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LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million
ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."
...that the LHC's generated particles from the future will not let it function.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices are a lot more expensive and they haven't even been invented yet!
...they should fire that thing at a small gold pin. What could possibly go wrong?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
If you worked at the LHC you too would be happy to hear "The repair will cost at least $21 million."... ... If the last comment before that was "Dear God it's all falling appart!".
That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:
Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'
Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
bbc reported the same thing...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7734251.stm
I like their quote "The cost of the work will fall within the Cern's existing budget" though it does make me idly speculate on the size of their budget and how large a secret fortress I could build with it....
Large Hadron Forever?
I record my sleeptalking
That would be lame. Imagine this dialogue:
Nerd guy: 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon and...'
Beautiful girl: 'Damn... So I have to use all the time that I have to make sex to all those non-nerd guys over there. Bye!'
No you've got it all wrong. Its 'And then, we will be stuck in the event horizon, but with my new flux capacitor I can bring two person through into a parallel universe across the twenty-fifth dimension. One of them has to be me, because only I can control it and I was thinking perhaps you... but no it would mean staying in a confined space without light for hours
several hours later: Gosh this parallel world is the one just like ours but where the laws of physics are different enough that the LHC didn't make a black hole'
The parallel universes in which the LHC works without failure are already wiped out by the LHC, that's why any concious being, like you, can only be in a universe in which the LHC fails!
It'll be the greatest fireworks display you were ever embedded in.
(Yes, I know nothing will happen, don't worry your stupditity-detectors)
Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon.
It's been my life long dream to experience an Event Horizon. The only shame is I won't be able to contemplate such a great experience afterwards. ;)
for not buying the extended warranty!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I can see that you have given this matter altogether too much consideration.
Yes, but compare results! Bush succeeded in turning Iraq into a black hole, sucking in blood, money, and the least important thing, his reputation, the LHC has yet to create any!
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Exactly. Besides, the live webcam looks fine.
The ______ Agenda
What's with everyone blaming kdawson? I thought it was a scientifically proven fact that KDawson never, ever reads the stories he publishes here, much less writes them.
We can't. We're stuck in the joke horizon.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
You accidentally the verb.
This is not the Sarah Conner you are looking for.
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I'd also like to point out that the history of science is a history of being the smartest people on the planet being wrong.
So don't throw numbers that you couldn't possibly back up with fact and think that they make me feel any better.
Personally I figured God would stop the LHC from running if it were that dangerous, and so far that still gives me more comfort than your napkin back calculations.