Quote:Original post by LessBread Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
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 :)
Quote:Original post by LessBread Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
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 hellishly impressive, but hellishly expensive too!
Why is it that anything I post in the news, makes it to the lounge first?... Perhaps I should start checking the lounge for my news bites each Wednesday.
Quote:Original post by LessBread Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
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 :)
Yesterday paper, joke: -------------- Son can't fall to a sleep,and ask mother: -mommy,tell me please,how our universe appeared? -well,my son,another universe was before...at some planet clever men lounched LHC...big-bahg occured... and our universe appeared.Sleep quickly!
