Ready for the End of the World?

[Jeff Gerke]

Well, we don't have long to wait.

The "big bang machine" is about to be turned on.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,419404,00.html

According to some theories, this will melt the earth and the elements and become the biblical Armageddon.

Kewl

[Spokane Flyboy]

I pray not. It'd be such an unsporting end. Hehe.

[J Jack]

Yep. Bring it on science.

[Spokane Flyboy]

I've gotten a kick out of the thread over on my role-play group's forum. The poll has the following choices:

Question: Will the new collider experiment below France and Switzerland destroy the world on Wednesday?

• Yes
  
• No
  
• HOLY CRAP! I need to put on my cool sneakers for the mothership!
  

Another posted this gem with the heading "Prepare for... unforeseen... circumstances..."

[CastleLyons]

The Fox News article says:

...the so-called "Big Bang machine" already has physicists salivating at the prospect of unlocking the mysteries of the universe...

I thought that mystery had already been solved. The answer is 42.

[Divides the Waters]

I wondered what Glenn Beck was on about today....

(Nice Adams ref, CL)

[Spokane Flyboy]

Well. I suppose I can take off my cool sneakers and tin foil hat now. It's 10 minutes past and all's well. Well, mostly. I see news that OPEC just gave us the political version of the finger.

[CastleLyons]

Divides! You're back! Where have you been? Missed your posts.

[Jeff Gerke]

But one guy said we wouldn't notice anything at first, even though a miniature black hole had been formed at the center of the earth. It would only be years later, when an unexplained beam of light emanates from the Indian Ocean, that we'd realize what we'd done...

But as I understand today's experiment, it just sent a proton around one way. I thought they were going to do a collision between beams of protons going around both ways at the same time, but I guess that's not unti later. THEN we'll be destroyed. ;-)

Jeff

[Teskas]

The nice thing about being a believing Christian is that we have a fair idea of what to expect when the end comes. There are tell-tale markers on the road, so to speak. The 'on' switch of a mechanism under a Swiss mountain somehow doesn't quite match the description given in the Manual.

[Spokane Flyboy]

Or maybe it is? Maybe the Half-Life reference from the forum I mentioned (the picture and the "Prepare for... unforeseen... circumstances..." quote) isn't far off. They collide the particles and it opens up cascading portals that bring the beast out of the sea and all that quite literally. Hehe.

[lexkx]

Yeah, okay. Because everything "they" say is correct, and scientists who don't acknowledge God in their work have a complete and objective viewpoint to get across. Sheesh, talk about knowledge increasing without any understanding. So, they blow up some quarks. More fun with neutrinos. "They" have been trying to recreate the spontaneous beginning of life in labs for some time, with no success.

It's a good thing God's not really in charge, I suppose. We'd really be wasting time and government spending, then.

[torainfor]

There's a website you can go to, now, for up to the minute information on if the super-collider has destroyed the earth yet:

hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[Spokane Flyboy]

We need a website to inform us if the world's still here? Hehe. Isn't that sort of like an alarm that goes off after you've ran out of gas? Hehe.

[Divides the Waters]

Sept 10, 2008 8:32:06 GMT -5 CastleLyons said:

Divides! You're back! Where have you been? Missed your posts.

I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to write, and (successfully) wasting time on my world-famous Star Wars timeline.