LHC switched on in 3 days

http://www.lhcountdown.com/?p=1

End of the world, or greatest scientific breakthrough for mankind?

I thought it was being switched on in 4 months.KG86

I thought it was being switched on in 4 months.KG86

yeah me too... is that count down off the LHC website?

[QUOTE="KG86"]I thought it was being switched on in 4 months.bsman00

yeah me too... is that count down off the LHC website?

Hehe, I was wondering when that thing was going to start running. Sounds pretty hardcore if you ask me. I'd rather have the world be destroyed in some badass mini-black-hole mishap (or whatever) than slowly degenerate because of overpopulation and global warming.Funkyhamster

Or we could stop all of those things from happening and we can continue living on. If you want to die so badly, you can always commit suicide.

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]Hehe, I was wondering when that thing was going to start running. Sounds pretty hardcore if you ask me. I'd rather have the world be destroyed in some badass mini-black-hole mishap (or whatever) than slowly degenerate because of overpopulation and global warming.BlackAlpha666

Or we could stop all of those things from happening and we can continue living on. If you want to die so badly, you can always commit suicide.

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]Hehe, I was wondering when that thing was going to start running. Sounds pretty hardcore if you ask me. I'd rather have the world be destroyed in some badass mini-black-hole mishap (or whatever) than slowly degenerate because of overpopulation and global warming.BlackAlpha666

Or we could stop all of those things from happening and we can continue living on. If you want to die so badly, you can always commit suicide.

Don't even try with these people. For some reason the future of Earth (in the average GS poster's mind) depends on learning about dark matter and to hell with the planet. If it must be destroyed to learn about something as pointless as dark matter then it must be done.

Don't even try with these people. For some reason the future of Earth (in the average GS poster's mind) depends on learning about dark matter and to hell with the planet. If it must be destroyed to learn about something as pointless as dark matter then it must be done.

cametall

everything vital was at one time pointless. see: modern medicine.

I think the "end of the World" theory has been proven as ridiculously unlikely.

It's just whether this machine will actually discover anything.

[QUOTE="BlackAlpha666"]

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]Hehe, I was wondering when that thing was going to start running. Sounds pretty hardcore if you ask me. I'd rather have the world be destroyed in some badass mini-black-hole mishap (or whatever) than slowly degenerate because of overpopulation and global warming.cametall

Or we could stop all of those things from happening and we can continue living on. If you want to die so badly, you can always commit suicide.

Don't even try with these people. For some reason the future of Earth (in the average GS poster's mind) depends on learning about dark matter and to hell with the planet. If it must be destroyed to learn about something as pointless as dark matter then it must be done.

The chances of it ending are practically zero. I don't see the problem here. If it was a 50/50 chance, or even 1/1000 chance, I'd disagree with it being switched on.

[QUOTE="BlackAlpha666"]

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]Hehe, I was wondering when that thing was going to start running. Sounds pretty hardcore if you ask me. I'd rather have the world be destroyed in some badass mini-black-hole mishap (or whatever) than slowly degenerate because of overpopulation and global warming.cametall

Or we could stop all of those things from happening and we can continue living on. If you want to die so badly, you can always commit suicide.

Don't even try with these people. For some reason the future of Earth (in the average GS poster's mind) depends on learning about dark matter and to hell with the planet. If it must be destroyed to learn about something as pointless as dark matter then it must be done.

Maybe I wasn't very clear. I wasn't replying directly to the topic's subject, the LHC, but I was replying to his doomsday scenarios and his "we all gonna die" way of thinking.

Personally, I don't think the LHC will kill us all. Infact, I think it's a step in the right direction, which will allow us to discover more about life and everything that exists.

So what exactly is dark matter ?

How will it help us ? Will it make wormholes ? Will it teleport us ?

If it won't help us I'm disgusted my tax money might be going to something so useless and dangerous.

So what exactly is dark matter ?

How will it help us ? Will it make wormholes ? Will it teleport us ?

If it won't help us I'm disgusted my tax money might be going to something so useless and dangerous.

AtrumRegina

I think it's the matter that scientists think holds everything in our universe together. How actually discovering it''s existence will help us can be proven by time.