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Stu wrote:Seems like a strawberry floating waste of time to me....

Why don't they just build a big strawberry float off Burger King and then solve world hunger or sumting.

They're scientists, not burgerists.

Abs wrote:Seems like a pretty big waste of money.

Mate, you haven't heard the choons that thing will inadvertedly pump out. If you were there, 300ft under the surrender-monkey border, you'd be big fish little fish cardboard boxing it.

I wonder what scientists eat?

I'm just glad it's finally happening next week.

As remote a possibility that it may be, even if it's just scientist loons and scare mongering newspapers claiming that the experiment could go disastrously wrong, I'd rather be better safe than sorry.
:lol:

I was scared of what was going to happen on the millennium as well :oops:

(Snip - Good Taste Ed)
I don't have any real knowledge of the subject other than this.

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:Seems like a pretty big waste of money.

Getting the first ever hard data on black holes, which is vital to any future Theory Of Everything, is not a waste.

If you had over 4 billion dollars you'd spend it on this black hole experiment?

I think I'd probably see about building some kind of colony ship instead, but this way works too.

CERN are portrayed as a brilliantly cool organisation in the novel Angels And Demons.

The scientists doing the experiment definitely know what they're doing. I won't worry. Much.

Memento Mori wrote:Speaking as a physicist, I'm fed up of this ill-informed scaremongering. The LHC is not going to destroy the world, let it go.

Physicists of GR unite!

They've been doing these kinds of experiments for years. This is the just the largest of its kind, producing the largest amount of energy achieved in a particle accelerator so far. Exciting times.

Abs wrote:If you had over 4 billion dollars you'd spend it on this black hole experiment?

It's probably be illegal for me to spend $4bn in the way I wanted.

Abs wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:Seems like a pretty big waste of money.

Getting the first ever hard data on black holes, which is vital to any future Theory Of Everything, is not a waste.

If you had over 4 billion dollars you'd spend it on this black hole experiment?

Black holes and nanotechnology research, among other things.

I once visited CERN on a physics jolly and a bloke named Solomon there bought us all free drinks. Hence, CERN is amazing. Oh, and the internet was pretty much invented for use by CERN scientists. Something to be thankful (or not) for.

Should have built it on the moon.

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:Seems like a pretty big waste of money.

Getting the first ever hard data on black holes, which is vital to any future Theory Of Everything, is not a waste.

If you had over 4 billion dollars you'd spend it on this black hole experiment?

Black holes and nanotechnology research, among other things.

it would be more ironic if it was on the 11th!

Pilch wrote:I once visited CERN on a physics jolly and a bloke named Solomon there bought us all free drinks. Hence, CERN is amazing. Oh, and the internet was pretty much invented for use by CERN scientists. Something to be thankful (or not) for.

Where do i send my cheque! imagine not having the internet we are all so accustomed to, we would be watching gooseberry fool like babestation.

Abs wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Abs wrote:Seems like a pretty big waste of money.

Getting the first ever hard data on black holes, which is vital to any future Theory Of Everything, is not a waste.

If you had over 4 billion dollars you'd spend it on this black hole experiment?

Black holes and nanotechnology research, among other things.

Once nanotechnology becomes commonplace, manufacturing costs plummet to the amount it costs to download schematics. Ergo, to avoid as much expenditure on gooseberry fool as possible, nanotech should be made viable ASAP. Kurzweil predicts it'll be here by the mid 2020s, and lord do I hope he's right.

We can only hope.

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