Will the world begin to end on Wednesday?

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/09/terrible-news-gordon-freeman-spotted-near-large-hadron-collider/

Did any one else feel the earth shutter at about 4:30am eastern time this morning?

We're all alive. Yay for science.

captainzib wrote: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/09/terrible-news-gordon-freeman-spotted-near-large-hadron-collider/

LMAO!!!

so... are we dead yet?

HAHAAAAA! I just got on my google 'home' page and found this:

It's almost as phunny as when they touched off the first atomic bomb. The scientists weren't completely sure that the entire world wouldn't be destroyed, and some thought just Nevada would be vaporized. WTF, hit it.

Personally, I wasn't worried about the giant colider. I figger the aliens wouldn't let us blow the planet until they were done screwing us over.

captainzib wrote: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/09/terrible-news-gordon-freeman-spotted-near-large-hadron-collider/

http://blog.reddit.com/2008/09/crowbar-headcrab-and-half-life-strategy.html

Wait a second here... They turned it on but they only turned it on half way: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10426546

... Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe. ... though accelerator is still probably a year away from full power. ....

So, when they turn both beams on, that's when France disappears.

Dr. Hess wrote: Wait a second here... They turned it on but they only turned it on half way: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10426546

... Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe. ... though accelerator is still probably a year away from full power. ....

So, when they turn both beams on, that's when France disappears.

So we have to put up with the French for another year, huh?

Dr. Hess wrote: So, when they turn both beams on, that's when France disappears.

When they turn them both on AND smash them together... that's when it goes

The ran one test clockwise, the another counter clockwise, but the beams are out of alignment and must be aimed at one another before the world can be vaporized.

I guess we wait around for it to go full power.

Last words of the human race: "trois, deux, un"

I swear I just heard a sound like the death star beam powering up...

You know, we all have to die sometime. How awesome would it be to die in the BERKELEYING APOCALYPSE!?!

think about this...

say we open a tiny little black hole, and somehow, we have access to it, but it gobbles up stuff so slowly that we have a thousand years until it gets big enough to affect anything on earth.

Everyone would go nuclear! Imagine how much stuff the human race would accomplish if we knew that in 100 years a black hole would start swallowing the earth, but until then we could dump nuclear waste, trash, ect in France and it would just get swallowed up by this micro black hole.

...its a bit a stretch.

Dr. Hess wrote: Wait a second here... They turned it on but they only turned it on half way: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10426546

... Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe. ... though accelerator is still probably a year away from full power. ....

So, when they turn both beams on, that's when France disappears.

I guess I should to the 2009 Le Mans race. I want to one in person before I die.

Type Q wrote:

Dr. Hess wrote: Wait a second here... They turned it on but they only turned it on half way: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10426546

... Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe. ... though accelerator is still probably a year away from full power. ....

So, when they turn both beams on, that's when France disappears.

I guess I should (??) to the 2009 Le Mans race. I want (???) to one in person before I die.

My god, the collider is already stealing our active verbs!!!

Damn, now I have to mow my lawn.