Suit & Tie Guy ([info]suitandtieguy) wrote,
@ 2008-03-27 17:58:00
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"Brigadier, this reactor must be shut down now!"
you know what, if our time on this planet ends because we accidentally turn Chicago into an actual black hole (insert wisecrack about figurative becoming literal here) and the entire planet gets sucked into it (insert second wisecrack about thinking you're the centre of the universe), i think i can live with that. it would just be a pity not knowing that's what happened.

i see no reason to discourage the Fermi Lab from attempting to destroy this entire planet in less than a second. it would kind of be a sort of perfect end to this species.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx

EDIT: apparently this collider is in Europe, and nowhere near Chicago. i'm going to leave the original post up because i would personally like to imagine it being where the black hole is created, despite the fact it's a shining example of my own incompetence in reading comprehension.

also, if this LHC doesn't wind up as a plot element in a UNIT episode of Doctor Who i'll be disappointed.

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[info]caddyman
2008-03-28 11:33 am UTC (link)
i see no reason to discourage the Fermi Lab from attempting to destroy this entire planet in less than a second.


Not until after the new season of Who has aired, if you don't mind!

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thunderbox
2008-03-28 12:30 pm UTC (link)
I'm guessing Chicago's safe for a little while at least, since the LHC is at the CERN facility on the border of France and Switzerland.

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well then it's going to be shut down then.
[info]suitandtieguy
2008-03-28 04:52 pm UTC (link)
thank you for proofreading. this is an unironic reply, and not to be taken in a sarcastic fashion.

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[info]chasingzero
2008-03-28 08:36 pm UTC (link)
This crap really tics me off, actually. Even if they *did* create a black hole, it would be far to small to suck in the earth.

Black holes evaporate, and the smaller they are the faster that happens. unless we *put* enough matter in there (like, several suns worth) we arent going to get anything of significance...

In fact, there are several theories that posit that Fermilab may have created buillions of micro-black holes over the years, but no one noticed because no one was looking for them in the data.

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