The Devouring of Worlds has begun!
I’m converting!
Cthulhu ftaghn! Io Yog-Sothoth! Ia Nyarlathotep!
Cynically, I’d say coackroaches and no two ways about it. Viruses would be good, too, if Agent Smith hadn’t already taken it. :dubious:
I just skip the stupido news about it and try to look for the more interesting reports.
Oh good. Beer and Twisties all OVER the monitor.
Non-event? Hardly. The turned the thing on, and POOF, Otto disappeared.
I’m looking forward to Monday, when they turn it on again and try to make Otto reappear. It will be cool to learn where it sent him.
What I want to know is if anyone said “Commence primary ignition” when they turned the thing on.
AAAAHHHHH!!!
Now I’m really worried.
It’s my understanding that when they turned it on, the number “41” appeared in the proton beam.
Not to be needlessly messianic, but I predict that since this machine is obviously busted, we’ll just have to start over with a bigger, better machine.
Then everyone can worry.
Messiahs never think they’re needless.
Time to restart the Superconducting Supercollider!
Usually I find http://www.badastronomy.com/ to be a fount of good scientific knowledge (it’s not just about astronomy for the site anymore)
Thank you!
I thought I saw a rabbit in the startup video. It was only a couple of frames, but I’m sure he was carrying an Eludium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator.
That’s a big Twinkie.
After me:
Twinkie Twinkie little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Processed spongecake in the sky…
And like I say, if you know what you’re doing, it’s not an adventure!
Miller: Good heavens, what do you expect for a couple sacks of explosives? A raging volcano? Give it a little time.
Even if they did manage to make a teeny little black hole, it’d take it, like, a while before it ate enough of the Earth to make us all go boom.
Ethilrist! Holy crap I almost didn’t recognize your name. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! Welcome back!
Figured it was nothing to worry about.
Now if you put a large hadron collider on a treadmill…
shutupshutup they’ll actually start trying to figure it out or worse yet descend into puns
Puns? Nah. It’s pure science. And the results would be plane to C…
“Proton smasher” might be a more accurate term. (“Hadrons” means particles made of quarks, which includes protons.) Or maybe “Ion Smasher”, since it will also be used to smash lead ions (and protons can be considered hydrogen ions).
But if they’re gonna be smashing together particles made of Quarks, who is gonna run the bar on Deep Space Nine?
The way I see it, even if the LHC does create a black hole and destroy the Earth, that’s a pretty good way to go, and it’ll make a great movie. I mean, “An Inconvenient Truth” was good and all, but YAWN! On the other hand, I expect the action movie “Black Hole: Earth” to be a summer blockbuster on Xerxes 5.