Doomsday

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

The actual first collisions won't be until late October.

So good news, another excuse to party on October!

Good, I'd hate life to end before I got to DLP!

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

well, looks like there's got to be a morning after

Damn you, now I got that song from the (Original) Posidon Adventure stuck in my head!

Originally Posted by scaeagles

When they collide the crap, that should be interesting.

When the protons hit the fan, so to speak?

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

It's A World of Laughter....

Damn you, now Small world is stuck in my head!

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

So earlier today I finally misread "hadron" in the way you might imagine I'd misread it. I now find science to be endlessly funny

Large Hadron Collider... ooh yeah. Haha.

I keep wanting to call it a "Large Hairy Colander".....

[Bootstrap Bill]

I was 40 once.

[LashStoat]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

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.

I thought it was going to re-create the "Big Bang". I'd hardly call a mozzie head-on "bang for bucks" (all 6 to 10 billion of 'em, depending on the source).

Can't we have an aardvark (or even better) stag-sized head-on?

...and who's going to mop up the yukky bits from the bottom of the tube?

Have they got some woman called Conchita with a PhD that specialises in LHC Tube sanitisation? Can you imagine the tip you'd have to give her?

Actually I can: Conchita, get out **now** !!!

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

Since the world didn't end today, I am now officially 40.

O RLY?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by RStar

Damn you, now I got that song from the (Original) Posidon Adventure stuck in my head!

<snip>

Damn you, now Small world is stuck in my head!

Well, at least it isn't Maureen McGovern

[tracilicious]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdest...eworldyet.com/

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdest...eworldyet.com/

Who's going to update that page when the status changes?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Who's going to update that page when the status changes?

If they're smart it's got a heartbeat.

while (if_exists(world) == TRUE ):
print "NOPE"
endwhile
print "YEP"

[Alex]

I wonder if those Left Behind people (the ones who mail a letter when you're taken up to heaven) are checking it so they don't confuse the LHC ending the world with the Rapture.

That would be embarrassing.

[Bootstrap Bill]

I noticed today that the pull of Earth's gravity was a little stronger than usual. My scale doesn't lie. Looks like the rumors about the black hole were true.