Topic: The END OF THE WORLD again (Read 14301 times)

xolik · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2008, 06:37:15 PM »

GEE THANKS A LOT SCIENCE

Novice · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2008, 09:27:33 PM »

I'm about the drop some particle physics in the club.

Best music video ever.

BizB · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2008, 09:37:58 PM »

Science. It works, bitches.

12AX7 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 08, 2008, 05:13:15 PM »

Wunderkind · « **Reply #5 on:** September 08, 2008, 11:01:43 PM »

I can hear it now. All the bizarre arguements against this that I'm going to have to listen to from the unbelievably strict Christian sect of my family.

"And from that ray of light from the east, shall come killer rabbits!"

12AX7 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 08, 2008, 11:37:16 PM »

Wunderkind · « **Reply #7 on:** September 08, 2008, 11:45:58 PM »

I don't really care. No really I don't. If it goes wrong that's just the way of it. My only question is, why are we trying to do this again? I mean what was the motivation in the first place?

It sounds like boys being handed a bb-gun and being pointed the direction of the henhouse.

Furthermore (insert pointless video) .

12AX7 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:01:20 AM »

Wunderkind · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:15:53 AM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on September 09, 2008, 12:01:20 AM

"CERN hopes to recreate conditions in the laboratory a split-second after the big bang, teaching them more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time."

Riiiiight.

Ok, boys. This is called a bb-gun. You can't really kill anything with it except small birds and rodents, just don't point it at each other. Now go have fun!

EDIT: Tha'ts one damn expensive bb-gun.

Novice · « **Reply #10 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:33:46 AM »

No one has pointed out the obvious proof that this experiment will destroy us all:

Did you see how big that freakin thing is?!

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #11 on:** September 09, 2008, 10:39:22 AM »

If you guys really believe this, I'm incredibly disappointed in you all. As geeks, nerds, and dorks, you should revel in the search for abstract knowledge, and be the last ones screaming that the sky is falling. Get a grip and stop cowering about every little thing, or at least find something important and more likely to worry about. Like immigrants.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #12 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:29:42 PM »

And Angelina Jolie.

ivan · « **Reply #13 on:** September 09, 2008, 12:42:53 PM »

I'm not anti-Angelina Jolie. I'm anti-illegal-Angelina Jolie.

jeee · « **Reply #14 on:** September 09, 2008, 02:02:36 PM »

I trust Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton to save earth in time.

MISTER MASSACRE · « **Reply #15 on:** September 09, 2008, 03:01:15 PM »

I came to Earth in the first place to avoid our LHC. Not agaaaaain!

12AX7 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2008, 04:13:15 PM »

12AX7 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 09, 2008, 04:37:43 PM »

ivan · « **Reply #18 on:** September 09, 2008, 06:03:24 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on September 09, 2008, 04:13:15 PM

just drive-by post or (usually) nothing at all. So fuck it. What's the point of the site anymore....

I've been really, really, really busy.

Hey, I did read an op-ed piece in the LA times a couple months ago, basically an updated Mary Shelly's Frankenstein cautionary "should we be messing with things we know naught of" thing. I couldn't believe it.

ivan · « **Reply #19 on:** September 09, 2008, 06:20:38 PM »

I found the op-ed in the LA Times' for-pay archive. It ran last April. The headline was:

"The end of the world as we know it; Europe's atom-smasher may solve cosmic enigmas, reveal new dimensions -- oh, and open a black hole."

As I recall, the author, John Johnson, seriously argued that we should not tamper with nature in this way. But maybe I recall wrong.

I think Johnson is the Times' science reporter. Here is an objective news piece he wrote on the subject: BANG!

I like the closing quote:

Quote

“Look,” Mangano said, leaning forward in his chair at CERN’s sprawling complex, “what if I told you tomorrow when you shave you will blow up the world? You laugh. You say that can’t happen. But how do you know?

“The only thing we know is that there have been about a million billion shaves since people started shaving and the world is still here,” he said. “So all we can say is the probability of you blowing up the world when you shave tomorrow is less than one in 1015.”

Vespertine · « **Reply #20 on:** September 09, 2008, 06:50:33 PM »

This is why we're not going to destroy the earth.

http://www.qntm.org/?destroy

On a side note, this guy's writing style cracks me up every time I read it.

BizB · « **Reply #21 on:** September 09, 2008, 07:19:41 PM »

I've felt like that before, 12. Lately, I'm a one-man team at work - doing the work of 2 people. Plus, it's the windy season, and I'm coaching my daughter's 30-member cross country team. I barely have time to keep up with my site's 3 posts per week, never mind this one.

By the way, the girls took 3rd place in Saturday's season opening race. The boys brought home 11th out of 27 teams.

And, I didn't get a raise.

RelandR · « **Reply #22 on:** September 09, 2008, 10:31:46 PM »

~~Watch it live - CERN webcast~~->[live stuff now removed] ... other info links are there

Novice · « **Reply #23 on:** September 10, 2008, 12:05:44 AM »

Whether we are fearful of the experiment's outcome or not is irrelevent when it comes to the purpose of this thread. It is a subject that we haven't been able to voice our opinion on or, in my case, haven't even heard of before now. Expressing a fear of the unknown is hardly cowering. What the hell would we post about here if we didn't post how we felt about a subject.

I just wish I had more interesting stuff to say . . .

Wunderkind · « **Reply #24 on:** September 10, 2008, 12:46:02 AM »

Quote from: Novice on September 10, 2008, 12:05:44 AM

Whether we are fearful of the experiment's outcome or not is irrelevent . . .

I am fearful of this experiment's outcome.

There I said it.

When they asked scientists to split the atom, they promptly turned that technology into a bomb. In fact there isn't a whole lot in the technological world that didn't come from or go towards, in some way or form, making war. So forgive me for being tad skeptical, but seriously, the last time I saw anything done purely in the name of science was in 3rd grade and it involved cut roses and food dye.
I'm not afraid of this thing creating a blackhole and sucking us all in, destroying life as we know it, or just wormholing us into another dimension (or whatever it is that happens in blackholes). I'm afraid of the common man's pension towards the mis-use of science. That is all, here is your bb-gun, don't shoot your eye out (or your little brother), thank you, and goodnight.

Quote from: Joe Sixpack on September 09, 2008, 10:39:22 AM

If you guys really believe this, I'm incredibly disappointed in you all. As geeks, nerds, and dorks, you should revel in the search for abstract knowledge, and be the last ones screaming that the sky is falling. Get a grip and stop cowering about every little thing, or at least find something important and more likely to worry about. Like immigrants.

When the sky falls, we call it rain. Sorry, but I really have nothing to say about immigrants. They exsist. Always have, always will. Next?

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