Imagine The Contractor(s) Who Built This..

GregS

CERNs new Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Scientific exploration at the atomic level using a ring of magnets 100m underground, 27Kilometers in diameter.

Details on what it is and what it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Just imagine the amount of precision required to get everything in place perfectly.

The photographs of this thing really quite beautiful.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._collider.html

In laymans terms, think Ghostbusters proton accellerator, only much much bigger. And here, they are going to 'cross the streams' to test some theories.

A good science-fiction story to read about this is Flash Forward from Robert J Sawyer.

Tscarborough

When they crank this puppy up, there is a very slight chance that it could destroy the Earth. But it is monkey-flying-out-your-ass odds, so I wouldn't worry about it.

It is still not as bad ass as this would have been, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superco...Super_Collider

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CrazyTaper

At what point do we say-"Just let it be."

Tscarborough

At the point where we are rubbing sticks together for warmth.

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Bkessler

There is a book my Michael Preston called Blasphemy about a group that builds a giant partical accelerator in the Nevada desert that was really good.

Hammer_Nail

That's interesting, I wonder what somethinglike that costs to build.

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Bob Kovacs

Let's just say that there are a whoooolllllleee lot of zeros involved.......

billy d

Man now that truly IS Awesome.

KentWhitten

Only 4 days and 15 hours remain of this world. Black hole...here we come!

http://www.lhcountdown.com/

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Frankawitz

So in the pictures of the rings is this where the Earth is going to cave in? before they blow us all to hell? I must say that is something else as far as workmenship, Boy copper thiefts would be in la la land wouldn't they? That thing is awesome!

GregS

About $15 Billion USD. Or roughly, 2 months of Iraq occupation

Dustball

It's really a transporter they're building :trek:

SelfContract

US enter a new cold war: Nuclear (not atomic) bomb research facility underground... against da 3 axis of evil!.. J/K

dkillianjr

I read the article, but can someone explain to me what this thing does? I'm still a little lost


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GregS

They are exploring the origins of the Big-Bang theory. When two particles of matter collide at a such a speed that new energy and matter is formed. Very cool stuff to prove/disprove many physics theories.

dkillianjr

Oh ok I got it now, thanks buildinghomes


Dave

wyoming 1

Well I am glad someone asked what it did cause it looked cool but I didn't want you guys to know I was an idiot. So when is the actual d day?

orson

Here's a link to Petranek's TED.com speech on the countdown to Armegedon. The topic of this thread is 1 of his 10 life as we know it ending events. The thing I love about it is he manages to talk about the destruction of our species and get laughs at the same time.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/s...rmageddon.html

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In I think one of the most hilarious moments of my life, the FIRST comment to the story says everything:

"This thing is going to kill us all.
Posted by Aaron August 1, 08 11:53 AM"

I haven't laughed so hard in years...

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GregS

Here's a lovely rap by some major science geeks at CERN about what they are trying to do there.

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