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Scientists turn on biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’
After 14 years of preparation, a new scientific wonder of the world opened for business Wednesday with the official startup of Europe's Large Hadron Collider.

The $10 billion particle accelerator is the biggest, most expensive science machine on earth, designed to probe mysteries ranging from dark matter and missing antimatter to the existence of extra, unseen dimensions in space.

Scientists, journalists and dignitaries watched from the control room at Europe's CERN particle-physics center on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva, as beams of protons were sent all the way around the collider's 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring of supercooled pipes for the first time.


There is a lot more of this here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957)

My guess is that nothing comes of this, or they destroy the earth, or a superhero (and or villain) is accidentally created

So far they have protons making the circuit clockwise. They are in the midst of getting them to go counter clockwise. Things are going smoother then they had hoped so far.

Also, "science machine" is a great term.

~sigh~ Glad science isn't doing weird wasteful dumb shit like systematic extreme religions. First muthafucka to say figuring out a black hole is important in a world that can't figure out poverty has been watching too much sci fi.

This thread sounds like it belongs in the Champagne Room.....

This thread sounds like it belongs in the Champagne Room.....

Yeah. For a second I thought it said "Europes biggest hard-on collider"

My guess is that nothing comes of this, or they destroy the earth, or a superhero (and or villain) is accidentally created


LOL I never thought of this.

It does crack me up that they're actually worried about creating microscopic black holes that would suck the earth in. I'm not really sure what they're trying to gain by that.

And what would an alien race say if they came about the ruins of the Earth when they discovered we killed ourselves by creating black holes in our own atmosphere?

You know someone is going to have to try jumping in it to become a superhero.

I vote for Wil.

You know someone is going to have to try jumping in it to become a superhero.

I vote for Wil.

I told the government "thanks, but no thanks" for that jump into the Big Bang Machine.

good one.

~sigh~ Glad science isn't doing weird wasteful dumb shit like systematic extreme religions. First muthafucka to say figuring out a black hole is important in a world that can't figure out poverty has been watching too much sci fi.

Figuring out a black hole is important.

MY God particle is bigger than YOUR God particle.

Figuring out a black hole is important.

It's the key to getting the Lions out of theirs.

It's the key to getting the Lions out of theirs.

I say send them into one.

Well, they are a black hole for draft picks. talent goes in, but you never see it again.

http://www.google.com/logos/lhc.gif

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/quackattack559/TheBlackHole.jpg
The answer is somewhere in there.

In where?

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

No, really, I think this is pretty cool. Of course, I don't know enough about it to really understand it.

Find out if the Large Hadron Collider has killed you or not!

http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=208187567

Figuring out a black hole is important.
No it's not. What's the point of studying something that A. will almost never affect you, and B. will destroy you if it ever does affect you?

We're pretty much the exact worst possible species to be investigating the underlying physics of the universe. The stars are not for man.

Rabbits would be better, I agree.

and thus, Rabbit-Man was created



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No it's not. What's the point of studying something that A. will almost never affect you, and B. will destroy you if it ever does affect you?

We're pretty much the exact worst possible species to be investigating the underlying physics of the universe. The stars are not for man.

It's the kind of basic science that provides building blocks for other clever people to do interesting and useful things with.

I'm pretty sure black holes are the key to time travel. And if there's one thing I want to do befire I die, it's travel to the past so I can rule sportsbook.

I'm pretty sure black holes are the key to time travel. And if there's one thing I want to do befire I die, it's travel to the past so I can get my parents to Michigan BEFORE MY FUCKING BIRTH!

If only wounds healed so easily.

Fool, if that's what it takes to win you back, I'm in.

See you in Geneva.

Hopefully I don't get in trouble for this with Jean-Claude Van Damm.

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^ Pretty cool vid. If that shit ever happened, the only person left would be Barwis.

Barwis would have that shit runnin' laps 'til it puked the earth back out

Barwis would have that shit runnin' laps 'til it puked the earth back out

For the mothafuckin' win.

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

Well I'm not concerned about the collider creating a black hole. Even if I was it wouldn't matter, and physics dictates that I wouldn't even know before I was sucked into the black hole. But it is nice to know that their system was compromised at the moment they ran their first real test.

Well I'm not concerned about the collider creating a black hole. Even if I was it wouldn't matter, and physics dictates that I wouldn't even know before I was sucked into the black hole. .
Yea you'd just be dead from all the radiation and lack of oxygen in the process.

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Nice.

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Scientists Announce A Big-Bang Breakthrough
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/17/290866227/scientists-announce-a-big-bang-breakthrough?ft=1&f=103943429&utm_source=npr&utm_campaign=nprnews&utm_medium=twitter

What does any of this have to do with the best, most clever show ever?!

I miss The Age of Wizzle