We Are All Going to Die

[Llava]

Your avatar's boobs have enough mass to create a black hole.

A very pleasant black hole.

[bhodi]

Your avatar's boobs have enough mass to create a black hole.

A very pleasant black hole.

Oh, it's easter again! That time already?

[Lantyssa]

Easter is over.  Enjoy the bunny while you can.

[Merusk]

I forgot to update to the bunny I had after St. Patty's.  Ah well, next year.
Now to find an avatar that'll work until the 4th, as that's the next "big" holiday.  Hrm.

As to the original topic: 

Yeah, we could be doomed.  If so, we can't do jack to stop it, so I figure it's as worth worrying about as the end of the Mayan calendar.

Also, I'm reminded of "Lexx" where they found Earth and had that joke about "It's one of those doomed planets that'll discover XYZ and destroy itself at that moment."

Heh.

[Aez]

I forgot to update to the bunny I had after St. Patty's.  Ah well, next year.
Now to find an avatar that'll work until the 4th, as that's the next "big" holiday.  Hrm.

Have a cookie :

[Samwise]

Easter is over.  Enjoy the bunny while you can.

Traditionally, the bunny boobatar stays until Pentecost.  And who am I to argue with tradition?

[Furiously]

I would imagine several short lived very small black holes would also pose a nasty issue eating through things...

[Morat20]

My short take on this is: Not enough energy to generate a large enough black hole to worry about. It'll just be too damn small to eat enough to keep up with evaporation, assuming you can create one at all. While there's a lot of "shit we don't know" there, in the end -- you need a certain energy or mass density there, and the collider isn't powerful enough to provide it.

Worrying about black holes is like worrying about the fact that you'll lose control of your car at speeds in excess of the speed of sound. Your car can't go that fast, so why fret?

My longer take: Hmm. Nothing says the whole would have to be stationary when created. It'd probably have some momentum behind it, since it's not real likely that 100% of the collision energy would go towards black hole formation. It'd be amusing if it just shot a stream of black holes out at right angles to the collision. Can you imagine the physicists scrambling to line up instrumentation?

[Roac]

I want a black hole gun.

[Sky]

I'm not worried about the black hole. It's the WHITE HOLE you've got to worry about.

[Yegolev]

I skipped over a lot of the witty posts to say that L. Ron hubbard wrote that a singularity was the cause of the Bermuda Triangle in his Mission Earth series.  I apologize for not remembering which book of the dekaology.

[stu]

I've changed my mind! I don't want to die anymore!!! To hell with those scientists and their black hole bullshit meddling.

Seriously though. If a black hole was going to consume the world, then 4chan would have already killed us.

[Tale]

Hey, remember that time we all died on September 12, 2006?

[WayAbvPar]

Why is it so fucking hard for these hayseeds to pronounce 'nuclear' correctly?

[Tale]

Because for the benefit of George W Bush, a few years ago they had a scientist come out and say it was a speech impediment some people have, where they cannot get their tongue/mouth around "nuclear". Which is a lie, because the same people can say "clear" and it does not come out as "cular". They can also say "new".

But for some reason, they still say "new, clear directions about nucular energy". Soon nucular will be the official pronunciation.

[Lantyssa]

Bush can also say it.  He chooses to mispronounce it.

[NowhereMan]

I remember one particular journalist that pointed out Bush and a lot of his crew are perfectly capable of talking about the nuclear family but when it comes to nucular weapons and suchlike they become all folksy and friendly because they wish to emphasise how friendly and American all that stuff is. I can't speak for how accurate this is but it's a particular conspiracy point that was so wonderfully subtle and attributed to Bush that I simply couldn't forget it. If anyone has video proof that he actually does pronounce it as nuclear family I would be mildly amused at least.

[Morat20]

I'm not worried about the black hole. It's the WHITE HOLE you've got to worry about.

It's the guys trying to make antimatter that bug me. Why can't they play with that somewhere safe, like outside the orbit of Pluto?

[stu]

[MrHat]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

So awesome.

SOoooooo Awesome.

 

[Miasma]

First comment on that page is right.  We only have a few months to live before the dragons wipe us out.

Also, LOL at an old fucking CRT monitor surrounded my millions of dollars worth of computers in a muti billion dollar facility.

[Nebu]

Also, LOL at an old fucking CRT monitor surrounded my millions of dollars worth of computers in a muti billion dollar facility.

I have more than enough money to buy a new monitor, but I love my 20" crt.  I could be that person!

[Sky]

I use a 14" aaancient beige dell ultrascan CRT on my test bench.

[DraconianOne]

I use a 14" aaancient beige dell ultrascan CRT on my test bench.

What do test do on your test bench?





I think I want one.

[tazelbain]

I use a 14" aaancient beige dell ultrascan CRT on my test bench.

What do test do on your test bench?

His eyes.

[Tale]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

Holy crap.

They're not colliding particles, they're colliding James Bond with Dr Who. "The ALICE Inner Tracking System during its transport in the experimental cavern and its insertion into the Time Projection Chamber (TPC)". Can't you hear that Half-Life scientist's voice? "The Time Projection Chamber, Gordon. The TPC."

It cannot be coincidence that a Dr Who arch-villain is called Davros and a town in Switzerland is called Davos. Here he is, I think. (Also, where is Mini-Me?)



And the "You Only Live Twice" shock troops inside the volcano.

[Sir T]

It cannot be coincidence that a Dr Who arch-villain is called Davros and a town in Switzerland is called Davos. Here he is, I think. (Also, where is Mini-Me?)

No thats Kane, founder and god of the brotherhood of Nod. 

[Righ]

If I could be arsed, I'd 'shop Connery as Bond in that image like the opening credit of Dr. No. But I can't.

[Tale]

Some scientific people made a rap video to explain what this is all about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[apocrypha]

(Also, where is Mini-Me?)

Duh! Mini-me is stood right beside him, it's just that the stupid photographer was in the wrong place!

[Lantyssa]

Some scientific people made a rap video to explain what this is all about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Physicists are so cute.  I want to pinch their cheeks.

[Der Helm]

Physicists are so cute.  I want to pinch their cheeks.

You are scary when you are channeling Signe. 

[Lantyssa]

You are scary when you are channeling Signe. 

Life as we know it would be forever altered if we were ever in the same room.

Funny, seeing as we're talking about the effects of the large hadron collider, and that's far more likely to happen than micro-singularities and fire-breathing dragons flying out.  Why not flower breathing dragons though?  Why isn't anyone scared of those?

[schild]

Why not flower breathing dragons though?

Funny, I used to call one of my exes that.

[Phildo]

Dragons that repair damage to the environment... sort of like captain planet?