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LHC Flips On Tomorrow

BTJunkie writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds most expensive science experiment, is set to be turned on tomorrow. We've discussed this multiple times already. A small group of people believe our world will be sucked into extinction (some have even sent death threats). The majority of us, however, won't be losing any sleep tonight." Reader WillRobinson notes that CERN researchers declared the final synchronization test a success and says, "The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made this Wednesday, Sept. 10 at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). The start up time will be between (9:00 to 18:00 Zurich Time) (2:00 to 10:00 CDT) with live webcasts provided at webcast.cern.ch."

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  1. I don't get the whole fundies chain of thought. by Lost+Penguin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) God created everything at once, word for word as in the bible.
    2) Evolution is wrong, it never happened.
    3) The scientific process is wrong. (Because it disagrees with idea #1 and 2)
    4) Cars never "evolved" from model Ts.
    5) Churches never "evolved" from caves.
    6) TV evangelists do not exist. (TV did not evolve)
    7) Religion never evolved, all hail Ra the Sun god.

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    I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
  2. The world can't end with out the CUBS WINNING THE by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The world can't end with out the CUBS WINNING THE world series

  3. I think its cool by implodeme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but will it run Crysis?