Large Hadron Collider breaks energy record, still won't power a toaster
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 30th 2009 5:53AM
posted November 30th 2009 5:53AM
posted November 30th 2009 5:53AM
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Not many women in that picture is there?
@hardluckstories
what do you they're looking at?
@hardluckstories
"Not many women in that picture is there?"
Of Course, dinner wont make it's self. (-;
@hardluckstories
That's because most of them went to the bathroom to gossip about the Large Hardon Collider.
@Jimbob
Your smiley is as backward as your attitudes towards women.
@hardluckstories
.....and the Big Bang in the black hole.
@hardluckstories 3 to be precise :)) (Or 4 if the picture was taken by a woman). And I bet that they were more excited about that new bathroom deodorant than the collision.
@hardluckstories
I guess Leslie Winkle is there, at the bottom right...
Btw, I miss Sheldon and Leonard :-D
@hardluckstories
I count one- one woman, two- two women, three- three women! Wa'ah'ah!
or alternately...
Some of these things are not like the other...
@hardluckstories
Notice how they huddle together in fear.
@hardluckstories
Reminiscent of my engineering college's male to female ratio..
@hardluckstories
there washing the dishes
@Jigen
AMAZING Comment....
Sesame street FTW!
I wonder if they still gonna smile when it breaks the Earth into 2?
@(Unverified)
Obvious troll is obvious.
I wonder if the guys running that show will have time to say "Oops!" when it does?
@(Unverified) and what treasures will they uncover when they do? exciting times!
Great Scott! They've gone over 9,000!
So much for going green huh?
I suppose it's justified if we can build that flying car. I also want my teleporter, gravity board, laser gun, and everything else the Masters of the Universe promised us we'd have.
+ A time machine *oh wait my iMac already has one :)
Too bad that the scientists behind the LHC have even admitted that anything they learn will "probably have no practical application." WHY are we doing this again? This isn't like the space program that actually created some useful technology by having to solve practical problems. This is just random experiments for experiments' sake.
@Dreamscape86 Massive experiments like this 'for science's sake' nearly always lead to advances in our technology and understanding. It was Tim Berners-Lee who invented the world wide web while working at CERN; an organization dedicated to pure scientific research
wait wait wait, your telling me that Al Gore DIDN'T invent the internet?
I'm still waiting for the Engadget physics majors to "weigh in" on this.
I do know we are more likely to find god than create a stable black hole so all those fears of the world ending are unreasonable. What I do hope is that we can find out how the universe was created, which will cause ripples through every aspect of human life *cough*religion*cough* and change the world as we know it.
@Eternity
Yea, dream on...
@Eternity
They've admitted that the desired results of LHC will likely have no practical application. The real value is in the new designs and ideas that went into, and will come from the construction of the LHC itself. Just like the space program, it wasn't the event that benefited society as much as the technology developed to create the event.
I apologize, I forgot to enter
Sudo Sarcasm
into my post.... /facepalm
@Eternity
And I apologize for incorrectly targeting my response to you rather than to Dreamscape86.
Its cool, I was talking about my original, now oblivioned post. Also, I was referring to the movie "He Man and the Masters of the Universe", not CERN.
@(Unverified) No, the internet is a series of tubes which were discovered, not utilized till later. We hypothesize they were a failed form of life from a genetic pool on the other side of the world.
@hardluckstories
Not much diversity, period. It's a snowstorm!!
1.18 TeV.... and we are still here... amazing
@(Unverified)
1.18 TeV = (1.18x10^12)x(1.602x10^-19) V= 1.89x10^-7V
it is not that big, really.
@paezbak except electron volts measure energy, not voltage.
The CERN will destroy everything we know... either it will or it wont.. its 50-50. ;)
Great, now they could use some to destroy the remaining swiss minarets
@(Unverified)
Topical and witty, congratulations
@(Unverified)
How the swiss will feel if a Muslim country ban the construction of church cross or tower to counter there referendum ?
@Ahmed Alzayani
fail translation is fail
@Ahmed Alzayani
You know most all muslim countries already do that smatass.
And I feel fine.
Helped by the fact that i have enough brains to know all religions are BS and there is no god and allah and santa and yeti.. well maybe a yeti, but he'll have to build his own hut.
AAUUUUGH!! She broke my large hardon. It won't power up!
@Kurian
I c wat u did ther.
The fabric of space-time is predicted to start tearing apart around 4 trillion electron volts. Why are we doing such dangerous experiments? Global warming is nothing compared to destroying the universe.
@LondonConsultant
Pshhhhhh they only broke the Tevatron record.
I'll be impressed and scared when they reach a Megatron.
@LondonConsultant
many people will suffer as a cause of global warming, but if the universe gets destroyed we'll be gone before we notice anything is wrong.
@LondonConsultant
Who's prediction ?
Al Gore's ?
@LondonConsultant
Who's prediction?
Al Gore's?
Sarcasm is down-ranked into oblivion :-(
@LondonConsultant
I understand your conCERN.
@Eternity
i accidentally the the whole universe
You are all losers...
If you want to prove the existence of god, all you have to do is collect all the nuclear weapons, place them all over the world and rig them to go off Dec 31st 20xx, then either 1 of 2 thing will happen. god will have to come down to stop the destuction of the world, or we all die and take this POS planet with us.
AHAHAHHAHAH!!
either way it will be EPIC!
@(Unverified) people still believe in god...?