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[Bandit127]

...tomorrow. 11:00 GMT.

According to some anyway.  

In honour of the Doomsayers, here is a clip from the BBC drama/documentary End Day.
[media]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SndbB8hA0UQ[/media]

As stated previously, I buy the fact that much higher Cosmic Ray energies impact our atmosphere regularly and we are still here. ..but then again, there's not much mass up there. Unlike at CERN...

Anyway, I don't think we will know much about it if it does go t*ts up  

[theolodian]

I'll probably be too busy, and realize an hour later that it has passed without drama.

That rap video is hilarious!  

[Banjax]

they've turned it on last week and the entire universe winked out of existence - luckily i was sent back in time a moment before disaster struck to warn them not to do it!!

so - if my calculations are correct...this should be saturday 6th september 2008 - bags of time before it happens - i'll swan around for a couple of days - then phone them on wednesday  

[bertiecbx550]

I`ll be asleep anyways...

[Chopsdad]

Large Hadron at exactly 11am  :-/ Better sit down  



I thought they were all tiny  

[Lazydocker]

I`ll be asleep anyways...

Hopefully I will be too... Although today I got to bed just after 7 and was awake by 10

Still... Only another 7 hours to in tonight!

[Chopsdad]

IIRC this was a opener for Dan Brown in a book called Angels and Demons, where they used the collider to make anti matter that they were to use to blow up Vatican City.

Of course that may have already happened and it all starts tomorrow....again  :-/

[Vamps]

Got a couple of bills to pay, I think I will wait, might save some money.......

[Martin_1962]

Steven Hawkins says it will be OK

[dbug]

Just    

[theolodian]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[supermop]

IIRC this was a opener for Dan Brown in a book called Angels and Demons, where they used the collider to make anti matter that they were to use to blow up Vatican City.

Of course that may have already happened and it all starts tomorrow....again  :-/

Good book!

[DaveyDavey]

I thought it was being switched on at 8:30 this morning, according to the BBC news anyway. :-?

[MaxV6]

well....    it's a bit of a media cock up.

this morning was merely a test of accelerator mechanics...  checking to make sure that it can function all the way round the 27 km loop

then they have to check the opposite direction....


THEN they can start ramping up the speeds , and begin collision experiments.

it's not until they do that , that there is the slightest possibility of even remote chance risks.

quite clever PR really....    make everyone think it's safe and all the fuss was for nothing, then try and recreate big bang conditions while no one else is watching....


statistically it IS safe.

but we all know that there remains a small (i mean REALLY small) chance that the outcome will not be as predicted...   and THAT means anything might happen....  after all, what are the odds on us having this discussion , on a cosmic scale??


i'm NOT worried about black holes....    singularities of the size possible here evaporate very quickly....   like some of the transuranic elements, we've created... they half half lives measured in nanoseconds....

however , The Strangelet scares the crap out of me.

[sir moanalot]

looks like they have spent a lot of dosh on this so hope they find something out