Been in the news a lot recently due to explosion-induced set-backs and black-hole related worries. I've seen Half-Life references on a few forums whenever the topic comes up but it seems someone at Aunty Beeb has done a funny also:
Quote:Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.
Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468966.stm
Countdown to switch on
Some science-fiction shizzle muthafuckas.
who gives a fuck if the world ends, if it does we will be to dead to care anyway.
I saw a funny rebuttal, it was something like:
There is this theory that if there is a great amount of danger and the risk is greater than 0, than you must never do it no matter how low that risk is.
Based on this I think we should turn it on as soon as possible. What if there is some unforeseen space-time catastrophe that we could avoid with the right knowledge. What if aliens come and realize we haven't even discovered x particle, and they laugh while slaughtering us at our primitive planet.
Anyways I thought it was a good rebuttal. Ducks probably got the link.
(07-07-2008, 09:58 AM)Dave link Wrote: [ -> ]who gives a fuck if the world ends, if it does we will be to dead to care anyway.
Every morning when I wake, I feel a deep-seated sense of pride and satisfaction knowing that I have you, Dave, as a fellow countryman.
and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....
I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass  that it would only effect the area millimeters around it.  And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything.  Portable black holes!?  We are living in an FPS!
(07-07-2008, 10:29 AM)ZargonX link Wrote: [ -> ]I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass that it would only effect the area millimeters around it. And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything. Portable black holes!? We are living in an FPS!
or a bugs bunny cartoon.
(07-07-2008, 10:29 AM)ZargonX link Wrote: [ -> ]I was listening to an interview with one of the physicists on the project the other day, and he was explaining that if, even though it is astronomically unlikely, they created a black hole, it would have such minuscule mass  that it would only effect the area millimeters around it.  And then, in that case, they would pack it in something super-dense and launch it into space where it won't bother anything.  Portable black holes!?  We are living in an FPS!
So it would be like those shells in Outlaw Star?
(07-07-2008, 10:27 AM)Neonie link Wrote: [ -> ]and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....
And then you would go to furry hell.
Prepare...for unforeseen...consequences
I heard
Unforseen Consequences and couldn't help myself...
Also, I've been hearing a lot about this in various metaphysical/paranormal forums, and I personally think its a bunch of BS. So many people are calling for the end of the world with this thing, but I honestly doubt it... There are one and one-half billion theories about how the world is going to end and to me this is just another one, albeit a highly publicised one.
The thing that bothers me about little black holes is don't they eventually become big black holes? Â I mean it's sort of like the zombies of matter, it doesn't die it just continues to eat until it converts everything into itself.
Can you ever get rid of a black hole? Â What if we shoot it into space and it gets a hold of something important like Mars or the sun?
*edit: everyone knows that the Tralfamadorians destroy the universe so there is nothing to worry about.
.... Little black holes exist on very small time scales, it's likely no one will notice. The LHC isn't probably going to generate anything terribly useful/interesting to the general public for about 20 years.
That is all citizen, go back about your business.
(07-07-2008, 10:57 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [ -> ]The thing that bothers me about little black holes is don't they eventually become big black holes? I mean it's sort of like the zombies of matter, it doesn't die it just continues to eat until it converts everything into itself.
Can you ever get rid of a black hole? What if we shoot it into space and it gets a hold of something important like Mars or the sun?
*edit: everyone knows that the Tralfamadorians destroy the universe so there is nothing to worry about.
Mars is not important.
(07-07-2008, 11:02 AM)A. Crow link Wrote: [ -> ].... Little black holes exist on very small time scales, it's likely no one will notice. The LHC isn't probably going to generate anything terribly useful/interesting to the general public for about 20 years.
That is all citizen, go back about your business.
Yes voice in the sky.
I mean seriously, the probability of the LHC created a blackhole that swallows the planet is on the order of that of the entire universe suddenly dissolving into fresh, quarky sweetnlow through proton decay- not zero, but pretty damn small.
(07-07-2008, 09:53 AM)Budr link Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.
Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.
I'd hit that. It probably sucks harder than any dame I've met. =D
(07-07-2008, 10:46 AM)Geoff link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Neonie link=topic=761.msg19530#msg19530 date=1215444468]
and when the world collapses into a black hole...I'll just laugh....and laugh....and laugh....
And then you would go to furry hell.
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S'cool. I hear theres a lot of yiffing there.
(07-07-2008, 12:17 PM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Budr link=topic=761.msg19524#msg19524 date=1215442422]
Quote:Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.
The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.
Critics are worried that mini-black holes made at the soon-to-open facility on the French-Swiss border might threaten the Earth's very existence.
I'd hit that. It probably sucks harder than any dame I've met. =D
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Shit Duck, that's like the third time you've made me crack up today. Can we get a laughing smilie, I detest typing lol