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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Tigerriot on June 28, 2008, 03:19:46 PM

Title: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Tigerriot on June 28, 2008, 03:19:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_re_eu/doomsday_collider

Because it's a little unsettling to me when reading it.  I would say even if there is a tiny, tiny chance of such a catastrophic event occurring, they should not be doing this stuff.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 28, 2008, 03:24:56 PM
When they did the testing for the first atomic bomb, there was a contingent of scientists who thought it might set the atmosphere on fire.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: demi on June 28, 2008, 03:29:26 PM
"If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said.

How many movies started off this way?
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Tigerriot on June 28, 2008, 03:30:17 PM
When they did the testing for the first atomic bomb, there was a contingent of scientists who thought it might set the atmosphere on fire.

Yeah, but we've come a long way in our understanding of these things since then.  These experiments they want to conduct in this new machine have never been done before, and no one can really say with certainty what will happen.  There is a quote from a physicist in that article that says there is a 1 in 50 million chance of a cataclysmic event occurring to the earth.  That is some pretty scary shit if you ask me.


I just don't want scientists playing games with the world because they're "curious" about dark matter.  This isn't their playground to do whatever the fuck they want with it.  This story has been done thousands of times before in movies, and sooner or later the frankenstein story is gonna come true.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Reb on June 28, 2008, 04:07:49 PM
LHC-Man
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 04:13:59 PM
LHC-Man
Hadronman.

HADRONMAN, HADRONMAN, DOES WHATEVER A HADRON CAN
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Reb on June 28, 2008, 04:22:39 PM
I was going for the lamest name possible.

Colliderman would be cooler.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 28, 2008, 04:22:57 PM
OLD
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 04:27:31 PM
hahaha i just realized, if you just switched the d and the r it'd be the large hardon collider
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Mupepe on June 28, 2008, 07:01:04 PM
i thought from the title it'd be a story about sony going out of business
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Vizzys on June 28, 2008, 07:03:57 PM
hahaha i just realized, if you just switched the d and the r it'd be the large hardon collider

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Fleshcollider.jpg NSFW?

rule 34
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Mupepe on June 28, 2008, 07:47:06 PM
i thought from the title it'd be a story about sony going out of business

Why would that scare anyone?
I'd imagine it would only scare a few people.  Hans, Tigerriot, TJHooker, GoFreak, Evilore, etc.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Tigerriot on June 28, 2008, 08:25:37 PM
i thought from the title it'd be a story about sony going out of business

Why would that scare anyone?
I'd imagine it would only scare a few people.  Hans, Tigerriot, TJHooker, GoFreak, Evilore, etc.

If you think me knocking down dumb bullshit people spew about the PS3 means I'm some sort of Sony champion, you need to ask yourself what that says about you.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Crushed on June 28, 2008, 08:26:50 PM
i thought from the title it'd be a story about sony going out of business

Why would that scare anyone?
I'd imagine it would only scare a few people.  Hans, Tigerriot, TJHooker, GoFreak, Evilore, etc.

If you think me knocking down dumb bullshit people spew about the PS3 means I'm some sort of Sony champion, you need to ask yourself what that says about you.

:rofl
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Vizzys on June 28, 2008, 08:40:25 PM
trolls that pretend to be unbiased are the best
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Mupepe on June 28, 2008, 08:44:27 PM
i thought from the title it'd be a story about sony going out of business

Why would that scare anyone?
I'd imagine it would only scare a few people.  Hans, Tigerriot, TJHooker, GoFreak, Evilore, etc.

If you think me knocking down dumb bullshit people spew about the PS3 means I'm some sort of Sony champion, you need to ask yourself what that says about you.

No, I just think you're an asshole and it's fun to get your panties in a bunch.  Mission accomplished.
Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Shuri on June 28, 2008, 09:16:12 PM
I read the same story like a decade ago; and then a few years ago, I read it was a prank from a (no shit, im not fucking with you guys) from a bunch of scientists that started making up those crazy experience and try to get them in the medias; and the story about a crazy black hole experience was an exemple of stuff they tried to get in the medias.

Their point is that how medias dont bother to do basic research.

Title: Re: Does this story scare the hell out of anyone else?
Post by: Brehvolution on June 28, 2008, 09:28:42 PM
There is a documentary on the building of this on Discovery or the History channel. It's a pretty huge machine for throwing atoms at each other. I think one of the experiments is trying to create a self sustainable means of creating all the electricity the world would ever need.