Things Scientists do that make you crap your pants

veXual

Aren't they still trying to recreate the conditions of the big bang somewhere in Europe. Something to do with some 24 mile tunnel thing and colliding two atoms together at some ridiculous speed.

Read bout it a while ago haven't got a link

Pardon my simplified explanation but apparently a lot of European governments donate to it??

Sangre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN

bug

not reading MSDS sheets..

Adam

faceman wrote:

more worryingly...
About 12-18 months ago scientists in the states (sorry i cant find the old links) where working on recreating the conditions that caused the original big bang - in a labratory experiment.

However and thank God, they decided at the last minute (days before they were due to begin) to cancel the project as they didnt know whether the "new universe" they were about to create would continue to expand and engulf our universe! no joke.

Scary.

No amount of bruce willis flying spaceships into a meteor would stop that!! (altho it mite stop those annoying ads!!)

Hate to break it to ya faceman but someone was pulling your leg...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/physicists_bigbang_000209_wg.html

Donald-Duck

Nevermind,shouldve read all the posts

Civilian_Target

monkeyfudge wrote:

This bad boy is pretty scary.

ITER will run hotter than the sun and it's very close to home.

It's the third most expensive science project after the Manhattan Project and the International Space Station.

Pffft - good job no one told you that the Large Hadron Collider is opening next month!

PET scans are actually pretty scary - they sound nice and safe but PET stands for Positron Emission Topography, meaning they fire anti-matter into your brain, causing lots of small matter-antimatter exposions and use it to measure thickness, energy and fields within your skull!

Gone West

This thread is actually hi-larious.
Mostly a jumped up bunch of gombeens talking through their arses about sci-fi style physics.

Tar.Aldarion

Shh, let it flow.

CyberGhost

julep wrote:

Oh yeah, there's a boards user named "the scientist" who puts "T. Sc" at the end of all his posts. doesn't really make me crap my pants, but it does piss me off. hey, dude. see the left hand side of the screen? yeah, your user name is there. we can all fucking tell it's you.

lol

CyberGhost.

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Anyways, I don't know about physics and all that crap, and it really doesn't scare me, the scientists that scare are the ones that are deep underground in super secret goverment labs conducting all kinds of experiments on humans, brainwashing, cutting out organs just to examine, now THAT is scary! can you imagine being one of those unlucky human beings?

Jimoslimos

CyberGhost wrote:

the scientists that scare are the ones that are deep underground in super secret goverment labs conducting all kinds of experiments on humans, brainwashing, cutting out organs just to examine, now THAT is scary! can you imagine being one of those unlucky human beings?

Ahhh....we've been rumbled!

CyberGhost

Jimoslimos wrote:

Ahhh....we've been rumbled!

Yea, I just finished watching "Men Behind the Sun"

I've lost all faith in humanity

ScumLord

The black holes thing scares me, what if someone forgets to cary the 1. Or the supercomputer in charge runs on windows? The quicker we can get into space and do this type of research on other planets the better.

It doesn't really matter anyway if the end comes, as long as it's quick and looks cool.

kevmy

almost all of the above mentioned horrible/scary things done by scientists were hugely encouraged by politicians and governments. And most of the other stuff people just don't understand. The ITER for example the aim is to make a fusion reactor that gives out ten times more energy than put in thats pretty low amount of energy when you think about it. And it won't be running till 2050, if they get lucky.

As for the meteors well were overdue a big impact but a big impact won't destroy us just put us back a good few years and eliminate a lot of people. It'd be worse if Yellowstone erupted but hey what can ya do. You could get killed by a psycho tomorrow. Just be thankful we weren't around for the Permian extinction and some of the other "smaller" ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_events