as we know it happens tomorrow

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/08/lhc.collider/index.html

Quote :

"Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge"

some scientists say that the collider could very well create black holes, but not enough to do anything

but others are saying that the small black holes would overtime develop, taking about 50 months to develop into an earth swallowing catastrophe- and that should put it around November of 2012... anyone a little superstitious of the predicted end of the world by the Mayans?

9/9/2008 10:01:35 AM

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9/9/2008 10:09:08 AM

I keep fucking reading the title of that thread as "Large Hard On Collider."

9/9/2008 10:10:02 AM

^ which is why there are 2 or 3 parodies already

9/9/2008 10:11:36 AM

^^^yeah, i rarely go to the lounge anymore


in reality, i'm not too worried about this- hell, before they dropped the first atom bomb, there were scientists who were worried that it would set off a chain reaction that would vaporize the entire atmosphere

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM. Reason : ^]

9/9/2008 10:12:10 AM

Oh shit

Palin's church was right!!!

EVERYBODY START THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO ALASKA!!!

9/9/2008 10:12:52 AM

^^ oh, i know...which is why didn't put [old] or something...just a reference to a thread where it's already been discussed a bit

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM. Reason : .]

9/9/2008 10:12:55 AM

i just wonder what I would do if I knew that the world was going to end for sure in 4 years... certainly wouldn't be going back to school for post graduate work

i don't know if I would get a job- i'd probably split my time playing golf and camping

9/9/2008 10:14:40 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Quote :

"It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself Technological civilizations may usually or invariably destroy themselves before or shortly after developing radio or space flight technology. Possible means of annihilation include nuclear war, biological warfare or accidental contamination, nanotechnological catastrophe, ill-advised physics experiments,[28], a badly-programmed super-intelligence, or a Malthusian catastrophe after the deterioration of a planet's ecosphere. This general theme is explored both in fiction and in mainstream scientific theorizing.[29] Indeed, there are probabilistic arguments which suggest that humanity's end may occur sooner rather than later. In 1966 Sagan and Shklovskii suggested that technological civilizations will either tend to destroy themselves within a century of developing interstellar communicative capability or master their self-destructive tendencies and survive for billion-year timescales.[30] Self-annihilation may also be viewed in terms of thermodynamics: insofar as life is an ordered system that can sustain itself against the tendency to disorder, the "external transmission" or interstellar communicative phase may be the point at which the system becomes unstable and self-destructs.[31] From a Darwinian perspective, self-destruction would be a paradoxical outcome of evolutionary success. The evolutionary psychology that developed during the competition for scarce resources over the course of human evolution has left the species subject to aggressive, instinctual drives. These compel humanity to consume resources, increase longevity, and to reproduce — in part, the very motives that led to the development of technological society. It seems likely that intelligent extraterrestrial life would evolve similarly and thus face the same possibility of self-destruction. And yet, for species self-destruction to provide a good answer to Fermi's Question, it would have to be very nearly universal. That is, this possibility would have a probability of very nearly 1.0. It has been suggested that a successful alien species would be a superpredator, as is Homo sapiens.[32] This argument does not require the civilization to entirely self-destruct, only to become once again non-technological. In other ways it could persist and even thrive according to evolutionary standards, which postulates survival as the sole goal of life - not "progress," technology or even intelligence."

FWIW, i see this as a very real outcome to our "intelligence" (self-destruction, i mean)

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM. Reason : .]

9/9/2008 10:17:22 AM

Reverse process, create black plug. Problem solved.

9/9/2008 10:17:46 AM

I have a friend who brings up the Mayan calendar all the time and I want to kill him

I better not tell him about this - honestly I don't understand this whole black hole stuff maybe i'll read about it at work today

9/9/2008 10:19:50 AM

Quote :

"...Still, skeptics have filed suit to try to stop the project. It even has a rap dedicated to it on YouTube. Scientists say the collider is finally ready for an attempt to circulate a beam of protons the whole way around the 17-mile tunnel... "

Really...Did they have to mention a Youtube rap in what was otherwise a very serious article?

9/9/2008 10:42:52 AM

lawl.

i hope this happens.

9/9/2008 10:47:55 AM

Quote :

"That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped. Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. can't I have some time alone? It's the end of the world as we know it can't I have some time alone? and I feel fine...fine... It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. can't I have some time alone? It's the end of the world as we know it can't I have some time alone? and I feel fine...fine "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeo0_3gN190&feature=related

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 10:54 AM. Reason : hl]

9/9/2008 10:51:56 AM

i had dream a long time ago that someday scientist will be hunted like drug dealers are today
they're gonna screw up big time sooner or later

9/9/2008 10:52:05 AM

On one of those Nat Geo or discovery shows about doomsday there was a thing similar to this that caused black holes and huge storms that wiped out the world. They had a pretty cool story line and showed airplanes being sucked into the hole. I wonder if it was this they were basing it on? Cause it's the first I've heard of it. Yet I don't pay much attention to things like this.

anyone else seen that show i'm talking about? wish i could remember where it was or what it was called.

9/9/2008 10:56:22 AM

on second thought, i hope this doesn't happen, b/c i don't want to die thinking to myself over and over 'how the fuck did the mayans know?'

9/9/2008 10:59:45 AM

Quick, everyone go out and buy houses, and cars, and expensive electronics while it's still possible to get credit!!!

9/9/2008 11:03:04 AM

If this thing creates small black holes that quickly dissolve can we throw all our nuclear waste and Rob Schneider in one of them before it goes away?

9/9/2008 11:07:57 AM

Uh oh...

Quote :

"the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on 21 October 2008.[5]"

50 months...

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 11:08 AM. Reason : from Wikipedia]

9/9/2008 11:08:17 AM

that is freaky,

i definately think dec 21, 2012 will have a major even in earth's history, but it will not be the end
there is still too much left unfinished
like china's rise to superpower
and iraq becoming one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and space travel

9/9/2008 5:44:27 PM

Quote :

"hell, before they dropped the first atom bomb, there were scientists who were worried that it would set off a chain reaction that would vaporize the entire atmosphere"

Can you vaporize vapor? If so, my mind is blown.

9/9/2008 5:54:14 PM

oxygen does indeed burn ya know..

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 5:54 PM. Reason : although vaporize is probably a bad way to say it ]

9/9/2008 5:54:41 PM

I HOPE THIS ISN'T ALLUDING to SARAH PALIN.

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 5:56 PM. Reason : oops]

9/9/2008 5:55:46 PM

i saw this, and I'm actually a little bit nervous about it, but not panic mode yet. Panic mode would probably be too late anyhow.

9/9/2008 5:56:48 PM

Quote :

"oxygen does indeed burn ya know.. [Edited on September 9, 2008 at 5:54 PM. Reason : although vaporize is probably a bad way to say it ]"

...with hydrogen, which makes: water vapor.

I was just kidding about the poor word choice anyway. I wasn't trying to be a dick, I promise.

9/9/2008 6:00:48 PM

ok, if we're gonna die, I wanna go out with boobies in my face. who will grant this dying man's wish?

9/9/2008 6:02:15 PM

i can provide the penis that you so desparetely want but are denying to admit.

9/9/2008 6:03:51 PM

^^better hope you don't get man boobies to the noggin

9/9/2008 6:05:25 PM

shit forgot to specify. NO MANBOOBS. NEED NICE ROUND FEMALE BOOBS

9/9/2008 6:21:13 PM

if the world gets destroyed, at least Sarah Palin will never be Vice President

9/9/2008 7:06:38 PM

Not a fucking thing will happen.

Believe it.

It won't really matter if you're wrong after all...

9/9/2008 8:03:48 PM