[whateverfloats]

Hey Jedi, did you see this?

[pristinepanda]

XD thats amusing

[amber018]

la_senorita_azul wrote: I don't believe in god, so I'm not worried about that, but the chain reaction scares me. First of all, they had no real reason to do this, other than to fuel their own curiosity, perhaps at the expense of every living thing on earth. Which is something I completely disagree with.

I completely agree with you...why mess with something when u have no logical reason to dabble in it besides ur own curiosity!! Omg what is this world coming to?!

[cyclonus22]

WHAT IF WE ALL LIVE ON A SPECK OF DUST!

Horton hears a who.

[flint_]

A bit of light reading...
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[ryttu3k]

pippyredhead wrote: Okay you have a point but I really needed to point this out. Some guy years back was probobly sitting around a table with a bunch of other scientists and said "I KNOW WHAT SPACE IS MADE OF! DARK MATTER!" "Where is it? We should study it!" "No, you can't! It's invisible!" "What?" "See! Look through this telescope! That's all dark matter!" "But there's nothing there!" "Yeah! I know! That's Dark matter!" Proove dark matter even exsists. If it's invisible how do we know it's there (cause everyone knows Dark Matter is invisible, duh/ this has barely anything to do with topic but seriously. You brought this a pon yourself).

Okay, that guy didn't know what he was talking about. 'Dark matter' is the name given to a mysterious particle which we haven't observed yet, but we have deduced. For instance, we can calculate the mass of a moving galaxy, and compare it to how much mass would be produced by just looking at stuff in the electromagnetic spectrum (that's radio, microwave, infrared (heat), light, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma radiation). There's always a difference - there's something in there producing a LOT more mass than what we can observe, sometimes more than twice as much.

We only call it dark matter because we can only deduce it - so far - via its gravitational effects. It is theoretical at this stage, but it's the best theory we have, and the LHC will either confirm it or disprove it, in which case we have to go back to the books and work out why galaxies are a lot more massive than they look.

kerry1313 wrote: I dont realy get why they feel the urge to do the experiment, the money spent on it could be spent on something better, i.e poverty or the fact the banks are going into bankrupcy, we are here now, why do we need to know how the rock westand on was made? Also who gave them permission to do this, because (even thought it is highly unlikely) our livs (and planet) could be at risk shouldnt we have all had a say in it?!

Actually, the total amount of funding that went in to the LHC is pretty small if you break it down year by year - it gets about the same funding per year as a medium-sized university.

Whenever there's a large-scale scientific experiment, there are always people who say that the money could be better spent. But what they're ignoring is that, yes, these projects cost a lot, but that amount is absolutely miniscule when you look at, say, the United States military. For instance, one robotic space probe, which teaches us invaluable things about our solar system, costs less than the budgeting errors on one military mission! Let me repeat that - one space probe costs less than the accounting errors on one military mission.

Yes, we DEFINITELY need more money spent on global poverty and other extremely worthwhile causes, but don't take that out of science! Take it out of the military! The cost of the US being in Iraq for ONE DAY would solve hunger in an African country for decades.

The cost of LHC might have been about six billion euros (spread over about ten years), but the US military is five hundred and fifty billion dollars PER YEAR.

[flint_]

ryttu3k wrote: Okay, that guy didn't know what he was talking about. 'Dark matter' is the name given to a mysterious particle which we haven't observed yet, but we have deduced. For instance, we can calculate the mass of a moving galaxy, and compare it to how much mass would be produced by just looking at stuff in the electromagnetic spectrum (that's radio, microwave, infrared (heat), light, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma radiation). There's always a difference - there's something in there producing a LOT more mass than what we can observe, sometimes more than twice as much. We only call it dark matter because we can only deduce it - so far - via its gravitational effects. It is theoretical at this stage, but it's the best theory we have, and the LHC will either confirm it or disprove it, in which case we have to go back to the books and work out why galaxies are a lot more massive than they look. Actually, the total amount of funding that went in to the LHC is pretty small if you break it down year by year - it gets about the same funding per year as a medium-sized university. Whenever there's a large-scale scientific experiment, there are always people who say that the money could be better spent. But what they're ignoring is that, yes, these projects cost a lot, but that amount is absolutely miniscule when you look at, say, the United States military. For instance, one robotic space probe, which teaches us invaluable things about our solar system, costs less than the budgeting errors on one military mission! Let me repeat that - one space probe costs less than the accounting errors on one military mission. Yes, we DEFINITELY need more money spent on global poverty and other extremely worthwhile causes, but don't take that out of science! Take it out of the military! The cost of the US being in Iraq for ONE DAY would solve hunger in an African country for decades. The cost of LHC might have been about six billion euros (spread over about ten years), but the US military is five hundred and fifty billion dollars PER YEAR.

Ladies and gentlemen, #5.
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[sick_chick99]

I never heard of this till now. I disagree on this on SOOOOO many levels. Building something, that could possibly wipe out all life on earth, just because your curious is soo wrong. Its selfish, it really is.

[factory_____town]

Well, the scientists have reassured us that nothing will go wrong, but, you know, things do go wrong...

[whateverfloats]

flint_ wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, #5. The 8 Most Obnoxious Internet Commenters | Cracked.com

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