*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/LHC-Black-Hole-Runs-Amok

LOL!

That, my friend, is worth exactly three promotes.

EDIT: And one dupe merge. Sorry. (Frowny emoticon means I'm serious. <==== And the winky emoticon means I'm just flirting with you.)
In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Just because it's (the other one) still functional does not mean this is the dupe. It was discarded. Discarded videos have ALWAYS been fair game.

Lucky, I DEMAND you make a way to get people to stop whining.

>> ^deathcow:
Would Seagal and Hasselhoff annihilate each other if they collided?


That was actually the prototype design for the LHC.

While it's true that there had been theories that perhaps the chain reaction wouldn't stop and that the atmosphere would be ignited, by the time they had gotten to the point of detonating a device they were about as confident that it wouldn't happen as we are now about the LHC.

A bit like the LHC (but with more uncertainty as it was a completely new field)... when they first designed the atomic bomb, there were several theories about what would happen.

Some scientists figured that the atomic chain reaction would not stop. Each atom would hit the next atom breaking it up in to atomic particles flying into the next atom and so on in a chain reaction until the world was destroyed. Even Einstein, who had helped them crack the design needed for fission, wasn't certain.

They had theories, but they didn't know for certain what would happen. But as a military project, not a scientific one, it wasn't driven by logic or reason.

They took the risk and did it anyway.

^a LHC (little hadron collider)?

Oh totally... it is an awesome experiment.

It is all that the theorists I know talk about. If we ever get Ligo up and going we will never get them to shut up.

In reply to this comment by Doc_M:
What do you and your friends in the Fizix community think about the LHC? Should I be as excited as I am?

also: for us geeks, I did an experiment at work today:
http://blog.videosift.com/Doc_M/So-you-thought-your-hands-were-clean

What do you and your friends in the Fizix community think about the LHC? Should I be as excited as I am?

also: for us geeks, I did an experiment at work today:
http://blog.videosift.com/Doc_M/So-you-thought-your-hands-were-clean

well I had to help design the LHC...

...as a sperm in my dads scrot'

1. I'm glad you know enough particle physics to lecture me.
2. I wish you had a sarcasm detector.
3. Profit.

In reply to this comment by campionidelmondo:
The LHC is not gonna be able to do anything along the lines of creating a black hole. Some pissed-off american "scientist" claimed it and you ate it up, because like most people, you're afraid of what you can't understand.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
She's read as many magazines as she's had children. I'm sure there's a mathematical formula for it, but using it would create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. And we wouldn't want to take away the LHC's glory, would we?

She's read as many magazines as she's had children. I'm sure there's a mathematical formula for it, but using it would create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. And we wouldn't want to take away the LHC's glory, would we?

It's on Neatorama now too - someone provided the Greek translation:
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/23/the-show-must-go-on/
"Nothing really important, he starts talking about the LHC powering up, he goes on talking about te proposed tax reform (yawn) and finishes with the results of the Greece vs Poland game… weather.
What is funny is what one of the blokes that actually put out the fire told him after he turned of the mic, but as is usally the case with language, it can’t be properly translated… something along the lines
“Hey, you’re on fire and you just sit there… are you in touch with reality?”"

Oh, its "just a bridgade"... lol. Google what that entails.

Also, I was wrong about the Bush cancelling Posse Comitatus. Apparently, Leahy revoked the crappy Congressional Act with almost no mention in the news, so apparently Governors would still have final say about military assistance in their state.

To any asshats who claim this is about Katrina. It seems odd to me to wait how many years before trying to implement this!! It seems they would have done this in a month, maybe a year if the intent was disaster assistance. And clearly this is not in response to Ike. There is no way the Army would announce this as plans of this magnitude have been under way for months, well before Ike.

It is however nicely timed around the election, and who hasn't known for months about the economy going broke and a run on the banks. Freddie and Fannie have been known to be insolvent since way before last year. That's why all the fat cats have been dumping money into it gambling on gov't bailouts.

And for reference LHC is offline for two months at least.

Well...

The human part of me is worried that our rights are being further trampled by George W. Bush's totalitarian neo-conservative philosophy that crosses the line into 1984-fascism, and that martial law is just around the corner, especially if Obama wins the election.

But...

The inhuman side of me begs for this to happen, just around the time the LHC destroys us all. And if those catastrophes fail, I hope an unseen asteroid or comet hurtles into the Midwest, obliterating civilization.

And I hope God doesn't do bailouts.

Bah, all this talk about the LHC destroying the world. Nothing interesting is going to happen until at least 2012.