End of the World? - Page 2

Ian Robinson · #21 09-09-2008, 08:27 PM

Not the least bit worried .

Any blackholes created will not last long as they will be microscopic.

§AB · #22 09-09-2008, 08:31 PM

Hey it's 8.30pm and after all that hype I'm still alive.

Friggin ripped off!

Jen · #23 09-09-2008, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

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.

LOL your boss is gonna give you some crappy jobs to do tomorrow LMAO

astro_nutt · #24 09-09-2008, 10:38 PM

Time for a sickie!!!..LOL!!

MrB (Simon) · #25 09-09-2008, 10:42 PM

hmmmm ch10 newsbreak just reported this will be happening tomorrow....
Not unusual for a news report to be wrong tho.

Ric · #26 09-09-2008, 10:59 PM

Oh well, back to paying the mortgage.

Ian Robinson · #27 09-09-2008, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jen

LOL your boss is gonna give you some crappy jobs to do tomorrow LMAO

You might not have a job anymore .... so , in a way , you were right and your world has ended.

norm · #28 09-09-2008, 11:43 PM

For those who maybe interested:

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/about...ws_item1.shtml

TOMORROW! - Wednesday 10th September at 7pm
Venue: Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney

Title: Build your own Big Bang: CERN's Large Hadron
Collider turns on*

Presenter: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Dr Kevin Varvell

RSVP: 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au
At 5.30 pm AEST next Wednesday 10th September, scientists will hit the
big green button on the world's largest experiment, the Large Hadron
Collider at CERN. The huge energies given to tiny particles in this
experiment will take us closer to the Big Bang than we have ever been
before and propel us towards answering questions of Life, The Universe
and Everything.

One of the thousands of scientists holding his breath is Dr Kevin
Varvell from the School of Physics University of Sydney. "At last we can
test some of our ideas about what we are made of!" he says. Some ideas
are very solid, some such as mini-black holes less so.

At a public talk next Wednesday evening Dr Kevin and Dr Karl
Kruszelnicki will be giving the low down on the Large Hadron Collider,
colder than deep space, and buried 100 m in the ground in a tunnel 27 km
long under the French-Swiss border - as well as streaming live video
from CERN.

Cheers Norm

PS: I'm pretty sure its free, but those interested, maybe best to ring to confirm.

BalderAsir (Nick) · #29 10-09-2008, 12:33 AM

the conspiracy wackos are saying the the initial use of the LHC is a single beam around the entire collider to test it, and that actual collisions arn't until later in the week, possibly next week

AstralTraveller (David) · #30 10-09-2008, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by BalderAsir

the conspiracy wackos are saying the the initial use of the LHC is a single beam around the entire collider to test it, and that actual collisions arn't until later in the week, possibly next week

I'm saved!

The world will end.

Night Owl · #31 10-09-2008, 03:01 AM

When many of the worlds best minds were working on the Manhattan Project prior to the first atomic bomb test (Trinity), it was seriously considered that the temperature of ignition could be so high that it would cause a spontaneous runaway reaction in other matter, such as a hydrogen hydrogen reaction in the worlds oceans. Eventually it was calculated that it wouldn't happen.

So this LHC is a case of building something and flicking the switch, but not really knowning what is going to happen. That has some element of danger.

Just imagine if supernovas aren't actually stars blowing up, but alien civilisations wiping themselves out after building LHC and turning them on?!

GrahamL · #32 10-09-2008, 06:29 AM

No more clouds to spoil an evenings viewing ..I can't wait

spearo (Frank) · #33 10-09-2008, 07:16 AM

hehehehe

Gotta love Douglas Adams
I think though that the four pints are to cushion the shock of traveling as you get picked up by the alien spaceship and combined with the salt of the peanuts assist in recuperating from the journey across light years.

The first requirement there being : finding aliens in a nearby spaceship willing to give you a ride after they've picked up your signal as you ask for a hitch....I fear we wont have time to get that far....

So we're left with the SOP of the paper bag over our heads for us poor non-escaping Earth based simians....

even though it wont help

There might be enough time to market some fashionable "End-of-the-World" color accessorized bags? But then again, nowhere to spend the earnings afterward...

maybe I'll just chuck a sickie for the rest of the next 2 weeks just in case...

I wont even worry about imaging anything since there's a chance we could get a whole new point of perspective....

I wonder if our collective last words will be:
"My God...Its full of stars!"

frank
PS: I think historians will describe the last couple of decades as the "doomsayers" years....seems more and more we hear of catastrophes that we should fear and are going to end the world as we know it....hole in ozone, war, weapons of mass deception, global warming, particle accelerators, Cabinet reshuffles...

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Originally Posted by Ric

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.

spearo (Frank) · #34 10-09-2008, 07:21 AM

Now that I think about it...I've had an "image of the week" so as the Klingons would say...."its a good day to die"

hahahahaah
frank

Glenhuon (Bill) · #35 10-09-2008, 08:36 AM

It may be a huge breakthrough, don't the Romulans use mini black holes to power their starships. Look out Galaxy, the humans are coming

Bill

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #36 10-09-2008, 08:53 AM

If only we could develop a particle accelerator that would make all the weirdo wackos disappear.
Did you catch 4 Corners? It was about the 9/11 conspiracy. All you have to do is look at the eyes of these people to know that they are "touched" in the head.

MrB (Simon) · #37 10-09-2008, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by norm

At 5.30 pm AEST next Wednesday 10th September, scientists will hit the big green button on the world's largest experiment,

wow, ch10 news got it right... oh well, I guess we'll know around 3:30pm WST today then....

Quote:

Originally Posted by spearo

I think though that the four pints are to cushion the shock of traveling as you get picked up by the alien spaceship

Yep, 'twas mentioned as a muscle relaxant.

Dunno why everyone is so worried, it's well known that Earth is in a Plural zone

If anything happens another Earth will pop up in it's place, just ask the Vogons.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Did you catch 4 Corners? It was about the 9/11 conspiracy.

Damn, forgot that was on.

Screwdriverone (Chris) · #38 10-09-2008, 12:32 PM

The world hasnt ended, but........

My washing machine is on spin cycle - and its not even plugged in to the wall.

My kids hair has all turned white.......

The dog is making collect calls using his stainless steel bowl, some aluminium foil and a paper clip pointed to Sirius A (see what I did there?), muttering something about..."kill them all I say and be done with them once and for all"

My car keys have attached themselves to the nearest Foxtel dish on the neighbours roof...

and... every time I hit 88km/h in my car, flames shoot out from under it, there is a big flash and I end up colliding with a pine tree and crashing into a farmer's barn before he shoots at me with a shotgun and I speed off into a 1950's landscape.....

Coincidence???? I THINK NOT!!!!!

Chris

BalderAsir (Nick) · #39 10-09-2008, 12:57 PM

hahaha nice one chris

§AB · #40 10-09-2008, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

The world hasnt ended, but........

My washing machine is on spin cycle - and its not even plugged in to the wall.

My kids hair has all turned white.......

The dog is making collect calls using his stainless steel bowl, some aluminium foil and a paper clip pointed to Sirius A (see what I did there?), muttering something about..."kill them all I say and be done with them once and for all"

lol All hail your dog and Sirius A! Otherwise die

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My car keys have attached themselves to the nearest Foxtel dish on the neighbours roof...

So that's why my Foxtel has been crap...I mean I had my KFC, and my antenna all tuned ready for Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen lately! But coz of you, apparently, al I saw was static, so yer I was so pissed off; now you owe me $10 billion compensation....

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and... every time I hit 88km/h in my car, flames shoot out from under it, there is a big flash and I end up colliding with a pine tree and crashing into a farmer's barn before he shoots at me with a shotgun and I speed off into a 1950's landscape.....

that's freakin sweet I want my car to spew flames!