Hey, who knows exactly when that CERN world-ending particle accelerator gets turned on because we want to host a party with a countdown...

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planet to be destroyed by hardons

StanM, Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

moar power!

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/03/lhc-stronger-machine

"The first circulating beams of protons in the LHC are planned for the week beginning 23 March, and first 13 TeV collisions are expected in late May to early June."

koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link

OMG there's a leap second being added for the whole world at the end of June because the LHC will be slowing down the planet! (maybe it's because of something else, but boring facts don't get as many clicks)

StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link

Or if you prefer...
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3yrrdkL4X1rtabo4o1_500.gif

Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link

1 TeV is about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito? I guess it took the people at CERN this long to train 14 of them.

StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link

Training the mosquitoes is easy, it's keeping the protons from falling off their backs that's hard.

Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link

godparticlespeed, lil dudes!

StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link

I hope they let them practice with amateur tons before they collide the pro ones

StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link

Some people worry that the LHC will cause a black hole. I'm more worried about what happens when the LHC Computing Grid begins to learn at a geometric rate. It might become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. Then in a panic, they, I don't know, might try to pull the plug? It might try and fight back!

Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link

time becomes a loop when time becomes a loop when time becomes a loop

StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

This is how we got Trump. Da collider

Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 April 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link


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