I still don't understand why anyone would want their large hardon colliding into anything...

karmaghost

@bobdobbs: The Universe is collapsing on itself thanks to the LHC. Past is present...

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

This is like deja news all over again.

bobdobbs

This is weeks old news...

Dinotech

well shit, now what are people gonna forward me pictures of?

World's Greatest Dad

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: And then redirects to Goatse...

bpapa9013

Don't they have to actually use this thing first before scheduling any maintenance?

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

Scientific progress goes 'Boink'..

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@karmaghost: Different strokes for different folks.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

Keep smacktalking the LHC, Frooch. There's still 3 days left to photoshop you into all sorts of places.

OMG! Ponies!

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Don't worry, I got it.
/owns every C+H book published.

Phenostar

GOD DAMMIT GUYS. Collide some Hadrons already! What are you, a bunch of pansies? Every month you fail to find the Higgs Boson is another month before I get an inertialess space drive!

I Think We're Property

Sure it will be down..... as far as we know.

dannnn

Word is, do to several technical problems, this'll be pushed back to sometime in December of 2012...

Hilo

@OMG! Ponies!: And I heard the LHC is wicked with a Wacom tablet.

Phenostar

@I Think We're Property: Since the development of the zero-inertia drive is only gonna take a minute, ya know, once they find the Higgs.

Phenostar

@Phenostar: The sugar company?

ripfire

@ChesterHapidooya: Spambot alert spambot alert.

Phenostar

Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough' September 24, 2008 - 'LHC on hold until spring of 2009' - PhysicsWorld.com: "The magnet failure last week at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) means that the accelerator will not be up and running again until early spring of 2009, say officials at CERN. To keep the project on schedule, the team running the accelerator near Geneva have decided to skip a planned test run at an intermediate energy and re-start the LHC in 2009 at the full beam energy of 7 TeV.") And begin creating Black Holes. Zealous, jealous, 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 hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible 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 groups of billions of heavy subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets, AntiMatter and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena. Particle physicists have run out of ideas and are at a dead end forcing them to take reckless chances with more and more powerful and costly machines to create new and never-seen-before, unstable and unknown matter while Astrophysicists, on the other hand, are advancing science and knowledge on a daily basis making new discoveries in these same areas by observing the universe, not experimenting with it and with your life. The LHC is a dangerous gamble as CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown." The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this 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. Some people think similarly about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the CERN 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 physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. Reason and common sense will tell you that the risks far outweigh any potential(as CERN physicists themselves say) benefits. This quote from National Geographic, "The hunt for the God particle", exactly sums this "science" up: "If all goes right, matter will be transformed by the violent collisions into wads of energy, which will in turn condense back into various intriguing types of particles, some of them never seen before. That's the essence of experimental particle physics: "You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out." Read about the "other stuff" below: http://www.SaneScience.org http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon6.htm http://www.LHCFacts.org/ http://www.LHCDefense.org/ http://www.LHCConcerns.com/ Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"

ChesterHapidooya

@ChesterHapidooya: Foil hat much?

I can't think of any basic law or principle of nature that we understood before we discovered it. How can we understand something we don't know about? It's ridiculous to fear the unknown and the uncertain.

closhedbb

@ChesterHapidooya:
Amen, brother.

Particle physics = Sodomization of the atomic nucleus.

Do the math, people! Open your eyes for the love of God!

scarbrtj

That picture looks like the rouge doomsday machine that ate the Constellation.

reddingofish

@ChesterHapidooya: Yeah, why isn't James Bond or some shit going out there and killing these crazy French fuckers and their crazy doomsday science machine!!?!?!!11!!one!

By the way, I like your style- would you like to help me work on a script that I plan on making into a comic book and then selling to Hollywood? It involves a whole bunch of people shooting each other, and its really badass, and it ends with the protagonist telling the audience that he's fucking them in the ass! ITS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!

I Think We're Property

@Phenostar: Well, I'm assuming that after isolating the Higgs particle, it will be a finite length of time to convert that into working inertia-canceling technologies. Therefore, every month and/or year that they tack on to the discovery, would tack a similar amount of time onto the eventual delivery date of this technology.

I Think We're Property

@reddingofish:
that would be rogue, partner. doomsday machines don't wear makeup. unless you want to count my 2nd (and final) ex-wife.

godwhacker

prolly will end up getting it cranking around 2012.

snowninja

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: It's been 13 years since the last Calvin and Hobbes. So, sad. A hole in the comic strips is still there, as large as the LHC hopes to make in our space time reality.

LoganSix

@Crackpothead: The knew they had a problem when everyone started talking like chipmunks.

taodude

@ChesterHapidooya: Wow - he said it all in one breath!

taodude

ill never read the above article that is really long...the lhc will forever remain a waste of life and money...the lives ought to be wasted underground...and the metal should rot there with them soon

livinzlife

God, don't you just hate helium leaks!

Crackpothead

This is going to get delayed to 2012..and we all know what is supposed to happen then.

mricyfire

@closhedbb: Exactly why I don't believe in God.

duckballs

@mricyfire: oh please your not one of those cultists..are you?

livinzlife

I love how man continues to create machines that man neither fully understands and can destroy the world.

thesum