[Colonol Dekker]

Ransom you mad fool, you inspired them to build a SYNC device.....
Now we're all doomed and it's your fault...........

[Ashrak]

it hasent been testfired at full power ......

[Colonol Dekker]

Ransom you mad fool, you inspired them to build a SYNC device.....
Now we're all doomed and it's your fault...........

I nominate myslef as Trancendant

[redsniper]

Hardon Collider

Cannot unsee.

[phreak]

Particle physics gives me a hadron

[Stormkeeper]

I read about this in Demons and Angels.

[Flipside]

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find it had already been tested before it opens officially. Most Nuclear power plants were started that way, the official pulling the lever, cutting the rope or whatever was actually 'opening' something that had been started at least 24 hours beforehand.

[Colonol Dekker]

That's nderstandable, the last thing you want is for all your investors to be standing around for the pig lever pulkl. Only for a puff of smoke and a weak whimper to be the sole result.. Testing before public revelation = good practice

Also it gives time to warm it up so they can pull "another world" trick on the people they owe money to.

[G0atmaster]

Ransom, why would Atheists want to bring about the Apocalypse?  The Christians get a better deal out of that whole matter...  /oversimplification


Anyway.  We were talking about Mass Spectrometers in Chem class yesterday.  I was INCREDIBLY tempted to ask about a Resonance Cascade.

Lol in that link Fury posted, there's a guy in the back left that looks kinda like Breen.

[redsniper]

More like anti-mass spectrometers amirite?

* redsniper played Half-Life SO MUCH as a kid.

[Colonol Dekker]

Urrite. I played it to death. It got to the point where i modelled my school, my house my pub and my barracks in worldcraft. Complete with toxic waste filled-radiation zoned toilets.

[Mika]

Should I bother to write? I'm seriously considering this you know.

There has been recorded more energetic particles incoming on the Earth than the LHC is able to produce.

Better thing to ask is where are the applications of the basic research of this line. It tends to stir some emotions. And is pretty funny too, if you aren't working there.

Mika

[Colonol Dekker]

I think trying to harness ambient radiation would be like trying to move a desert one grain of sand at a time. Not cost effective and too much effort.

[Mika]

Oh, I meant the DOOM prophecies of small black holes, that were supposed to DOOM Earth. There has been more energetic DOOM particles coming from above.

Mika

[Kosh]

Oh, I meant the DOOM prophecies of small black holes, that were supposed to DOOM Earth. There has been more energetic DOOM particles coming from above.

Mika

You mean we're 'ed?

[Bobboau]

I always loved how those demons were never in any of the games and how they had that one lone space marine off in the distance coming to help you when the game was all about how you were alone in a monster infested space colony.

[neo_hermes]

well there are of dead space marine corpses around in the game... 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

It's been awhile but wasn't 4 player LAN available?

[G0atmaster]

And a lot of demons.


I believe it was 8 players via IPX socket connections...  Wow that was old school.

[Kosh]

Scientists at the LHC have been getting death threats and pleas to shut the machine down:

Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash together at near the speed of light.

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t---."

The head of public relations, James Gillies, says he gets tearful phone calls, pleading for the £4.5 billion machine to stop.

"They phone me and say: "I am seriously worried. Please tell me that my children are safe," said Gillies.

Emails also arrive every day that beg for reassurance that the world will not end, he explained.

 Others are more aggressive. "There are a number who say: "You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world."

"I find myself getting slightly angry, not because people are getting in touch but the fact they have been driven to do that by what is nonsense. What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk."

There have also been legal attempts to halt the start up.

For ****s sake.......


EDIT: I forgot the date on the article is in the European system.