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"The Mist" becomes reality... MAYBE!!!

post #1 of 59
6/28/08 at 3:48pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/...msday_collider

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Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher

MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.

But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?

Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN — some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC.

"Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on," said project leader Lyn Evans.

David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets.

"If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said.

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Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass.

The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings.
If you see this guy flying around, you'll know it was a HORRIBLE success:

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post #2 of 59
6/28/08 at 3:52pm
Welcome to America, where we believe that science is something to be feared. Hey scientists, just stop studying things and go to church. Knowing stuff is overrated.
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post #3 of 59
6/28/08 at 4:09pm
This came up in a discussion I had with some friends last night -- we were talking about how we've made no contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and one of my friends speculated that the reason is that all civilizations follow approximately the same path of technological advance, and that they all got to the super-collider stage, turned it on, and destroyed their planet before they could achieve space flight.
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post #4 of 59
6/28/08 at 4:12pm
Just remember, people- make CERTAIN that it's a monster you're hearing out there, and not something else...
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post #5 of 59
6/28/08 at 4:12pm
It's funny, I didn't think of The Mist when I read that story, first thought: "resonance cascade".
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post #6 of 59
6/28/08 at 4:16pm
It made me think about sex. But most things do that.
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post #7 of 59
6/28/08 at 5:27pm
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It made me think about sex. But most things do that.
You have your subscription to Black Holes Quarterly to thank for that.
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post #8 of 59
6/28/08 at 5:37pm
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You have your subscription to Black Holes Quarterly to thank for that.
Bing! Winner!
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post #9 of 59
6/28/08 at 5:51pm
As long as this doesnt open a portal to a dimension of sex crazed tentacles, well be fine.
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post #10 of 59
6/28/08 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
As long as this doesnt open a portal to a dimension of sex crazed tentacles, well be fine.
Greg might be disappointed, actually.
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post #11 of 59
6/28/08 at 6:45pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post
Greg might be disappointed, actually.
As would a lot of anime-obsessed sexually repressed teenagers.
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post #12 of 59
6/28/08 at 8:13pm
I can take or leave the tentacles. It's the chicks in schoolgirl uniforms I like.
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post #13 of 59
6/29/08 at 12:33am
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David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets.

"If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said.
You can't escape from The Langoliers, buddy.

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post #14 of 59
6/29/08 at 6:25am
Whatever happens, someone will become a superhero or supervillain because of it.
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post #15 of 59
6/29/08 at 6:41am
Back in my day we only had 3 dimensions, now they got hundreds of them and there's still nothing worth watching.
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post #16 of 59
6/29/08 at 8:55am
it was supposed to go online in May, the same month as FINAL CRISIS. and I was saying that the real FINAL CRISIS IS COMING!
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post #17 of 59
6/29/08 at 9:42am
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Whatever happens, someone will become a superhero or supervillain because of it.
THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!

This sounds like the work of a DC SuperVillain.
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post #18 of 59
6/29/08 at 1:28pm
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Back in my day we only had 3 dimensions, now they got hundreds of them and there's still nothing worth watching.
last time I looked they had only up them to 11, but still nothing on.
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post #19 of 59
6/29/08 at 1:44pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
I can take or leave the tentacles. It's the chicks in schoolgirl uniforms I like.
I dwelt in that dimnension for 12 years; it was called Catholic School. The girls' eyes were smaller than you might expect.
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post #20 of 59
6/29/08 at 9:18pm
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"Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on," said project leader Lyn Evans.
--quoted from Earth ruins in the planetary year 2008, shortly before the Apocalypse.
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post #21 of 59
6/29/08 at 9:22pm
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As would a lot of anime-obsessed sexually repressed teenagers.
I was gonna say the Japanese but this essentially fills that bill.
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post #22 of 59
6/30/08 at 3:21am
On one hand I know this is superstitious, reactionary bullshit. One the other hand, how awesome would it be if something really weird happened? Random people getting superpowers and fighting extra-dimensional monsters, the dead walking the earth, cats and dogs living together... maybe the Old Ones returning.

It would at least be interesting.
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post #23 of 59
6/30/08 at 8:38am
How do we know it's reactionary bullshit? Nobody's turned one of these buggers on before, what with science being all about discovery and all.

I say this ends badly. THE END IS NIGH.
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post #24 of 59
6/30/08 at 9:33am
Pfah... this is a waste of money. You want to explore different dimensions? Get one of these:


Only $19.95, plus your immortal soul.
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post #25 of 59
6/30/08 at 10:14am
Strange...that block closely resembles the working blueprints for the collider's site.
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post #26 of 59
6/30/08 at 11:15am
I just find it fascinating that scientifically we have progressed to a point where there is a .00001% chance that we could destroy the universe. I mean how cool is that?

I say we take our chances and turn this puppy on. I for one am damn well prepared for a zombie apocalypse. Bring those fuckers on!

And while we are it, let me be the first to propose they fly William Atherton out there to flip the switch. Now that would be awesome.
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post #27 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:03pm
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him - that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!
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post #28 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:04pm
Also, I wonder if this is all just a big plan by Cthulhu cultists.
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post #29 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by horrid View Post
Back in my day we only had 3 dimensions, now they got hundreds of them and there's still nothing worth watching.
I <3 horrid. Brilliant. And props to Eric Cordo too.

I love science as much as the next guy, but thinking about things like this makes my head hurt. Just let me know if you accidentally rip a hole in the space-time continuum.
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post #30 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:13pm
I hope they turn this on, then a couple days later I'm down at Target or something looking for some Cheetos and I run into another version of myself wearing a gold vest and sporting a goatee.
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post #31 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:22pm
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Also, I wonder if this is all just a big plan by Cthulhu cultists.
Turns out it was a ploy by the flying spaghetti monster to get some cred.
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post #32 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:39pm
You know what I love about CHUD? Scientists are performing these radical experiments to find out how the universe was created, and we all race to see who can make the best pop culture references. And some porn comedy. <Thumbsup!>
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post #33 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:48pm
I wonder if they'll have the courtesy of telling us all the exact time and date of the experiments, so if this creates an infinite time loop, we can all avoid being stuck for all eternity in excruciating situations, like, say, seeing the trailer for "Beverly Hill Chihuaha", for example.
On the plus side, if this blow eveything up, Switzerland will be the first to go...fuckers have had it too good for a long time.
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post #34 of 59
6/30/08 at 6:54pm
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You know what I love about CHUD? Scientists are performing these radical experiments to find out how the universe was created, and we all race to see who can make the best pop culture references. And some porn comedy. <Thumbsup!>
Fuckin' A, my good man. Fuckin A'
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post #35 of 59
6/30/08 at 7:39pm
I, for one, look forward to greeting our new Dark Lords of the Universe and will do all in my power to help them subjugate my fellow meat bags and destroy any talking, bi-pedal anatidaes that may oppose their glorious reign.
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post #36 of 59
6/30/08 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by JudgeSmails View Post
And while we are it, let me be the first to propose they fly William Atherton out there to flip the switch. Now that would be awesome.
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Also, you know what *I* wish would happen? Anybody read Footprints of Thunder by James F. David? Because: that.
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post #37 of 59
6/30/08 at 7:49pm
I for one hope we go out this way. If we're going to wipe ourselves out, I'd prefer that it's from human-animal hybrids, raging mutants, flesh devouring nanotechnology or portals to other dimensions. Screw nuclear war, global warming or good old fashioned genocide. I want some sci-fi channel entertainment as I bite the dust.
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post #38 of 59
6/30/08 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by S Nabors View Post
I for one hope we go out this way. If we're going to wipe ourselves out, I'd prefer that it's from human-animal hybrids, raging mutants, flesh devouring nanotechnology or portals to other dimensions. Screw nuclear war, global warming or good old fashioned genocide. I want some sci-fi channel entertainment as I bite the dust.
Welcome to the V.I.P. section of Eternity! Where my 'Poccys at???
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post #39 of 59
6/30/08 at 8:41pm
You know what'd be neat? If the scientists at the collider, after releasing all sorts of exotic radiation, become phased halfway into the machinery, like in the Philadelphia Experiment (starring Michael Pare and Nancy Allen).

But, chances are we're going to get swallowed up into a black hole and "where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."




"DO YOU SEE? DO..YOU...SEE?"
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post #40 of 59
6/30/08 at 10:21pm
If turning on a supercollider is going to get us stuck in a really bad movie, I'd rather it was some sort of porn.
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post #41 of 59
6/30/08 at 10:52pm
Make it an anthropamorphic porn movie and we both get our way.
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post #42 of 59
7/1/08 at 3:27am
"Scientists believe the rip is a gateway to another universe but do not know what mysteries lie beyond, however in this reporters opinion... GRUESOME DEATH AWAITS US ALL!"
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post #43 of 59
7/1/08 at 9:46am
Maybe we're approaching this wrong. What if, when the supercollider rips open a hole in space/time and sucks us all in, we wind up on an Earth where everything's... GREAT? Where there's no hatred or war, where the sun always shines? Where all creatures great and small live in harmony with nature, and man is far more environmentally responsible than we are now? Where leaders and politicians put forth ideas and policies that benefit all, and there's no bickering between parties or attempts at abusing power? Where all nationalities, races, creeds, colors, sexual preferences, and religions hold hands together in peace and unity? Where everyone is in perfect physical shape, the air mildly smells of candy, rainbows cross the sky, bunnies frolic, and there are no allergies? A world where the third act of Batman Begins was actually... GOOD?

Nahhhhh........
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post #44 of 59
7/1/08 at 10:15am
That was nice Timothy but it got really preposterous at the end.
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post #45 of 59
7/1/08 at 10:54am
I have my moments.
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post #46 of 59
7/1/08 at 12:26pm
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Where everyone is in perfect physical shape, the air mildly smells of candy, rainbows cross the sky, bunnies frolic, and there are no allergies?
Will the clouds be shaped like bunnies? Because if not, then I don't wanna.
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post #47 of 59
7/1/08 at 12:28pm
Nice as that'd be at 1st, you know the war mongering assholes from THIS dimension would just take over those peaceniks and fuck it all up, anyway.
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post #48 of 59
7/1/08 at 12:38pm
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Will the clouds be shaped like bunnies? Because if not, then I don't wanna.
Man, some people simply cannot be satisfied.
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post #49 of 59
7/1/08 at 1:11pm


Are you happy NOW, Lisa? Huh? Will this do it for you, huh? GEEZ!
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post #50 of 59
7/1/08 at 2:06pm
You know, Tim, I've really only suspected it in the past, but now I know...

You ARE God!!
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