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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 12:47 PM
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damn that's going to be some wild shit once it starts running. the big ring of magnets and a million snap shot/sec cameras are mind blowing!!!

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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 12:48 PM
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mmmmm magnets
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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 01:48 PM
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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by CrazyCracker82,Jun 28 2008, 01:47 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_...omsday_collider

damn that's going to be some wild shit once it starts running. the big ring of magnets and a million snap shot/sec cameras are mind blowing!!!

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Nah, it's exciting particle physics. They were going to build an even bigger superconducting supercollider in Waxahatchie, Texas, but it got killed.
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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 02:49 PM
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it was the work of the devil, thats why....
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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by wicky,Jun 28 2008, 03:49 PM
it was the work of the devil, thats why....
Au contraire, it was cost overruns:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=502
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Old Jun 28, 2008 | 02:57 PM
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I stand by my statement, considering money is the root of all evil....
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Originally Posted by CrazyCracker82,Jun 28 2008, 01:47 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_...omsday_collider

damn that's going to be some wild shit once it starts running. the big ring of magnets and a million snap shot/sec cameras are mind blowing!!!

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But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?

Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN
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you can't escape a black hole
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Old Jun 29, 2008 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by wicky,Jun 29 2008, 11:16 AM
you can't escape a black hole
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/
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