An experiment which could destroy the Earth

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Because the end of the world is HILARIOUS. Make tragedy more tragic, and it becomes comedy. If the experiement stood the chance of, say, merely making the whole area in a ten-mile radius uninhabitable, that wouldn't be funny at all. But reducing the entire earth to a hot cloud of strangelets, that's definitely funny. Besides, did you really read the phrase "hot cloud of strangelets" without at least smiling? Honestly?
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Cool, 1:50000000, we must take chances in life.
If things go wrong, will Basel be affected before, say, Jupiter?
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"Hot cloud of strangelets". That is definitely on the list for my future usage. :thumbsup:
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Ro3b wrote:Because the end of the world is HILARIOUS. Make tragedy more tragic, and it becomes comedy. If the experiement stood the chance of, say, merely making the whole area in a ten-mile radius uninhabitable, that wouldn't be funny at all. But reducing the entire earth to a hot cloud of strangelets, that's definitely funny. Besides, did you really read the phrase "hot cloud of strangelets" without at least smiling? Honestly?
I do not think it's funny.

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I agree. I mean, just think about it. he he. Oops. I didn't mean that. It's really not funny.
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DJM, think this is more probable, or less so, than the Leafs winning the Stanley?
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'Tis Spring, and the links, the links are a-callin' .......:roll:

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i have found my thread. you are my people. i wanna see something large, very large, fall from the sky. i'm talking huge, bigger than a skyscraper. i wanna watch it so that it starts out as a dot in the sky and gets bigger and bigger. in version 1, i wanna see that thing fall in a dessert. in version 2, i wanna see that thing fall in a body of water. in version 3, i want the object to be flat, like a piece of square of metal that sways back and forth as it falls, and i wanna see it sway into a very large tree or electrical tower.

i thought maybe that artist who put up the pink umbrellas and put the material around the islands could do this for me.
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mutepointe wrote:i wanna see that thing fall in a dessert.
Well, ok, but as long as it's not MY dessert, thankyouverymuch.
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Lambchop wrote:
mutepointe wrote:i wanna see that thing fall in a dessert.
Well, ok, but as long as it's not MY dessert, thankyouverymuch.
mutantpointe can have mine... :D
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Cranberry wrote:Why don't people take this seriously?
They do. They just don't want you to know it...
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Should it happen, we'll just continue on in another ficton, probably the one that has Kentucky Fried Duck.

KFD. Is it really....duck?!? :boggle: :twisted:

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And now for time travel...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/399513.stm

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Every time they go to a higher energy, there is the minute possibility they will cause some sort of havoc on the local space-time. I would be more concerned about experiments to explore hyperspace; http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?p=652812. We might find where all the dark matter is hiding and get inundated, or open a portal into Hell, or something.

As far as time cops, things on the time line are rather stable right now, so don’t expect any trouble soon.
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Rod Sprague wrote:...We might find where all the dark matter is hiding and get inundated, or open a portal into Hell, or something....
Meh, it's all been done...<yawn> :P
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