Large Hadron Collider restart delayed till September
By Darren Murph 
posted February 10th 2009 9:11AM
posted February 10th 2009 9:11AM
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Yeah! I like totally agree... Let theese morans play with their mary goaround and destroy the world with a bluescrean of death and red rings
They use a custom version of Scientific Linux there actually. So no.
I cannot imagine what a colossal ass ramming these people will take if they don't get it started within the next couple of tries. I mean, how many BILLIONS did people invest in this?
A lot... But it's still less than many military projects that never saw the light of day (the Comanche is a nice example), and still less than the money everyone is throwing at failing banks or automakers right now.
So in the end I wouldn't expect any massive ass ramming, worst case scenario they could always transform it in a nice underground theme park.
It isn't a serious technical hitch though. There were low power tests which worked very well, beams were sent round the ring successfully. The LHC itself is a sound concept, they just botched a soldering joint apparently. The trouble is that when you're working with the sort of scales that CERN does, everything takes a lot longer and must be done slowly to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
And i will point you in the direction of wars if we're going to talk about budgets. Whether you think it's a failure or not, the cost of building CERN is roughly $5 Billion (in comparison, that's about the cost of 4 Space Shuttle launches). The annual defense budget of the US alone is about 100 times that. If even a tenth of the world's defense budgets were moved towards science, i reckon we'd be a much happier and advanced society. You could argue that military endeavour funds the majority of scientific breakthroughs (which is fair enough), but the federal budget for organisations like NASA is quite frankly abysmal.
"The trouble is that when you're working with the sort of scales that CERN does, everything takes a lot longer and must be done slowly to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
"they just botched a soldering joint apparently."
Is this a joke?
Woo-hoo! More time to make out our wills.
So we get to live another couple months? Great news!
Is this thing being made by the same people making Duke Nukem.
Everyone knows the Mayans wrote their dates the real way (the American Way), as in mm-dd-yyyy. The ancient tablets read (and I have one right here in front of me): The World will end on 21-12-2012
So, for all you Eurotrash out there who thinks that's Dec 21st, 2012 - suck it! It's clearly the 12th day of the 21st month!
MAN, you guys were WAY off.
PS. The ancient tablet I have is written in English, so there is the remote possibility that it might not be authentic. Also, the tablet is made out of cement. Cement reinforced with ancient Mayan rebar.
Damnit, I already drank the Kool-Aid.
Dear Engadget,
This may be a joke but even so a blog in your position (read by many who take what you write to be fact and also a blog whose subject matter is largely scientific) should not be propagating scientific myth.
It is disgraceful. There is a large and overwhelming scientific consensus that this will not harm our planet. A dooms day story is going to sell papers and it is for this reason main stream media has even a slender, if invalid, excuse for engaging there sensationalism mode.
Most of your posts have a slight tinge of humor. Perhaps this one is no different. But look at some of the comments on this. There are people who are actually questioning the saftey of the greatest experiment ever undertaken by man as a direct result of this. Is this what you intended?
Anyone who is on the fence over the safety is far more likely to be tipped the wrong way by this than if your article had taken a different, yet still humours, tact.
Thank You
jhrf (resident over-reactor)
"There are people who are actually questioning the saftey of the greatest experiment ever undertaken by man as a direct result of this."
Whether someone questions the safety of the LHC or not is one separate, distinct topic.
Whether they begin questioning its safety as a result of something Engadget did is just highly unlikely.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords, and thereby implicitly any means that may bring them here - including the LHC.
This is such a waste of resources that could have gone towards something useful... like AIDS or cancer research... or world food relief... or any other humanitarian cause for that matter. How will attempting to create a black hole (which will fail) give use any answers about earths origins? And in the VERY remote chance that it does give us some clue, will it change anything? Will it convince anyone? Will it move the big bang from theory to proven fact? No my friends, the answer is no. It will be a huge waste of money, the biggest scientific Ponzi scheme the world has ever seen.
Now back to my fallout shelter I go.
/ramble.
when we can start teleporting and have super cool spaceships because of the LHC, you have to stay at home, deal?
Yep, your right. The particles that it will find will be absolutely useless. Just like that one particle they found, what was it called? Oh yea, the electron. Yep, some good that did for mankind.
damn it , now i'm going to have to go back and reinterpret the works of nostradamus and the bible to make the dates fit again.
if they installed windows 7 beta on it, it would probably work fine.
I heard the LHC driver wasn't x64 compatible yet and they are still waiting on it from the OEM
It seems that the people at CERN couldn't figure out which version of the OS to get, so they stuck with Ubuntu. Certainly using such an OS could only have a positive reaction to the equation, right? Riiiight?
We're doomed
:'(
i'm surprised color matters to you so much
the world is filled with ass holes
Health Inspector! You need to be keeping these atoms and particles at least at 160 degrees or above! And there's mold in the cooler! I'm going to have to write you up for that.
did they try holding the power button for 8 seconds to try and restart it?
LOL, if it starts on Dec. 12th, 2012, the whole world will get interested as in the Mayan calendar, Dec. 12th 2012 was supposedly the end of the world: http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm. Just look this up on google, I'm not making it up.
LOL, if it starts on Dec. 12th, 2012, the whole world will get interested as in the Mayan calendar, Dec. 12th 2012 was supposedly the end of the world: http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm. Just look this up on google, I'm not making it up.
No, it's clearly made by Blizzard.
And no, they were not prepared.
Uh...nvm that comment. Missed the second page.
Worry not, John Freeman - Gordon Freeman's brother - will backflip off motorcycle and shoot aliens and monsters in head with wepon, and defeat the next boss!
(that should teach them not to consider the Full Life Consequences!)
can't wait to meet g-man
anyone else find it creepy the date is now september and that yellow stopper thing in the picture has the number 11 on it. oO
You gotta be kidding me... You're not serious, are you? Some times I can never tell if people actually believe this crap...
rrrespect my Large Hard on Collider!
They are waiting for Lauren to come home...
Why nobody was able to find any other civilizations yet ?
- That's because of there are black holes in place of them now.
i say start this puppy up and lets see what happens!!
Hooray! The Earth won't become a black-hole until September.
Dang, I'll have to put my order of crowbars on hold for another few months...