Oh joy, now there's a Vacations To Go ad over the film strip. I'll wait until you guys put up a new story to check this out, that way the stupid freaking ads won't be hovering over it.
We shouldn't bail them out. Where was our governments help when many small businesses were failing because of bigger stores/corporations moving into their territory? It's ridiculous that they'll bail out Wall Street, but they won't bail out the American people.
It was street art of course! And it conveyed a very alarming message, that polar bears are loosing their homes due to the melting of the arctic ice. Sad stuff really.
And as Sam and LV have already pointed out, the real test doesn't begin until October 21st. All they did today was turn it on and make sure that everything was running smoothly.
Oh christ, way to add to the pointless hysteria guys!!
Even if the LHC creates a black hole, it's predicted that it will be smaller than an atom and will collapse rather quickly. Read the following excerpt for a better explanation:
"It was originally considered that the LHC may produce micro black holes. These would be black holes smaller than atoms. Of course, knowing that a black hole is not something you want to get too close to, this drew a lot of scaremongering. The truth is that black holes must be produced at a certain size before they are capable of growing on their own by attracting more matter. That size was estimated in a recent paper to be larger than the mass of our sun. Anything smaller and they just sit there evaporating until they are no more. The smaller the hole, the faster the evaporation. We expected anything the LHC could have produced to live for a few femtoseconds before disappearing. As it turns out, another recent paper provides convincing proof that black holes are not likely to be produced at the LHC at all....
There are other supposed dangers, namely magnetic monopoles and strangelets. In both cases the theory on which these exotic forms of matter have been based is a little crackpotish, and numerous conterarguments have been put forward. To paraphrase Prof. Frank Close of Oxford University's High Energy Physics dept, "The LHC isn't going to end the world. If it does, you can sue me.""
Just sayin'.
Even if the LHC creates a black hole, it's predicted that it will be smaller than an atom and will collapse rather quickly. Read the following excerpt for a better explanation:
"It was originally considered that the LHC may produce micro black holes. These would be black holes smaller than atoms. Of course, knowing that a black hole is not something you want to get too close to, this drew a lot of scaremongering. The truth is that black holes must be produced at a certain size before they are capable of growing on their own by attracting more matter. That size was estimated in a recent paper to be larger than the mass of our sun. Anything smaller and they just sit there evaporating until they are no more. The smaller the hole, the faster the evaporation. We expected anything the LHC could have produced to live for a few femtoseconds before disappearing. As it turns out, another recent paper provides convincing proof that black holes are not likely to be produced at the LHC at all....
There are other supposed dangers, namely magnetic monopoles and strangelets. In both cases the theory on which these exotic forms of matter have been based is a little crackpotish, and numerous conterarguments have been put forward. To paraphrase Prof. Frank Close of Oxford University's High Energy Physics dept, "The LHC isn't going to end the world. If it does, you can sue me.""
Stop being a douchebag.