Is the world going to end this Saturday?
Is the world going to end this Saturday?
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sprinter885

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11,550 posts

258 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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I didn't realise this was happening this week end-now what is it I always said I must do!!!!??
Courtesy of Virgin Media:-

[i]Hadron Collider

This Saturday the most advanced scientific instrument ever built will be switched on in Geneva.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built to test current theories for particle physics and scientists will try and recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang by smashing parts of atoms together at high speeds.

When activated the collider could show one of the most elusive particles in our Universe, the Higgs boson, also called the "God particle". This observation could confirm the Standard Model of physics unifying three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out just gravity.

However, other more dangerous particles will also be produced for which searches are planned, such as black holes, and never seen before particles of matter, and even now, the architects of what is being termed a "Doomsday" machine, the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN are being sued in federal court over fears that this experiment may in fact destroy the planet.

Also our old friend Nostradamus’ words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:

Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
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My belief is that Gordon brown will raise a Windfall tax on this -for any number of reasons-but mainly because he just doesn't need a reason.

Having said that I can't help but think science is playing a little bit of "We've never pressed this funny little red button here-idea Let's try it today shall we??

Hedders

24,460 posts

278 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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I will hold off on paying the milkman until next week then, might save a few quid here.

turbobloke

117,509 posts

291 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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No

HTH

Buster Bakdorzin

16,277 posts

296 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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sprinter885 said:
I can't help but think science is playing a little bit of "We've never pressed this funny little red button here-idea Let's try it today shall we??
The level of carefree reckless abandon with which they punch it aren't as playful and un-calculated as you suggest, though...

merc_man

1,926 posts

233 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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I think it already did as we appear to have been thrust backwards in time

Craig David said:

Bing o

15,184 posts

250 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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merc_man said:
I think it already did as we appear to have been thrust backwards in time

Craig David said:
Bo selecta!!

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

273 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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sprinter885 said:
Also our old friend Nostradamus’ words ring from the grave with this grim prediction:

Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
You know, if he'd have said 'That Hadron Collider thing that they're going to fire up in 2008? Really bad idea. Trust me. August will be a bad month. Tears in the fabric of time and space. I wouldn't turn it on if I were you. By the way, that Bonekickers thing is going to be st too' I'd give it some weight.

As it is, what he said means fk all.

jollygreen

21,545 posts

233 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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I doubt it very much.

Somebody who presumably (!) knows something about it said the chance of it creating dangerous particles was similar to the odds of winning the lottery jackpot on 3 consecutive weeks. The problem being that people actually believe that it's possible to win the lottery on 3 consecutive draws...

laugh

I'm not worried about it.

Bet it takes a feckin lot of power. Has it got it's own power station?

BoRED S2upid

21,121 posts

271 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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I doubt we will feel the explosion from here. On a more positive note if this collider thingy worked it could save us a fortune in energy prices.

BTelford

28 posts

219 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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Hope not!

Puff Puff

23,214 posts

257 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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Damn, the windows were cleaned yesterday!

randomman

2,215 posts

220 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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Hmm, making a black hole does seem to be a little dangerous, how do we stop it once its made?

chevykevv

1,447 posts

238 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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Just my luck i'd win the Euro lotto on Friday & then BOOOM!!! on Saturday.

scorp

8,783 posts

260 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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randomman said:
Hmm, making a black hole does seem to be a little dangerous, how do we stop it once its made?
I think they are short lived temporary ones, not the star eating kind.

Edited by scorp on Thursday 7th August 12:10

CLK-GTR

1,763 posts

276 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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sprinter885 said:
Nostradamus quatrain 9 44:

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.
Maybe he just didn't like Switzerland?? tongue out

On the plus side, if it does destroy the earth we'll never know about it

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

286 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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One hopes one will not disappear up one's own arrus hole....

Monki

1,233 posts

222 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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they should talk to Gordon Brown about making black holes....seems to be where all our money goes!

Adenauer

18,982 posts

267 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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No, it will end in the autumn when they switch it on properly, that's when we'll all bugger off into a series of black holes. It's true, a German scientist said so on the radio yesterday. smile

teamrecon

154 posts

220 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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Just typical

I get my TVR back on Saturday after some performance mods rage

N.

sprinter885

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11,550 posts

258 months

Thursday 7th August 2008
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randomman said:
Hmm, making a black hole does seem to be a little dangerous, how do we stop it once its made?
I think they're planning to import a few Irish lads with a couple of barrows & a load of top soil?