So, with the possibility that we're all going to die on Wednesday morning when they switch the LHC on for a test-drive....
"What are people up to on Tuesday evening?"
On the off chance that we're not all going to die on Wednesday morning I've arrange a meeting (over a drink and a meal) on Wednesday night.
Also, anyone know what time this world-shattering event is supposed to be switched on? I'd hate to miss it :p
Also, anyone know what time this world-shattering event is supposed to be switched on? I'd hate to miss it :p
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The maximum energy the particles generated by the LHC get up to is a factor of a thousand below the maximum energy of cosmic rays that hit the Earth's upper atmosphere from space every fricking day. None of them have created black holes and gobbled up the planet, or turned us all into strange matter. Nor have they done ditto to any cosmic bodies we can see, such as planets or stars. Therefore the world ain't gonna end when they switch on the LHC. QED.
Meet-ups with fun themes are encouraged, but please, can we not be spreading the FUD and scaring people needlessly?
Of course we are not going to die... this time. We all KNOW that. But what you mistakenly think of as 'scaring people' is what we affectionatly call 'taking the piss'...
But one thing is certain. Your first statement is 100% inaccurate.
Every single one of us will die, and most of us will not know when or how, and statistically for some peopl this will be tomorrow. So stop going round spreading those innacurate rumours of immortality!
I just like the idea of a wild abandoned party :)
Plus people wkaing up the next day with half-remembered glimpses of what they got up to (or the person next to them) and beginning to realise that it may have been better if the world had just ended due to the explanations and awkardness they will now have to endure :p
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Chorus.
But since us folk ahead of time down in NZ probably have a good portion of Wednesday morning, I will also be going to work and spending my income (pay day). I might even have breakfast.
After that I'll have a drink and watch the world burn.
At least my figs will be safe!
;)
Nothing dramatic will happen at all unless you happen to be a physicist who gets excited by particles.
Everything getting sucked into a black hole would be rather nice actually - we wouldn't need to worry about the economy, war, elections, global warming- all those would be rather dramatically 'solved'.No such luck though- we shall all have to just suffer them. ;)
Tuesday evening I shall thus do what I do most Tuesday evenings-have a relaxed time at home with my wife, watch some tv, chat, cook and eat dinner, go to bed. Which is probably what I would do if I thought the world was going to end anyway.
Personally, tonight I shall be running CthulhuTech... seems somehow appropriate, especially as they will likely tonight be trying to stop a dimensional rift opening up in Cardiff 2085. Oh, and speaking of Cardiff there's the Torchwood radio play on Radio 4 (2:15pm) that surely won't be filled with a Dr Who version of LHC-style calamity, right?
Bravo!
Boinc do an LHC@home client, and I ahe been getting bit's and bobs of test data, from them.
We're 5 hours ahead of New Year (Eastern Seaboard) not behind it. The first switch should be taking place at 8.30am London time apparently. So I'll probably either be in the shower, waking up or waiting for a bus! Better get breakfast in before then. I'd hate to be sucked into oblivion on an empty tummy!
*starts stockpiling class As and party hats under desk*