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The End is nigh!!!

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  • #52
    Indie18
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    who knows maybe when we get sucked into a black whole we will end up in a parrallel universe. now that would be fun i would have to meet parrallel me.


  • #53
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Chances are that the parrallel you would be the opposite sex...would you do them? Serious answers only please.


  • #54
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Parsley wrote: »
    If there was any chance in hell of this happening, I think the worst part would be four years of people saying "I told you so". :pac:

    Imagine all the threads that would be started on it.
    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Chances are that the parrallel you would be the opposite sex...would you do them? Serious answers only please.

    Yeah, I would defo do the female version of you :pac:


  • #55
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Not a chance if the Dodgy Pub Practices thread is to be believed. It'll be a mixture of drip tray slops, Tesco own-brand vodka, unsold re-capped bottles and quite possibly sweat that's dripped off some crooked barmen, all sloshed together and funnelled into a keg for returning to Diageo.
    Gets you drunk quickly though.


  • #56
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Can we ban the first 'I told you so' person?


  • #57
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Can we ban LHC threads? Until it actually destroys us then we can talk about it.


  • #58
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    dsmythy wrote: »
    Can we ban LHC threads? Until it actually destroys us then we can talk about it.

    + one hundred bazillion squillion... million

    There must be loads of these now! Merge at least?


  • #59
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Apparently the world is going to end in 2012 and Englands Olympic hosting is just a big cover up so they can build a huge nuke or something that will destroy us all....
    I believe there are some threads about that here somewhere

    lol how typical that the Brits finally get the Olympics and the world gets destroyed on the same day.

    Anyway way i see it, let's embrace this event, at least we'll be more comfortable when it happens and won't be as scared when our guts are sucked through our skulls when we go through the blackhole.

    Oh and these guys who built this so called device Haydron Collider? is it possible that on the day before it's turned on,the Rapture will happen. I mean if anyone's going to destroy the world, God will. He'll proberly want to get there first


  • #60
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    David McWilliams wrote: »
    Goys everyone knows the world ended when house prices starting dropping last year.

    It's all about the future now.



    T'will be grand Ted.


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  • #61
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    An Fhile wrote: »
    + one hundred bazillion squillion... million

    There must be loads of these now! Merge at least?

    All the threads will swallow the black holes and we'll be ok until the next tragedy in the making.


  • #62
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    You all keep on forgetting about the global subdermal identity chip and cashless society, This must come before the day of reckoning. :rolleyes:


  • #63
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Cheeky monkey wrote: »
    Haha we're ****ed :p
    Hey, that happens all the time with uncontrollable Hadrons.


  • #64
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    You all keep on forgetting about the global subdermal identity chip and cashless society, This must come before the day of reckoning. :rolleyes:

    We're half way there, because most of us haven't got any cash anyway. :(


  • #65
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    www.newstalk.ie any minute

    Some German scientist is talking abouy the end of the world if they switch it on (within 4 years I think)

    Mike


  • #66
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    So this will destroy us all then...

    Apparently NSFW....apparently :)


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  • #67
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    /\/\/\/\/\ NOT WORK SAFE /\/\/\/\

    Mike


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sounds like a gay porno TBH


  • #69
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Hmmm, the German guy is a bit of a nut its fair to say.

    Mike


  • #70
    b0bsquish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭b0bsquish


    WE'RE ALL DOOOOOOOOMED. oh noez. Everyone report to your nearest pub in preperation of the big event.


    THIS IS NOT A DRILL.


  • #71
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Typical Irish response. "Oh no my atomic structure is being dismantled. To the pub!"


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  • #72
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Victor wrote: »
    Hey, that happens all the time with uncontrollable Hardons.

    Control yourself Victor


  • #73
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    dsmythy wrote: »
    Typical Irish response. "Oh no my atomic structure is being dismantled. To the pub!"

    Well where would you go to? The Farm?


  • #74
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Well where would you go to? The Farm?


    Lets go to Joe Fritzl's house. At least we'd have a good 25 years before the black hole would find us.


  • #75
    Indie18
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    you know i think we are ok for another month or two they are only turning on the machine tomorrow its still going to take them another two months to kill us all so end of the world parties off until further notice.


  • #76
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    i thought i heard somewhere that if a black hole is created in the LHC it will take around 100 years to swallow the world so we should be grand if thats the case. its the grandkids that have the problems.


  • #77
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    nope 4 years. Of course it wont though (I can edit posts later cant I?)

    What time is this tomorrow?


  • #78
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Hold on a minute. There's going to be no colliding going on tomorrow. It's one way traffic through the gigantic pipes or whatever they are called starting tomorrow. The colliding begins in October.


  • #79
    Tony Broke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Tony Broke


    Personally I think they will find they spent billions on a particle racetrack.

    This is the sort of cash we should spend going to mars or something, not looking for stuff that even if we find, it has really no use for decades to centuries.

    The hype around this is a joke ( perphaps they need to claw back wasted billions )

    We wont find the mysterious higgs ( because it isnt ) and it will be the last supercollider that will ever be built, as we have loads of smaller ones already.

    Dont see the fuss in this really, Space Antenna (LISA) is much cooler.


  • #80
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Time in GMT anyone??


  • #81
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,635 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Crowbars at the ready lads, half life becomes a reality tomorrow

    Gordon+Freeman+Spotted+At+CERN.jpg

    Actually reminds of a Gary Larson cartoon where a scientist is working on the bomb and his college is satdning behind him, ready to bust paper bag full of air :D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #82
    jimmyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jimmyboy


    7.30 accordin to wiki.
    better get my good shoes on


  • #83
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    i thought i heard somewhere that if a black hole is created in the LHC it will take around 100 years to swallow the world so we should be grand if thats the case. its the grandkids that have the problems.

    I heard 4 years. Of which we would be aware of 2 due to the effects becoming obvious. The second year would mostly involve dying.


  • #84
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Tony Broke wrote: »
    Personally I think they will find they spent billions on a particle racetrack.

    This is the sort of cash we should spend going to mars or something, not looking for stuff that even if we find, it has really no use for decades to centuries.

    The hype around this is a joke ( perphaps they need to claw back wasted billions )

    We wont find the mysterious higgs ( because it isnt ) and it will be the last supercollider that will ever be built, as we have loads of smaller ones already.

    Dont see the fuss in this really, Space Antenna (LISA) is much cooler.

    How the bloody hell can you know any of the above to be true? Are you a physicist? Are you even a scientist? You don't even own a white coat, do you? You're a normal. Away with you.


  • #85
    Tony Broke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Tony Broke


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    How the bloody hell can you know any of the above to be true? Are you a physicist? Are you even a scientist? You don't even own a white coat, do you? You're a normal. Away with you.

    Why do you have to be any of the above.

    Its pretty clear whats going to happen/ not.

    Its only a wild guess of course.Your allowed those?


  • #86
    c0rk3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    What i want to know is are these electrons they are firing at each other going to be behave like particles or waves :)


  • #87
    ZygOte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭ZygOte


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    i thought i heard somewhere that if a black hole is created in the LHC it will take around 100 years to swallow the world so we should be grand if thats the case. its the grandkids that have the problems.

    its not possible that this will happen but if it did it would not take 100 years to the swallow the earth, more likely milliseconds.


  • #88
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Tony Broke wrote: »
    Why do you have to be any of the above.

    Its pretty clear whats going to happen/ not.

    Its only a wild guess of course.Your allowed those?

    Ah I'm part joking, part serious. Of course you can have a strongly worded opinion. You can soapbox all you like. But you'd want to know your stuff else people are going to rip your opinion to bits. You're talking big but backing it up not at all.

    So here comes the ripping:

    The cost argument. Estimates on the total cost of the LHC are about €5 billion. In terms of putting a man on Mars that's a drop in the ocean. Your suggestion that the LHC won't yield useful information for decades is speculative based on squat. Besides which, what do you expect a mission to Mars to gain us in practical terms within a few decades? Not much either.

    The hype argument. This is actually refreshing. Look at all the interest suddenly being given to a field of science that normally doesn't get a look-in at all. The papers are all about computers, medicines and rockets but the nuts and bolts of physics is pretty much ignored.

    The we won't find "the higgs" argument. There's a pretty fair chance that we will find the Higgs Boson, and if we don't the ramifications are huge. This is a win-win scenario. Either way this is going to tell us something massive about our understanding of physics.

    The LISA argument. Seriously, is this experiment envy or something? Calm down.

    The LHC represents something we don't get to see much in science. A big, ambitious and well-funded experiment without obvious and immediate commercial or military interests. So, how about you research your topic a bit and stop reposting the same dismissive half-ideas everywhere as you did here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055332891&page=4


  • #89
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    "It's the end of the world as we know it,
    It's the end of the world as we know it,
    It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."


  • #90
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    ZygOte wrote: »
    its not possible that this will happen but if it did it would not take 100 years to the swallow the earth, more likely milliseconds.

    Nah, the thing wont even interact with matter for a few days.


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  • #91
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    The cost argument. Estimates on the total cost of the LHC are about €5 billion. In terms of putting a man on Mars that's a drop in the ocean. Your suggestion that the LHC won't yield useful information for decades is speculative based on squat. Besides which, what do you expect a mission to Mars to gain us in practical terms within a few decades? Not much either.

    +1. AFAIK it's already yielded some very useful research during the planning and construction phase. A huge number of our inventions/discoveries over the years were in fact by-products of some other project/experiment.


  • #92
    TripleAce
    Registered Users Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TripleAce


    Are you ready guys? 10 hours to go!!! :eek:


  • #93
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    TripleAce wrote: »
    Are you ready guys? 10 hours to go!!! :eek:

    *Lube ready*.


  • #94
    Ourlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭Ourlad


    Is this the same lad who started that whole climate change/global warming thing? :p


  • #95
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    I find it a bit worrying tbh. I hope the fears that have been spoken about prove groundless.


  • #96
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    Jeez, people, it's going to be perfectly safe. Didn't they make sure to put it 100m underground.


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  • #97
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    When some scientist on the TV news tries to put our minds at rest, telling us that these "collisions" are perfectly natural, and that they happen all the time on the planet, I can't quite bring myself to trust him. If they are perfectly natural, and happen all the time, then why, if they're so bloody plentiful, did they spend 4.5 billion quid on some DIY machine?:confused:


  • #98
    Tony Broke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Tony Broke


    AtomicHorror wrote: »

    So here comes the ripping:

    The cost argument. Estimates on the total cost of the LHC are about €5 billion. In terms of putting a man on Mars that's a drop in the ocean. Your suggestion that the LHC won't yield useful information for decades is speculative based on squat. Besides which, what do you expect a mission to Mars to gain us in practical terms within a few decades? Not much either.

    Yes a manned mission to mars would cost alot alot more, but its always possibile that we dont find anything new with the lhc, not even Higgs.If that turns out to be true it will hurt science/voyage/whatever very badly, to the stage that people will really start to ask why.

    The hype argument. This is actually refreshing. Look at all the interest suddenly being given to a field of science that normally doesn't get a look-in at all. The papers are all about computers, medicines and rockets but the nuts and bolts of physics is pretty much ignored.

    Hype can be bad as well, at the end of the day its just a particle accelerator ( we have alot of those ) just this is way bigger.The LHC could be chasing theories that are wrong, and may find nothing groundbreaking at all.

    The we won't find "the higgs" argument. There's a pretty fair chance that we will find the Higgs Boson, and if we don't the ramifications are huge. This is a win-win scenario. Either way this is going to tell us something massive about our understanding of physics.

    Will it though, again I am not an expert, far from it.

    If they find Higgs, things might keep going like they are now with more € spent to find out the how Higgs dictates the formation of mass of the particles.Not finding it will damage a few ego's and past legends in the field and will force some to have a rethink.


  • #99
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I'm fairly sure Chasey Lain could out-suck a black hole anyway. We'll be fine.


  • #100
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    So they can be measured and looked at up close, duh. Read about what this thing will actually do instead of listening to the scare media and Dr. Nick scientists.


  • #101
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    IS it 7'30 am


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