, I watched those for a while half expecting head crabs to appear.

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Hodgman    Member since: 2/14/2007  From: Melbourne, Australia
 Posted - 9/10/2008 10:58:00 PM
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If you honestly believe the world is going to end, what's the point of suicide? I'd stick around to watch the show.
Now that just shits me.
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"There were a thousand more devotees yesterday as well as today compared to (any) other normal day," Benudhara Sahu, a temple official in Orissa state, told Reuters.
The media caused widespread panic, resulting in god knows what stupid behaviour, just to get their ratings up. It could be said that the media is responsible for her death.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Nypyren    Member since: 8/20/2002  From: Eugene, OR, United States
 Posted - 9/10/2008 11:52:33 PM
I still need to go buy a crowbar in case headcrabs and vortigaunts start warping in...
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message metalman666    Member since: 8/13/2008  From: Agrigento, Italy
 Posted - 9/11/2008 12:18:30 AM
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A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.


Absolutely, the media is to be blamed for this. They make everything out of proportion, just to get their TRP ratings.

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Many women and children rushed to temples and observed fasts as they prayed for deliverance, officials and witnesses said.

Assurances by scientists and the media that nothing would happen counted for nothing for housewife Rukmini Moharana.

"I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."


Well that's true.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Iron Chef Carnage    Member since: 12/6/2002  From: Erie, PA, United States
 Posted - 9/11/2008 1:19:47 AM
Thank God for tinfoil hats.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message LessBread  Moderator  Member since: 12/19/2001  From: Fresno, CA, United States
 Posted - 9/11/2008 2:20:28 AM
What size hat do you wear?

How long before the earthquakes in Japan, Indonesia and Iran are blamed on the LHC?
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message RedDrake    Member since: 9/12/2004
 Posted - 9/11/2008 6:05:45 AM
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The media caused widespread panic, resulting in god knows what stupid behaviour, just to get their ratings up. It could be said that the media is responsible for her death.

Don't be hasty with the finger pointing ... this is very similar to the scenario in which games get accused when some mentally disturbed kid does something stupid. And the credibility of the accusation is also questionable. It's obvious that a sane person won't go kill it self based on what she saw [otherwise they would have mass suicides all around now] so even if the news triggered it, i suspect deeper issues were probably behind this. Also the family is likely looking for something to blame, and IMO it's not easy to face the fact that you haven't noticed your kid is depressive/suicidal.
Now I agree, TV should be above spreading panic on unfounded theories, but this only reinforces my belief that mass media is turning in to a complete bunch of uneducated sensationalist crap [up until recently there were some exceptions to this that made it worth watching, but these exceptions seem to be rarer], that's why I don't watch TV anymore.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message davepermen  GDNet+  Member since: 3/31/2000  From: Augst, Switzerland
 Posted - 9/11/2008 6:29:13 AM
the happening reminds me of "war of the worlds" (that was the name of the radio show in the 1920ties or so, not?)

she heard somehow that we'll destroy the world, had no clue, and got into panic.. sad story..



If that's not the help you're after then you're going to have to explain the problem better than what you have. - joanusdmentia

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message boolean  GDNet+  Member since: 2/21/2003  From: Toronto, Canada
 Posted - 9/11/2008 7:19:08 AM
As someone said over at CA, it's Y2K all over again.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message oliii  GDNet+  Member since: 3/21/2003  From: Ill be back before breakfast
 Posted - 9/11/2008 11:19:18 AM
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Original post by polymorphed
If you honestly believe the world is going to end, what's the point of suicide? I'd stick around to watch the show.


Darwin wins again!
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message DevFred    Member since: 2/17/2007  From: Hamburg, Germany
 Posted - 9/11/2008 11:40:25 AM
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So this machine, Large Hadron Collider, is going to shoot two protons at eachother at near the speed of light.

Wouldn't it be much easier to shoot just the one proton and have the other one fixed? I mean, two protons travelling at each other, each with the speed of light, is still only the speed of light, right?
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message dean nolan    Member since: 10/9/2007  From: edinburgh, United Kingdom
 Posted - 9/11/2008 11:46:12 AM
DevFred:
No. The point is, when the proton is travelling at near the speed of light it's mass is so much larger, so with both doing this speed there is a larger energy collision.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Sirisian    Member since: 10/5/2005  From: kalamazoo, MI, United States
 Posted - 9/21/2008 2:16:42 AM
Arg fail. Something broke on the LHC. So it's being delayed.
Mechanical Damage on the LHC
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Krokhin    Member since: 7/16/2006  From: Moscow, Russian Federation
 Posted - 9/21/2008 3:48:12 AM
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Arg fail. Something broke on the LHC. So it's being delayed.
Mechanical Damage on the LHC



Gordon Freman saves world, once again!!!!
(foto near broken super magnet)
Man with spanner tighten screw,Freman has something in hands.
Look at him- he smiling slightly. It's isolation padding,I think:)
It was just a little mistake..
And now the whole "big tube" has filled with helium.

[Edited by - Krokhin on September 21, 2008 3:48:29 AM]
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Raghar    Member since: 8/3/2003
 Posted - 9/21/2008 8:15:15 AM
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I wonder how effective that thing would be as a particle weapon, if the proton beam was deliberately directed at, eg. an aircraft or a satellite... It would probably be absorbed and scattered pretty quickly by the atmosphere, but would surely look very impressive :)


It would be killed by the atmosphere, and before you ask I did calculations.

Lasers are superior, especially when they are adjusted by atmosphere turbulence.

They wanna shut it down in winter because of too large electricity bills for winter electricity. So real work would happen either shortly before winter break, or when rivers would unfreeze.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message stimarco    Member since: 4/11/2000
 Posted - 9/21/2008 9:52:25 AM
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I don't remember hearing about this before today. Interesting. It's funny how the 2012 thing is always refitted to work out to work around the next big current event is.


All the fuss about 2012 is due to the London 2012 Olympics. It will suck so much that it'll actually implode under the weight of its own mediocrity, collapsing into a black hole and smearing all life on Earth across its deadly sporting event horizon.

Thus spake Timarcos: The Great Prognosticator!

Grab my "2008 Bumper Pop-up Book of Guaranteed Predictions" now, folks! Only £9.99! Available in all good bookstores. (And quite a few shit ones.)




Sean Timarco Baggaley (Est. 1971.)
Warning: May contain bollocks.
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