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post #51 of 122
9/10/08 at 5:47pm
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Win.
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post #52 of 122
9/10/08 at 5:52pm
a 16 year old girl from India just committed suicide because she was too afraid of experiencing the end of the world.
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post #53 of 122
9/10/08 at 6:03pm
Just read that. Isn't getting sucked into a black hole painless though? It's gotta be a better way to go than drinking pesticides (Indian food).
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post #54 of 122
9/10/08 at 6:06pm
Great, so she gets to be a cow for a month and go through it anyway.
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post #55 of 122
9/10/08 at 8:06pm
Yeah I don't understand it either. It should be a pretty cool and painless way to go. According to the crazies, the earth will be sucked into a black hole in about 1/20th of a second, 2 seconds later the moon will be swallowed and then the Sun after 8 minutes.
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post #56 of 122
9/10/08 at 9:49pm
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Originally Posted by Bitches Leave View Post
Yeah I don't understand it either. It should be a pretty cool and painless way to go. According to the crazies, the earth will be sucked into a black hole in about 1/20th of a second, 2 seconds later the moon will be swallowed and then the Sun after 8 minutes.
Paaarrttttyyy!!!!
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post #57 of 122
9/10/08 at 11:06pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Well, the world didn't end.

It probably will when the try to recreate the big bang though.
And then the whole thing will start all over again. That's the beauty of it.
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post #58 of 122
9/15/08 at 3:40am
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Originally Posted by Overlord View Post
I just love the embedded script:
"<script type="text/javascript">
if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
document.write("YUP.");
} else {
document.write("NOPE.");
}
</script>"

...also, this little easter egg:
"<!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated
please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund -->"
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post #59 of 122
9/22/08 at 10:10pm
Apparently the machine that will probably kill us all is out of order for the next couple months.
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post #60 of 122
9/22/08 at 10:35pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
And then the whole thing will start all over again. That's the beauty of it.
You've been reading Timequake haven't you?
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post #61 of 122
9/22/08 at 11:16pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Apparently the machine that will probably kill us all is out of order for the next couple months.
Fucking Jawas.
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post #62 of 122
9/23/08 at 2:12pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Apparently the machine that will probably kill us all is out of order for the next couple months.
That's the official story. I'm inclined to believe that whatever Hellbeast arrived through the portal they opened actually took a bite out of the damn thing and broke it.
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post #63 of 122
9/23/08 at 2:26pm
This photo is greatness, and it spells out our doom:
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post #64 of 122
9/23/08 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Apparently the machine that will probably kill us all is out of order for the next couple months.
It's already killed us, we just don't know it. Black holes, time and all that.
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post #65 of 122
9/23/08 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
It's already killed us, we just don't know it. Black holes, time and all that.
That's ridiculous! Nothing's going to happen - we'll all be fine. And give it a rest with all this time travel nonsense! Like such a thing could POSSIBLY happen these days!

Now, on to more important things, like the upcoming election. Who you voting for Rutherford B. Hayes, or Samuel Tilden? Betcha that's going to be a close race - might even come down to one vote!
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post #66 of 122
9/28/08 at 7:56pm
Impending Armageddon? People please... the most it's gonna do is turn the clock back 13 seconds. Just pray that you'll have just made a huge mistake so that you can take advantage of it.
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post #67 of 122
3/30/10 at 6:38pm
This bad boy has been running full steam for a few days now. It broke all power records in the last two days - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ne...rn_nh_sl.shtml

Since the black holes haven't killed us I guess we can expect the Zombies to come walking through any...second....now....
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post #68 of 122
3/30/10 at 6:45pm
I still think it's insane they went through with it. This and the first test of the nuclear bomb are the two most abso-fucking-lutely insane things physicists have ever done.

In each case, a vocal, reasonable minority in the scientific community warned that it was possible that the experiment could destroy the planet. The possibility was very remote, but it was something that could have theoretically happened.

I just can't get over how fucking insane that is. If someone told you that doing something posed a tiny chance of killing everyone on earth, it would be insane to just say, "Fuck it, I'm rolling the dice." But the community of academic physicists in the West have done that twice in six decades. It's just insane.
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post #69 of 122
3/30/10 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by JudgeSmails View Post
This bad boy has been running full steam for a few days now. It broke all power records in the last two days - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ne...rn_nh_sl.shtml

Since the black holes haven't killed us I guess we can expect the Zombies to come walking through any...second....now....
I'll avoid driving with Thomas Jane for a while.
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post #70 of 122
3/30/10 at 6:50pm
Anybody needs me, I'll be selling crowbars.
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post #71 of 122
3/30/10 at 6:56pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark View Post
Anybody needs me, I'll be selling crowbars.
Already have one....I could use a Sword of Wind, though.
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post #72 of 122
3/30/10 at 7:01pm
When I saw this thread got bumped, I figured it was for this:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sci...estroy-e,2625/
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post #73 of 122
3/30/10 at 7:44pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
I just can't get over how fucking insane that is. If someone told you that doing something posed a tiny chance of killing everyone on earth, it would be insane to just say, "Fuck it, I'm rolling the dice.".
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post #74 of 122
3/30/10 at 7:50pm
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
I'll avoid driving with Thomas Jane for a while.
I have dibs on headshotting Ms. Carmody!
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post #75 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:06pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
In each case, a vocal, reasonable minority in the scientific community warned that it was possible that the experiment could destroy the planet. The possibility was very remote, but it was something that could have theoretically happened.
There's a reasonable chance that when you go to bed tonight, you'll die in your sleep. Probably a much higher chance than the collider destroying the planet. I strongly suggest that you don't go to bed tonight.
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post #76 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:34pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
I still think it's insane they went through with it. This and the first test of the nuclear bomb are the two most abso-fucking-lutely insane things physicists have ever done.

In each case, a vocal, reasonable minority in the scientific community warned that it was possible that the experiment could destroy the planet. The possibility was very remote, but it was something that could have theoretically happened.

I just can't get over how fucking insane that is.
I dunno, seen the planet lately? If not us who, if not now when kna'mean
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post #77 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
There's a reasonable chance that when you go to bed tonight, you'll die in your sleep. Probably a much higher chance than the collider destroying the planet. I strongly suggest that you don't go to bed tonight.
The chance that I'll die in my sleep is unavoidable, it part of the "mortal, locomotive organism" package.

Setting off a nuclear bomb or using the collider are pretty fucking avoidable things. You'd think that if the "small chance" of death was not only avoidable but encompassed all of humanity, not just a single group or person, that you'd tread lightly.
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post #78 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:43pm
You make it sound like they were the same odds as a poker hand going bad. They were infinitesimally small.
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post #79 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:45pm
How could they accurately gauge the odds? Aside from the law of averages that states nothing awesome ever happens, how could they measure the odds of wtf was going to happen? I'm not debating; I honestly am curious how they go about making that guesstimate.

(Note: Firefox thinks "guesstimate" is an actual word.)
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post #80 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:46pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
You make it sound like they were the same odds as a poker hand going bad. They were infinitesimally small.
You seriously don't think taking even the smallest risk that you could be personally responsible for the eradication of all life on the planet is insane?
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post #81 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:48pm
"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine." R.E.M.
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post #82 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:51pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
You seriously don't think taking even the smallest risk that you could be personally responsible for the eradication of all life on the planet is insane?
I think the problem is with your original assessment that such fears were "reasonable". They weren't. Some scientists are just as capable of mindless hysteria as anybody else. Being scientists doesn't make their hysteria grounds for reasonable doubt.

Or do you honestly think that these scientists really believed that they were risking destroying the earth? Why would they do that? Unless I missed a major development, they live here too.
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post #83 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:53pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Or do you honestly think that these scientists really believed that they were risking destroying the earth? Why would they do that? Unless I missed a major development, they live here too.
I'm with you on this in general, but part of me feels that even if the fears were reasonable that they'd still really REALLY wanna turn it on just to see. Even if they ended up walking away, they'd have to think long and hard before doing so. That is kind of the appeal of science, after all.
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post #84 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:58pm
Hell, even with legitimate chances, I know I'd be on the team that was all for turning it on. Infinitesimal odds are infinitesimal odds. I'm more likely to walk outside and get hit by a crashing airplane.
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post #85 of 122
3/30/10 at 8:58pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Or do you honestly think that these scientists really believed that they were risking destroying the earth? Why would they do that? Unless I missed a major development, they live here too.
With the bomb, I think it had more to do with the idea that they knew it was only a matter of time before somebody else shouldered the risk. If they did everyone else would be dead anyway if things went awry and the other guy would have the bomb if they didn't.

With the collider, I think it was that physicists are seriously pissed it's literally been decades since our last big leap forward in understanding hte physical universe and they were willing to shrug off the small chance that all of humanity could die to nudge the understanding forward.

Neither reason, at least to me, makes the decision any less insane. One boils down to, "We have to out crazy the other crazy fucker!" The other is, "I'm bored, fuck it, let's play Russian roulette with the planet."
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post #86 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:01pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
"I'm bored, fuck it, let's play Russian roulette with the planet."
Fuck yeah, science!

But in seriousness, you're really REALLY R E A L L Y overstating the odds of disaster.
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post #87 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:05pm
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Originally Posted by JGButler View Post
Fuck yeah, science!

But in seriousness, you're really REALLY R E A L L Y overstating the odds of disaster.
No, I'm not saying you guys are wrong that the chances were ridiculously small. I'm saying it's fucking insane to make that wager no matter how small the chance is. It's not like there's a small chance that something will go epically bad for you or your team. There was a small, small, small, small chance they could end up KILLING EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET. I just think that's insane.
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post #88 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:07pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
No, I'm not saying you guys are wrong that the chances were ridiculously small. I'm saying it's fucking insane to make that wager no matter how small the chance is. It's not like there's a small chance that something will go epically bad for you or your team. There was a small, small, small, small chance they could end up KILLING EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET. I just think that's insane.
Again...

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Fuck yeah, science!
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post #89 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
No, I'm not saying you guys are wrong that the chances were ridiculously small. I'm saying it's fucking insane to make that wager no matter how small the chance is. It's not like there's a small chance that something will go epically bad for you or your team. There was a small, small, small, small chance they could end up KILLING EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET. I just think that's insane.
You clearly have no conception of the kind of odds we're talking about here. They're completely, thoroughly dismissible. Really. It wasn't gonna happen. Relax your sphincter.
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post #90 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:13pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
You clearly have no conception of the kind of odds we're talking about here.
I get that the chance is exponentially small. But there's a reason there's even a figure. There was a chance. However small, however unlikely, it was there. Taking that risk is basically, on some level, taking responsibility for the lives of every living thing on the planet. I'm not sure how that doesn't come across as fucking insanely arrogant and dangerous.
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post #91 of 122
3/30/10 at 9:25pm
I was hoping I'd wake up to this;



A nice sunny beach.
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post #92 of 122
3/30/10 at 10:10pm
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
There was a small, small, small, small chance they could end up KILLING EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET. I just think that's insane.
Wasn't it less killing everyone on the planet and more along the lines of the planet folding in on itself and ceasing to exist within a giant black hole that would linger in its place?

Cuz, yeah, I wouldn't turn it on if it was gonna kill everyone.

Scariest environment imaginable?



Fuck yeah, flip that switch.
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post #93 of 122
3/30/10 at 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by JudgeSmails View Post

Since the black holes haven't killed us I guess we can expect the Zombies to come walking through any...second....now....
The Tea Baggers...Explained!
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post #94 of 122
3/31/10 at 1:56am
Seriously, if it did end up destroying our little corner of the universe, who'd be around to tell them they fucked up? Either it doesn't kill us all and they look like geniuses or or it kills us all and... where's the downside? This is all carrot and no stick.
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post #95 of 122
3/31/10 at 3:07am
I need to play poker against Cuchulain. The guy is absolutely paralyzed by the odds.
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post #96 of 122
3/31/10 at 3:52am
What odds? There was zero chance of anything happening. Zero. Or as close to absolute zero as statistically possible. Please do some reading before embarrassing yourself Cuch. And I don't want any links from the blog of some post-graduate physics student or the ramblings of some professor from the Tallahassee Instute Of Broke-ass Technology as a rebuttal. Only anyone with credentials and experience in particle physics comparable to CERN, please.
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post #97 of 122
3/31/10 at 7:06am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
... or the ramblings of some professor from the Tallahassee Instute Of Broke-ass Technology as a rebuttal...
Hey, leave my alma mater out of this.
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post #98 of 122
3/31/10 at 7:10am
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. What is the correct title of this institution?
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post #99 of 122
3/31/10 at 7:15am
The Tallahassee Institute Of Broke-Ass Technology and Dental Hygiene. Our football team was the Fighting Pickles.
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post #100 of 122
3/31/10 at 7:41am
The web stream and CERN twitter feed were a lark to follow yesterday:

http://twitter.com/CERN

Is there anything more charming than a bunch of scientists getting all giddy and excitable over doing science?

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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
What odds? There was zero chance of anything happening. Zero. Or as close to absolute zero as statistically possible. Please do some reading before embarrassing yourself Cuch. And I don't want any links from the blog of some post-graduate physics student or the ramblings of some professor from the Tallahassee Instute Of Broke-ass Technology as a rebuttal. Only anyone with credentials and experience in particle physics comparable to CERN, please.
Aren't you listening? These guys were abso-fucking-utterly bug-bat-fuck-shittering INSANE for doing this. Rolling a six-sided die for humanity with at least five of those sides labelled 'APOCALYPSE'. My god its truly fucking astounding the universe is still intact today with these maniacs playing god with their infernal machines.
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