Black Hole set to destroy Earth 05/08

LSlice said:

There's always the flat earth society.

Speaking of apocayptic destruction, a magazine cover informed me today that earth is getting destroyed by an asteroid and there's nothing NASA can do about it.

coyotemike said:
Did we get killed yet?

coyotemike said:
Did we get killed yet?

hk85 said:
While this isn't a black hole I wouldn't want to mess with the potential sodium fire.

The newest one had to be ordered from a company in Ohio that makes heavy-duty items for industry, and the sphere barely fit through the door of the lab when it arrived.

That black hole that was going to eat the Earth? Forget about it, and keep making the mortgage payments -- those of you who still have them.

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"There is no basis for any concerns about the consequences of new particles or forms of matter that could possibly be produced by the LHC," five physicists who comprised the safety assessment group wrote in their report. Whatever the collider will do, they said, Nature has already done many times over.

Source: New York Times

PointBlank said:
05/08.

Never Forget!

PointBlank said:
05/08.

Never Forget!

Cassiel said:


Scientists say...

Better safe than sorry

After reading these blog posts dealing with the possibility of the Large Hadron Collider creating a black hole of strangelet that would destroy the earth %u2014 as well as this report from the LHC Safety Assessment Group, and these websites advocating legal action against the LHC %u2014 I realized that I can remain silent about this important issue no longer.

As a concerned citizen of Planet Earth, I demand that the LHC begin operations as soon as possible, at as high energies as possible, and continue operating until such time as it is proven completely safe to turn it off.

Given our present state of knowledge, we simply cannot exclude the possibility that aliens will visit the Earth next year, and, on finding that we have not yet produced a Higgs boson, find us laughably primitive and enslave us. Or that a wormhole mouth or a chunk of antimatter will be discovered on a collision course with Earth, which can only be neutralized or deflected using new knowledge gleaned from the LHC. Yes, admittedly, the probabilities of these events might be vanishingly small, but the fact remains that they have not been conclusively ruled out. And that being the case, the Precautionary Principle dictates taking the only safe course of action: namely, turning the LHC on as soon as possible.

After all, the fate of the planet might conceivably depend on it.

scylis said:

well, it's only scientists that are saying that, and you know you can't trust scientists to say the truth. God-hating, reasoning bastards!

ckdexterhaven said:

It's settled. Scientists are dumb.

Sick said:
I just saw that this thread is still alive, and I was all prepared to do a little crank ass-kicking. To my great pleasure, I see that it won't be necessary, since things have devolved into silliness. The cranks apparently went elsewhere.

I was just thinking of the LHC the other day, though, because I saw an article on its supposed dangers. I was a little angry. Apparently the media is still lending credibility to the crackpot idea that the LHC will destroy the planet.

Frankly, I'm a bit disgusted.

crispy said:
Too good not to share ... physicists rap.

crispy said:
Too good not to share ... physicists rap.

wildswan said:
I enjoyed that, like, way too much!

crispy said:

It's awesome, isn't it?