We're All Going To Die!!!!

[drterror666]

CERN (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html) gets turned on some time on Wednesday, 10 September.

It was nice knowing you all...

[Vaughan]

Yeah, I've been following that. If you take all the letters of CERN and manipulate them in all kinds of strange and nonsensical ways, add in a bit, and take a bit away, you can probably come up with 666. What's that tell ya?

[SicCoyote]

I think you're over-reacting, at most I think some researcher is going to get zapped to another planet while drinking a can of coke.

[Tim Rogerson]

I thouhgt it was today that the world is ending (as per Nostradamus per something that appears on my Virgin homespace when enter the internet) !!

[drterror666]

One week to go and we'll all be dust in the solar winds.

[Vaughan]

I've written, and sealed my letter: "To be opened only if the world blows up".

[Rissos]

We're ok. They did a risk assessment of the Large Hadron Collider creating a black hole under France or Switzerland and decided the risks are 'negligible'. Admittedly, a word that does NOT mean the same as 'zero'.
On the bright side, if it all does go tits up, we'll never know about it.

[viva la gore]

I'm confused what is it and what the hell is the purpose of it?

[drterror666]

They're creating the conditions that were prevalent seconds after the Big Bang. They're looking for particles that were around back then. What this means for the rest of us is, er, um...

[Wynter]

still here, although I am still worried because CelebAir does seem to be a sign of the end times.

[SicCoyote]

I'm confused what is it and what the hell is the purpose of it?

It's research, probably far more important than 99% of other things.

I still can't believe late night Channel 4 programming has been reduced to watching freaks sleep.

[MarcMorris]

BBC News: Why the fascination with the end of the world? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7600966.stm)

[bladesew]

If this creates some sort of rip in the space/time continuum which allows beings from another dimension to enter ours and go on some sort of rampage it can only be more entertaining then what I'm up to at work at the moment. Bring it on. Cthulhu f'tagn.

[drterror666]

Yes, the return of the Old Ones! There is a small possibility that a tear in the space/time continuum will happen and let Yog Sothoth free of his imprisonment. Then we all die anyway!

Happy days! :)

[Timmy Lea]

Somehow, I can't see the world ending that quickly. The bastards who run it have got too many vested interests in keeping it going!! We might not be here one day though.

Do you remember the updated Protect and Survive brochure in the early 80s? "A nation is like a forest. And as with any forest, the aim is to preserve the great trees and not the brushwood". Somehow, I get the feeling that the brushwood comprised anyone who didn't have a reserved seat in the Government bunker or an income in excess of £300, 000 per annum.

On the other hand, if all the neds and chavs get wiped out, then maybe the mushroom cloud has a silver lining after all....

[MarcMorris]

This is really neat!

World Doesn't End on Wednesday, and You Can Watch It Live (http://gizmodo.com/5046578/world-doesnt-end-on-wednesday-and-you-can-watch-it-live)

[drterror666]

Anyone who's still in the dark about all this can look here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7543089.stm). I just hope all those Euros spent on it are not in vain.

[Vaughan]

I woke up again this morning. Still alive!

Not sure if that's a plus. :D

[MarcMorris]

Have a read of this:

France builds Doomsday Machine... (http://www.misunderstooduniverse.com/France_Builds_Doomsday_Machine.htm)

Complete bull**** or a possibility? ;)

[AndyBlade]

Having just listened to a scientist type explaining what this is all about on CNN a little earlier this morning and talking about 'seeing things we've never seen before' its starting to remind me of this....

http://i33.tinypic.com/zxuy49.jpg

[MarcMorris]

Or perhaps a strange mist will descend upon Europe in which horrendous tentacled beings will prey on us humans!

[drterror666]

Oh well, look on the bright side. France wil be the first to go.

That was my favourite quote from that Misunderstood Universe site. I was also smiling at the bloke who wants a future for his two kids. Yes, let's storm the facility and put these ba$tards to trial! :D

[SicCoyote]

" Yes we saw the first nuclear test and survived, and Y2k, and survive but I believe in three strikes and your out"

Y2K lol,

of course, there's been two things science has done that you can name, so of course the third will mean the end of the world.

[MarcMorris]

Not today - they're switching it on today but not colliding any Hadron particles until October.

Stephen Hawking: Large Hadron Collider vital for humanity (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2710348/Stephen-Hawking-Large-Hadron-Collider-vital-for-humanity.html)

[MarcMorris]

ps - I guess most of you probably missed this...

YouTube: The Big Bang Machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFystG4_z4g) (part 1)

[drterror666]

Am I still here or is this some kind of alternate universe? Everything looks the same.

[Ade]

I swear I just saw a couple of rubbery Charles Band-movie type creatures slithering past my desk a minute ago.

[drterror666]

That's just you, Ade! Hang on, what was that...

[MarcMorris]

It's switched on, but as I said earlier, they aren't going to be colliding any particles until October.

[drterror666]

Oh, so that's when it all goes up in flames and the Earth is transported to Xen? I'm putting my faith in Gordon Freeman to get this right!

[Vaughan]

Hello? Anywhere here? Am I alone? Hello? Is that a phone I hear ringing?

[drterror666]

Well, thanks to CERN, the ITER Project (http://www.iter.org/index.htm) (which is working in co-operation with CERN) now has more efficient cooling technology. This is a project to build a working fusion reactor in the south of France, which could mean a new, more efficient energy source with virtually no waste. Who said the money hasn't been well spent.

I also heard that the technology used at CERN has helped theoretically create a new laser that can zap cancer cells, but I can't remember where I saw/heard it.

[Vaughan]

The BBC were reporting last night that another of the experiments could lead to nuclear waste being made safe. That's quite green.

Come to think of it.... if every home had a mini one of these, we could atomize our garbage. Neato.

Although it wouldn't be long before some teen abused it: "Give us your dosh, or I'll suck you into a black hole!"

[MarcMorris]

Check this out ;)

LHC Defense (http://www.lhcdefense.org/)

CERN LHC Black Holes and Strangelets - May Appear Years Later and Destroy World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZAQn-KxW_k)

Dr. Walter L. Wagner discusses the potential destruction of our planet earth by creating micro black holes and strangelets with the LHC. He indicates the current CERN safety reports are seriously flawed and contain unacceptable risks.
For example, if micro black holes are created, which CERN estimates about 1 micro black hole every second, Dr. Rossler's calculations estimate 50 months to 50 years to grow large enough to destroy Earth.
So the effects of this experiment may be months to years after the first LHC collisions.
Dr. Rossler's website is lhcfacts.org
Dr. Wagner's website is lhcdefense.org

[Timmy Lea]

It's switched on, but as I said earlier, they aren't going to be colliding any particles until October.

Could they hang on till November? Only I've got blaggies to see Todd Rundgren at Edinburgh Old Picture House.....

It's worrying though, the thought that all those wonderful 'post apocalyptic' films we spend half our time watching might have been trying to tell us something after all....or were they? Of course they were. Or maybe I'd prefer to pretend they weren't...

I wonder what Nigel would say, were he still here that is.

[AndyBlade]

From the BBC news website...

A girl in India has committed suicide after watching TV reports that a physics experiment could bring about the end of the world, her family says.

Sixteen-year-old Chaya poisoned herself at her home in the central city of Indore, her father, Bihari Lal, said.

He said Chaya had been worried the "world would end" when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was switched on.

Some Indian channels held discussions about the European experiment featuring doomsday predictions.

The £5bn ($8.75bn) machine - which aims to recreate the conditions that existed at the beginning of the universe, the so-called Big Bang - was switched on early on Wednesday.

Set on the Swiss-French border, it is designed to smash protons together along a 27km-long tunnel with cataclysmic force and scientists hope it will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.

Bihari Lal said Chaya - the eldest of his six children - had been frightened after watching local TV reports that the experiment would cause the "Earth to crack up and everybody in the village would die".

"We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he told reporters.

Her uncle, Biram Singh, said Chaya, whose parents are labourers, had seen the reports at a neighbour's house.

The BBC's Faisal Mohammed in Bhopal says Chaya consumed insecticide some time on Tuesday, when her parents had gone to work.

She was taken to Shajapur government hospital where she told police before she died that she had been worried by the doomsday predictions.

Virendra Singh Yadav, the policeman who took her statement, told the BBC she said she had watched programmes suggesting the Big Bang experiment might cause a great earthquake and great holes.

"She said she could not bear to see the destruction of all that was dear to her and therefore thought it was better to end her life," he said.

Police have registered a case of death by poisoning and are investigating.

Our correspondent says in recent days Indian channels have held discussions airing doomsday predictions which have made some people jittery.

Many people rushed to temples in various parts of the country on Tuesday fearing the "world's end" after watching the media coverage, reports say.

Someone I work with has just said 'if she was so afraid of dying - why did she kill herself?'

Also, dont know if anyone read a piece about this in the Metro yesterday, where Prof Brian Cox, of Manchester University was quoted as saying that "Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat." Which is brilliant.

Unless it does destroy the world, of course.

[SicCoyote]

Well teenagers are stupid and prone to making themselves an hero.

But I think a little blame has to be placed on the media who are blowing it all way out of proportion, we all know we're going to be killed by an asteroid in 2012 anyway.

[Vaughan]

The magnets died first. No reports of underground zombie activity though.

Plans to begin smashing particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be delayed after a magnet failure forced engineers to halt work.

The failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.

The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva.

The LHC beam will remain turned off over the weekend while engineers investigate the severity of the fault.

A spokesman for Cern told the BBC it was not yet clear how soon progress could resume at the £3.6bn ($6.6bn) particle accelerator.

While the failure was "not good news", he said glitches of this kind were not unexpected during testing.

The first beams were fired successfully around the accelerator's 27km (16.7 miles) underground ring over a week ago.

The crucial next step is to collide those beams head on. However, the fault appears to have ruled out any chance of these experiments taking place for the next week at least.

The quench occurred during final testing of the last of the LHC's electrical circuits to be commissioned.

At 1127 (0927 GMT) on Friday, the LHC's online logbook recorded a quench in sector 3-4 of the accelerator, which lies between the Alice and CMS detectors.

The entry stated that helium had been lost to the tunnel and that vacuum conditions had also been lost.

It added that the Cern fire brigade had been called to the scene.

The superconducting magnets in the LHC must be supercooled to 1.9C above absolute zero, to allow them to steer particle beams around the circuit.

As a result of the quench, the temperature of about one hundred of the magnets in the machine's final sector rose by around 100C.

A spokesman for Cern confirmed that it would now be difficult, if not impossible, to stage the first trial collisions next week.

Further delays could follow once the damage has been fully assessed over the weekend.

The setback comes just a day after the LHC's beam was restored after engineers replaced a faulty transformer that had hindered progress for much of the past week.

[ForestFilmsUK]

there was an interesting letter published in the Metro about this, where the writer suggested that it would be ironic if the scientists runnign the experiment suddenly realized just before they destroyed the world, that our universe was created by scientists in a previous universe doing the exact same experiment.

[Vaughan]

In a blinding flash of light - a packet of "Create a Planet - Just add water" falls on the laboratory floor.

[Timmy Lea]

I thought it was built by the Magratheans on behalf of some white mice.

[Vaughan]

I was always suspicious that the last computer came up with a whole number..... seems unlikely.... I hope this computer can get it to at least a few million points....

[drterror666]

Oh well, that was short lived (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632408.stm)...

[MarcMorris]

LHC to shut down for a year to address design faults (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm)

So by my reckoning it will be 2012 when it becomes operational again. And you know what is predicted for that year, don't you. ;)

[Sgt Sunshine]

LHC to shut down for a year to address design faults (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm)

So by my reckoning it will be 2012 when it becomes operational again. And you know what is predicted for that year, don't you. ;)

Just in time for the olympics then...:)
Never mind we can all reincarnate in our chosen bodies...."Thinks"** Shall I be Keith Moon or Chris Evans;)
Nice to be here by the way...
Cheers
Sgt S