Anyone concerned about...

[cedardryad]

The impending black hole experiments? There were supposed to happen today, but have been delayed to a few weeks. I'm scared. I mean they are making black holes and placing things in them to see what happens. They are saying that the chances of the black holes sucking everything in sight is very minimal, but the chance is still there. They claim that the black holes' life span will be short and they will be tiny so no worries.

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm worried. If they succeed what is the chance of people weaponizing it? I'm all for learning, but at the expense of the whole planet, I'm willing to skip out on the Lex Luthor ego trip.

Here is a short article about it.
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol26/26GSJ10a.html

[Sanagi]

There's not much that goes on inside a particle accelerator that isn't happening in the upper atmosphere all the time.

[Jack Zodiac]

I think a mini-blackhole whizzed through the atmosphere and sucked away my concern. Now I'm excited. I can't wait to see what they learn.

[Red Berens]

I would kill to get a weaponized black hole. Can you imagine? "Come out with your hands up, or we'll turn on the black hole. You have 20 seconds to comply!"

[cedardryad]

There's not much that goes on inside a particle accelerator that isn't happening in the upper atmosphere all the time.

Yeah they mentioned it. But there is something that is more scary when people are behind it.

[Ben Morgan]

Jack is obviously behind it

[Tobias March]

Near as I understand it the worst that can happen is we get caught in a singularity and experience a single moment for what seems like an eternity....

So typical day at the office then.

I'm batting them out to the cheap seats tonight :biggrin:

[hellokittykat]

Well if anything goes wrong, we'll just have to say "oh well, life sucks!"


Bwhahahahaahahahahahaa!


Heh. :redface:

[Crowley]

How else will we become Time Lords without mastering the black hole?

[Chiroptera]

Hmm.. experimenting with black holes...

Well, I might be worried except that the way I figure it now, if we do **** up and somehow consume our own planet with one? Well hell, we've just done the rest of the galaxy a favor by ensuring we don't go colonize somewhere else. :tongue:

[Sabrinaset]

What about pink holes? Do they count?

[Stressfactor]

Well, if there was a rogue black hole we could always build a portal to it in the attic of a British journalist in her late 60's and send a small, retro-looking robotic dog to use its advanced science to contain it and work on slowly destroying it over time..... Yeah, I really shouldn't have watched the "Doctor Who" spin-off "The Sarah Jane Adventures"....


On the flip side... weaponized black hole? Anything like the weaponized wormhole at the end of "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars"?....


Mmmmm Ben Browder.....

[Stressfactor]

What about pink holes? Do they count?

I realized that I could make a very ribald joke and take rather a cheap shot with this set-up...... But then I figured that Bree would murder me in my sleep.

[Alan Lynch]

How else will we become Time Lords without mastering the black hole?


Well, if there was a rogue black hole we could always build a portal to it in the attic of a British journalist in her late 60's and send a small, retro-looking robotic dog to use its advanced science to contain it and work on slowly destroying it over time..... Yeah, I really shouldn't have watched the "Doctor Who" spin-off "The Sarah Jane Adventures"....
Damn, I thought I'd at least get to be the second person to make a Doctor Who reference.

[Spike-X]

What about pink holes? Do they count?
Sure, but then you run the risk of missing and...


...you know what? I'm not gonna complete that thought.

[Alan Lynch]

Sure, but then you run the risk of missing and...


...you know what? I'm not gonna complete that thought.
I dunno man, that's some really bad aim.

[section 8]

i'm not, i was born to die

[Agent Helix]

Technically, we wouldn't really die. We'd likely just all be spontaneously converted into another state of unthinking matter. If you think of it that way, it doesn't sound so bad. I mean, it's not like you'd know you were a big glob of superheated, physically impossible gas.

[section 8]

Technically, we wouldn't really die. We'd likely just all be spontaneously converted into another state of unthinking matter. If you think of it that way, it doesn't sound so bad. I mean, it's not like you'd know you were a big glob of superheated, physically impossible gas.

*gasp* i'd turn into Rush Limbagh?

[cedardryad]

*gasp* i'd turn into Rush Limbagh?

There is no God!

[Jack Zodiac]

i'm not, i was born to die

If ya' wanna get all Samuel Beckett about it, everyone is born to die.

[section 8]

thus the cyinical nature of the statement, if you spend all your time worried about dyin when are you livin?

put it to a vote and i'll vote "no" but if these fools are arrogant enough to build a black hole factory then what good is stressing over i, if nothing can be done...