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[Xyon]

I want my own, personal Hadron Collider. Because Hadrons need to be collided. And I want one. It'll be the Micro Hadron Collider. I will build it, it'll fire quarks around. Or something.

I may or may not be drunk right now.

 

[Calsir]

Now, the LHC was started again this night, and that reminded me of the story -
The scientists are like children, asking what would happen if we open the box, forgetting to consider the unforeseen consequences.
Only, their scale is a little different.

The difference is that scientists try to gauge in advance what the effects will be, to a certain extent. "This may blow up the world, but the chances are fairly small" :thumbup:.

 

[RisingFury]

My 5 years old nephew put the wood burner apart a few weeks ago, and plugged it in, without noticing the shorted wires.
Popped the circuit breakers across the building and fused the plug into the socket.

Why does this sound sooooo familiar... :shrug:

Now, the LHC was started again this night, and that reminded me of the story -
The scientists are like children, asking what would happen if we open the box, forgetting to consider the unforeseen consequences.
Only, their scale is a little different.

Not entirelly correct...

What you hear in the media about black holes destroying Earth and the latest "Higgs bosson travelling back in time to prevent itself from being discovered" is crap. The reason you hear about it is because the medial loces this sort of crap. They don't give a rat's ass about the truth. They want the ratings and nothing says massive ratings like an exploding black hole does...

Scientists have always formed comprehensive theories with the ability to preciselly predict events in certain cases. I suppose the most powerful example would be Einstein's theory of relativity. He created the whole theory, with so many parts that we, to this day, have not managed to verify everything...

 

[TSPenguin]

I am sorry for using the word awesome too much lately.
The word is just "legen *wait for it* dary!"

 

[Belisarius]

I just stumbled across this...

Link to story



What I like most is 98% of the audience voted for the moon, 2% voted for elephant. SO either its rigged, or... people are just being dumb, OR...there really are really stupid people out there.:idk: :shrug:

Did you check your own link? It's described clearly as a FAKE news story.

Or are you trying to pull one on your Orbiter-Forum buddies?

 

[Xyon]

That reminds me of this; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8237558.stm

They honestly didn't know, though.

 

[Urwumpe]

They want the ratings and nothing says massive ratings like an exploding black hole does...

Even more important in that context: Our few square meters of cosmic radiation detectors detected 150,000 cosmic ray protons in 15 years that had more energy than the LHC collisions. The "oh-my-god" particle (a very fast proton) was 300,000,000 times stronger than the LHC collisions (it had the kinetic energy of a thrown baseball), and still: No black hole.

 

[Ghostrider]

Because Hadrons need to be collided.

I know the feeling. I walked into a couple of Hadrons yesterday, so I grabbed them by the neck and collided them. Hard. That'll teach'em a lesson.

 

[Linguofreak]

Even more important in that context: Our few square meters of cosmic radiation detectors detected 150,000 cosmic ray protons in 15 years that had more energy than the LHC collisions. The "oh-my-god" particle (a very fast proton) was 300,000,000 times stronger than the LHC collisions (it had the kinetic energy of a thrown baseball), and still: No black hole.

Well, close. No *dangerous* black hole. Scientists are actually somewhat hoping to see black holes at the LHC. It would work towards settling certain unsolved problems. And a black hole with a mass of 14 TeV would evaporate within 1 Planck time, which is for all intents and purposes instantaneous. Even if it did not evaporate, it would be so small that its rate of eating wouldn't be noticeable for billions of years. (By the way, 150,000 protons isn't many. The ATLAS detector alone will be dealing with 40 million beam crossings per second, with each crossing involving a few hundred collisions. But we still know that micro-black holes can't be that dangerous, since we know that neutron stars and white dwarfs exist, but they would be eaten fairly quickly if MBH's could eat that fast and/or were produced in great enough numbers).

 

[Juanelm]

Juanelm is now a believer of the Almighty Probe, following a recent revelation.

 

[Urwumpe]

 

[Xyon]

Pure fuzzy awesome.

 

[Artlav]

Can anyone make sense of Stargate: Universe series?
Why should (hm, spoiler?) the senator have gone into the depressurized room to press a button, when there were a lot of flying remote-controlled cameras, quite capable of hitting it?

 

[TSPenguin]

Can anyone make sense of Stargate: Universe series?
Why should (hm, spoiler?) the senator have gone into the depressurized room to press a button, when there were a lot of flying remote-controlled cameras, quite capable of hitting it?

There are two ways to watch SGU:
1. Ignore everything that bugs you
2. Make up your own fanfiction that explains the holes in the main plot.

I do both from time to time, so here are some solutions for the second way.

-They didn't have a long enough stick handy to press the button
-The Orbs don't have enough thrust to push such a button (Those buttons require an immense force, much more than a snowstorm. The Senator was just really strong)
-When they could not find a suitable stick, they were not in the mood to look for objects to throw at the switch.
-This was the only button in the ship which checks that it is pressed by a sentient.
-The whole mission is a setup a la "Cube" and the Senator lost.

 

[allonan2361]

I bid you a goodnight

Well it is 6:45 am central time and almost time to get off work and hit the pillow. So I bid you a good night and Happy orbiting.

 

[Urwumpe]

Ok, it is now established that Coca Cola has a lower melting point as water... the question is, how much lower?

 

[Kriss]

random

i decide not to say it from myself

 

[eveningsky339]

I have reason to believe that I have successfully cloned a T-Rex. I'll keep you posted.

 

[Xyon]

I have reason to believe that I have successfully cloned a T-Rex. I'll keep you posted.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[SiberianTiger]

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