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Looks like the Large Hadron Collider is actually starting to do, y'know, 'stuff'. None of which has destroyed earth yet.

BBC wrote:The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.

The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November.

The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/08/lhc_heavy_ions_and_button_tomfoolery/

Page 2 restores much of my faith in humanity especially.

Cool, but a bit anticlimactic. It would have been more interesting if it had caused the end of the world.

Also if they put this into a handy pocket size form the NRA better fight for my right to carry it concealed on my person.

Ha! Brilliant.


There's no fething way I'd press it though. I'm not THAT bloke. Y'know, the one who jumps up and down in the lift to 'test' it.

I HATE those guys.

We have been briefed directly by top CERN boffins, and we give you the straight info: the LHC does not and never will present any type of planet- or universe-destroying mishap risk - though there is apparently a chance of an interdimensional portal incident of some type, possibly involving invasion of planet Earth by teleporting, rumbling juggernaut-spheroid creatures from the Fifth Dimension.

Oh rollocks, I hope they don't accidently tune in to Commorragh.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:Cool, but a bit anticlimactic. It would have been more interesting if it had caused the end of the world.

Agreed...I was hoping for some sort of inter-dimensional rip with all sorts of Lovecraftian Gribblys pouring out...you just can't count on Scientist the way you could in old B films.

If not for nothing, at least some sort of time travel would of been neat.

Maybe they'll accidentally open up a portal to the Warp, forcing the Emperor to reveal himself....

Or people will start develope mutant power.

I want super grammur as english bad.

What's funny is the "simple english" page on wikipedia for the LHC. The regular one is full of formulas and complicated physics. The Simple english one simply explains that it does complicated stuff, and that people were afraid it would make black holes, but any black holes made would be too tiny to do anything.

If people start developing super powers, I want to be able to divorce myself from my body and possess people. Also, Telekinesis.

Or Time Control. That would be cool.

Slarg232 wrote:If people start developing super powers, I want to be able to divorce myself from my body and possess people. Also, Telekinesis.

Or Time Control. That would be cool.

Especially if I could go into a body of some hot chick's boyfriend during sexual intercourse, man this power could be subject to so much abuse. Also I could theoretically live forever.

Cheesecat wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:If people start developing super powers, I want to be able to divorce myself from my body and possess people. Also, Telekinesis.

Or Time Control. That would be cool.

Especially if I could go into a body of some hot chick's boyfriend during sexual intercourse, man this power could be subject to so much abuse. Also I could theoretically live forever.

I would want to body-possess the Pope, and then proclamate that the Papacy and all of Christianity was a 2000 year old sham and that God doesn't exist.

I don't think the Christianity section of the sampling would approve of this measure...

There's something in the mist!

Monster Rain wrote:There's something in the mist!

Monster Rain wrote:*image of something related to Mist*

My response:

Have you seen The Mist?

It's actually quite topical.

Monster Rain wrote:Have you seen The Mist?

It's actually quite topical.

Topical like this?

More like this.

Monster Rain wrote:*picture of something*

More like this.

I would much rather have:

Don't worry 2012 is just around the corner..They have 26 months to blow us up.

GG

Gordon Freeman works there, it's just a matter of time.

It's when the fella gets stuck in it then reappears 20 feet tall, bright blue and nekkid...

You know, if they had created a black hole, we could have got rid of an awful lot of crap. I know I would feel a lot less guilty about my son using disposable nappies.

Reminds me of a Simpson's Halloween episode when Homer discovers a portal to another world and throws his coke can into it. It comes flying back with the message, "Quit throwing your rubbish into our dimension."

Flashman wrote:You know, if they had created a black hole, we could have got rid of an awful lot of crap. I know I would feel a lot less guilty about my son using disposable nappies.

Reminds me of a Simpson's Halloween episode when Homer discovers a portal to another world and throws his coke can into it. It comes flying back with the message, "Quit throwing your rubbish into our dimension."

What if they did create a black hole and we're already in it?

Monster Rain wrote:

Flashman wrote:You know, if they had created a black hole, we could have got rid of an awful lot of crap. I know I would feel a lot less guilty about my son using disposable nappies.

Reminds me of a Simpson's Halloween episode when Homer discovers a portal to another world and throws his coke can into it. It comes flying back with the message, "Quit throwing your rubbish into our dimension."

What if they did create a black hole and we're already in it?

I think that it would be rather obvious if we were in a black hole....

_Tim?

Monster Rain wrote:Have you seen The Mist?

It's actually quite topical.

The short story is much better. Plus it does not have

SilverMK2 wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Have you seen The Mist?

It's actually quite topical.

The short story is much better. Plus it does not have

Spoiler:

yet another "AMERICA, FETH YEAH!" ending, where all problems can be solved by a bloated military budget

I agree that the short story was much better than the film,and I get what your saying concerning the ending in the film.
However,


But,yes I see what your getting at,and yes...the book was 100% better.

Ugh, keep forgetting to get a copy of that book to read.