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by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:44 pm

Nah man. Large Hadron Collider. Totally happening. LIVE IT UP!

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by **Gabriel_Whist** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:10 am

You know they're making fucking black holes for study in France? How crazy is that?

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:33 am

Gabriel_Whist wrote:You know they're making fucking black holes for study in France? How crazy is that?

Nooooo. They are studying particle physics (in a sense, simulating the Big Bang) under the Franco-Swiss border, specifically in Geneva, Switzerland. A side-effect is the creation of a tiny black whole, which theoretically will disappear just after it develops. Hence, the Large Hadron Collider I spoke of in the above post.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:54 pm

Which is what reminded me of that. But no, they are creating black holes, miniatures of course, purposely, to attempt to study them. Craziest shit ever.

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:16 pm

Gabriel_Whist wrote:Which is what reminded me of that. But no, they are creating black holes, miniatures of course, purposely, to attempt to study them. Craziest shit ever.

Crazier stuff has existed. IIt doesn't really "blow the mind," so to speak. 'm both afraid and excited. Anything to give science a +1 gives me a little flutter.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:16 pm

See, I'm fascinated by science, but at the same time I'm like, "WHATHEFUCK!?!?! CAN'T YOU PEOPLE LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE?" I mean, for every good discovery, we learn another way to be bastards, another way to destroy the world. I mean look at the fucking A-Bomb fer chrissakes. Who knows what knowledge of black holes will lead them to produce.

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:00 am

Gabriel_Whist wrote:See, I'm fascinated by science, but at the same time I'm like, "WHATHEFUCK!?!?! CAN'T YOU PEOPLE LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE?" I mean, for every good discovery, we learn another way to be bastards, another way to destroy the world. I mean look at the fucking A-Bomb fer chrissakes. Who knows what knowledge of black holes will lead them to produce.

It's true. When I first learned of the LHC I was furious. I felt as though I should have had a say in the stuff that goes on that may (just MAY) wipe out life on earth as we know it. Yanno. Like I should have the right to be able to stand up and be the one to shout "I DON'T WANT TO NOT EXIST" at the moment they turn the thing on, kinda like girl that ruins weddings because she's been sleeping with the groom.

But then, there are tons of things that have been discovered and better understood because people took that last leap into the unknown, throwing caution to the wind. One such example, deciding to screw the theory that the earth was flat and sailing around the world, despite calls from the average Joe that you'd certainly tumble off the edge of the earth.

There's so many things that, if we Joes had a say in it, we'd probably screw up some of our greatest accomplishments as a species.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:12 am

Sailing across the flat world only endangered the ships crew, not the existence of the world.

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:29 am

Gabriel_Whist wrote:Sailing across the flat world only endangered the ships crew, not the existence of the world.

Truth! Exactly why I said: "...because people took that last leap into the unknown, throwing caution to the wind." Didn't say the extent of the danger. x3 This one? Eeeehhh a bit bigger than say a crew of 30 dudes at risk, to be sure. xD When they split the atom, though, no one was 100% on the effects that may have resulted. They did it anyway. Just sayin', scared though we may be, fear can't control all our decisions. 'Specially in sciiieeeence! (Insert Professor Impossible voice! aka, Stephen Colbert.)

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:52 am

I hate Stephen Colbert.

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:11 am

Gabriel_Whist wrote:I hate Stephen Colbert.

xD good thing my post wasn't about him, then, eh? (In Venture Brothers he does the voice of a character obsessed with science.)

But in so far as the LHC is concerned, they were going to start testing it this month, weren't they? I don't know if they have a date for actually going full blown with it. I guess the worry is that the black holes created as result of the collisions may not be as controlled as we hope they will be. I think it would have been wise of them to first invent a way to manage/contain black holes before they went about creating them on Earth, or something. This is the most fearful of The End of The World that I've ever been. D:

by **Zero-Genesis** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:16 am

The most fearfull end of the world I have seen is Ragnarok.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:19 am

ThatsNotPoetry wrote:
Gabriel_Whist wrote:I hate Stephen Colbert.

xD good thing my post wasn't about him, then, eh? (In Venture Brothers he does the voice of a character obsessed with science.)

But in so far as the LHC is concerned, they were going to start testing it this month, weren't they? I don't know if they have a date for actually going full blown with it. I guess the worry is that the black holes created as result of the collisions may not be as controlled as we hope they will be. I think it would have been wise of them to first invent a way to manage/contain black holes before they went about creating them on Earth, or something. This is the most fearful of The End of The World that I've ever been. D:

Well, they already have created a couple black holes, so I'm hopeful that they have a pretty good hang of it.

by **ThatsNotPoetry** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:29 am

Gabriel_Whist wrote:Well, they already have created a couple black holes, so I'm hopeful that they have a pretty good hang of it.

God willing. I'm not looking to die quite yet. Have you run into many people who are even aware of the goings-on in Geneva? I only knew like 5 people who were aware, before I started telling folks about it. I'm surprised it isn't MUCH bigger news! Are people pulling "Rorschachs" yet and toting signs about the end of the world? It just seems like it's being treated like back-burner fib.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:33 am

People have been doing that for decades, and nice Watchmen reference, much props.

by **ohhhhhallibaba** on Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:10 pm

Every generation always thinks that they're going to see the end of the world. Every, single, one of them. Our parents did, our grand parents did, and so on and so forth. Nobody knows when the world is going to end, no matter how hard they try to, it's not possible. The only one that knows when the world will end is God.

by **Dionysus** on Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:56 am

This generation is safe from "the end of the world", at least. Nobody here will ever witness this so-called "end of the world", we will all have already died before that ever happens. I know this because I am an astrologer. All of earth's shifts, hurricanes, volcanic erruptions, earthquakes, and "end of the world" events are determined by the universe, and the way the earth was made. I have studied the stars and planets in our solar system, and have determined scientifically and mathematically that there will be no collisions of earth with the sun, moon, planets, or asteroids for many many years after we're all long dead and gone. It's unfortunate really... I kind of wanted to see the end of the world... Heh, well, there's always world wars to think about.

by **Gabriel_Whist** on Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:21 am

We may witness the end of civilization as we know it though. And there is a chance that we will blow up the entire earth. We have enough nukes to destroy the earth ten times over.

by **Hunter in the Alley** on Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:47 pm

Gabriel_Whist wrote:We may witness the end of civilization as we know it though. And there is a chance that we will blow up the entire earth. We have enough nukes to destroy the earth ten times over.

We can't "destroy the Earth." We can make it unsuitable for humans, sure. But even if the surface of the earth is red hot, some thing will survive to live under ground. And when the surface is suitable again, plants will grow, animals will surface, and bam, Earth Reborn. Of course over the course of a million years.

by **ohhhhhallibaba** on Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:13 am

Dionysus wrote:This generation is safe from "the end of the world", at least. Nobody here will ever witness this so-called "end of the world", we will all have already died before that ever happens. I know this because I am an astrologer. All of earth's shifts, hurricanes, volcanic erruptions, earthquakes, and "end of the world" events are determined by the universe, and the way the earth was made. I have studied the stars and planets in our solar system, and have determined scientifically and mathematically that there will be no collisions of earth with the sun, moon, planets, or asteroids for many many years after we're all long dead and gone. It's unfortunate really... I kind of wanted to see the end of the world... Heh, well, there's always world wars to think about.

You wan't my honest opinion on that? Well, I'm giving it anyways.

I don't think that anyone can determine anything like that, and be 100% positive about it. Based on what you just said, you should be able to tell if an Earthquake would strike California in a year, by the movement of stars and alignment of planets? So why don't astrologers and scientists, look at the stars, find out when all the big disasters are going to strike, where there going to strike, and have that area stockpile on supplies until it happens?

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