h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

nah, just introduce a new sport of 'running away from impending global destruction' or 'Who can outrun a rapidly advancing event horizon?'

Only Bruce Willis surely

Am I the only one who is
a) sort of excited about the whole thing, but aware that realistically for the layman it's going to be something of an anti-climax.
b) incredibly fatalistic about any chances of galactic deconstruction? I mean, it's not like we'll be sitting around blaming each other for not warning us sooner if it doesn't work as expected and we implode...?

Yup, it is exciting, not that I'll understand more than a dandruff's worth but will enjoy imagining, and reading about it.

I wonder, too, if there'll be any feed through to fusion energy.

NoNoNo.

I don't think we should blame 2legs for this.

Blame the Vogons.

but 2legs is a vogon ?

Isn't 2legs the lovechild of a drunken fumbling between Danny La Rue and Cynthia Payne?

I thought he was the fumbling child of a drunken lovie - or is that the same thing?

is the lhc insured against catastrophic experimental results?

But, what is wrong with baked beans?

no they are only accelerating a single proton tomorrow if by any luck the LHC destroys the world unfortunately it will not be for another couple of weeks. so you have two weeks to eat as much chocolate as you can.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/05/scilhc105.xml

IMO if humanity is really so crushingly stupid that it believes the LHC will destroy the world simply because humanity doesn't understand it, then humanity deserves to be squashed to the size of an electron .

Apparently there is strong colaberation between cern and iter right across the board from admin to technical . Europeans do this sort of thing much better than the Americans as we are more open .

Today the phone box says 'The big tidy up'

click for pick http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2823768401_153c52e261.jpg

The planet has been bombarded by neutrinos, quarks, muons etc for billenia. The half life is so minute that no-one will notice anything.

And if it did go so gigantically, massively wrong... At least it stops us worrying about Climate Change and Hurricane Ike, and the annexation of Georgia!



MMF

LHC wins US presidential election

it has a bigger, more complex brain than the current US prez... And better advisors

and if it all gos wrong it will have a bigger impact on world banking

"switzerland vanishes into black hole"

"nobody notices except the skiiers with holidays booked for this winter, and people with too many eggs in just the one basket... but they can afford it..."

and every one with a numbered zurich account