im only 16 and i still have my whole life ahead of me... i dont want it to end now
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my friend told me about this and its been on the news and aparently its a 50/50 percent chance that the world will end tonight at 3:30, if these 3 beam things line up tonight its going to form a mini black hole on the earth and eat the whole earth and kill us all.... im scared right now and i dont wanna die im only 16 and i still have my whole life ahead of me... i dont want it to end now
im only 16 and i still have my whole life ahead of me... i dont want it to end now
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im scared
What timezone? I'm so staying up tonight.
Wait, you're seriously scared?
Wait, you're seriously scared?
You believe in out of body experiences... keep crying.
im not crying im just worried
Also are you talking about the Large Hadron Collider?
Not that it matters, but you will be fine.
you and your friend's are idiots for believing in this shit.
ok well can somone explain to me that this wont happen and that this is all just bull
It'll definitely happen.
Just like the thousands of other end-of-the-world predictions people have made over the past 2000 years.
Just like the thousands of other end-of-the-world predictions people have made over the past 2000 years.
Common misconception actually. The world will end when I say it does, not a second before then. I predict it will end when pigs fly out of my asshole and give me pure gold Ferraris with interior made out of money.
In layman's terms, FUCKING NEVER.
In layman's terms, FUCKING NEVER.
i feel better now 
*hugs everyone*
*hugs everyone*
QUOTE (Siberus @ Sep 9 2008, 10:57 PM) 
i feel better now *hugs everyone*
*hugs everyone*Here this'll get rid of that euphoric feeling, and bring you back to reality:
Exit Mundi, a collection of end of the world scenarios. <--- Link
Among my favorites are the ones that make you feel small, insignificant, and hopeless in the face of infinity.
This is the best case scenario we can hope for, and it's pretty grim.. <--- Link
The world will end and humans will become extinct eventually... that's a 100% guarantee.
I know, I'm a heartless prick.
*EDIT*
Fixed the link so it correctly directs you to the right scenario.
Scientists did tested the first nuke/atom bomb not knowing if would set the atmosphere alight or not.
hehe, something like a fireball of energy?? that's specific.
In all honesty I think we will be fine, we should probably be worried about all the secret black project stuff going in secret facilities that we don't know anything about.
hehe, something like a fireball of energy?? that's specific.
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On Wednesday, scientists will make their first test run, sending a laser beam around the tunnel that will mark the path of the particles. In late October, they'll start sending clouds of particles on a collision course at the speed of light.
"Two protons will collide, and the quarks inside the protons will collide with each other," said Orr. "There will be something like a fireball of energy, and this will make new particles -- things like Higgs bosons."
Scientists believe the Higgs boson particle may be responsible for giving mass to everything in the universe. But it's never actually been discovered and remains a theory.
"Two protons will collide, and the quarks inside the protons will collide with each other," said Orr. "There will be something like a fireball of energy, and this will make new particles -- things like Higgs bosons."
Scientists believe the Higgs boson particle may be responsible for giving mass to everything in the universe. But it's never actually been discovered and remains a theory.
In all honesty I think we will be fine, we should probably be worried about all the secret black project stuff going in secret facilities that we don't know anything about.
Whoever told you there's a 50% chance is an idiot.
If they ran it for around 50,000 years then yes there would be a 50% chance it may happen in that time period.
If they ran it for around 50,000 years then yes there would be a 50% chance it may happen in that time period.
hehe lol.
Someone just send me this on googletalk.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uctj7JAwghA&...feature=related
Interesting. Though I don't believe it myself.
Someone just send me this on googletalk.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uctj7JAwghA&...feature=related
Interesting. Though I don't believe it myself.
Even if it did create a black-hole, you would never know it anyway because you, and everybody else on the planet would be dead before anybody realized it.
On the bright side, that would put a huge damper on George Bush's plans with war on Iran.
On the bright side, that would put a huge damper on George Bush's plans with war on Iran.
Always wanted to visit the South Pole? Well, here's the good news: soon, the South Pole could visit you. It's Thursday the 9th of September 2040, and we're in for a big surprise.
Thursday 9/11/2040 has inspired a broad range of researchers and publicists to preach doom and destruction. And no wonder. In the early morning hours of this particular Thursday, a rare cosmological event will take place. All visible planets -- Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus -- will align with both the Sun and the Moon. They will be in an exact row.
You won't be able to see much of it, since the brightness of the Sun will make the view on everything else impossible. But according to the doomsayers, we will definitely notice something. Just picture this: there's SEVEN huge objects in the sky, tugging at our tiny planet with their combined gravities. This will cause the Earth's axis to tilt, moving Middle Africa to the North Pole and the icy Antarctic to the equator.
OMG this sounds horrible, omg omg omg
Thursday 9/11/2040 has inspired a broad range of researchers and publicists to preach doom and destruction. And no wonder. In the early morning hours of this particular Thursday, a rare cosmological event will take place. All visible planets -- Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus -- will align with both the Sun and the Moon. They will be in an exact row.
You won't be able to see much of it, since the brightness of the Sun will make the view on everything else impossible. But according to the doomsayers, we will definitely notice something. Just picture this: there's SEVEN huge objects in the sky, tugging at our tiny planet with their combined gravities. This will cause the Earth's axis to tilt, moving Middle Africa to the North Pole and the icy Antarctic to the equator.
OMG this sounds horrible, omg omg omg
At least it'll snow if I'm still in this god forsaken state in 2040.
you dont think that will happen?
You just need to take a breather child. I'd like a sauce on that article please. Chances are, it's complete balls and nothing will happen JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER THEORY. >:<
Or how about Yellowstone Caldera? That sucker has been overdue to erupt for 40,000 years. One of the worlds most powerful super-volcanoes, it could easily put the human race on the brink of extinction. In fact, another super-volcano nearly did 74,000 years ago with the super-volcano of Toba, Sumatra.
The scary part? The whole of Yellowstone national park has risen a significant amount since the early 1900's meaning the pressure underground is building rapidly. The explosion would be so big, that everything in a 500 mile radius would be instantly vaporized. The entire United States would be covered in pumice stone and ash (Elanzer would celebrate) and the Earth would be thrown into global nuclear winter because of the Ash in the upper stratosphere.
More on Super Volcanoes <-- Link
Then you mean to tell me, that just because your friends told you so, you're worried about some little black hole in Geneva, when literally at any given moment at any given time during human history we could have instantly been wiped off the face of existence by any number of catastrophic events? I'll let you in on a little secret: Whenever somebody cites the book of revelations or prophecies as part of their "proof" that the world is going to end, just remember that there have literally been thousands of other similar predictions throughout history, and guess what, we're still here.
That either means one of two things: One, each time an end of the world scenario happens, we split off into an alternate reality where said event never happens and we go about our lives none the wiser while in the other alternate reality we're much less fortunate... since that means there's a 50/50 chance for any given even happening, we've been pretty lucky so far flipping the coin over and over and over again.
Two, each one of those predictions was utter bullshit.
Apply Occam's razor, and voila! You have your answer. (Hint: It's two)
The scary part? The whole of Yellowstone national park has risen a significant amount since the early 1900's meaning the pressure underground is building rapidly. The explosion would be so big, that everything in a 500 mile radius would be instantly vaporized. The entire United States would be covered in pumice stone and ash (Elanzer would celebrate) and the Earth would be thrown into global nuclear winter because of the Ash in the upper stratosphere.
More on Super Volcanoes <-- Link
Then you mean to tell me, that just because your friends told you so, you're worried about some little black hole in Geneva, when literally at any given moment at any given time during human history we could have instantly been wiped off the face of existence by any number of catastrophic events? I'll let you in on a little secret: Whenever somebody cites the book of revelations or prophecies as part of their "proof" that the world is going to end, just remember that there have literally been thousands of other similar predictions throughout history, and guess what, we're still here.
That either means one of two things: One, each time an end of the world scenario happens, we split off into an alternate reality where said event never happens and we go about our lives none the wiser while in the other alternate reality we're much less fortunate... since that means there's a 50/50 chance for any given even happening, we've been pretty lucky so far flipping the coin over and over and over again.
Two, each one of those predictions was utter bullshit.
Apply Occam's razor, and voila! You have your answer. (Hint: It's two)
QUOTE (The_Sorrow @ Sep 10 2008, 02:41 AM)
Common misconception actually. The world will end when I say it does, not a second before
It ends when fucking Chuck Norris says it fucking ends!
But yeah, Siberus, I wouldnt worry about this. If there was an actual 50/50% of the world being destroyed, I doubt they would even build it.
There are only a few scientists who has claimed that this will happen, and they are only backed up by people, with no background in science whatsoever, from around the world (Random gullible people).
If it actually does happen, well...... "shit happens". Our destruction is inevitable. One way or the other.
I'd prefer going out quick without even noticing what has happened, rather than living my life, noticing the worlds resources slowly but surely being spent,
main nations going to war, and global warming taking its final toll.
Edit: Its currently up and running, and the only thing affected by it so far is the google logo. Go check it out.
heeeey im alive.
gg
gg
QUOTE (Siberus @ Sep 10 2008, 05:42 AM)
you dont think that will happen?
It's bullshit, various other large alignments have occurred in our lifetimes it's done absolutely nothing. They're too far away from eachother for any major combined pull, and even then their combined strength would be fairly insignificant compared to that of the Sun.
And then, even if it did happen and we died out plenty of other life would remain and take our place as it always has. Take any land mass on a planet, Britain for example is a bunch of fields right now, before that it was a giant forest, before that it was a swampy jungle, before that it was an ice field, before that it was a desert, before that it was a jungle again, before that it was a forest teeming with giant lizards. Earth is a lot hardier than climatechangefags seem to think, it will always right itself from any ecological changes or disasters in the long run as long as something survives.
In other news:
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Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The first - clockwise - beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. The second - anti-clockwise - beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 BST. Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but these are expected to happen before the machine shuts down for winter.
"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap. There were cheers in the control room when engineers heard of the successful test.
He added later: "We had a very good start-up."
The collider is operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research - better known by its French acronym Cern. The vast circular tunnel - the "ring" - which runs under the French-Swiss border contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end. The magnets are there to steer the beam - made up of particles called protons - around this 27km-long ring.
Eventually, two proton beams will be steered in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second. At allotted points around the tunnel, the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events.
Scientists are hoping that new sub-atomic particles will emerge, revealing fundamental insights into the nature of the cosmos.
The first - clockwise - beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. The second - anti-clockwise - beam successfully circled the ring after 1400 BST. Cern has not yet announced when it plans to carry out the first collisions, but these are expected to happen before the machine shuts down for winter.
"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap. There were cheers in the control room when engineers heard of the successful test.
He added later: "We had a very good start-up."
The collider is operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research - better known by its French acronym Cern. The vast circular tunnel - the "ring" - which runs under the French-Swiss border contains more than 1,000 cylindrical magnets arranged end-to-end. The magnets are there to steer the beam - made up of particles called protons - around this 27km-long ring.
Eventually, two proton beams will be steered in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second. At allotted points around the tunnel, the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events.
Scientists are hoping that new sub-atomic particles will emerge, revealing fundamental insights into the nature of the cosmos.
If it all goes tits up, opens portals and we get fucking headcrabs and combine and bullsquids roaming about the streets
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AWSUM. I R GORDON FREEMANZ.
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Hahaha. Guys, my physics/astronomy teacher explained all of this. Whoever told you there's a 50/50 chance of the world ending really is a total fool. Scientists would never carry through with something like that if it was a veritable fact.
Here's exactly what's going on:
Cern has recently finished a massive upgrade to this thing and it's the first time they're testing it since the upgrade. What it is, is a particle accelerator. What they're doing is basically filling one massive circular tube with Protons and another with Anti-protons, then they're going to send the Protons and Anti-protons spinning in opposite directions at roughly the speed of light (just a little less... never the less it's VERY CLOSE). Eventually once the speed they want is achieved and everything else is set, they're going to have the two beams slam into each other which at such a high speed (especially relative to each other) is going to create amounts of energy that have not been seen since the Big Bang. By doing so they hope to learn a bit more about exactly what conditions were like when the universe began.
Recently a few professors from I don't know where in America decided that such massive amounts of energy might form a black hole, which would suck up the earth and blah, blah, blah. Nobody really cares about what they think, because black holes form all the time and then simply evaporate due to something called Hawking Radiation (named after Stephen Hawking) which is exactly what would happen in this case if they were to form.
What others are a little more worried about are these things called "Strangelets" (forgive me if the spelling is wrong). I'm going to be honest and say that I don't know very much about them so I won't go on. The only thing I know is that we've never seen these things before and it's getting a few people worried because they think they might form and make something terrible happen.
The moral of the story is that the thing has been running for years, just not with such efficiency. Black holes are not an issue right now, and if there really was so much to worry about I'm sure there is no way Cern would be able to go through with the experiment. So relax and have faith that you'll be here tomorrow.
Here's exactly what's going on:
Cern has recently finished a massive upgrade to this thing and it's the first time they're testing it since the upgrade. What it is, is a particle accelerator. What they're doing is basically filling one massive circular tube with Protons and another with Anti-protons, then they're going to send the Protons and Anti-protons spinning in opposite directions at roughly the speed of light (just a little less... never the less it's VERY CLOSE). Eventually once the speed they want is achieved and everything else is set, they're going to have the two beams slam into each other which at such a high speed (especially relative to each other) is going to create amounts of energy that have not been seen since the Big Bang. By doing so they hope to learn a bit more about exactly what conditions were like when the universe began.
Recently a few professors from I don't know where in America decided that such massive amounts of energy might form a black hole, which would suck up the earth and blah, blah, blah. Nobody really cares about what they think, because black holes form all the time and then simply evaporate due to something called Hawking Radiation (named after Stephen Hawking) which is exactly what would happen in this case if they were to form.
What others are a little more worried about are these things called "Strangelets" (forgive me if the spelling is wrong). I'm going to be honest and say that I don't know very much about them so I won't go on. The only thing I know is that we've never seen these things before and it's getting a few people worried because they think they might form and make something terrible happen.
The moral of the story is that the thing has been running for years, just not with such efficiency. Black holes are not an issue right now, and if there really was so much to worry about I'm sure there is no way Cern would be able to go through with the experiment. So relax and have faith that you'll be here tomorrow.
ok, i am a physics nerd as downloaded and kingtut can testify. the LHC will not kill us (till now they just sent a beam around, in october they start crashing shit, and in january they start crashing shit at full speed) because cosmic rays have been hitting us with more energy for the last 4.5 billion years. the idea of a world end is a black hole, that would destroy our entire solar system eventualy. actually there will be black holes but they will immediately evaporate via hawking radiation (tunneling out of the black hole by some photons due to the laws of quantum physics) and through the radiation physicists will learn shit about them. an advantage to it we will see soon is the grid, a new form of internet based on fiber optic cables, it is curently being used to link physicists to the LHC and it's main suprcomputer. there i a program you can download to donate some of your computer's processing power to the LHC project, in that way, thy have the processing power of a supercomputer spread out over the world. but the grid is not publicly available for a while, whe it will be, imagine gigabytes of bandwidth (notice the s at the end of that). People always ask 'what is the point of it' and i remind them that nobody knew the point of quantum physics at the beggining, but now it gave us computers, lasers, it gave biologists a way of looking at dna an rna, it gave chemists a foundation on which all of chemistry is based, it gave us nuclear energy. in short, without it we wouldn't have so much stuff that we do. Nobody saw that coming.
QUOTE (Downloaded @ Sep 10 2008, 05:34 PM)
What others are a little more worried about are these things called "Strangelets" (forgive me if the spelling is wrong). I'm going to be honest and say that I don't know very much about them so I won't go on. The only thing I know is that we've never seen these things before and it's getting a few people worried because they think they might form and make something terrible happen.
strangelets are baryonic matter (like neutrons and protons) that is theorised to be more stable than neutrons and protons. it is thought that having them crash into normal hadrons (heavy baryonic matter as opposed to mesons, hadrons are made of 3 quarks while mesons are made of a quark and an antiquark) will instantly catalyse the ractio from regular to strange matter. the thing is, strangelets are positively charged, so if they are made, they will be repelled by our regular hadrons (there are never free neutrons, they always decompose via a W- into an electron and an antineutrino) and will not make a reaction. current theories say that a strange matter reaction would e similar to the dr. device in ender's game.
Fucking spanish.
I dont think the world isnt gonna end tonight. But this week i was at a pub and wuz reading a random newspapers and there was an hugeeeeee article about the end of the world in december 2012. Cuz the Maya's calendre end on 21 december 2012. I toke that page and read it at home again. And it kinda freaky article. Maybe some of you guys have heard already of that.
Its kinda freaky cuz isnt it suspected that the last time the world has been attacked by hurricanes, tsunami's, waterdisasters etc.. All in all i think nature will let us over to our destiny. And we cant defeat the power of nature. Actually im not really scared or something, imo im like ; what could happens? even IF the world would die, we cant do anything about it, so why would we dodge it? I just stay realistic.
But my most doubts go to the theory that nothing will happen. Every year they say the world is gonna end; like the milleniumthing.
You guys should give it a shot.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&q=d...2C+2012&lr=
Its kinda freaky cuz isnt it suspected that the last time the world has been attacked by hurricanes, tsunami's, waterdisasters etc.. All in all i think nature will let us over to our destiny. And we cant defeat the power of nature. Actually im not really scared or something, imo im like ; what could happens? even IF the world would die, we cant do anything about it, so why would we dodge it? I just stay realistic.
But my most doubts go to the theory that nothing will happen. Every year they say the world is gonna end; like the milleniumthing.
You guys should give it a shot.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&q=d...2C+2012&lr=
i always thought the LHC should have opened in 2012, for the lulz of seeing all those doomsayers weep...
anyway, if people keep believing the 2012 shit, we will probably have lots of economic problems around christmas 2012, if people do the smart thing and not take it seriously, then we will be fine. also, whatever happened to the maya in the end? unlike the aztecs, they just dissappeared without a trace...
anyway, if people keep believing the 2012 shit, we will probably have lots of economic problems around christmas 2012, if people do the smart thing and not take it seriously, then we will be fine. also, whatever happened to the maya in the end? unlike the aztecs, they just dissappeared without a trace...
In the article stand that there will be a sun storm cuz the magnetic field in the core of the earth will reverse; and there you got a sunstorm that will destroy anything
If anything terrible happens in 2012 it'll be this:
from the site:
atlantis...
the atlantean numbers for 10 and 1000 and words for east and west were similar, atlantis was actually a small island in the mediterranean (100 times smaller and closer than expected and in the wrong direction and much newer than previously thought) that was destroyed by a volcano that could have easily caused events similar to 6 of the seven plagues in ancient egypt. aristotle got his facts wrong, and so did the mayan leaders. this means that, having their facts wrong about one thing... how can w trust them about other stuff?
http://www.december212012.com/articles/mayan/9.htm
so full of shit, it's unbelievable.
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A physical pole shift is what destroyed Atlantis 13,000 years ago
atlantis...
the atlantean numbers for 10 and 1000 and words for east and west were similar, atlantis was actually a small island in the mediterranean (100 times smaller and closer than expected and in the wrong direction and much newer than previously thought) that was destroyed by a volcano that could have easily caused events similar to 6 of the seven plagues in ancient egypt. aristotle got his facts wrong, and so did the mayan leaders. this means that, having their facts wrong about one thing... how can w trust them about other stuff?
http://www.december212012.com/articles/mayan/9.htm
so full of shit, it's unbelievable.
Well I thought of it in another way. But I maybe wrong. If there really was such a big potential risk of everything being destroyed . . Wouldn't the other nations\countries do ANYTHING about it ? Would they just stand by in idle hands and watch some scientist destroy the planet, not to mention the whole solar system and everything we know or don't know ? I heard the guy leading the project is like 80 years old.
Also, there's some guy who sued them for attempting the experiment and it is said that he is draggin' them in court laws.
I, personally do not believe the world is going to end due to that experiment. But I do believe, one way or another, we are going to die. Doesn't matter when, it could be tomorrow for all we know. People are always trying to learn more about the universe, but in the end all this leads to is: the distruction of our home planet, and we die stupid in the end. I wouldn't pay that price. Humanity has gone too far. There's always gonna be much more to learn, many other things to improve further on, to discover . . etc etc . . I'd rather stop here. Isn't it enough ? All we already know ? I'm not going to be one of those freaks who preserve water and electricity . . but ain't gonna ruin the whole planet intentionally just to find out more about physics, either.
Also, there's some guy who sued them for attempting the experiment and it is said that he is draggin' them in court laws.
I, personally do not believe the world is going to end due to that experiment. But I do believe, one way or another, we are going to die. Doesn't matter when, it could be tomorrow for all we know. People are always trying to learn more about the universe, but in the end all this leads to is: the distruction of our home planet, and we die stupid in the end. I wouldn't pay that price. Humanity has gone too far. There's always gonna be much more to learn, many other things to improve further on, to discover . . etc etc . . I'd rather stop here. Isn't it enough ? All we already know ? I'm not going to be one of those freaks who preserve water and electricity . . but ain't gonna ruin the whole planet intentionally just to find out more about physics, either.
har har
QUOTE (Scud.NOR @ Sep 11 2008, 05:55 AM)
lol fakes, got me there though for a minute. =D
hehe, I sent it to someone I know while we were using a mic on GTALK, panicked like mad, "Oh fuck were all dead...." priceless haha.
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