Where's that freakin black hole!?

[maxamillion]

My cable bill is due, and I don't want to pay it if I am going to be sucked into a lifeless void (I mean other than Cinemax).

[guns1inger]

It is going to take several weeks to get up to full speed and produce results. It was never going to happen on the first day. (Actually, the whole Black Hole thing was never going to happen unless you believe in tabloid newspaper science).

Looks like you will have to pay your cable bill after all.

[maxamillion]

Couple weeks. . . . . I'll pay this month's then

[Epicurus8a]

You may as well pay the bills 'cause you can't take it with you.

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

http://www.seedmagazine.com/

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-discovery-machine-hadron-collider

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[thecoalman]

(Actually, the whole Black Hole thing was never going to happen unless you believe in tabloid newspaper science).

I don't know if completely agree with that, they are after all using this to find out what happens. I think we can safely assume that at some point scientists are going to bump their heads up against something where the consequences could be catastrophic. A lot of discoveries are by accident, hopefully they don't accidently discover how to obliterate the planet. Much the same as when they lit the first atomic bomb off that "shouldn't" obliterate the planet this is the same thing.

Guess we'll find out. :P

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Whoa!, I think he could actually sue for the use of his likeness....

[maxamillion]

(Actually, the whole Black Hole thing was never going to happen unless you believe in tabloid newspaper science).

I don't know if completely agree with that, they are after all using this to find out what happens. I think we can safely assume that at some point scientists are going to bump their heads up against something where the consequences could be catastrophic. A lot of discoveries are by accident, hopefully they don't accidently discover how to obliterate the planet. Much the same as when they lit the first atomic bomb off that "shouldn't" obliterate the planet this is the same thing.

Guess we'll find out. :P

I couldn't agree with you more

[yoda313]

Well at least it would end another pitiful Lions season if true

[guns1inger]

Just out of curiosity, do any of you also ;

1. Line the walls of your computer room and/or bedrooms with aluminium foil ?

2. Believe that man never went to the moon ?

3. Believe that there is a reason aliens only abduct drunken, uneducated rednecks and druggie authors ?

[thecoalman]

The answer to those three questions is no, the logic of my statements stand to reason. Science experiments from the dawn of time have involved finding out what happens and many times those experiments have produced results other than expected. The unknown factor is a wildcard, I'd venture to guess anyone of those scientists conducting these experiments would not state with 100% certainty what the results of these experiments are going to be. If that were the case why do them?

I think we can safely assume that at some point scientists are going to bump their heads up against something where the consequences could be catastrophic.

Is that going to happen a month from now? Probably not as people much smarter than me tell me that it won't but on the other hand they don't know everything either. They may be on the verge of some of the greatest discoveries the human race will ever know... or they may just kill us all.

[thecoalman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern212.xml
Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

Scientists working at Cern, the organisation that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were "one step away" from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine, a vast magnet that weighs 12,500 tons, measuring around 21 metres in length and 15 metres wide/high.

If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector and, said the insider, "it is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it."

[Caman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern212.xml
Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

That might be even more dangerous then letting the technicians play around for them self.

[M Bruner]

I think it's Washington, D.C.. It sucks in billions of dollars, and what comes out of it never makes any sense.

[yoda313]

Please keep politics out of this discussion.


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