LHC Success!

Tomahawk writes "It worked! The LHC was turned on this morning and has been shown to have worked. Engineers cheered as the proton particles completed their first circuit of the underground ring which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). (And we're all still alive, too!)" Here is a picture from the control room which I'm sure makes sense to someone that isn't me.

Comments

Epic fail

[ZeroFactorial]

What you don't realize is that everything around the LHC is being converted into strange matter.

It started with the scientists, so noone has noticed anything different yet.

Re:More than scientific learning

[fprintf]

It was a triumph, I'm making a note here, huge success!

Damnit!

[Anonymous Coward]

You're all still here.

Re:More than scientific learning

[morgan_greywolf]

will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time?

Well, they still haven't made the black hole yet. Just wait. When you get sucked in don't come crying to me. I'll be many, many light years away.

Re:More than scientific learning

[Frekko]

Alien species are certainly going to take pictures of that and add the words EPIC FAIL on top.

Re:More than scientific learning

[neoform]

Pass the c-

What do you mean all the cake is gone?

Will you ever learn?

[PinkyDead]

If disaster movies have taught us anything, it is that only when the party is over and everyone is a little tipsy, the problems will arise.

At that point, one lowly scientist (possible of Asian origin) will still be working in his office - despite regular calls of 'Hu! It's all fine, come out here and have some champagne'. He shouts out 'In a minute, I'm just checking something' Then to himself 'This is wrong. This is all wrong. Planck's constant shouldn't be varying like that.'

And then it all goes wrong.

Jeez, were you born yesterday!

Mark my words... come Friday, we'll all be eating black holes for breakfast with lashings of superheated strange milk.

Re:Will you ever learn?

[KeatonMill]

It's probably not a problem, probably, but I'm showing some variations in...

No, it's well within acceptable limits. Sustaining sequence.

Shutting down... Attempting shutdown... it's not, it's not shutting AGGGGHHHHH! ...yeah.

Re:Will you ever learn?

[complete loony]

"Gordon freeman, you're needed in the test chamber".

Re:More than scientific learning

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought they had already turned it on yesterday... Wait, today is September 10th... Again ?

Re:Based on the control room shot...

[genner]

It appears that turning on the LHC is transforming the world as we know it into the nightmare world of Linux on the Desktop...

If that were true they would of called it Hardy Hadron.

Re:you can't stop the doomsayers

[should_be_linear]

Exactly, I am in Geneve right now, so the first wh

Re:More than scientific learning

[MadCow42]

>> ... will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say "this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".

The doomsayers only need to be right once... :)

Re:More than scientific learning

[n dot l]

That does it. I'm tagging this story 'stillalive'.

Re:More than scientific learning

[clone53421]

I'll be many, many light years away.

Infinitely many, in fact, if you haven't gotten sucked into the black hole yet.

Nothing to worry about

[MasterPuppeteer]

After all, we're mostly harmless.



But don't forget your towel... just in case.

Oblig. Eddie Izzard

[Kemanorel]

Cake or death?

Cake please.

Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.

Ok, I'll have the chicken then.

Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.

Re:More than scientific learning

[omnipresentbob]

Or: "Every time you masturbate, God destroys a planet" ...

Re:More than scientific learning

[complete loony]

We Built It For The Lulz.

Re:More than scientific learning

[Experiment 626]

Yes, it is September 10th again. You are caught in a time loop. The last time through, the world was destroyed by a black hole. This time, you have again failed to stop the activation, so the same thing will happen. At this point you will wake up 24 hours before the LHC is activated, and realize that you alone can save humanity. To do so you must get to the Swiss/French border and blow the thing to smithereens before it can be turned on.

The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.

Re:More than scientific learning

[Knara]

Kids, take note. This is what happens to your typing, grammar, and spelling when you sniff too much glue.

Re:More than scientific learning

[teko_teko]

In another news: Gordon Freeman has been spotted in CERN test chamber.