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- Sirocco, on 09/05/2008, -3/+131People were scared ***** when we first attempted to break the sound barrier. They were scared ***** when we set off the first nuke. Hell, they were scared ***** at the thought of sailing off the edge of the world.
Everything will be just fine. - inactive, on 09/05/2008, -5/+65He is a tireless advocate of communicating science to the world and his outreach style is second-to-none
- Jimmerz, on 09/06/2008, -2/+48People were scared of the nuclear bomb... Oh, wait.
(Kidding.) - zimbra, on 09/05/2008, -3/+44Good article, but one small error. Whatever its distribution, the Daily Mail is most certainly a 'crank newspaper'.
- eeron, on 09/05/2008, -0/+34I'm tired of reading scaremongering quasi-science that has no foundation in reality, but hey, that's life
- ChstrCopperpot, on 09/05/2008, -1/+34With any luck, it will just open a portal to another dimension, sinking us into a nightmare landscape of gigantic terrifying mutant lizard-bugs. I can't effin wait!
- budgeysmuggler, on 09/06/2008, -2/+35“Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a *****.”
dugg for using the word ***** while discussing physics. - thegrantman, on 09/06/2008, -1/+32*****.
- RedStateRetard, on 09/06/2008, -1/+31I thought Brian May was the Rockstar of Physics?
- Falldog, on 09/06/2008, -2/+32Everything is going to be just fi
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -1/+27I can't wait.....this is gonna revolutionize the way we looks at things forever.
......Or it just won't work. Either way I CAN'T ***** WAIT! - wrek, on 09/05/2008, -3/+28Some of us don't think it will, we're HOPING it will. Armageddon here we come! Or at least a zombie uprising... ;)
- zadadka, on 09/05/2008, -1/+21Watched a program on Auntie Beeb (the BBC) last night about LHC & Atlas, presented by this chap.
Very interesting, and certainly calmed whatever (ignorant) nerves I may have previously had regarding "black holes" forming at the switch-on planned for next Wednesday. - scabbers, on 09/06/2008, -4/+23Holy *****, I can't wait till they switch it on so we no longer get about FOUR ***** FRONT PAGE STORIES A DAY ABOUT THE LHC NOT DESTROYING THE WORLD.
one way or the other - Vektuz, on 09/06/2008, -0/+18Why waste valuable words on idiots?
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/05/2008, -0/+18Fear is the path to the dark side.
Be careful you don't fear things that aren't there. - Murdats, on 09/06/2008, -1/+17I am tired of people who don't believe that all garages are inhabited by invisible dragons, it is a very real possibility that needs to be seriously discussed.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+16+ Michio Kaku
- PacmanMafia, on 09/06/2008, -0/+16Your name makes me think of *****.
- RickyTheRiot, on 09/06/2008, -2/+18For anyone who can get the BBC's iPlayer (if you are outside the UK, you'll prob need to find a UK proxy), Brian Cox did an hour long programme for BBC4 on the LHC..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dccnr
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Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed-off and the experiment to create the simulation of a black hole begins.
When it's up and running, it will be capable of creating the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Brian joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries. - CATSCEO2, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1554 registered users. Spam and a *****.
- awesometastic1, on 09/06/2008, -0/+15better then another of the thousands of Sara Palin one's we get
- eeron, on 09/05/2008, -0/+14lol, I would agree with you but unfortunately the majority of Mail readers take it as "news." I can't believe that the most widely read paper is the Sun! We are in trouble...
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+13Not too familiar with science are we?
- sonofashoe, on 09/06/2008, -1/+14Astronomers are amazed when stars super-nova. Maybe they're watching other civilizations powering up their own LHCs.
- ChokingVictims, on 09/06/2008, -1/+14...better get my crowbar ready
- Fartbandit, on 09/06/2008, -0/+13To put things into perspective for our American diggers...
The Daily Mail = The British equivalent to fox news but in newspaper form... - statuescrumble, on 09/06/2008, -0/+12Rocket scientists are nothing compared to these guys.
- dnl2ba, on 09/06/2008, -5/+16It sounds like your line of reasoning is, "These past concerns weren't valid. Therefore, other concerns aren't valid." But whether LHC is dangerous isn't related to whether these other cases were dangerous.
All credible evidence seems to point to the LHC not being dangerous, but let's stick to using the evidence. - inactive, on 09/06/2008, -2/+13"They were scared ***** when we set off the first nuke."
Seriously only an American would say that with out a hint of irony. - sk11, on 09/06/2008, -0/+11Possible? There's a possibility that a meteorite will land on you any day now. So, how much sleep are you going to lose over that possibility?
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10True, one theorised out come was all the oxygen on earth would get burnt off.
that would have been a bad day. - lennybird, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10+ Carl Sagan (RIP)
- browwiw, on 09/06/2008, -2/+12Intellectually, I know that the LHC is harmless, but part of me really wants the demon hordes to star pouring out of it when they turn it on.
- DrDabbles, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10I'm not sure why you are being dugg down. WAY before 1492 (for you columbus believers) scholars and "scientists" of the day noted the curvature of the earth.
This, like many scientific facts of the day, was based on the simple observation that as a ship sails away from you, it appears to climb and then sink beneath the ocean.
Columbus wasn't immediately granted funding for his new route to the "Indies" because most people of the day were skeptical (rightly so) that there was a shortcut (given the fact that they had a fairly decent idea of how large the earth was, after factoring the curvature they had observed). - awesometastic1, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9i for one accept our new mutant lizard-bug overlords. ALL HAIL LORD KRAG! May he reign forever and his children long feast on the flesh of the descenting humans who oppose his will.
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
- GlassAgate, on 09/06/2008, -1/+10Let the scientists do their work. If you want to oppose them, go to
college, earn a doctorate in physics, and then, and only then,
can you oppose it, without sounding like a nut job. The same
goes for nuclear power plants. If you don't hold a doctorate, get
one or shut the ***** up. - PabloMac, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9I read once that when they lit off the first nuke, they didn't know if the reaction would stop on its own, or keep going.
- xxxkrogoth, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8I bet the Scientology ***** are ***** a brick thinking Xenu is coming back
- m0llusk, on 09/06/2008, -1/+9The LHC is not dangerous, but getting between particle physicists and their toys is tempting fate.
- MadcapLaugher, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8Except that the types of collisions that will occur in LHC have already been observed in nature...and we are still here.
"Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists,” the report says. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article46 ... - Derrekito, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8TED.com
Cox gave a lecture there and was released, I think, about a couple weeks ago. It was a good lecture, and the site is a wonderful source for great talks. These mindless idiots need to take their head out of the sand and read a book. It is nothing more than sensationalist to think that the LHC will cause a black hole. When scientists were testing the A-bomb, people thought it was going to light the atmosphere on fire. - MadcapLaugher, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7They are just words. Saying some words deemed "bad" does not denote in anyway that anyone is lacking in expressing themselves. Sometimes the word that most fits a situation is *****.
- xkorbin, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8He is stating that it is natural for people to be afraid of things from the start. Now granted, the circumstances are different, it is just a reaction to change. Those who are irrational, posing the argument.
- thegrantman, on 09/06/2008, -14/+21Dugg for using the word "*****".
- Zaneris, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7I'm fairly certain Brian Cox has a large enough vocabulary to belittle them to the point that they would hide under a rock somewhere; but wait, these people already live under a rock and wouldn't understand the meaning of the words he were to use.
- browwiw, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8I'm not even being tongue in cheek when I say that Sara Palin has an incredibly higher probability of destroying human civilization than the LHC does.
That bitch is nuts. - inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7There is not a scientist working on the LHC that hopes that they find the Higgs, and complete the standard model. Every one hopes that the find shocking, and unexpected things.
- NathanielJ, on 09/06/2008, -3/+10The same thing goes for when I turn on my faucet to brush my teeth tonight. Maybe water will come out. Maybe no water will come out. Maybe the world will end. I'll be damned if anyone thinks they can tell me what will happen!
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