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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.
According to some CERN scientist the LHC could spawn tiny black holes that would move around the eurth as satelites, feeding on it and eventually become noticable only four minutes before devouring the earth. No scientist can say this definitely won't happen, some say there's a 50% chance. I would not allow any experiment of this kind before everybody is sure the risk was zero. Even then I would suggest we cool it and focus on real problems. Those who say the tiny lack holes would dissapear instantly, you are misinformed. They are solid mass. They can only grow, and anything that interacts with them will be sucked in.
then science, all we're doing is indulging the children of the privileged in their quest for the biggest toys.
Imho, real science is being short-changed while the money goes towards creating towers of position and prestige.
Shut the fuck up. You aren't funny and you aren't witty, so stop regurgitating some shit-ass line from a shit-ass game.
6.3 billion dollars on this project and they have a 16 bit colour display. Thought they could at least afford something decent. If they want to borrow a monitor I'm happy to help, though I will charge my usual fee of 1.1 billion dollars.
To be honest, if anything were to go wrong.
they should have an alternative to shut it down right away.
if not, Then the genious' themselves are truly stupid.
There are somethings Mankind shouldn't fuck with.
but Don't you think we got better at Avoiding consequences by now?
I think so.
"Infinitely many, in fact, if you haven't gotten sucked into the black hole yet."
Easily avoided by using the "Oprah" method.
Just tie a board across your butt that bridges both thighs.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I WOULD LOVE THEM IF THEY TURNED THEI R NAME INTO APERTAtURE SCIENCE AND MADE "STILL ALIVE" THERE THEME ... and maybe gave me a portal gun XD JK I WISHHH