Doomsday - Page 3

blueerica · 09-09-2008, 07:58 AM

I need to make sure I have lots of sex...

blueerica · 09-09-2008, 08:00 AM

Stephen Hawking has $100 riding on this.

3894 · 09-09-2008, 08:02 AM

I just ate a poptart. Raspberry with pink icing and pink sprinkles.

BarTopDancer · 09-09-2008, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Well, if the collider wants a shot at causing earth-swallowing catastrophe it's going to have to hurry up. At the current rate, the political conversation CP is having on the phone with her Air Force enlisted brother may very well beat it to the punch.

Is he still in Alaska?

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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Maybe I've watched too much Stargate, but that thing is freaking me out.

Me too. Just a lil bit.

flippyshark · 09-09-2008, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by blueerica

I need to make sure I have lots of sex...

I need to make sure I have ANY sex.

Ghoulish Delight · 09-09-2008, 08:47 AM

CP read an article that described the force involved in one of the collisions they're going to produce as about the equivalent of two mosquitoes colliding head on. What a bizarre, yet oddly relatable analogy.

Morrigoon · 09-09-2008, 09:12 AM

I thought I read somewhere that it was going to take months to reach full power. But that article you linked says the first protons are being injected on Wednesday, so hmm...

I highly doubt it'll be the end of the world, and if it is, I won't be around to care, so I'm going to go on presuming that this will go the way of all the other "end-of-the-world" predictions. But we may get some pretty cool science news soon

Still, that doesn't mean I mightn't be up for a mid-week party...

Ghoulish Delight · 09-09-2008, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I thought I read somewhere that it was going to take months to reach full power. But that article you linked says the first protons are being injected on Wednesday, so hmm...

They powered it up and did small scale test runs (no collisions) a month ago. Tomorrow they're going to inject proton beams and have them do full circuits of the tunnel for the first time, still no collisions. The actual first collisions won't be until late October.

So good news, another excuse to party on October!

Morrigoon · 09-09-2008, 09:21 AM

Ah good, October is much better for me than this week. I'm kinda trying to take September "off", socially. How very considerate of the folks at CERN to accommodate my schedule, I simply don't have time for the end of the world right now.

Andrew · 09-09-2008, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Betty

I read a great book that has a plot about this or a similar collider called Blasphemy.

If you like science fiction - I recommend it.

I haven't read that one (but may look it up) but here is another SF novel with much the same starting premise: FlashForward by Robert Sawyer.

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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	I thought I read somewhere that it was going to take months to reach full power. But that article you linked says the first protons are being injected on Wednesday, so hmm... I highly doubt it'll be the end of the world, and if it is, I won't be around to care, so I'm going to go on presuming that this will go the way of all the other "end-of-the-world" predictions. But we may get some pretty cool science news soon Still, that doesn't mean I mightn't be up for a mid-week party... __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Ah good, October is much better for me than this week. I'm kinda trying to take September "off", socially. How very considerate of the folks at CERN to accommodate my schedule, I simply don't have time for the end of the world right now. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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