The End is nigh!!!

Mint Sauce · 10-09-2008 9:22am

mmm, aparently one beam has aleady been sent around it, fun starts when two are sent around

10-09-2008 9:25am

the tefalheads got their sums right, now the fun begins!

Dave! · 10-09-2008 9:26am

They've completed one revolution

Now they'll try to get around in one go...

Sherifu · 10-09-2008 9:26am

When do we all blow up? :mega-extreme-rolleyes:

Setun · 10-09-2008 9:26am

One beam just went the full way round. Hurrah!

They're announcing some little surprises apparently. :eek: Time travel?? :pac:

10-09-2008 9:27am

Daddio wrote: »

One beam just went the full way round. Hurrah!

They're announcing some little surprises apparently. :eek: Time travel?? :pac:

that was last week.

slipss · 10-09-2008 9:29am

Theres no point in any of ye's hanging around waiting for anything at all to happen, it's designed to be a slow burner, no collisions untill about a month in (so ye have all of september to enjoy before cracking open each others heads to feast on the goo inside) and it won't be up to top performance for a couple of years.

is_that_so · 10-09-2008 9:29am

20 kph average speed on that run. So world not ending just yet.

Heisenberg. · 10-09-2008 9:35am

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Sully · 10-09-2008 9:35am

Does anyone know does the black hole have wireless?

DaBreno · 10-09-2008 9:36am

is_that_so wrote: »

Live stream on RTE website.

Fantastic. Imagine if it went horribly wrong Half-Life style and a race of Lovecraft-esque
conquerors emerge from the inter-dimensional rift live on Rte.

That would *Almost* make the TV licence fee seem like good value.

Burning Eclipse · 10-09-2008 9:37am

Is it so wrong to wish this could be Black Mesa II....

10-09-2008 9:41am

Sully wrote: »

Does anyone know does the black hole have wireless?

Yes! it just has a slow response time. :pac:

javaboy · 10-09-2008 9:51am

The Scientist wrote: »

I just realised that i was waiting for the live stream of a particle physics experiment to buffer.

I have sunk to a new low in Nerdiness.

You might already be a nerd judging by your username

but they have done an amazing job publicity wise on the LHC haven't they? I mean how many scientific experiments will get the kind of audiences this will? The lawsuits about destroying the Earth only helped get more press coverage.

Even my own mother has heard of it and she thinks Dev is still Taoiseach!

Burning Eclipse · 10-09-2008 10:02am

modsgoodonjob? wrote: »

wtf??? i hope none of you tool thought this was true...god get a life you freaks

I love the smell of stupidity in the morning...

Dave! · 10-09-2008 10:06am

There's some sexy b*tch being interviewed now.......

monkeyfudge · 10-09-2008 10:06am

She's not bad looking...

EDIT: Dave beat me to it...

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2008 10:08am

Sully wrote: »

Does anyone know does the black hole have wireless?

They're gonna tell you it does. But then after spending 2 hours on the phone to Black Hole Tech Support you'll find out that it was all just a LIE!!!!!

10-09-2008 10:09am

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

They're gonna tell you it does. But then after spending 2 hours on the phone to Black Hole Tech Support you'll find out that it was all just a LIE!!!!!

But most tech support calls already go there..

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2008 10:26am

Deleted User wrote: »

But most tech support calls already go there..

True...and I'm proud to say I'm one of those annoying dickheads that work there

10-09-2008 10:27am

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

True...and I'm proud to say I'm one of those annoying dickheads that work there

I work in a similar line myself.

10-09-2008 10:52am

So what happened?

chin_grin · 10-09-2008 10:53am

Deleted User wrote: »

So what happened?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/lhc_day_is_not_today/

^ this.

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2008 10:56am

following an initial hiccup which appeared to be fixed by the traditional expedient of turning it off then on again

€5 billion worth of technology fixed by switching it off/on...that is just fantastic!!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 10-09-2008 10:57am

We got up, scratched our balls, looked outside at the Independece Day style devistation, logged onto boards.ie, scratched balls again.

10-09-2008 11:00am

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

€5 billion worth of technology fixed by switching it off/on...that is just fantastic!!!

Tec-support: resolution list

1, switch it off then on again....

I was on an Intercity train going from Birmingham to Euston when they did just that, the train stopped and the announcement was "we have just reset the train's computer"

Turd Ferguson · 10-09-2008 11:04am

Tech support: resolution list

2: Repeat step 1 a few more times while banging on the sides of the machine...my personal favourite!

Captain Darling · 10-09-2008 11:08am

/pinches arm, farts. looks out window.

I must be in hell.... still fcukin raining.

/gets back into bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

AtomicHorror · 10-09-2008 11:27am

I won't get up at 7.30am for my PhD work so the end of the world never stood a chance. I hear we got a full circuit with the proton beam and a one way collision detection. Which is nice.

If Switzerland vanishes off the face of the Earth how quickly can I expect Google maps to update?

10-09-2008 11:40am

AtomicHorror wrote: »

If Switzerland vanishes off the face of the Earth how quickly can I expect Google maps to update?

Just cut-n-paste this in it's place!

Naos · 10-09-2008 11:47am

Well it's official. We are fcuked

Sigh...

Canis_major · 10-09-2008 11:56am

No! if Freeman's here then at least we have a chance

Galvasean · 10-09-2008 12:54pm

Naos wrote: »

Well it's official. We are fcuked

Sigh...

So what if he ends up in another dimension. We'll be fine.

thelordofcheese · 10-09-2008 1:03pm

Canis_major wrote: »

No! if Freeman's here then at least we have a chance

Rise and shine, Mister Freeman, rise and... shine

eddiehead · 10-09-2008 1:19pm

Naos wrote: »

Sigh...

I like that pic...

Scientistguy1: So how safe is thing?

Scientistguy2: Absolutely foolproof, why do you ask?

Scientistguy1: Well a lot of people around the world are concerned that it may well create an unstoppable black hole which could completely consume the planet in a matter of seconds...... we really should be seen to be taking some safety measures at least...shouldnt we?

Scientistguy2: .....erm....right, you have a point....LADS!! GET THE HARD HATS!!

Nerin · 10-09-2008 1:58pm

So yeah,Tesco hasn't been swallowed by a black hole,and i see no NEW interdimensional beasties. Meh

Nehaxak · 10-09-2008 2:02pm

Well, maybe it did go wrong and we are all dead but it was so sudden and such a shock that nobody has realised it yet :eek:

KnifeWRENCH · 10-09-2008 4:03pm

OK admit it: who else is disappointed the world didn't end?

Honey-ec · 10-09-2008 4:09pm

Nerin wrote: »

So yeah,Tesco hasn't been swallowed by a black hole,and i see no NEW interdimensional beasties. Meh

I think a Morlock just walked past my desk.

Oh no wait, that was my boss...

ejmaztec · 10-09-2008 4:10pm

square_igloo wrote: »

OK admit it: who else is disappointed the world didn't end?

My disappointment has been cancelled out by my new ability to fly, using the power of my newly enhanced mind. I hope to Christ they don't turn the fucker off when I'm 20000 feet up. :eek:

missingtime · 10-09-2008 4:14pm

square_igloo wrote: »

OK admit it: who else is disappointed the world didn't end?

Kinda.
I would have liked something to happen.

Black Mesa would have done

AtomicHorror · 10-09-2008 4:17pm

square_igloo wrote: »

OK admit it: who else is disappointed the world didn't end?

I'm disappointed at the lack of headcrabs. I was assured there would be headcrabs.

Overheal · 10-09-2008 4:18pm

.... Well that was anti-climatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

chin_grin · 10-09-2008 4:42pm

http://gist.github.com/9810

^_^

Nerin · 10-09-2008 5:11pm

Honey-ec wrote: »

I think a Morlock just walked past my desk.

Oh no wait, that was my boss...

no New beasties

timmywex · 10-09-2008 5:24pm

What a day peopl, all went unbelievably well! There was no hope of the world ending today anyways, the chance was when the collision occurs, and it wont happen, twas a woman botanist:cool: who made thatidea up:rolleyes:

RxQueen · 10-09-2008 5:44pm

square_igloo wrote: »

OK admit it: who else is disappointed the world didn't end?

ME ME!! just cause i wanted to get out if work, yeah extreme but work was crap today. But im Finshed @ 6 and so not , to cut my pointless story sort no im not disappointed

10-09-2008 8:55pm

I have a silly question..

What use is this exactly?

I mean, when they find out what they want to find out; what do they do with it?

Does it open the doors to new smaller/better technology? Does it bring us any closer to living like the Jetsons?

All i've heard is that it can destroy the world if it goes bad, but i haven't heard the positive effect it will have on us...

KnifeWRENCH · 10-09-2008 9:06pm

Deleted User wrote: »

All i've heard is that it can destroy the world if it goes bad, but i haven't heard the positive effect it will have on us...

Well if something does go wrong then poverty, famine and all diseases will be destroyed.
See, the end of the world has some very positive aspects!

nyarlothothep · 10-09-2008 9:08pm

Its already resulted in the grid which is a far more powerful network system than the internet. And it furthers our understanding of the universe...and from that my understanding would be that new technologies can be developed, theory, then appliance. And its really really cool.

and then there are these things

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1999/stories/story5.shtml

So basically furthering knowledge imo is reward itself

The End is nigh!!!

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