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MrAngryFace

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Is this WISE?
« on: June 06, 2007, 11:20:33 AM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19068699/from/RS.1/

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Researchers on the project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), say this will recreate in miniature the conditions which existed nanoseconds after the Big Bang some 15 billion years ago and should allow them to see what happened next.

CERN says the experiment will also probe for knowledge about "dark matter" -- the invisible mass of energy that is believed to make up 96 percent of the universe.

The LHC project, involving scientists from CERN's 26 member countries and many other nations in gathering and processing the data from many billions of particle collisions every day, has been in construction for 15 years.

It is expected to be in operation for another 15.

At the center of the experiment, which cost many billions of dollars to set up, are vast magnets in cathedral-size caverns around the tunnel some 300 feet underground.

Originally two weeks of relative low-speed testing of the circuit had been planned for November, just before CERN closes down its particle accelerators for four months to save costly energy during the winter.

But smaller magnets burst during pressure tests at the end of March, and unscheduled work resulting from that incident has meant there would not be sufficient time for the preliminary "driving" tests before the shutdown, Gillies said.

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Van Cruncheon

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2007, 11:21:46 AM »

I'A I'A CTHULHU F'TAGHN
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2007, 11:22:00 AM »
More to conquer!!!!  Or another Evil Empire?!?! 
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2007, 11:25:28 AM »
One more step closer to antimatter bombs, awesome.
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2007, 11:28:13 AM »
I'm all for it if it'll make my penis bigger.   :-*
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2007, 11:28:23 AM »
One more step closer to antimatter bombs, awesome.

first thing to come to my mind

second thing: little universes in keychains ala men in black.

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2007, 01:16:01 PM »
I am convinced MAF is a MSNBC viral marketer
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2007, 01:17:29 PM »
Haha, CNN.com doesnt have as many of the fluff stories mixed in with real stories to keep me entertained. Plus I like stimulating actual conversation that doesnt involve how bad your taste in movies is.
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2007, 01:42:59 PM »
Isn't this like the plot for Spiderman 2?
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2007, 01:45:43 PM »
I coulda sworn this has already been done like a year ago.
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2007, 02:03:12 PM »
They were going to, but then decided not to cause their equipment that SIMULATES THE BIG BANG is NOT WORKING RIGHT.

That alone should convince them to scrap the project.

Oh well, at least if they mess up bad it'll be over quick.
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2007, 02:05:53 PM »
Holy shit. *holds head*
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MrAngryFace

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2007, 02:07:34 PM »
*sob*
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Van Cruncheon

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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2007, 03:13:46 PM »
NYARALATHOTEP AUGURS THE COMING OF THE ABYSS

GAZE YE TOO LONG INTO THE MSNBC, AND THE MSNBC GAZES ALSO INTO THEE
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2007, 03:21:33 PM »
NYARALAHOTEP AUGURS

Is that like Mayans with laser beams? Cuz I dig the Cuotl.
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2007, 09:18:25 PM »
Isn't this like the plot for Spiderman 2?
Pretty sure that revolved around fusion.

I coulda sworn this has already been done like a year ago.
Me too. Solve fusion power generation first dammit.
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2007, 11:27:23 PM »
I think this is the project I read about in an article once which explained that it's possible they could create a black hole with so much mass that even one an inch in diameter could pull our galaxy through it in about two seconds.

Well, it's been nice knowing you guys.

*listens to Supermassive Black Hole*
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Re: Is this WISE?
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2007, 11:28:45 PM »
This sounds like an excellent use of tax-payers' money. Why don't we just pay 100% tax to this project? I mean, it's all going to end up in a black hole anyway, we might as well get it over with quicker.
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I'd rather see this than more funds poured into the "War on Drugs" or "War on Terror." Sorry.
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