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Replies: 20Last Post June 11 1:51am by Moridin
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Is it just me or should scientists do more useful things.  Like the particle accelerator that is being built to test the big bang theory, if something goes wrongs, we could all die.  Shouldn't we worry about that stuff after we invent reliable renewable energy?

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...i'm sure that's not the only thing they're working on

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I've never heard of something called a particle accelerator?  

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Very good point. But, people will never be satistfied until they understand from where and from what they came from.

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Nuclear energy and fusion (or was it fission?) are quite clean sources of energy and last a long time, if you don't fuck it up like they did at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

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Different kinds of science.

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Some scientists seem to work on things that aren't really very important, but you never know where some scientific studies may lead and how they may come in useful in the future.

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Quote: from MAKINGstrangers at 6:40 pm on June 10, 2008

I've never heard of something called a particle accelerator?  

omg.... where have you been for the past decade?

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Quote: from MAKINGstrangers at 5:10 am on June 11, 2008

I've never heard of something called a particle accelerator?  

It involves I believe the collision of subatomic particles such as quarks and electrons.  I think protons are also a commonly used particle.  And then splitting an atom of iron?  It's been said that it would destroy half the universe, but it's never been tested for obvious not-wanting-to-blow-up-the-whole-world reasons.  And also, we don't know the size of the full universe, only the visible one.

The only case in which I would consider blowing up half the universe would be if something happened like in the Peter F. Hamilton space opera book "The Reality Dysfunction."  Anyone read that book?  Lots of stuff about dark matter and shit.

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Quote: from MorningStar at 9:41 pm on June 10, 2008

Nuclear energy and fusion (or was it fission?) are quite clean sources of energy and last a long time, if you don't fuck it up like they did at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.
They are working on a way to do cold fission, like on the sun at room temp, a second of that fission can power america for a year, I think.  Don't quote me

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No particle accelerator that man is currently capable of making could "kill us all" unless there's some new project I haven't heard of.

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Quote: from medjai at 9:47 pm on June 10, 2008

No particle accelerator that man is currently capable of making could "kill us all" unless there's some new project I haven't heard of.
Where have you been?  The one in Europe will likely either 1)recreate a mini bigbang or 2)create mini black holes wich will call the earth to consume it's self

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I've read about it, I don't remember anything about the possibility of the earth consuming itself.

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Whoever told you that the new particle accelerator could devour the world if it fucked up was probably just joshing you.

You realize that one of the stated goals of these mini big bang particle accelerator groups are in fact to intentionally create mini black holes. Guess what, they won't devour the earth.

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Quote: from medjai at 10:03 pm on June 10, 2008

Whoever told you that the new particle accelerator could devour the world if it fucked up was probably just joshing you.

You realize that one of the stated goals of these mini big bang particle accelerator groups are in fact to intentionally create mini black holes. Guess what, they won't devour the earth.


I doubt History, Discover, and NatGeo lie.  Plus a guy sued the company doing it for endangerment. It could go terrible wrong

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