It's The End of he World As We Know It...

It's The End of he World As We Know It...

: palmer_kun wrote in metaquotes; September 9th, 2008

seanan_mcguire is concerned about the Large Hadron Collider firing tonight.

So if tomorrow we're all reduced to component atoms, stardust, and the sound of voices screaming "I told you so!" into the voice, well...

I regret nothing.

amberley succeeds in reassuring her

If it's more entertaining, imagine it's a Large Hadrosaur Collider, in which dinosaurs are jammed together to see what new fabulous beasts emerge.

seanan_mcguire: ...that is more entertaining. GIMME.

Context isn't the only one concerned.

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vaspider

2008-09-10 03:25 am (UTC)

As lovely as this exchange is, you need to bring ALL of your context down to 100 characters or less.

palmer_kun

2008-09-10 03:35 am (UTC)

Pooey! *edits*

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crazycorgilady

2008-09-10 03:28 am (UTC)

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

This should make anyone feeling worried a bit safer...

palmer_kun

2008-09-10 03:35 am (UTC)

'twas linked to in my post :)

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revelininsanity

2008-09-10 03:31 am (UTC)

They were going to fire that thing up in August and we're not dead yet. I'm wagering we aren't going to be dead yet again by tomorrow and the next time they fire it.

Besides, I still haven't learned Cree yet. No dying until I can at least say, "Made of awesome!" in Cree.

3771

2008-09-10 03:39 am (UTC)

if i don't exist tomorrow, i'd just like to say... ~~and nothing of value was lost~~ ~~i wish i'd been a girly~~ ~~frankly, my dear, i don't give a damn~~ ~~fuck the police~~ ~~this is the last of earth~~ ~~i am ready~~ ~~such is life~~ ~~goodnight, my darlings, i'll see you tomorrow~~ shit.

dimloep_suum

2008-09-10 04:48 pm (UTC)

And so it goes.

lazdixi

2008-09-10 03:44 am (UTC)

If the LHC destroys the world before I make it to Boston tomorrow, I am going to be SO PISSED.

chocoholicbec

2008-09-10 04:42 am (UTC)

I'm just shitted off that it's being turned on five days before my birthday. Dammit, if I'm going to be deaded, I want to be seventeen first!

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beoweasel

2008-09-10 03:47 am (UTC)

We have nothing to worry about, Gordon Freeman is on the staff, so everything will be okay!

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palmer_kun

2008-09-10 03:50 am (UTC)

We know that. But that doesn't make for teh lulz!

Edited at 2008-09-10 03:50 am (UTC)

magedragonfire

2008-09-10 04:00 am (UTC)

When's the time of firing for that again?

I need to get a last big shebang going up on campus.

palmer_kun

2008-09-10 04:07 am (UTC)

Roughly 11pm tonight, I think. It's in Geneva time, so it's like 11pm tonight.

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leeshajoy

2008-09-10 04:15 am (UTC)

camwyn's response on AIM: "but... but we already have the Large Hadrosaur Collider. It's called Spore."

pandoras_closet

2008-09-10 06:38 am (UTC)

Camwyn is, as always, full of win

thepikey

2008-09-10 04:58 am (UTC)

Or you could call it the Large Hardon Collider, and make with the yaoi.

Really, this is lj. I *can't* be the first person to have thought of this, can I?

palmer_kun

2008-09-10 05:03 am (UTC)

Part of me wants to meta-meta this...

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tzikeh

2008-09-10 04:59 am (UTC)

At least I won't have to live through eight more weeks of political bullshit.

ETA: So if tomorrow we're all reduced to component atoms, stardust, and the sound of voices screaming "I told you so!" into the voice, well...

Everything happens for a reason.

Edited at 2008-09-10 05:00 am (UTC)

baruchan

2008-09-10 06:38 am (UTC)

Aaaaaaaand, we have a winner!

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shaysdays

2008-09-10 05:00 am (UTC)

BTW- according to a friend of mine at geekradiodaily- they're filming an audio Torchwood episode at the fire-up.

SO FANDOM IS AT RISK!

the_dark_side

2008-09-10 07:17 am (UTC)

Nooooooooo!

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elvenpiratelady

2008-09-10 06:21 am (UTC)

But is it only dinosaurs? We could make owlbears and kittensharks for real!

ornithoptercat

2008-09-10 06:48 am (UTC)

Apparently they're just firing it up right now. Actually creating tiny black holes doesn't happen for a while yet. We get to worry again when it does.

polkadotsnplaid

2008-09-10 07:31 am (UTC)

Woo.

*points* I see you.

the_dark_side

2008-09-10 07:02 am (UTC)

OMG...I love that website.

rohaa

2008-09-10 07:41 am (UTC)

Waahahaha. That last link is win.

Also? DINOSAURS! xD

looking_spiffy

2008-09-10 09:54 am (UTC)

If the world does end and as we're disappearing into Switzerland, if the last words spoken by humanity, the very last spark of proof that we existed in the universe, are 'you just lost the gaaaaaaame'...I'd cut a bitch, but being reduced to my component parts in the jaws of infinity will undoubtedly make this difficult.

Perhaps this is the TRUE consequence of losing the game.

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pyewackets_paws

2008-09-10 11:23 am (UTC)

Huh. The world's still here? Damn it! And I totally skipped my homework too!

poisonedtears

2008-09-10 01:03 pm (UTC)

I had no idea this was even taking place until around 8:30 last night when my BF shows up randomly at my apartment (he lives 35 miles away and we both have morning classes). I give him my "WTF is going on?" look and he says, "I've been having panic attacks all day."
"...Whhhyyyy...?"
Then he explained about the recreation of the Big Bang and his panic-inducing fear of the world coming to an end via the experiment.
Cue my panic rising. But I have to comfort him. Then my brain switches to, Dammit, do I still have to finish that paper that's due tomorrow? Logic tells me yes. Panic says hell no... I'll finish it in the morning -- IF THERE IS ONE! Right now? Cuddles time.

gonadsandstrife

2008-09-10 01:52 pm (UTC)

Leave it to /b/ to get things right:

Some say that the Large Hadron Collider will spell the end of the world. Heres my theory on how this will happen.

The LHC, which actually stands for Large Hardon Collider, will propell two large hardons towards each other at faster-than-light speeds. The result of this is that for a fraction of a second, the balls will touch but time won't have caught up and thus even though the balls are touching, it won't be gay.

The end result of this is a paradox; balls touching whilst not being gay. This will cause the immediate area to go up in a fiery conflagration that will make the Tsar Bomba H-bomb test look like a firecracker!