That's great it starts with an earthquake, bosons, snakes, an aeroplane...

[chezmax]

Ooh, today is the day they turn on the Large Hardon Hadron Collider. In fact they may have already done so. If the world ends, it was nice knowing you guys ;) If not, damn, another day at work!

and I feel fine...

Comments

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my general thought on it, too. "Great, some centuries from now the newly evolved humans will be learning about 'the great cataclysm' in history classes."

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

[chezmax]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for redundancy.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

The source comments are better in http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

It also has an rss feed, just in case.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

It would be useful to know where the servers for those two sites are located. That way if one stops working and the other continues to work, we can determine which part of the world has been destroyed.

[fallyn-angel.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!! No black holes! the world lives!

Until they turn it on the other way though. Then we're *screwed*....

:)

[halfwitted.livejournal.com]

Getting compressed into a singularity with you... oh, baby.

[chezmax]

That's quite possibly the hottest thing I've heard today :)

[tabascostar.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to take a month before the possibility of anything crazy happens. Right now they are moving too slow. But if the world ends in a month, it was nice having you as a brother. I couldn't have picked a better one myself.

True story

[(Anonymous)]

I have a friend doing a PhD in theoretical physics (he's actually at the LHD right now) but when he was doing his undergrad on the east coast he had just moved from Germany and was learning english. He had a student position in a physics lab one summer and had his own project.

So, end of the year and he's giving his presentation to the department. As he tells me this story a few years ago he was compelled to point out that when you're learning a new language you tend to reverse letter combinations. Anyway, he's giving his presentation and is puzzled about the occasional twittering in the audience as he talks about the tank and the electron arm detector and the hardon arm detector. He notices that the only female faculty member in the audience is looking somewhat red. He continues discussing hardon detectors.

Finally, half way through the presentation his supervisor interrupts and tells him the proper pronunciation. And after the seminar his lab mates inform him of the meaning of what he was saying.

What makes the story even funnier is that Frank is well over 6 feet and a big guy but he's very sweet. He was also usually called on to intimidate drunken idiots at the grad residence where I lived and has several years of judo which always made the fights entertaining but short.

Re: True story

[chezmax]

*laugh* Poor guy. I've heard stories of people going to Quebec and trying to tell their hosts, during dinner, that they're full, and saying something like, "Je suis plein.". Apparently, this actually means you're pregnant...

True Story

[(Anonymous)]

btw- that's from Carly.