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09-09-2008, 11:22 AM
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WadeH
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End of the World?
An experiment to simulate the Big Bang is to be begun by the CERN Institute in Switzerland at 07:00 GMT (3:00pm AWST).
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...BrandChannel=0
"Scientists plan to smash particle beams together at close to the speed of light inside CERN's tightly-sealed Large Hadron Collider to create multiple mini-versions of the primeval Big Bang." ref. Robert Evans (Reuters).
Could be interesting!! It is costing a huge $9.2 billion and has some scientists a little concerned. Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low. Nice.
The circular tunnel is 27km long and collisions are to take place over comming weeks.
Maybe none of us will need to worry about fine weather now! 
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09-09-2008, 11:41 AM
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6000 post club member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WadeH
Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low.
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Yes...I'd like the chances to be less than extremely low!!!
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09-09-2008, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Darwin, Australia
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you need to check out www.abovetopsecret.com its a conspiracy website, some of the people in there are going ballistic over the HADRON collider.
some of the other stuff on there is great reading material as well 
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09-09-2008, 12:15 PM
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Its only a column of dust
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lol if all this scare mongerers are to be be believed, we should've been killed hundreds of times over in the past al a planetary conjuctions etc.
In the newspaper here, they were saying that it could create a "black hole" that would suck the planet in or in another scenario create huge Earthquakes, Tsunamis, rip[ apart the crust etc etc. WTF!!!??! yes a comparitively tiny, insignificant machine is really gonna do that.....
So we're all gonna die at 5:00pm EST then?? Oh damn. I guess I won't bother starting my maths assignment then. LoL
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09-09-2008, 12:51 PM
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You've got it all wrong folks. The World is not going to end tomorrow - it is going to end on the 21st December 2012. My brother-in-law wrote a book about it, so he should know  It is called "The end of time" Good reading, so we have a few more viewing nights left yet. Maybe Eta Carina will go pop before then and bathe us in gamma rays.
Or perhaps the West and Russia will slug it out with nukes soon..... Glad I live in the Southern Hemisphere 
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09-09-2008, 01:08 PM
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Moderator
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................................... ................................... ..bang
i love to see it work...............
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09-09-2008, 01:37 PM
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Spam Hunter
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I'll believe it when I see it.
(The end of the world that is...)
Al.
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09-09-2008, 01:46 PM
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Location: Darwin, Australia
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oh man, don't get me started on the 2012 hype
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09-09-2008, 01:56 PM
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Dear me, what a load of crap,  you would think some of these people would get a life, before it all ends 
Leon 
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09-09-2008, 02:08 PM
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Support your local RFS
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Four pints of Lager and a packet of salted peanuts to cushion the shock. 
Oh and put a paper bag over our head but only if you think it will help.
I think that's the SOP according to the great Douglas Adams.
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09-09-2008, 02:09 PM
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[Could be interesting!! It is costing a huge $9.2 billion and has some scientists a little concerned. Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low. Nice.
Who cares we are screwing up the planet anyhow, another big bang might fix it.
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09-09-2008, 03:42 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Originally Posted by 你B
So we're all gonna die at 5:00pm EST then??
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That sucks, you guys get an extra 2 hours to live!!
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09-09-2008, 03:42 PM
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"It's the end of the world as we know it....and I feel fine" as the song goes...
It does intrinsically worry me that they're not sure what will happen but that maybe they're going to orchestrate matter they don't know much about...does discarded dark matter go in the bin with the green top or the one with the red top ????
Steve
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09-09-2008, 04:16 PM
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The Observologist
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Billimari, NSW Central West
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Oh dear ...
Now where's that paper bag I set aside to put over my head.
Best,
Les D
Last edited by ngcles; 09-09-2008 at 09:43 PM.
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09-09-2008, 06:19 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TrevorW
[Could be interesting!! It is costing a huge $9.2 billion and has some scientists a little concerned. Others say that chances of accidentally destroying the planet are extremely low. Nice.
Who cares we are screwing up the planet anyhow, another big bang might fix it.
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09-09-2008, 06:19 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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09-09-2008, 06:21 PM
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Oh no ... we're still here
It's 6.18 and the end of the world is 78 minutes overdue. I'm worried. I'm really beginning to worry about those comments I made to the boss. 
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09-09-2008, 07:45 PM
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WadeH
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Currajong/Townsville Qld
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Surprise, Surprise.............. at least Western Australia is still here!!
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09-09-2008, 08:19 PM
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Very Funny
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09-09-2008, 08:25 PM
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Just finished watching 'Enough Rope' with Andrew Denton, and he interviewed an English scientist, Brian Cox, re LHC - very interesting as I didnt know too much about it. You can watch it here -
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/
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