Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet?
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TIME: Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears
From the flagellants of the Middle Ages to the doomsayers of Y2K, humanity has always been prone to good old-fashioned the-end-is-nigh hysteria. The latest cause for concern: that the earth will be destroyed and the galaxy gobbled up by an ever-increasing black hole next week.…Continued.
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First …. as in the first to not die.
Maybe we’re in another dimension? xD
This is political?
It isn’t ‘Merikan political, but Science! political.
Political Science?
Let’s drop the big one,
There’ll be no one left to blame us.
(We’ll save Australia
Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo)
WTF Mate?^^
Fire ze missles!!!
But I’m le tired…
So take a nap and then FIRE OUR SHIT!!!
I LOVE that bit. *giggling*
‘Bout that time eh chaps?
Right-o!
WTF mates?^^
Google “Political Science” “Randy Newman”.
A rather popular song a couple of decades ago.
But they’ll die soon,… f***ing kangaroos
I prefer it when science is free to advance without being encumbered by politics. Yet another reason to vote Obama/Biden, I guess.
This.
IS.
a muffin.
with chocolate chips.
next to.
a banana
inserted
painfully
somewhere
moist.
Ahhh, good times in the PK tonight.
But better times last night.
Turn on a fan to clear the smoke.
Sparta?
Any of you guys remember way back when, when we encouraged stuff like Science and education and honoring and idealizing smart people?
I want that again.
Leave America, you’ll soon find it again.
It’s still available in many other countries.
in multiple flavors even.
In other countries they’re ‘flavours’
Thank you for the correction.
Flavours like “beauty” and “charm”.
I can’t wait for the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment.
A black hole of infinite beauty!
My God, it’s full of stars…
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Daisy, Daisy….
You like your new IMac better than me, dont you Dave…
ice cream velociraptor
c-c-c-c-c-c-c-convo breaker!!
We vote for Charisma instead of Intelligence and Campaign tricks instead of Wisdom.
Intelligence is America’s number 1 dump stat.
Been to a wal-mart lately? Nobody’s putting much into CHA or CON either, apparently.
Point taken but I think perhaps their DM (God) just really hates power characters so all their stats suck.
Min-Maxers for a new tomorrow! Vote Lloth/Tiamat in 2012!
Finally, candidates I can believe in.
Candidates that if you actually believe in them, then you are likely to get locked up in the near future.
Gruumsh will take the election by force.
At least he’s one of the gods that’s likely to survive all the sudden kill-offs WotC is doing for the v4 reboot. Bring back the whole drow pantheon somehow imo. At least gnomes are monsters now.
Nah, he just has a 2/2 flyer out on turn two.
heh- in a campaign setting I was designing (for what reason I’ve no clue, as I lost my gaming circle when I moved cross-country) I converted the other pantheons into Heroes of Legend. You could do the same, if you like.
WMA (Wal Mart America) trumps CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) with spades.
You make me want to dig out the old 100 sided die.
You should be doing that anyway.
straight 20s for me, baby!
… And now that Obama’s canceled our return trip to space… Yep.
What, you never noticed that the site is politics AND news? Says so at the top of the page. Three times. And in the title bar.
Fair enough, I suppose. The political side is more entertaining, but that’s just my view. Carry on…
LOL! And so we shall..
He knows it! His comment was a setup to squeeze in that Obama/Biden plug above, well played n8!
You have seen through my dastardly plan. But I’ll get you next time, Gadget. Next time!!!
Out of everyone I know, you should know this seriously.
It’s news, lol news and politics.
Even so, it’s been in heavy litigation in various countries – so, that seems political enough to me.
It’s news related.
lmao xD laughed at this one
ROTFLMFAO
I’m sure Dr. Who will save us all.
Who needs Doctor Who when you’ve got Gordan Freeman?
Yeah, seriously, I’d pick a crowbar over a frickin’ sonic screwdriver any day.
λ forever!
Speaking as someone who was constantly getting et by monsters, falling down elevator shafts and getting electrocuted playing Half-life, I’m not going to put my money on Freeman. Maybe on the nameless grunt in Doom II
I’d put my money on Reaper, but then, I’ve always had a grim fascination for death.
My name. Look at it.
He’s working for them. He was there when it all started at Black Mesa, and he is there now.
More like Captain Jack and crew, actually.
How about both?
For the folks who don’t follow science news, this is the Large Hadron Collider. It was just turned on for the first time recently, though they haven’t yet brought it up to full collision speed, so this LOL is a bit premature. Some people worry that when it is brought up to speed, it will make a black hole or some exotic form of matter that will eat the entire planet. However, the energies it is capable of reaching are less than the energy of cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere every day. If collisions of that energy level were dangerous, the planet would have been eaten billions of years ago. It is not going to kill us all, we’re more certain of that than we were certain that the first nuke wouldn’t catch the atmosphere on fire and burn us all to death.
And even if something goes wrong we’ll lose a part of Switzerland, Neutral that one!
What makes a country turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?
I think we can blame the chocolate. Why get involved in the politics of the rest of the world when you have Swiss Misses serving cocoa at home?
Will you think less of me if I tell you that I find that to be a sexy idea? Not saying you, just the concept in general. Hmmm, I think I need to have a talk with my fiancee’ about costumes…
See if Cindy McCain will sell you hers for cheap.
They obviously couldn’t play their prior alignment properly and the DM made them shift. They lost all their paladin levels with True Neutral too. 8/
It’s a plan so diabolically -neutral-…
If I don’t survive, tell my wife, “Hello.”
Time to go to Code Beige.
“If I dont survive this, tell me wife I said ‘Hello’.”
Futurama FTW!
“So, a plot to assassinate a weird-looking alien with scissors. How very neutral of you.”
No, they live there because they are weird, everyone has a gun and no one really wants to go there anyway, except on vacation. Oh, that could be Alaska… so Sarah Palin, dressed in a maid’s outfit, serving swiss miss…That’s what McCaain meant about about qualifications…he’s a genius…VOTE NOW, VOTE OFTEN!
Sarah Palin in a maid’s costume?? *Need I even say it?*
Will it open a portal to hell from whence shall come the Beast?
So instead of 999 do we call 666?
That was funny raelalt!!
Failblog reference WIN.
No, it will be the first level of Doom. Time to go get my chaingun.
iddqd – God mode
idkfa – Maximum ammo, armour and weapons.
idspispopd – Walk through walls
idbeholdv – Invulnerabilty (30 sec.)
.. don’t forget the chainsaw.
Now I have to find Doom again then email those codes to myself then play. Dammit and I wanted to get some DM homework done tonight for game tomorrow. /dork
Let me know if you ever need game tips, scenarios, ideas or the like. I’ve had to resign from geek, but still get the shakes; methadone is creating miniquests for to “someday” run.
I have a few storyline ideas for games so I might need somebody who can help with that but that would require video game smithing tools. As for D&D, I am always open to ideas. Even ideas I reject tend to inspire me in someway so I tend to appreciate them.
You forgot idnoclip!
Wait, idnoclip was doom 2 wasn’t it…
Don’t feel bad Aedriel, I thought exactly the same thing.
Hey! Who’s that guy inside the red one-eyed robot with spinny blades for arms? And why are they just standing there in the fire?
Dr. Reinhardt? Is that you?
“just turned on for the first time recently, though they haven’t yet brought it up to full collision speed”
I found that line sexual. I don’t know why but I laughed anyway while snickering about virgins having sex by charging at each other. Which led me to a derogatory reference about southern sexual intelligence.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Still Nope.
Damn, I’ll have to pay those credit card bills after all.
Me too! I figured that if they turned it on & created a black hole it would happen so fast we would never realize it. However, I sometimes think we’ll find credit card companies & lawyers in the next life. Do you really think they would excuse the debt if we didn’t exist anymore??
Nope…where’s the earth band?
“Now witness the power of this fully operational battlestation!” *vaporizes the moon*
oops! wrong button!!
That’s no moon, it’s a space station.
PEW PEW PEW
Maybe this’ll be the first step to that wave motion cannon I always wanted….
“Through all the fire and the smoke”
Star Blazers reference WIN! That was the only show that could get me up early on a school-day just to watch it.
We’re off to outer space. We’re leaving Mother Earth. To save the human race!
Thanks heh for putting that tune into my head for the next 6 months!
If you are uncertain as to whether we’re dead yet, check here:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
I refreshed it…
… like 3 times …
Why am I admitting this?
Refreshed? Try reading the page source! It’s pretty…interesting. Also, it forewarns of imminent ursine danger!
I thought it was predicting whether McCain would win.
And all that money to find something that Douglas Adams Knew lfrom a long time.
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Call the dolphins back.
That will require a lot of fish.
The Vogons were slow and we needed an excuse to bring Earth Mk II online.
Always bring a towel.
“The press takes aim at Pailin”…
Oh noes! The LHC is gonna kill us all! See the web cam footage for yourself:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
This is so exciting! And I love that nobody’s giving religious nuts who think scientists are doing this JUST to disprove God the time of day.
SCIENCE RULES!
lolwut?
Haven’t heard that one. Religious nuts whining about science?
I’m a bit surprised and let-down that there are 86 replies and NOBODY has simply typed “NOPE.”
‘zis close enough?
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
I guess you didn’t read the 86 replies because someone did post that. In fact, they posted it like three or four times in a row and followed it with a statement about still having to pay credit card bills.
Jane, some people just don’t have a keen sense for the obvious.
And those situations call for-
Logic Woman!!!!!
My caption was SO better— it looks like a huge phallus and you all know it…
If you haven’t seen the LHC Rap, link’s in my name
That was very entertaining!
The video is no longer available.
Wassup widdat?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks trying to recreate the circumstances at the Big Bang might not be a good idea. We aren’t in the dark ages anymore.
I mean, does Hadron even know about “Safe Sex”?
I think hadron is a pretty cool guy; eh kills planets and doesn’t afraid of anything.
I think the funny thing about this is that the humour is found in us not dying. I am a proponent of science and always have been, and sometimes things that they do with physics either scares or amazes me. The situation that came about was when that one scientist was interviewed and decided to open his mouth and say, “may create black holes” and then quickly followed up with “but we believe they will instantly evaporate and not harm the earth.” This set off the fear, panic, lawsuits and what have you. The problem with unexplored science is that it is it is just that. Everything rests on theory. While they know quite a bit more than we could even imagine, and even more so as a collective group, I fully understood people’s concerns. If you let me put down on paper that I’m going to put a gun to your head, but I believe with the way I have it , angled, triggered, and loaded, you will be fine, do you not have concerns? My biggest fear came about however when I heard that the collider was being done in a race, ie, they were trying to light it off before its American counterpart could be. This type of science shouldn’t be hindered nor rushed. I love science and dream of an amazing future because of it, but why would we seek to degrade those who have concerns? They were concerned for themselves, their children and existence. Could we have a humanity vote prior to possible world ending things being lit off? No it didn’t happen, and thank goodness, but I am thankful you could get your laugh, the opposing reality would of been less bright
As far as I know they just started it on 9-10, but the actual collision won’t happen until maybe November. So… we still could die sucked up by a tiny weeny black hole. Isn’t it fun?
tomorrow is the day!! I can’t get wait!!! lalalalala
Wow, the person who captioned this is an idiot.
The black hole would’ve only last for a small fraction of a second. May ‘ve sucked up some dust.
If there was any