The End is Near

[Toadthroat]

http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2251c28f3f21900cdf7e74979094f-500pi

I hope everybody has their crowbars and shotguns ready for the zombie apocalypse.

[Retehi]

What possible harm could come from the world's largest goatse replica statue?

[Toadthroat]

On 2008-05-01 00:52, Retehi wrote:
world's largest goatse



Well I think you answered your own question, fwiend.

[Eihwaz]

It's the Large Hadron Collider, which is a high-end sort of particle accelerator.

It could creative a tiny black hole that falls to the center of the earth and slowly absorbs the entire planet, or it might produce strange matter, which turns any other matter it touches into strange matter...which would result in the entire planet becoming a big hot blob of strange matter.

Of course, the theoretical physicists working on the LHC are fairly sure that this won't happen. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[The_Gio]

fairly? i am the paranoid type,so my suggestion is why not wait till we can go to other planets and test em out there.I mean if we can do this,why not travel thru space

[Umberger]

To quote KaneKahn from a thread that brought this topic up a while ago:


On 2008-02-22 20:11, KaneKahn wrote:
Never happen. The Earth doesn't possess enough gravity to effect the acceleration process. You'd need to do it on a planet with Neptune gravity or better in order to even effect the collision to form strangelets (or a mini black hole like event). The fact that in a strangelet event they only survive about 10-10 to 10-23 seconds, again due to the Earth's relatively small gravity. Thinking like that is why everyone seems to be worried with "what can happen" and not worried about "what is happening right now".

[Jaspaller]

On 2008-05-01 00:52, Retehi wrote:
What possible harm could come from the world's largest goatse replica statue?


I laughed

[Randomness]

The LHC is supposed to be able to make mini black holes... but they'd theoretically be so small that they'd go poof from Hawking radiation.

[Monochrome]

Soooo... this machine seems to either a.) not really do anything or b.) destroy the planet or life as we know it

-why did they build it?

-what could possibly go wrong? -_-

[Weeaboolits]

I think someone said it's a particle accelerator, so they built it to accelerate particles.

Makes sense to me.

[Wyndham]

the mend of beer.

[Syl]

On 2008-05-01 14:00, Monochrome wrote:
Soooo... this machine seems to either a.) not really do anything or b.) destroy the planet or life as we know it

-why did they build it?

-what could possibly go wrong? -_-


Well it'll answer tons of unsolved mysteries related to matter that we couldn't before.

Well, if Hawking radiation is just a fluke... then goodbye world. >_>

[Eihwaz]

On 2008-05-01 14:00, Monochrome wrote:
Soooo... this machine seems to either a.) not really do anything or b.) destroy the planet or life as we know it

-why did they build it?

Wikipedia says it could help answer a bunch of really complicated high-end quantum physics issues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC#Research) that can't be solved without the use of a big-enough particle accelerator (like the LHC).



-what could possibly go wrong? -_-


The destruction of our planet. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Monochrome]

Well, I guess time will tell how big of a "human footprint" we end up leaving with this thing

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x34/mdown94/Earthwithnukeexplo.jpg

[ABDUR101]

Nothing significant lived within that blast area anyway.

[Zorafim]

On 2008-05-01 14:00, Monochrome wrote:
-what could possibly go wrong? -_-



Everything was fine until you said this.

[HUnewearl_Meira]

On 2008-05-01 11:49, Eihwaz wrote:
It could creative a tiny black hole that falls to the center of the earth and slowly absorbs the entire planet


More accurately, I think the center of the Earth falls to the tiny black hole. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

I wouldn't worry too much about this thing. While it could potentially possess the ability to spontaneously destroy the world instantaneously, the odds of this sort of catastrophic event are of Science-Fiction caliber.

Beyond that, supposing it does destroy the world, well, when it's all said and done, we won't care. Let's understand this properly: If something goes wrong, we won't be making the world uninhabitable. We'll be destroying it, entirely. There will be no survivors.

[Toadthroat]

Thats no fun. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[3---Hit---U]

Dude, we're gonna die sometime, this isn't gonna make it any more painful...

...I hope..

[CelestialBlade]

You're more likely to die in a car crash. Like, way more likely :P

As long as they don't divide by zero, everything will be just fine.

[ngagerebel]

who knows. we get sucked into a black hole and pop out into another dimension where monkeys rule and humans drool...

"YOU BLEW IT UP!!!!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!"

[Eihwaz]

On 2008-05-02 13:28, HUnewearl_Meira wrote:
Beyond that, supposing it does destroy the world, well, when it's all said and done, we won't care. Let's understand this properly: If something goes wrong, we won't be making the world uninhabitable. We'll be destroying it, entirely. There will be no survivors.


Yeah, if the world was going to be annihilated, I'd rather it be this way. I'll just be going about my business, then poof! I'm gone. Sorta like dying in your sleep? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Sekani]

Don't cross the streams.

[3---Hit---U]

There's been so many apocolypse claims, it's not funny anymore -.-

psst.. mayan calander ends in 2012 and we get hit be a comet. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[Toadthroat]

2012 isn't the end of the world, its the beggining of some new era, some GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT or someshit like that.

[Nitro Vordex]

2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends.

It's just that. When the damn calandar ends people.

[3---Hit---U]

On 2008-05-02 19:33, Nitro_Vordex wrote:
2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends.

It's just that. When the damn calandar ends people.



WTF.

Make a new calander

Crisis solved http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Nitro Vordex]

On 2008-05-02 20:02, 3---Hit---U wrote:

On 2008-05-02 19:33, Nitro_Vordex wrote:
2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends.

It's just that. When the damn calandar ends people.



WTF.

Make a new calander

Crisis solved http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif


^This man is smart.

[washuguy]

On 2008-05-02 20:02, 3---Hit---U wrote:

On 2008-05-02 19:33, Nitro_Vordex wrote:
2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends.

It's just that. When the damn calandar ends people.



WTF.

Make a new calander

Crisis solved http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

No shit right? I"m getting tired of this "End of the world bullshit"... LIVE YOUR LIFE! Don't worry about it. Unless God shows up tommorrow, or whatever happens, I plan to live until im 100. Finish school, get laid, make games, have kids to do ALL chores in the house, they have kids, then hopefully i earn the gift of eternal life... If I don't get it, this was the biggest gip ever.

[KodiaX987]

On 2008-05-02 15:30, Typheros wrote:
As long as they don't divide by zero, everything will be just fine.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v458/Shurikane/lhc.jpg

OH SHI-

[Zorafim]

As a quick note, the limit as x goes to zero of 1/x is infinity. Dividing by zero is as viable as multiplying by infinity.

That being said, he multiplied by infinity OH SHI-

[Umberger]

On 2008-05-04 12:12, Zorafim wrote:
As a quick note, the limit as x goes to zero of 1/x is infinity. Dividing by zero is as viable as multiplying by infinity.



If you've written that correctly, X will never reach zero, so you're never taking 1/0, just 1/0.000...1 until an infinitesimally small number. 1/said number would be very large, or for simplicity's case, infinity.

tl;dr - You're not dividing by zero.

[Zorafim]

This is correct. This is the same as using infinity as an actual number, we never actually use infinity. However, if you're familiar with manipulating infinity, then 1/0 is nothing special either.