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Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th
Naznarreb writes "CERN announced today that the first attempt to circulate a beam through the Large Hadron Collider will be on September 10th, 2008. You can read the press release here. They also announced the event will be webcast live. According to the release, they're just planning to run a few tests laps, not smash any particles, so the world won't be ending quite yet." And despite that September 10th date, according to the BBC, "On 9 August, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time."
And will take 1 day to warm up right?
It is a good day to die !!!!!
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Unless, of course, we're finally in the timeline where the LHC never quite works.
OR the timeline where you're the only non-cloned human left alive, surrounded by clones of your ex-girlfriend. Then you'll wish you didn't get on her bad side right before 'the accident'.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. So I think we'd hear about it first.
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FARNSWORTH: So what are you doing to protect my constitutional right to bear doomsday devices?
N.R.A. MAN: Well, first off, we're gonna get rid of that three-day waiting period for mad scientists.
FARNSWORTH: Damn straight! Today, the mad scientist can't get a doomsday device, tomorrow it's the mad grad student. Where will it end?
Easier to ask forgiveness that permission. Especially easy if there's no one left to ask forgiveness of.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Looks like 9 September will be a good day to charge up my HEV suit and sharpen my crowbar...
I'll keep my towel handy
-- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.
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What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
it would be destroyed almost immediately due to Hawking radiation.
Awesome. I always knew Stephen Hawking was a badass, but now I find out he's a superhero with the power to destroy black holes!
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
I must admit, his disguise is ingenious. I never suspected he was anything other than a mild-mannered physicist.
Oh, thank heavens... So beach front property in Geneva is still a good investment then...?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
A red crowbar has been sent to CERN in anticipation of the LHC particle accelerator going online.
http://www.destructoid.com/reddit-sends-crowbar-to-scientists-to-protect-against-headcrabs-98281.phtml
If nothing comes from this demonstration but a black hole it will definitely suck.
alias possession='chmod 666 satan && ls
No way, I'm not getting sucked into that again.
Your statement is true even if they never turn on the LHC.
Yeah. He looks totally different without his glasses. You can't even recognize him.
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
The image is funnier to me if he never gets out of his wheelchair. He slowly wheels up, has his machine say "Take this, you bastard", and then the Hawking Radiation spews forth!
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Kingons and Queons are believed to travel faster than the speed of light, but I hear it's quite difficult to harness their power.
For frame of reference you have about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body.
If I am mostly carbon, that'd make me around 300lbs. Are you assuming I am American?
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Are you saying that 9-11 didn't change everything?
Because 9-11 changed everything.
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Maybe we've finally figured out why we haven't had any luck with SETI yet? Perhaps any civilization advanced enough to begin broadcasting in the radio spectrum will, within 100 years, start running scientific experiments that are sufficiently dangerous to cause the extinction of the species? Is that possible?
On second thought... that's a silly theory, never mind! I'm going to go back to my very important medical experiments. It's pretty cool stuff, actually. I'm using virus-borne DNA to reanimate dead cells to help critically ill people. I think I'm on the verge of a breakthrough but they're going to cut off my funding if I don't get any results soon! Maybe I'll have to take a few shortcuts... use highly unstable, mutation-prone RNA instead of DNA... maybe skip straight to the human testing phase using this cadaver I have lying around my lab...
Anyhow, have a good day everybody!
That makes me feel much better. Although, how did a micro-blackhole on Earth end up with the mass of Earth...?
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God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
"The rest of the world does NOT come to a screeching halt every Sept. 11th."
The rest of the world is still scratching it's head trying to figure out what significant event happened on the 9th of November.
Screw the towel. Where's my crowbar?
If the Earth is completely destroyed, you will be the first to know.
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So probably not enough time to find the nearest woman and convince her you're a virgin
I'm sure you won't have to do much convincing.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Yeah. He looks totally different without his glasses. You can't even recognize him.
That doesn't make any sense! He wouldn't be able to see.