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Edgydrifter
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 12:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

How does it affect your life? It doesn't... yet. In fact, none of us is likely to live long enough to see any tangible benefit from this. Our great-grandchildren, though, will enjoy technologies so advanced that finest stuff we have today will seem like crude rocks and sticks by comparison.

The research being done at this facility will ultimately affect darn-near everything and everyone. Computers and other electronics, materials, engineering, medecine--all could be radically transformed and advanced by the experiments being run at CERN.
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Igneroid
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 12:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

if a ship jumped into lightspeed without any Star Trek-esq buffering you would instantly be turned to mush...
Damn it Spiderman, Im only a doctor, not a miracle worker......Hey, who made this mush?? Tastes like shit.
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Jlnance
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 12:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What's the payback?

A bunch of nerdy scientists learn some new equation? Big freakin' deal.

How does this thing affect life in any way?


It's atomic physics, it has a lot of potential relevance to your life.

1 - It's what makes atomic bombs work. It pays to keep up here, in case something is discovered that makes a new kind practicle. You really don't want someone else finding this first.

2 - It could have applications in Nuclear Fusion. That would really be an important development in the energy field if it did.
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Hexangler
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 12:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My question is: if you are about to be eaten by a black hole, is it better to hold your breath?

This is the best explanation I have found (also everyone interested in space stuff should bookmark universetoday, I have been following it for years):

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/05/10/maximizing -survival-time-inside-the-event-horizon-of-a-black -hole/
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Midknyte
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 01:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Black hole in a jar listing on eBay in 3... 2...
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Bikertrash05
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 01:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What's the payback? Time travel. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e arth/2008/02/06/scitime106.xml
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Freezerburn
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 01:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Thanks Hex. It seems that it is just best to fire the jets for a bit away from the the center of the hole once across the event horizon(a movie that probably earned a 0.5 on the Aragon scale) and then enjoy the descent - no breath holding. Hmmm - spaghettification to a particulate singularity.
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G234146
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 01:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hey NASA invented Teflon...

...so that's cool...

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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 01:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just so it has a low carbon footprint.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 03:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I thought the Mayans gave us until 2012 to totally blow everything up
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Midknyte
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ok, here's a really really weird way of looking at it.

As you get sucked into the black hole, you approach and achieve light speed.
So relative to everyone you left behind, you live longer because in normal time frame they have died.
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Greenlantern
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

As you get sucked into the black hole, you approach and achieve light speed.
So relative to everyone you left behind, you live longer because in normal time frame they have died.


My wife used that same explanation to describe being married to me!
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Hr_puffinstuff
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

yes, December 21st 2012 to be exact.

i'm throwing a party on the 20th
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Azxb9r
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

if a ship jumped into lightspeed without any Star Trek-esq buffering you would instantly be turned to mush...

Nah... you would go plaid


spaceballs reference
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Greenlantern
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Inertial Dampeners are for Sallies!
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Hexangler
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 04:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Here's universetoday's explanation of NO DOOMSDAY IN 2012:

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsda y-in-2012/
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Glitch
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 06:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Universe Today has some very interesting reading. Thanks for the links!
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Ft_bstrd
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 07:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Shit, fire it up!
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Hexangler
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I prefer MOONshine!
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

yes, December 21st 2012 to be exact

This may be a coincidence but if you actually read the article referenced in this thread you'll see the scientist who is making the doomsday claim said, "Nothing will happen for at least four years,’ he said. ‘Then someone will spot a light ray coming out of the Indian Ocean during the night and no one will be able to explain it.

Last time I checked 2008 plus four is 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Glitch
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Shit, fire it up!
Hell yeah!
I prefer MOONshine!
Buelltoberfest!
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Ft_bstrd
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'd like to watch the world get sucked inside out.
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Greenlantern
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'd like to watch the world get sucked inside out.

Try watching the Hallmark Channel for 6 hours, same effect, less hardware involved.
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Glitch
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 08:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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Thumper74
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 09:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Or Life for that matter.

From what I read, the Mayans don't predict the end of the world. If I remember right, it's when their calender starts over. It's more akin to a new beginning... It's been a few years...
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Midknyte
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 09:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

getting sucked inside out sounds rather fun
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Bigdaddy
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 09:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I prefer MOONshine!

Who just rang Catawba County?

Just talk to Glitch he'll know what it's all about : )

(Message edited by bigdaddy on September 08, 2008)
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Court
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 10:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Be just my luck . . . just got word that I hit the lottery to sit on in the Obama and McCain appearance . .. but the damned thing is not until Thursday . . . if there **IS** a Thursday!
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Ezblast
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 11:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm throwing one hell of a birthday party on the 23rd - lol
EZ
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Speedfreaks101
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 11:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have always liked surprises but this is on the edge of being a little intense.To make matters worse I am having a hell of a time finding any Sam Adams Octoberfest so I can't even enjoy the beginning of the end.

To be honest even though it would be way over my head I would love to be there to watch, help,etc. If it is going to gobble me up then get it over with and learn something in the process.
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