It's the End of the World as We Know it.... by 6ixStringJack

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It's the End of the World as We Know it....

POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 21:51
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:16 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bang

If this article is as honest as a speech by one of the two favored choices for douchebag in a suit that sleeps in the white house, party up! 'Cause the microscopic black holes that have sunk to the earth's core to fester will be nipping at your toes on the dance floor by Friday night.

My advice.... take advantage of the Thursday night specials and then OD on Heroin Friday morning.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:35 AM

CITIZEN

Site to tell you if the new large Hadron Collider at CERN has destroyed the Earth yet. Check back often:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:40 AM

DEEPGIRL187

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/torchwood.shtml

The radio play linked here was specifically written to coincide with today's event.

Me, I always look forward to global devastation. Beats worrying about my math test on Friday.

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"This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:58 AM

WENDYPOPS

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Originally posted by deepgirl187:
I always look forward to global devastation.

Keep eating meat, driving your car, buying your veg from walmart/asda/tesco* & flying to far away places and it'll happen. You just need belief.

* delete as applicable

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:46 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM

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Originally posted by citizen:
Site to tell you if the new large Hadron Collider at CERN has destroyed the Earth yet. Check back often:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

extremely informative.... thanks for the link, i have bookmarked it, and plan to monitor the site closely. ack

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:55 AM

HERO

If a particle accelerates in the woods and nobody hear's it...was the Earth destroyed.

And what's the big deal? You want the 'big bang' let me tell you about my bedroom...

H

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:33 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Well, the scenario that concerns me primarily is detailed in a novel by Martin Caidin, titled Star Bright.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Bright-Martin-Caidin/dp/0553126210

It's not very good, but unfortunately it's also quite plausible.
http://xodiac.fo.cx/reviews/mcaidin1.html

Remember, most scientific discovers don't start with "Eureka!" but more often "WTF?!"

And sometimes they ain't good.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:56 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

It should be noted that the odds of creating a black hole with this collider are listed at something on the order of one trillion to one. And it it creates a black hole, it would be a quantum black hole, something theoretically possible, but also theoretically VERY unstable - as I understand it, they tend to wink in and out of existence very quickly.

It should also be noted that before the first hydrogen bomb was set off (thermonuclear device here, not the old atomic bomb), physicists calculated the odds at about 7 in 100 that the extreme heat generated in the plasma ball would actually ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere, resulting in a complete burn-off of our atmosphere.

And they went ahead and set if off anyway, just to show how bad-ass they were...

Somehow, I'm oddly not worried about a black hole.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:50 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
It should also be noted that before the first hydrogen bomb was set off (thermonuclear device here, not the old atomic bomb), physicists calculated the odds at about 7 in 100 that the extreme heat generated in the plasma ball would actually ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere, resulting in a complete burn-off of our atmosphere.

And they went ahead and set if off anyway, just to show how bad-ass they were...

Somehow, I'm oddly not worried about a black hole.

Nah, I wouldn’t note that, because it’s not really true. The first hydrogen bomb was detonated in 1954. It was known as early as 1946 that a self-propagating atmospheric chain-reaction was not possible.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:51 PM

CITIZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
It should be noted that the odds of creating a black hole with this collider are listed at something on the order of one trillion to one. And it it creates a black hole, it would be a quantum black hole, something theoretically possible, but also theoretically VERY unstable - as I understand it, they tend to wink in and out of existence very quickly.

It's about Hawking Radiation. Stephen Hawking calculated that Blackholes would give off radiation at a temperature inversely proportional to the Blackholes mass. When you're getting down to Quantum scale blackholes, a single Quanta of Hawking Radiation would have nearly as much energy as the mass of Blackhole. The idea is that Quantum Blackholes would radiate their mass away pretty much instantaneously.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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