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Zeke
09-11-2008, 03:10 AM
By now we've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider will kill us all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_the_Large_Hadron_Collider). Well, today it was switched on... and so far we're still here, but who knows if that'll change? The answer: you do, thanks to this convenient website.

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

There! Any time you need an update on whether the earth has been sucked into a miniature black hole, just check that page. I'm sure they update it frequently.

(Extra link: I'm not as fond of YouAreDumb.net as I used to be, but I loved Bryan's comment on the LHC lawsuit in the first half of this article (http://www.youaredumb.net/node/1054).)

Sa'ar Chasm
09-11-2008, 03:27 PM
We haven't flashed forward either. I want to know what life will be like 20-odd years from now, dammit.

mudshark
09-11-2008, 04:34 PM
By now we've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider will kill us all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_the_Large_Hadron_Collider). Well, today it was switched on... and so far we're still here, but who knows if that'll change? The answer: you do, thanks to this convenient website.

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

There! Any time you need an update on whether the earth has been sucked into a miniature black hole, just check that page. I'm sure they update it frequently.
There's also this one, just in case you really want to be sure about it:

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet. com/

(Extra link: I'm not as fond of YouAreDumb.net as I used to be, but I loved Bryan's comment on the LHC lawsuit in the first half of this article (http://www.youaredumb.net/node/1054).)
I had heard about the lawsuit some time ago, but this was amusing. Walter Wagner is an interesting case; he's actually got scientific credentials, of a sort, but the fact that his bio (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/1515.html) is found first on the Coast to Coast AM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_to_Coast_AM) website really tells the story.

Mmmm... fajitas. :P

Celeste
09-11-2008, 11:18 PM
Oh Zeke, thanks for giving me that website. Now I don't have to look outside to see if the Earth has been destroyed.

Zeke
09-12-2008, 01:41 AM
There's also this one, just in case you really want to be sure about it:

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet. com/

Hey, that one's actually functional! Neat. (You can see the if/then/else in the source code. By the way, the source of that first page also has fun stuff in it.)

Katy Jane
09-12-2008, 02:57 PM
<a href="http://punditkitchen.com/2008/09/12/political-pictures-large-hadron-collider-dead-yet/"><img class="mine_1978733" title="political-pictures-large-hadron-collider-dead-yet" src="http://punditkitchen.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/political-pictures-large-hadron-collider-dead-yet.jpg" alt="Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures" /></a>

mudshark
09-12-2008, 03:26 PM
And then there's the LHC webcam (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html).

Celeste
09-12-2008, 06:07 PM
And then there's the LHC webcam (http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html).

Aww man. For a second there before the earth was destroyed, I thought I'd had perfect timing to actualy get to witness one of the cool experiments starting.

Grayvorn
08-01-2009, 12:56 AM
That webcam link is pure genius.

I was still waking up when they switched on the LHC, so if the world had ended......I would have missed it! :(