My technophilia notwithstanding…
… I seriously love -
Cthulhu for you!
- this.
Click the image to visit Cracked.com’s latest list,from which I got it: The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World.
Cracked.com is uneven, but they do hit fairly frequently, especially with their hilarious - and occasionally thought-provoking - lists. Mystery: Cracked magazine has always been a lame Mad ripoff. How come their website has so much genuinely funny stuff?
Tags: Cracked.com, lists, Science
September 12th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Counterpoint on the LHC (and LOLcats):
http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=4874
September 12th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Black holes, therefore, would have no time to start accreting matter and to cause macroscopic effects.
Based, I’m guessing, on their extensive experience with black holes?
And since evidently they know precisely what’ll happen, why bother with expensive experimentation?
I don’t particularly cherish any belief that the LHC will end the world, nor much anxiety. There are things I’m much more concerned will end the world (prominent among them being that either the Democratic or Republican nominee will win the Presidential election, meaning more war and less rational thought.)
That said, laypeople, myself included, don’t have any idea what can actually happen, and are perhaps not well advised to believe government-employed scientists bully them into believing nothing can go wrong. If the CERN scientists thought there was a fifty percent chance of destroying the world, and that if it didn’t they’d all have it made, most of ‘em’d flip the switch without hesitation.
It’s happened before (although not necessarily at those odds - so far as we know.) Here in NM, in fact. And some top-level scientists within 100 miles of where you’re sitting have much more alarming ideas.
Ah, well. Despite things going generally well for me, perhaps I’m in a curmudgeonly frame of mind tonight.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Victor:
You’re right, we shouldn’t be too trusting of the eggheads; Trust but verify??
Fortunately the free market has harnessed the power of the Internet to make this possible, nay, easy…
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Larry
September 12th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Okay, you caught me. I promptly clicked on the link and just as promptly laughed out loud when it came up.
Of course, when they actually fire that puppy up for real, might we see the page change during our last picoseconds of mortal existence?
Also, what’re you still doing up? I thought you were gainfully employed!
September 12th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Yeah, you know I’ll be clicking as quickly as possible…
Yeah, I’m up too late. Damn Internet.
Larry
September 12th, 2008 at 1:50 am
sorry, that was supposed to say clicking *refresh*
Larry