Large Hadron Collider: Should we let it happen?

[Talos]

The Large Hadron Collider — designed to replicate conditions in the universe immediately after the Big Bang and due to be switched on in 10 days — is being challenged by a last-minute lawsuit at the European Court for Human Rights.

Opponents of the Collider are afraid its ability to smash atoms at such high speeds that it will generate temperatures of one trillion degrees centigrade will create a mini-black hole that could “tear the earth apart,” reports the Telegraph.

Opponents of the project had hoped to obtain an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights that would block the collider from being turned on at all, but the court rejected the application on Friday morning. However, the court will rule on allegations that the experiment violates the right to life under the European Convention of Human Rights.

Here’s the case against the collider by Professor Otto Rössler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen:

"CERN itself has admitted that mini black holes could be created when the particles collide, but they don’t consider this a risk.

"My own calculations have shown that it is quite plausible that these little black holes survive and will grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside. I have been calling for CERN to hold a safety conference to prove my conclusions wrong but they have not been willing.

"We submitted this application to the European Court of Human Rights as we do not believe the scientists at CERN are taking all the precautions they should be in order to protect human life.”

CERN conducted a safety review and concluded there is “little chance” the collider could create black holes that could endanger the earth.

Meanwhile, environmentalists in Hawaii have filed suit in federal court in the U.S., seeking to delay the switch-flip. The case was to be heard Tuesday.

CERN’s defense, from spokesman James Gillies:

"The Large Hadron Collider will not be producing anything that does not already happen routinely in nature due to cosmic rays. If they were dangerous we would know about it already. We are now concentrating on firing the first beams around the collider and then on fine tuning it until we can get collisions, when the science will start."

As a law school graduate and technology writer, Richard Koman brings a unique perspective to the blog's intersection of law, government and technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3974

I dont think anything more needs to be said, apart from what you think should happen about the current situation.
I for one am pretty concerned about what this LHC can actually do, especially with the talk of these so-called "mini black holes."

[Aaron]

We've discussed this previously. There isn't enough energy on the planet to sustain it long enough for it to do anything worth noting. It's purely an academic exercise and won't go beyond that. Fear of this is irrational once you realise that.

[Chrysostom]

Clearly the LHC will tear a hole in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to an alternate dimension from which Cuthulu will escape and destroy the universe.

[siva_chair]

Clearly the LHC will tear a hole in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to an alternate dimension from which Cuthulu will escape and destroy the universe.

I hope.

That or zombies from another dimension.

[Chrysostom]

I hope.

That or zombies from another dimension.

Oh man, you win. I have always wanted to see if I could cut it as a survivor of a Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse.

[Aaron]

Zombie-wolves and a blizzard that covers the world. But black snow.

[siva_chair]

Glowing radioactive snow

[Chrysostom]

Made from zombies.

[Pastorius]

Jeeeeez I wish people would quit over-reacting.

If, if these black holes were to happen, they would only be capable of eating up maybe 100 protons a year.

[Avalanche.]

Oh man, you win. I have always wanted to see if I could cut it as a survivor of a Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse.

Wanted: Somebody to fight off the Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."

[Pastorius]

I actually always wanted the zombie apocalypse to come and cull the weak, and brave

[siva_chair]

Wanted: Somebody to fight off the Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."

Push it to the limit. Walk along the razor's edge.

[Mister_Che]

I've got my crowbar ready.

[siva_chair]

I've got lots of guns, lots of ammo, large bladed weapons, and enough knowledge of the local terrain to last quite a while.

I feel sorry for the poor ****s that live in large cities though.

[Pop music sucks]

It will be extremely captivating once the LHC is turned on. I've been ecstatic at what the data will tell us ever since I heard about it in Discover months ago.

[siva_chair]

Another possibility: The LHC will open a portal that terminators from a dystopian techno-future come through to kill us all.

[spitfirejunky]

My large-scale forge furnace is ready.

[Pastorius]

My old flat was perfect for zombie defence, it was first floor, with a sturdy door (only entrance), good visibility of the street below, and I reckon I could have done some free running to get to other flats.

[Otherside]

Half-Life: Real Life

[Knifeboy]

I've got lots of guns, lots of ammo, large bladed weapons, and enough knowledge of the local terrain to last quite a while.

I feel sorry for the poor ****s that live in large cities though.

I'll highjack a jetplane and come visit you if the zombies attack

My old flat was perfect for zombie defence, it was first floor, with a sturdy door (only entrance), good visibility of the street below, and I reckon I could have done some free running to get to other flats.


better hope it's the slow kind of zombies

[Mister_Che]

First floor? Wouldn't it be easier to defend a higher floor?

[siva_chair]

I'll highjack a jetplane and come visit you if the zombies attack

U bring the beer I'll supply the guns and stuff. :chug:

[Knifeboy]

come to think of it, highjacking a beer factory would probably be more fun

but I don't know how to fly one of those

[Meatplow]

lol i'm hoping some humanitarian terrorist group breaks in to stop it and ends up causing the ultimate disaster

[Knifeboy]

Kinda like the beginning of 28 days later?

[Meatplow]

i haven't actually seen it but probably

this sucks I just ordered a pair of sweet headphones from the states, the world might end before I get them :(

[Knifeboy]

i haven't actually seen it but probably


what?!?!

... Go.. See it.. now! (before the world ends)

[Meatplow]

i'll get around to it.... so much to get through lol

[stevensonmat2]

Isn't it set to turn on in 2012? That would be awesome.

[mph4ever]

it will cause the big bang all over again and we'll all be wiped instantly from history and time will just begin, and the next lot to inhabit the space after the singularity will think they are the first ones until they too develop a lhc and reset back to 0

[DekWannaBFlea]

I would welcome our future zombie overlords.

[stevensonmat2]

*for one

[Already_Taken]

are we joking about this serious issue because we're actually very scared?

[DekWannaBFlea]

I think we are mocking it.

[stevensonmat2]

Why be scared of possible instant death?

[Chrysostom]

Wanted: Somebody to fight off the Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."

Sign me up.

I think we were forwarned of what the LHC will do as long ago as 1984, through the warning od the prophet Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters: "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

That's right, the LHC is going to cause a total protonic reversal.

[Meatplow]

i've become way too pessimistic and cynical about life to care if it is all erased within the next week

all that I ask is my headphones arrive before they flick the switch

[Mister_Che]

are we joking about this serious issue because we're actually very scared?

We're mocking it because the chance of instant death is incredibly exaggerated.

[DBoons Ghost]

I am fairly convinced this is going to create a new age in humanity. Why is everyone focused on the negative aspects? There are positive aspects as well. We could be travelling upon a multi-dimensional highway in a few months sittin' back watchin all the pretty colors all the while getting head from some green bitch with a venus fly trap for a snatch.

[Chrysostom]

I am fairly convinced this is going to create a new age in humanity. Why is everyone focused on the negative aspects? There are positive aspects as well. We could be travelling upon a multi-dimensional highway in a few months sittin' back watchin all the pretty colors all the while getting head from some green bitch with a venus fly trap for a snatch.

Show me the positive aspect here.

[DBoons Ghost]

Show me the positive aspect here.

You don't like a little pain and pleasure?

Meh. More dickslap for me. I like a little slappin'.

[Meatplow]

We're mocking it because the chance of instant death is incredibly exaggerated.

just the fact there is a chance is enough to get people freaked out

i was a little weirded out watching a documentary on this the first time but meh, science has a very peer based review system on these sort of things and if they were really going to cause trouble there would be more then a small minority of scientists up in arms

[Chrysostom]

Perhaps the LHC is all tied up with the end of the world in 2012? The Mayans, they knew. As long as it ends before the Olympics start, I'll be OK with that.

[Already_Taken]

We're mocking it because the chance of instant death is incredibly exaggerated.

i know. sometimes internet sarcasm is hard. lol

[Amit]

Jeeeeez I wish people would quit over-reacting.

If, if these black holes were to happen, they would only be capable of eating up maybe 100 protons a year.

ummm DUDE DIDN'T YOU SEE WAT HAPPENED AT BLACK MEESA???

and i kno u arent a gordan freemon

[PerpetualBurn]

Look, I think rumour and misunderstanding of science have pretty much proven that this will destroy the world. So it's no use bitching when you've not got long left.

[Amit]

yeah

hold my hand perpburn? ;']

[PerpetualBurn]

Ok. I'd hate to die never having touched a brown person.

[Knifeboy]

I have never touched a brown person :(

[PerpetualBurn]

Actually my housemate last year was Indian. I'm sorry, Amit. You're not my first.

[Amit]

oh ffs

[Meatplow]

Perhaps the LHC is all tied up with the end of the world in 2012? The Mayans, they knew. As long as it ends before the Olympics start, I'll be OK with that.

the world has supposed to have ended hundreds of times by now, every theory put forward has proven itself complete and utter shite. There is absolutely nothing to support 2012 :p

http://www.armageddononline.org/failed_armageddon.php

[Aaron]

Maybe the world already ended and we're all in a dream?!?!?!

[Already_Taken]

nah we'd be able to read about it online.

[Iscariot]

this thread is strange

there are professional researches who are concerned over the apparent danger of using this thing, but a bunch of high school-college age kids on an internet forum think it's an overreaction

it's a tough choice i'm very torn here but i think i'll accept the concern shown by the professional scientists

[PerpetualBurn]

oh ffs

She meant nothing to me. I swear.

[Light Fantastic]

there are professional researches who are concerned over the apparent danger of using this thing, but a bunch of high school-college age kids on an internet forum think it's an overreaction

it's a tough choice i'm very torn here but i think i'll accept the concern shown by the professional scientistsumm

[Talos]

this thread is strange

there are professional researches who are concerned over the apparent danger of using this thing, but a bunch of high school-college age kids on an internet forum think it's an overreaction

it's a tough choice i'm very torn here but i think i'll accept the concern shown by the professional scientists

Im gonna agree, I dont know much/anyting about it but considering people are trying to stop them going ahead with the plans for the LHC is enough to make me stop and think about the risks.
If these scientists thought that it was gonna be fine I doubt thered be this much noise being made about it.

[Iscariot]

umm

did i s-s-s-stutter? or is this leading up to one of those chad the hacker thinks he is a genius and knows everything posts

[Light Fantastic]

no its just at first it seemed like maybe you were making sense, lets trust the people who do this for a living you know the world class scientists working at cern

but then you were like yeah those scientists in the vast minority that have very little to do with the project im gonna go with them and i thought you were stupid

[Aaron]

this thread is strange

there are professional researches who are concerned over the apparent danger of using this thing, but a bunch of high school-college age kids on an internet forum think it's an overreaction

it's a tough choice i'm very torn here but i think i'll accept the concern shown by the professional scientists
Anyone can theorise something, doesn't mean it's right.

[Smokey D]

It's not so much that as there are a lot more researchers who know how overstated the threat is.

[spitfirejunky]

this thread is strange

there are professional researches who are concerned over the apparent danger of using this thing, but a bunch of high school-college age kids on an internet forum think it's an overreaction

it's a tough choice i'm very torn here but i think i'll accept the concern shown by the professional scientists

There's a higher chance that you'll fall through your floor than there is for the formation of this black hole.

Actually I just made that up. But the chance is so low it's negligable, and the overwhelming majority of researchers don't consider it a threat.

[Iscariot]

you mean the ones who are going to profit from this thing being activated right

[Amit]

the overwhelming majority of researchers who think it's not going to cause an apocalypse 200X+ are not going to profit from this thing

unless you consider profit to be finding (or not finding) the higgs boson

just watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

[PerpetualBurn]

If I were going to trust scientific majority and peer review then I'd believe in evolution.

This WILL destroy the world.

[mightygod]

i prefer to die for science than by for religion

[gregulus]

the overwhelming majority of researchers who think it's not going to cause an apocalypse 200X+ are not going to profit from this thing

unless you consider profit to be finding (or not finding) the higgs boson

just watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

QFT. Physicists don't get paid millions of dollars.

Also:
http://environmental-impact.web.cern.ch/environmental-impact/Objects/LHCSafety/LSAGSummaryReport2008-en.pdf
and
http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report.pdf

People who are scared of this thing are probably also Ron Paul fans who love Zeitgeist.

[Mr. Ron]

the overwhelming majority of researchers who think it's not going to cause an apocalypse 200X+ are not going to profit from this thing

unless you consider profit to be finding (or not finding) the higgs boson

just watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

haha awesome

[gregulus]

you mean the ones who are going to profit from this thing being activated right

The only thing that's really going to benefit from the LHC is our understanding of the universe.


That said, the first proton beam to go past the first few sectors of the main ring will go in on September 10th. The final synchronization tests between the "doors" of the LHC and the super proton synchrotron were successful. The beam will enter with an energy of 450 GeV and is expected by reach energies of 5 TeV by the end of this year. By 2010 the energy will be up to the designed performance energy of 7 TeV. There will be live broadcasts by CERN on the 10th starting at 9:00 UTC, I think.

http://webcast.cern.ch/ that's where the webcast will be.

I'm beyond excited about this. Sometimes being a nerd really pays off.

[Mr. Ron]

With any luck Cthulhu will step forth and reclaim Earth.

[free_thinkers_are_dangerous]

At least if we all die in a black hole Al Gore won't have a smug "I told you so" look when he greets us at the gates of Hell.

[Aaron]

With any luck Cthulhu will step forth and reclaim Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0&feature=related

:lol:

[MattSharpIsCool]

Wanted: Somebody to fight off the Large Hadron Collider-induced zombie apocalypse with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322 Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before."

haha win.

I guess there's a risk, but the potential for science is just too much. I'm really interested to hear if anything actually important comes out of this.

[siva_chair]

People who are scared of this thing are probably also Ron Paul fans who love Zeitgeist.

Hey I like Ron Paul and I'm not scared of this thing, fu.

[Iscariot]

i don't like ron paul and i've never seen zeitgeist i just don't want the world to end in the name of scientific advancement before i get a chance to donkey punch a woman in bed

[McP3000]

I really want to do an angry dragon once

that would be amazing

[Aaron]

hahaha that reminds me of something I cant type here involving my mate [who's wheelchair bound] and a lot of prescription medication

[McP3000]

hahaha that reminds me of something I cant type here involving my mate [who's wheelchair bound] and a lot of prescription medication
do it you tease

type away

[siva_chair]

Why couldn't you type it here I always just type what I want who cares?

[Iscariot]

same sometimes i post things just because i know they'll make people angry that's the beauty of anonymity

[siva_chair]

same sometimes i post things just because i know they'll make people angry that's the beauty of anonymity

I always do that I think it is hilarious.

[Iscariot]

:h5:

[McP3000]

Why couldn't you type it here I always just type what I want who cares?
yeah i know

its PNWI, you'll only get banned if you're 1338_Haxor or Eliminator

[siva_chair]

I've probably made Smokey want to ban me lots of times but I think he takes me to seriously so oh well.

[Iscariot]

smokey banned me once for excessive racist jokes

[siva_chair]

He banned me one time because Tway and I were spamming up a thread with silly insults.

It was vry hilarious.

[McP3000]

How dare you accuse Tway of spamming a thread!

[siva_chair]

Tway doesn't spam threads he manwiches threads.

[McP3000]

He sticks his penis between the buns of sanity and rapes it clean before swallowing it whole

[Knifeboy]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/04/lhc-will-not-destroy.html

There's a higher chance of you spontainiously evaporating while shaving than there is of the earth going under

[Aaron]

Why couldn't you type it here I always just type what I want who cares?
It's called foreplay.

[siva_chair]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/04/lhc-will-not-destroy.html

There's a higher chance of you spontainiously evaporating while shaving than there is of the earth going under

Shaving is dangerous business.

[Knifeboy]

yeah, which is why i have a big manly beard

[siva_chair]

That and you live in a habitat once populated by vikings isn't it a law that you have to have a beard?

[McP3000]

once populated? You mean the vikings left?!

[Knifeboy]

It isn't illegal to not have a beard
But having a huge manly beard exempts you from rape and pillage laws

[siva_chair]

It isn't illegal to not have a beard
But having a huge manly beard exempts you from rape and pillage laws

OIC.

Do the women have beards?

[Knifeboy]

that depends how you define "women"

Here everyone without a beard is known as a "woman"

[siva_chair]

Ahh ok. What about something like a goatee or mutton chops are they women?

[Knifeboy]

No, that's fags

[Aaron]

Knifeboy, your old user-title make me listen to dredg, and for that I love you.

[siva_chair]

No, that's fags

What about rocking a 'stache like a handlebar but not one of those sissy french twirly ones?

[Knifeboy]

Knifeboy, your old user-title make me listen to dredg, and for that I love you.

That's very cool

What about rocking a 'stache like a handlebar but not one of those sissy french twirly ones?

everyone without a complete full beard is either a fag or a woman

edit: i should really write a book

[siva_chair]

everyone without a complete full beard is either a fag or a woman

edit: i should really write a book

http://www.cord.edu/dept/sports/sportsbackup/highimage/flann_derek_02_hr.jpg

^I dunno that is a pretty sweet 'stache.

Also, Hulk Hogan.

[Knifeboy]

Wearing a beard like that is seen as disrespecting our viking forefathers!

[siva_chair]

http://www.ancestryuk.com/Viking.JPG

Also speaking of LHC this could be what it unleashes:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunechaser/Random/space.viking.2.jpg

fukkin space vikings

[Knifeboy]

best lego character ever

[siva_chair]

Indeed. I really like the chainsaws.

[Pastorius]

i have a full beard, does that mean i'm safe from the LHC's death rays?

[siva_chair]

Nothing is safe.

[Knifeboy]

i have a full beard, does that mean i'm safe from the LHC's death rays?

It means that "mjød" is free for you in denmark

[Chrysostom]

With any luck Cthulhu will step forth and reclaim Earth.

I'm disappointed in you Ron. You stole that from me.

Though you spelt his name right, and I didn't...

[Amit]

guys:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/gavborg/gordonfreeman.jpg

holy****

[siva_chair]

oh shi

now do you take the claims srsly?!?!

[Pastorius]

oh god


oh god



oh.....god

[Amit]

it is black mesa

[gregulus]

i don't like ron paul and i've never seen zeitgeist i just don't want the world to end in the name of scientific advancement before i get a chance to donkey punch a woman in bed

If you read my post, and the links within my post, you will know that you worries are baseless.

[siva_chair]

If you read my post, and the links within my post, you will know that you worries are baseless.

Ahem....

no actually:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/gavborg/gordonfreeman.jpg

also

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunechaser/Random/space.viking.2.jpg

[Jude]

What day are they turning this thing on

I might throw a massive apocalypse party the night before just in case

[Pastorius]

Wednesday it's being turned on.

Won't see results for a while though.

[apple pie]

It wont make like a black hole or anything, the chances of that happening are about the same as an indepent winning the elcetion

[pppoe]

Obama has an indie band.

[Amit]

Wednesday it's being turned on.

Won't see results for a while though.

i already know them:

1) headcrabs
2) headcrab zombies
3) portal to the xen world

[spitfirejunky]

Headcrab!? Gordon no likey!!!

[Meatplow]

i'll bet $20 paranoid terrorists show up at the last minute

[CarnageFairy]

I'm gonna start buying crowbars wholesale off eBay.

I'll let you guys take them off my hands at a huge discount

[gregulus]

The machine is already on. You can just turn on a machine this complex. The first proton beam to go past the first few sectors is going to enter the LHC on Wednesday. I feel like everyone ignores my posts :(.

[free_thinkers_are_dangerous]

The machine is already on. You can just turn on a machine this complex. The first proton beam to go past the first few sectors is going to enter the LHC on Wednesday. I feel like everyone ignores my posts :(.

don't listen to this guy, folks. he's clearly a zombie scientist prepping us for brainwashing.

[sLarkin20]

We're all going to die.

Better do everything you ever wanted to do in life, quickly.

[McP3000]

i better go masturbate in a synagogue then

[Iscariot]

Ahem....

no actually:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/gavborg/gordonfreeman.jpg

well that seals it

jude where are you going to throw this party at i'll bring a 12-pack

[BridgeToSolace]

i better go masturbate in a synagogue then

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

True story.

[McP3000]

Dammit

what about a mosque?

[BridgeToSolace]

I'm not sure. My people aren't allowed in mosque's.

But I'll to you, unequivocally, that Ramada Inn is the best place to masturbate in.

And no, I'm not being paid to say that.

(ten points to anyone who gets the reference)

[sLarkin20]

Is it a reference to you masturbating in a Ramada Inn?

[BridgeToSolace]

Correct.

[McP3000]

well thats appetizing

[BridgeToSolace]

It's a Todd Barry joke, for the record.

Can't find a video of it, but here's todd barry saying other funny things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxomUSI_m7E

[Knifeboy]

It wont make like a black hole or anything, the chances of that happening are about the same as an indepent winning the elcetion

The chance of it creating a black hole are significant
It's the chance of it creating a black hole that will consume more than a 100 protons before losing all of its energy that are infinitely small

[McP3000]

i sorta want the black hole to happen. That would be pretty sweet.

[Already_Taken]

good thing you're fat enough to fill it up, cause i don't wanna see that happen, fatso.

[siva_chair]

It's a Todd Barry joke, for the record.

Can't find a video of it, but here's todd barry saying other funny things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxomUSI_m7E

Todd Barry rules.

[gregulus]

The chance of it creating a black hole are significant
It's the chance of it creating a black hole that will consume more than a 100 protons before losing all of its energy that are infinitely small
The LHC itself isn't expected to generate enough energy to make the formation of micro black holes occur by itself, so for even microscopic black holes to form, the extra spatial dimensions posited by extensions of the standard model would have to be true. That said, even if micro black holes are formed, they will ultimately emit much more energy they consume, collapsing in fractions of a second.

[Amit]

guys my crowbar just came in

[PerpetualBurn]

I think I'll replay the original Resident Evil to prepare.

There'd best be plenty of green herbs lying round after the invasion.

[siva_chair]

I think I'll replay the original Resident Evil to prepare.

There'd best be plenty of green herbs lying round after the invasion.

Don't you live in the UK?

No guns=you be fukked.

No amount of video games will prepare you.

[McP3000]

Oh come on now, im sure the police will just defend them with their guns

oh wait

[Knifeboy]

lol, you act like getting a gun here is impossible

in the midst of a zombie chaos, getting a gun would be a piece of cake

1. kill zombie police officer

2. ????

3. profit!

[siva_chair]

In the heat of a zombie invasion, I bet it is next to impossible if you don't already have one. :p

[Meatplow]

did anyone catch on that in that south park episode the gnomes were a reference to the gnomes of zurich

[siva_chair]

The underpants gnomes?

I think that one is the first appearance of Tweek.

[Knifeboy]

In the heat of a zombie invasion, I bet it is next to impossible if you don't already have one. :p


That's where step 2 comes in

[siva_chair]

That's where step 2 comes in

Panic and confusion?

[Knifeboy]

zombie smorgasbord! nothing like the taste of rotting flesh

[siva_chair]

I bet it would give you the mad squirts.

[Chrysostom]

lol, you act like getting a gun here is impossible

in the midst of a zombie chaos, getting a gun would be a piece of cake

1. kill zombie police officer

2. ????

3. profit!

Have the Resident Evil games taught you nothing boy!? You need a gun to take down a zombie cop in order to get a gun. Those games weren't made to be enjoyed you know, they are a training exercise.

[Knifeboy]

if you can't even kill a zombie with your bare hands, then you don't deserve to survive tbh

[Pastorius]

In the heat of a zombie invasion, I bet it is next to impossible if you don't already have one. :p

Zombie invasions don't just start, first you notice a few zombies going around, then you go about your business, then about a day later you realise that there are loads of zombies around.

We will notice the signs first and arm ourselves.

[horseypie]

all you need is a totem tennis pole

[siva_chair]

Zombie invasions don't just start, first you notice a few zombies going around, then you go about your business, then about a day later you realise that there are loads of zombies around.

We will notice the signs first and arm ourselves.

Yes keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

[Iscariot]

i already own a gun and between all of my friends and myself we have a small arsenal so bring it on zombies

bring it on

[McP3000]

I've played enough video games to be good at killing people and zombies

i will survive until my feet no longer walk over health packs!

[Chrysostom]

Two days until the zombie apocalypse. I hope you're all prepared.

[JumpTheF**kUp]

Oh man, if there isn't a zombie apocalypse I will be majorly disappointed.

[Chrysostom]

Oh man, if there isn't a zombie apocalypse I will be majorly disappointed.

Tell me about it. There really isn't any point even turning the LHC on if there isn't definitely going to be a zombie apocalypse.

[siva_chair]

click click

[DekWannaBFlea]

I wonder if it will be a 40 Days Later style zombie invasion or a Black Sheep style invasion. I would definitely dig the latter more.

[JumpTheF**kUp]

click click


haha

I just want to save a hot chick and then convince her to begin repopulating the earth with me.

Also, beating zombies to death with a cricket bat like in Shaun of the Dead would be endlessly entertaining.

[Iscariot]

especially if "don't stop me now" happened to be playing in the background

[Chrysostom]

haha

I just want to save a hot chick and then convince her to begin repopulating the earth with me.

Also, beating zombies to death with a cricket bat like in Shaun of the Dead would be endlessly entertaining.

especially if "don't stop me now" happened to be playing in the background

Gentlemen, I think you have created the ultimate zombie apocalypse. Bring on Wednesday.

[Iscariot]

we should all prepare by playing this game

http://www.addictinggames.com/thelaststand2.html

[Knifeboy]

I absolutely love that game

[Iscariot]

me too

:h5:

[Jo Shoe Wah]

hahah it's ****ing amazing some of the youtube comments on this, though i guess that's what you can expect from the dregs of the internet community.

there's like "15 yo girls" crying because they don't want to die.

ffs it doesn't take a very deep understanding of this to realize how preposterous the idea of a black hole swallowing the earth is.

lol i love how it's all of a sudden a "black hole machine" rather than a particle accelerator that is some degree higher in particle energies than the last one, we must have reached the death energy all of a sudden because the last 37 years of similar experiments haven't got me quite feeling the effects of being torn apart from the tidal forces of a black hole.....just yet.

im keen for zombie apocalypse though, sign me up we got plenty of room in australia to store them all, just like with the convicts

[Amit]

we should all prepare by playing this game

http://www.addictinggames.com/thelaststand2.html

dude i was playing this all night tonight on kongregate what are the chances of that

[siva_chair]

So I reloaded a bunch of 12 gauge shotgun shells the other day in preperation for this zombie attack.

I think I have enough ammunition to kill hundreds maybe thousands of zombies.

[JJLink]

I just caused more damage by farting that this collider will do in it's first test...seriously.

[Iscariot]

So I reloaded a bunch of 12 gauge shotgun shells the other day in preperation for this zombie attack.

I think I have enough ammunition to kill hundreds maybe thousands of zombies.

i only have six shells for my 20 gauge atm but that should be enough to get me to sportsman's warehouse so i can raid their guns and ammunition supply when the riots begin

[siva_chair]

i only have six shells for my 20 gauge atm but that should be enough to get me to sportsman's warehouse so i can raid their guns and ammunition supply when the riots begin

Aww man only a 20 gauge? You need something with a bit more punch. 12g 00 buckshot imo.

Which reminds me I need to go get some 00.

And hey if you can't make it to SW you can always try to get to my house I have a small arsenal and plenty of ammunition to share with you.

[Iscariot]

a 20 gauge does the trick i've cut down trees with it before so i'm sure i can take the head off a zombie :grin:

and i'm now adding your house to my contingency plan

[siva_chair]

a 20 gauge does the trick i've cut down trees with it before so i'm sure i can take the head off a zombie :grin:

and i'm now adding your house to my contingency plan

Ok I'll set up another cot and reload some more shells.

Bring some beer.

[Iscariot]

deal

[Pastorius]

Hey guys can I come too

i can bring vegetable crisps

[siva_chair]

Ok we'll use you as bait.

[Pastorius]

ooooh what's bait

like the safest job there is right?

[siva_chair]

Yes. It's so easy you won't even know you are doing it.

[Internet]

Clearly the LHC will tear a hole in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to an alternate dimension from which Cuthulu will escape and destroy the universe.
Clearly the LHC will tear a hole in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to an alternate dimension from which Cuthulu will escape and destroy the universe.

[siva_chair]

Clearly.

[Internet]

omg stop spamming spammer

[siva_chair]

http://www.petergreenberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/38197-spam.jpg

[team_racket]

Its like the millenium bug all over again.

[siva_chair]

Giant ticks? Oh shi....

[Chrysostom]

Clearly the LHC will tear a hole in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to an alternate dimension from which Cuthulu will escape and destroy the universe.

Strange...I feel like I've seen that somewhere before...

That Last Stand game is awesome.

[okay]

alright, we're going to have to network big time to survive this zombie thing. ive got the southern area of arizona covered, so i think all of the west coasters should get in touch so we can plan some sort of meet up/building of a stronghold. i can raid the archery company's warehouse here after **** hits the fan, and ill see what i can do about sword.
btw im playing lots of RE:4 to prepare

[siva_chair]

Only people with guns are allowed in my group, tbh.

[okay]

Hey, I'm just trying to help out here. The bows could be like, and auxiliary weapon or something.

[siva_chair]

Bows are fine I just don't want some silly bastard that has been against gun rights expecting all of us responsible gun owners to waste our ammunition saving their stupid asses because they wanted to whine about guns being all bad and evil. :p

[okay]

It's cool, I'll just take a group of hippies into the mountains and we'll hold the fort there with our bows and swords.

[Det_Nosnip]

lol...Stephen Hawking is an ***.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/09/hawking-higgs-particle.html

[Jude]

Is anybody throwing a bangin end of the world party tonight

I would have I have an 8 o clock tomorrow :\

[keyboardxmosh]

large hard on collider

its a metaphor for the op's bhole

[ringworm]

has anyone in here ever built a cloud chamber?

this is my next spare time project

[Jude]

4 hours to go guys what are you doing with your last hours of existence



I'm suffering insomnia even though I wanted to be asleep an hour ago for my 8 o clock tomorrow

[butt assault]

http://webcast.cern.ch/index2.html

live

[Iscariot]

well guys it's wednesday say goodbye to the earth as we know it

[siva_chair]

Say hello to the walking dead.

[keyboardxmosh]

**** meng, 36 minutes to go before dis erfs is over

[mos]

lol.

[Dinosawesome]

I guess all the h8ers were wrong...

[keyboardxmosh]

why are we still here?!

[mph4ever]

why are we still here?!

its not why are we still here but, are we still here?

[siva_chair]

Obviously we won't hear of the zombie reports until many many hours later.

[Cybergasm]

Shouldn't we be worried (or incited into panic over) about the collisions rather than a simple run around the circuit? My understanding of physics is contained to the AP Physics C curriculum, but it seems logical that the release of energy during the collision would be what causes a rip in space-time. There may be hope for zombies yet!

[Knifeboy]

Yeah, zombie apocalypse won't be in a while

[RunAmokRampant]

I feel disappointed that nothing happened in a kind of sadistic way. This thread brought my hopes up for a zombie takeover goddamit

[Pop music sucks]

Maybe because you came to the wrong conclusion based upon its name (Large Hadron Collider) and the fact that it got 'turned on' today?

The only thing that happened was that a bunch of protons got circulated around the LHC.

You have to worry about its first Pb-Pb ion collision test. Of course, these won't occur until after its official unveiling next month on the 21st.

[siva_chair]

There is still a chance.

[Pop music sucks]

I was talking to my friend about this at work today. I told him that because of the extreme amount of power utilised by the LHC at the ALICE component, a creation of a strangelet might occur. I told him that, in the extreme remote possibility of a strangelet formation, that the Earth might become a quark star.

I think a 'ice-nine' event would be freakin' awesome. All the human race has to show about the remnants of what it once was is a quark star that's in the vicinity of a G-class star.

[horseypie]

finding a monopole would be cool

like, where would the iron filings go when you spread them over it?

[Eliminator]

da erf is over u guys just havent realized it yet u c

[Meatplow]

lol it's only being prepar....

holy **** I just felt a wobble in the space time continuum did anyone else

[siva_chair]

Yeah like 2 hours ago.

Old.

[Meatplow]

but i was asleep so nothing was important

[Surtr]

I'm pretty sure we're all dead right now guys.

[Jude]

According to wikipedia it's October 21 that we really have to be worried about

Reset your doomsday clox

[Surtr]

*Resets doomsday clox*

[Chrysostom]

Obviously we won't hear of the zombie reports until many many hours later.

Don't let your guard down.

[Pastorius]

hey guys you're not gonna believe this

some guy was just sleep walking outside my window! he must have broken into the butchers or something because his mouth was covered in blood and he had some organs in his hand

crazy huh

[Dinosawesome]

Are you sure a small black hole from the Large Hadron Collider didn't track him down in a dark back alley?

It's totally possible!

[Collis]

we should all prepare by playing this game

http://www.addictinggames.com/thelaststand2.html

Is there any way of muting that fookin game? It is amazing, but I just want to shoot zombies and listen to PTH y'know.

[Jimothy the 33rd]

Did anyone mention that the guy who made "calculations" is a chemist? and then that the hadron collider is a physics experiment, although sub-atomic particles come into chemistry, it's not quite on the level a chemist would understand imo

[Pop music sucks]

You know, it said in the "LHC about to be turned on" articles that it won't have its first collision until after October 21.

You guys should'be read the whole article

>.>
<.<

[Jimothy the 33rd]

I also like the bandwagon that everyone's got on with it when the sun announced it, I've been reading about it for months.
Surely with the track that crosses the borders of 2 countries, petitions to stop it now, are a little too late.

[peeted]

Well it doesnt reach full power till 2010, theres still time for a zombie invasion.

[Pop music sucks]

Yeah. I still have the article where Scientific American announced that CERN is almost completed with construction of the LHC. It's mildly amusing that all of these people are going crazy over it.

[Meatplow]

holy **** everything just went wobbly and pear-shaped for me and first thing I thought was hadron collider when rly I just had a coughing fit

[Czech Yourself]

I think it should happen. If we're going to die, lets die in the coolest way possible.

[Chrysostom]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Nuff said.

[Czech Yourself]

Well yes, people are blowing it way out of proportion. I highly doubt it will kill anyone, or even work.

And we wouldn't even know it was happening because it would suck up all of time and space.

[Jimothy the 33rd]

whoah. Deep man :lol:

[Czech Yourself]

I know rite

[Knifeboy]

Well yes, people are blowing it way out of proportion. I highly doubt it will kill anyone, or even work.

what

[gregulus]

or even work.

Why do you say that? Particle accelerators have been used for many years and have generated some incredible results.

[Kingofdudes]

My physics professor was super excited about this today

or even work.


Yes, because your expert judgment is much more reliable than 10-20 years of research involving over 2000 scientists

[Czech Yourself]

jesus christ. I say one wrong thing and I get flamed by everyone.

**** you.

[Surtr]

lol its ok, I still love you.

[Czech Yourself]

good.

All I was saying is that, it may not work in the part where it will create a small black hole for the .30 seconds it's supposed to or whatever.

[Knifeboy]

oh ok, you're right, it probably won't create a black hole

[Czech Yourself]

yeah


/sigh