You'd think the "brightest minds on the planet" that made this machine would have predicted this. I mean, there's really very little room for error in an experiment of this magnitude.
Well you'd like to think when you employ a specialist contractor to fabricate and install such a device, they'd be competent enough to do so without error. Needless to say, I bet there is a monster of a contract behind this project, and someone somehwere, is about to get their ass destroyed for such errors.
Even the brightest minds on the planet are capable of making mistakes, like we all do. Unless, you've lived a perfect life which you haven't cuz you posted that comment.
We're not exactly talking about a "mistake" cooking a recipe. Or a mistake choosing a VP nominee. In some "grown-up" experiments, sometimes mistakes cannot be afforded.
"Even the brightest minds on the planet are capable of making mistakes, like we all do."
So the LHC is ultra-safe, unless the brightest minds on the planet have made a mistake like we all do, which is pretty probable to begin with, and given it's worked for a week or so, we already have proof that can happen. Uhm, that doesn't make it sound *that* safe, does it?
Well you'd like to think when you are building a potential doomsday device, you'd check what your specialist contractor did to make sure it's done properly, and then check, and check, and check, and check again. A thing these "brightest minds of the planet" evidently didn't do.
Actually, it wasn't as simple as ordering parts from a catalogue. Lots of the things they needed here didn't exist.
Also, the cooling system uses liquid helium, which is a superfluid. That means it creeps up the container and spreads itself around. As a result, any microscopic pores or loose connections will cause the helium to leak out. It's an incredibly difficult thing to get right. One microscopic mistake and you're haemorrhaging helium.
You DO realize that copy & paste makes a copy of something (hence COPY & paste), right? No? Guess that was a bit too much to hope for.
I'll give you this one, though, since I know you have no real defense for such asinine behavior. Carry on with picking apart my typos in lieu of any semblance of a real argument.
So your "real argument" was "look up real life"? And I'm supposed to counter-argument such and idiotic remark?
And you really didn't understand the copy & paste thing, did you? So here it is:
1. You *could have used* copy & paste, but 2. As your copy & paste skills are nil, you couldn't, and 3. You had to retype my nick thus showing your inability to type a 7-letter string correctly.
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You'd think the "brightest minds on the planet" that made this machine would have predicted this. I mean, there's really very little room for error in an experiment of this magnitude.
Well you'd like to think when you employ a specialist contractor to fabricate and install such a device, they'd be competent enough to do so without error. Needless to say, I bet there is a monster of a contract behind this project, and someone somehwere, is about to get their ass destroyed for such errors.
Sue in contract or sue in tort? Ooo, choices.
Even the brightest minds on the planet are capable of making mistakes, like we all do. Unless, you've lived a perfect life which you haven't cuz you posted that comment.
@B3astofthe3ast
We're not exactly talking about a "mistake" cooking a recipe. Or a mistake choosing a VP nominee. In some "grown-up" experiments, sometimes mistakes cannot be afforded.
punk.
Cost of mistake: ~$25m
Is it going to be paid? Yes.
Can the mistake be afforded? Um... Yes.
"Even the brightest minds on the planet are capable of making mistakes, like we all do."
So the LHC is ultra-safe, unless the brightest minds on the planet have made a mistake like we all do, which is pretty probable to begin with, and given it's worked for a week or so, we already have proof that can happen.
Uhm, that doesn't make it sound *that* safe, does it?
@Samboini
Well you'd like to think when you are building a potential doomsday device, you'd check what your specialist contractor did to make sure it's done properly, and then check, and check, and check, and check again.
A thing these "brightest minds of the planet" evidently didn't do.
@Tom
I suggest you get a dictionary and look "(cannot) afford" up before posting crap.
@guiliop
I suggest you look "real life" up before posting crap.
Actually, it wasn't as simple as ordering parts from a catalogue. Lots of the things they needed here didn't exist.
Also, the cooling system uses liquid helium, which is a superfluid. That means it creeps up the container and spreads itself around. As a result, any microscopic pores or loose connections will cause the helium to leak out. It's an incredibly difficult thing to get right. One microscopic mistake and you're haemorrhaging helium.
@EricC
Well, "erriCc", in real life, I do really hope your copy & paste powers stay as far as possible from the LHC.
You DO realize that copy & paste makes a copy of something (hence COPY & paste), right? No? Guess that was a bit too much to hope for.
I'll give you this one, though, since I know you have no real defense for such asinine behavior. Carry on with picking apart my typos in lieu of any semblance of a real argument.
So your "real argument" was "look up real life"? And I'm supposed to counter-argument such and idiotic remark?
And you really didn't understand the copy & paste thing, did you? So here it is:
1. You *could have used* copy & paste, but
2. As your copy & paste skills are nil, you couldn't, and
3. You had to retype my nick thus showing your inability to type a 7-letter string correctly.
Simple enough for you?
@ giuliop and EricC
Knock it off, you two. Don't make me turn this car around.
@ giuliop: Rest assured that you will never have to worry about simplifying anything for me, or talking over my head.