Wackos everywhere, plague of madness.

PipeRifle

i fucking love the Fifth Element

elislider

Folks, we're perfectly safe. It's controlled by a Dell running Windows.

bobdobbs's MBA is having dirty thoughts about LindsayJoy's MBP

@Munch: @Hiphopopotamus: I beat you both. but you have stars. I feel like that FedEx commercial, where the guy has a great idea, and nobody says anything, then the boss says the exact same thing, and everybody goes Yeah!

Log1c

I predict they flip the switch -- and the neighbor's garage door goes up and down.

GeekyNerdGuy

"Super-collider? I just met her!"

I know, it's tired and wants to rest.

MagnoliaBoy

@GeekyNerdGuy: I see! I see...SCIENCE IS POWER!

carmen

@FinalValgas: BSoD?

wizardofpants

Yay, Black Holes for EVERYONE! YAY!

MagnoliaBoy

@tucker: tu patsate eeeeeekoliiiii

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

if this thing was to destroy the solar system, i'm pretty sure that an alien race would have warned us by now. split the earth in half? maybe.

BTW good throwback to 12 monkeys. that was an cool time travel type movie.

B1663R

When they hit the switch.......... .. it's not even gonna work.

FinalValgas

@carmen: That's what would have been called an "instantaneous reaction."

No countdown would have occurred.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Hiphopopotamus: forget pictures man. you know how many times i've been beat to the punch around here?

btw "Lilu Dallas, multi-pass"

tucker

And thus comes the reproduction of the Great Green Arklesiezure.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

umm...collider... cool. But will it run Doom without a bootup disk?

catfewd

26 days? oh good gawd no! - I will have been incinerated days before ever having had the experience of holding my own iPhone 3G - though, on the other hand, I won't have had to put up with ATs ridiculous new data plan, though.. fair enough, bring on LHC meltdown...

designguybrown

@Munch: %*$& you! I was hunting for photos!

Hiphopopotamus

BIG BADDA BOOM!

Hiphopopotamus

@jayhawk11: I thought we were counting down to a hard on...I was just gonna throw a naked picture of me in here and count down..DAMN!

carmen

Interesting, I'm curious as to all of what they might find out, i was impressed with the machine that simulated the sun, miniaturized and the supercollider was cool too.

Jones91

@zanella: That seed vault has been around for a while. i think they actually came up with the idea for it during the cold war. So it would be more like "Did they invent the LHC so that we would have a reason to use the seed vault?"

jayhawk11

dyslexia = hardon collider.

logruszed

BIG Bada Boom!

Munch

So, was the "fill up" at the Seed Vault intentionally planned for JUST BEFORE they turn the ignition on the Hadron Collider or is it just a happy coincidence?

zanella

"Big badda boom" "yeah yeah big badda boom, I get it"

Also, fuck yes! Gimme some LHC lovin.

Log1c

Does anyone really think this is going to happen?

Maybee transformers might come off a space bridge at the point of collision but not the end of the world...

etaripamai

So fair game to go and start a crime spree for 26 days? I mean end of the world and all, what do I have to lose?

Dapole

Luckily, I've already been looting for years! Things I don't even need!!!

Chromeo

@robotleawesome: That, or the entire earth is engulfed into a polar opposite of the universe as we know it, and only returns after every living thing's consumed itself in a hellish flurry of chaotic superviolence.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

It looks like the LHC already has one victim. That website isn't responding at all...

IphtashuFitz

@zenpoet: Why do you always have to go straight to the fat jokes? I'm going to the gym I really am!

@Munch: I do that too especially if there are a shit ton of replies. I dunno, is there a lame duck period or something?

Log1c

The whole "we don't know what will happen" coming from the people who've built a GIGANTIC supercollider does worry me slightly; but I'll start the panic once the portal opens and demons start eating people.

robotleawesome

@Log1c: We remember you! You were the squishy one!

zenpoet

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:And Bruce Willis is the best looking old guy yet... well perhaps Sean Connery, but hes waaaay old.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Great, I wasn't sure how i was going to afford the next rent hike.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

HOLY CRAP! Hollywood only has 26 days to make a lame end-of-the-world movie about this! I can think of only one super-human director up to the task! Uwe Boll!

FrankenPC

@Log1c: Well, I'll be damned - you sure did. Sorry, sometimes I just skim the previous posts when I have something I want to say. How's this work - do you get to take one of our stars, or something?

Munch

Scheduling a date with a naive blonde chick for the evening of 25 days from now

Optimus-Prime

Bill Nye is somewhere stocking up on cans of soup and bow ties.. BILL BILL BILL BILL

marc_wtih_a_c

Anyone interested in stuff relating to the end of the world as we know it would want to read Arthur C. Clark's "The 9 Billion Names of God" if you haven't already. Interesting stuff and this really reminds me of it.

Finding the Ultimate Question, only to realize you have nothing left to ask :P

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

@Zarian: You do know you mispelled awesome, right?

GeekyNerdGuy

Theoretically...if the universe is destroyed we won't even know it as we would cease to exist instantaneously. That's what has me bummed out. I could be counting down and wouldn't even know if I made it to 0.

CubFan81

You mean they're NOT waiting until after July 11? Don't they read the tech blogs? DON'T THEY KNOW!!!???

drewdrawsagain

There is one thing everyone seems to not mention.

WHat if this gives us all super powers!

I call dibs on the name Captain Awsome

Zarian

@bobdobbs's MBA is having dirty thoughts about LindsayJoy's ...: Fuck...

Mike918

@Hiphopopotamus: Acceptable, but please, try to remember the little guy that we all step over to get to the top.

Log1c

So what's the worst that can happen? so we MIGHT destroy the universe... la-di-frickin-da

wolfenstein-3d

@elislider: So lemme ask you my'man!

Are you happy here??

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

@Log1c: I saw yours too right after I yelled at Munch - but I figured two @Posts was probably excessive.

But yes, I hate you too, better?

Hiphopopotamus

I see that the GLAST telescope has been launched today.

How much time might be required before analysis of GLAST data might indicate proof or rejection of Hawking Radiation theory?

This could be critical in determining the safety of the Large Hadron Collider, due to begin collisions later this year.

Unlike what CERN tells the public, the Large Hadron Collider Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) writes that current safety arguments are not valid proof of safety. Micro black holes might be created by the Large Hadron Collider, they might not evaporate, they might grow quickly and we have not been damaged by cosmic rays because cosmic rays pass harmlessly through Earth. CERN also tells the public that a new safety report has been completed, but so far the final report has not been released for review by world's scientists.

The legal complaint before US Federal Court in Hawaii demands 4 months to review this safety report and a permanent injunction if safety can not be assured to within reasonable industry standards. First hearing is scheduled for June 16, 2008.

Learn more at LHCFacts.org

jtankers

@Log1c: Ugh, I heard about that. After the atrocious but slightly amusing Starship Troopers and Hollow Man, I think Paul Verhoven needs to collaborate with Michael Bay and blow each other up.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

@nutbastard:
NB. I do know that, and I also know that you'd agree some things are worth a little more consideration and insight than others.
Like, healthcare.

ANoel

@Hiphopopotamus: You know they made a sequel to that?

Log1c

@logruszed: Hardon collector? I went out with her...

Cupajo

@ANoel: I was actually just thinking about this poem. The final stanza sums it up in my opinion.

"Not with a bang, but a whimper" indeed.

jayhawk11

@Log1c: And yet, Kevin Bacon's Hollow Man is still just as bad.

Hiphopopotamus

@ANoel:

you're exhausting sometimes, you know that right?

nutbastard

@ANoel: Holy shit, Southland Tales just made a HELL of a lot more sense.

Log1c

@Log1c: Maybe you get my star, cuz I stole your material, and I get Hiphopopotamus's star, since he stole what I had rightly stolen from you. Can we get an official ruling over here?

Munch

*W*A*R*N*I*N*G* Genius poetry *A*L*E*R*T*
(perhaps Eliot wrote this as his comment on this post 83 years ago)

The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot 1925

(A penny for the Old Guy)

I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men


II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are

Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Walking alone

At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together and avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

ANoel

@carmen: Someone thinks very highly of themself....haha just kidding.

I keep thinking of those Cadillac commercials..."When you turn your LHC on, does it return the favor?"

Must....get....sleep

jayhawk11

@rebelj12a: Better than macroscopic black holes... like some people have.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@jtankers: micro black holes... seems pretty serious

rebelj12a

solar system? i dont quite understand all of what is said in that article but it almost seems like this could destroy the universe or something... simulating the circumstances in which everything was created... i.e. big bang... but yeah im banking on it not working? or maybe not doing too much just giving a little data that sends scientists down another path.... the world as it is is seldom as dramatic as BMF BOOM! universe destroyed solar system gone type thing

rebelj12a

@nutbastard: oh thank Christ.
Just as well since I don't have a noose handy.

Step666

@ANoel: Naw, here's a true poetry .. (i picked a short one)

I Met A Genius by Charles Bukowski
I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.

it was the first time I'd
realized
that.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Anagram fun...

Large Hadron Collider = Chilled gonadal error.
or
Large Hadron Collider = Rancid odor, large hell.

Nope, no problems here at all!

scarbrtj

I love the picture, 12 monkeys was the shit

nick

"MMMMM. Cheeeeekin gooood."

alowishus

@ANoel:

oh i uh... whoops :P

nutbastard

@nutbastard:
Wrong call. That was sidelong props for offering valuable, however long-winded, insights and opinions on subjects that matter to you.
Peace.

ANoel

@ps61318: HA HA!!

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@jtankers:
Excellent comment - will check it out - it matters.

ANoel

Man, this thread got ugly fast.

bobdobbs

*emblem

ps61318

@Cupajo: and I immediately apologize - you are not a piggie swine. You a simply an emplem.

ps61318

@ANoel:

im not biting, so save the healthcare threadjack bait.

nutbastard

@ANoel: And in the Category "Pearliest Pearls before the Piggiest Swine" we have ANoel with The Hollow Men by T. S. Elliot followed by an erection joke from @Cupajo:

ps61318

@Step666: I don't condone suicide and would never encourage anyone to do so, but powercords are good substitutes for good nylon rope.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

We all might want to finally break down and pay for sex before they set this off. You know ... just in case.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Dustin L.: I thought that's what my granny does already.

Valicious

my escape pod is jammed sir.

Valicious

Just make sure you get an electrical shock at the exact time this thing fires and maybe you can get yourself stuck in a time loop and spend every day trying to stop the thing from being fired.

Dustin L.

I'm taking out a big loan and going to Vegas.

txtanner88

@GeekyNerdGuy: Some of us DON'T have to pay for sex :)

carmen

@GeekyNerdGuy: No, I'm totally with you. How does this thing get from off to on...and who gets to do the honors. And how long is the warm up? Is it like a light switch and comes on "immediately" or is it like an HDTV that does nothing for a moment before kicking in or like a coffee pot that gurgles and churns for a bit before things start to flow.

In any case, this is why I refuse to do any real work for the next month, just in case...well, actually I refuse to do any real work until 2012, just in case...well, actually I just pretty much refuse to do any real work.

92BuickLeSabre

@GeekyNerdGuy: My guess is a series of complex movements with a wiimote.

Gann

@Curves: Do you think it's really a switch or do you think it's a button? Or maybe they just click something with a mouse. Then again, might just be a keystroke or hot-key combination. Might even be a run command.

Then again, maybe we're overthinking this. Maybe one scientist just says go and the other touches the red lead to a car battery.

Is it sad that I'm more interested in how they're going to trigger it than in the experiment itself?

GeekyNerdGuy

@Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive: that's a useful tip but the disaster was averted.

Step666

This thread is scaring me. I hope someone knows WTF they are doing when they flip that switch.

Curves

Our universe is an unanticipated consequence of a parent universe's experiment with a large hadron collider. I'm pretty sure that somebody got fired.

Slartibartfast

@GeekyNerdGuy: That image leaves me with a lot more shits than giggles.

92BuickLeSabre

@GeekyNerdGuy, Gann, 92BuickLeSabre & GeekyNerdGuy (again): LMAO.
Brilliant.

Step666

@carmen: You're not paying for sex, you're paying for her to leave.

Munch

@92BuickLeSabre: I bet just for shits and giggles they rigged it to one of those old school explosives levers.

Or maybe they decided to challenge themself with some rube-goldberg on/off switch that involves dry ice and a mouse.

GeekyNerdGuy

@LittleJon: Or are we?

GeekyNerdGuy

@LittleJon:
Cool. I hope you're correct. Links?

ANoel

As I said last time this retarded subject came up (but nobody listened):

Cosmic rays with much higher engeries hit the Earth all the time. The LHC will not do anything that hasn't already occurred on Earth many times before, but in case you haven't noticed... we're still here!

LittleJon

@ANoel: The bored/unhappily married ones will buy you stuff, but you have to watch out because it doesn't take much before they're talking about leaving their husband and staying with you.

You've got to nip that shit in the bud.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Munch:
Right on. Is that a Hadron Collider innuendo?

ANoel

@carmen:
So. No matter how fugly, or foul-mouthed or self-centered, I've never know a woman who had to pay for sex. Ever. And then they bitch about how awful it is to have periods. Jeez.

ANoel

Have you guys ever heard of a micro black hole... It could start out as a simple atom of dark matter and then vastly grow at an exponential rate. 3 months later and we can all just disappear. Ahh yes we are the hollow man, the straw man.

topbravo222

A billion voices crying out at once... then nothing.

sharmanova

@ANoel: Here you are, it's amazing what a moment's Googling can find:

[public.web.cern.ch]

LittleJon

Hi everyone, I'm starting a new cult to commemorate the end of our universe, were going to shave our heads, drink punch, and cut off our genitalia, at the final seconds were going leave our bodies so we can transgress to the new universe that will be created so we can be reborn as Steve Jobs...

...but first I need everyone to deposit their earthly possessions {read MONEY} into the great box {it's the really big cardboard to your left}... oh and DON'T PANIC.

Costermonger

@LittleJon: Thanks for the link. Like you, I've wasted breath trying to explain why this is a non-issue.

If the LHC can produce microscopic black holes, cosmic rays of much higher energies would already have produced many more. So this is what happens to all those single socks!

hnkelley

I look forward to it activating. Why? So all the "Chicken littles" that think the sky is falling or going to fall, can move on to something else when nothing dangerous happens.

I trust the guys working on the Large Hadron Collider.We have scientist/engineers working on this LHC, that are geniuses from all over the world. Who live and breath this kind of thing. They know what there doing, and I fully trust them.

-Core-

Is that a Hardron Collider in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

wizardofpants

@ANoel: Here we go...lol periods are a horrible horrible thing.
That is why I don't have more than 4 a year not for myself...but to spare nutbastard a weeks worth of hell. Poor men.

carmen

gottaa love scientists playin dice with the world.

Kinda like the first atomic bomb tests, the scientists didn't know if the bomb would keep exploding and ignite the atmosphere destroying all life on earth, but they went ahead with the test anyway. lucky us.

thedarkhorse

@thedarkhorse: Just like the atomic bomb tests, nobody who really knew anything about what they were talking about thinks this will cause the world to end.

It is an urban legend that scientists thought that before the atomic bomb tests. Even a basic schooling in nuclear physic would show you that it was impossible for that to happen.

LittleJon

"A billion voices crying out at once... then nothing."

Find the answers you seek at LHCFacts.com...

...Three strongly disputed assumptions may mean the difference between Life or Death for Earth… Micro Black holes (MBH) are created or not, MBH decay or not, MBH grow extremely slowly or not. Collisions Scheduled to begin late 2008.

"Cosmic rays with much higher engeries hit the Earth all the time. The LHC will not do anything that hasn't already occurred on Earth many times before, but in case you haven't noticed... we're still here!"

CERN's own LHC Safety Assessment Group has long ago rejected that theory... it is still used as public calming propaganda, but that is all.

Hint: Results of cosmic rays exit through the planet at relativistic speeds, fly right through it... no danger from cosmic rays... Head-on collisions create slow moving results, like a factory that can not dispose of its toxic waist...

LHCFacts.org... "...then nothing..."

jtankers

What ever happened to the time when ppl were generally excited about science, It seems now a days you just have three groups, The conservatives who think we need to stop "playing God" so that we can have more time to read their religious texts of choice, The liberals who are to busy whining about "all of the other, much better, ways to spend money" so that some person or animal that never did a damn thing for me wont suffer quite as much as they usually do, then you have the small minority of scientists who actually aren't afraid to advance the way we understand our universe. Not that i really care about the begging of the Universe or anything, but damn, if we get a chance to perhaps understand it better... why the hell not.

luciusad2004

A turkey thought every day was exactly the same as the last, right up until Thanksgiving!!

-Behold a Black Swan

Kevin

'The World is not Enough' - Revenge of the Nerds. Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka 'God') Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments to try to solve theoretical problems when urgent real problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing clouds of Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena. The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states quote: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." This stunning admission is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing.' you could not be more wrong. The second part of the quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle experimentalist physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. This quote from Nation Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out." For more information visit; http://www.lhcdefense.org/ http://www.lhcconcerns.com http://www.SaneScience.org/ http://www.LHCFacts.org Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"

SavitashriRhapsody

About f-ing time

Fuzzims

Well it was nice knowing you earth.

reigninblood

Time to ready the treeship for mass exodus to Shrike country...

tggin