K.Snyder;979266 wrote: Would or would not the money being used on this experiment go to save lives?
Doubtful. Most probably it would be used on further study of the mating habits of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly and $75 wrenches to fix the $30 bolts on the bottom of the $900 toilets in the Pentagon. (note sarcasm)
How do you know that space doesn't hold the cure for our ills? Should we just put everything at a standstill because we have sickness and poverty? We will never eradicate sickness. We cannot eradicate poverty because humanity is a selfish entity. So what's the answer?
I have no problem with space exploration.
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CARLA;979239 wrote: Well its Wednesday some where and I'm still here. :wah:
There's still an hour yet before the collider gets switched on.
There's still an hour yet before the collider gets switched on.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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RedGlitter;979271 wrote: Doubtful. Most probably it would be used on further study of the mating habits of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly and $75 wrenches to fix the $30 bolts on the bottom of the $900 toilets in the Pentagon. (note sarcasm)
How do you know that space doesn't hold the cure for our ills? Because we're subjecting peoples to poverty at the cost of exploring an area that cannot at one moment throughout the millions of years of life on the planet earth be credited with saving one life! (RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
Should we just put everything at a standstill because we have sickness and poverty? Yes! Because we choose to do something else while that money can go to help them. It's like searching for your coffee mug outside when you're staring at your cupboard where you keep it! Except I suppose allowing people to die while someone cruises around in a rocket ship is ok. Not by my standards sweetheart!
RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
We will never eradicate sickness. We cannot eradicate poverty because humanity is a selfish entity. Yes. Yes we can.
RedGlitter;979271 wrote: So what's the answer? you'd just said it.
RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
I have no problem with space exploration.I do! A huge problem with space exploration at the moment.
How do you know that space doesn't hold the cure for our ills? Because we're subjecting peoples to poverty at the cost of exploring an area that cannot at one moment throughout the millions of years of life on the planet earth be credited with saving one life! (RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
Should we just put everything at a standstill because we have sickness and poverty? Yes! Because we choose to do something else while that money can go to help them. It's like searching for your coffee mug outside when you're staring at your cupboard where you keep it! Except I suppose allowing people to die while someone cruises around in a rocket ship is ok. Not by my standards sweetheart!
RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
We will never eradicate sickness. We cannot eradicate poverty because humanity is a selfish entity. Yes. Yes we can.
RedGlitter;979271 wrote: So what's the answer? you'd just said it.
RedGlitter;979271 wrote:
I have no problem with space exploration.I do! A huge problem with space exploration at the moment.
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spot;979273 wrote: There's still an hour yet before the collider gets switched on.
An hour for you...
But I won't be effected until another 5...
:yh_bigsmi...
An hour for you...
But I won't be effected until another 5...
:yh_bigsmi...
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Why not start small? Does McCain need seven homes? Does Gore need to live in a damn mansion? Let's cut out the free government haircuts too. Why does every president's wife need to buy new china and renovate the white house? Let 'em eat off paper plates like the rest of America! OH! You have me on a ROLL! Butter me UP! I can go on and on about where we need to cut expenses but I don't think space is it. 
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RedGlitter;979279 wrote: Why not start small? Does McCain need seven homes? Does Gore need to live in a damn mansion? Let's cut out the free government haircuts too. Why does every president's wife need to buy new china and renovate the white house? Let 'em eat off paper plates like the rest of America! OH! You have me on a ROLL! Butter me UP! I can go on and on about where we need to cut expenses but I don't think space is it.
Oh, I'm going to enjoy this...**K rubs his palms together**...Hehe...:sneaky:...
:wah:
Oh, I'm going to enjoy this...**K rubs his palms together**...Hehe...:sneaky:...
:wah:
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K.Snyder;979281 wrote: Oh, I'm going to enjoy this...**K rubs his palms together**...Hehe...:sneaky:...
:wah:
Please be gentle with me....
:wah:
Please be gentle with me....
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Nothing happened 
It's all a scam,we are still here & it's Wed 5:50 pm.
Could be your Wed though:rolleyes:;)
It's all a scam,we are still here & it's Wed 5:50 pm.
Could be your Wed though:rolleyes:;)
It's nice to be important,but more important to be nice.
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mrsK;979285 wrote: Nothing happened
It's all a scam,we are still here & it's Wed 5:50 pm.
Could be your Wed though:rolleyes:;)
It's early Wednesday morning here! And they must have just turned it on early, as I thought I felt my chair just rumble/shake a little! :p
It's all a scam,we are still here & it's Wed 5:50 pm.
Could be your Wed though:rolleyes:;)
It's early Wednesday morning here! And they must have just turned it on early, as I thought I felt my chair just rumble/shake a little! :p
Cars
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Just so you know - I'm still alive in Scotland 
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I wouldn't have to go to the dentist this afternoon....:yh_think
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Just checking to see everyones alive and well:Dgood I can see XFactor now on Saturday:guitarist
:driving:
:driving:Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.
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Jeez, it's all my classes could talk about today. I kept getting 'The world might end and we have to sit here learning about Genres. That's not fair!' But hey, if I've got to spend my last day on earth at school, there's no way they're getting out of it!:wah:
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jimbo;979701 wrote: update
GENEVA — The world's biggest physics experiment has succeeded in its first major test as a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.
The protons traveled the full length Wednesday of the $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider that scientists hope is the next great step to understand the makeup of the universe. There were a series of trial runs.
Two white dots flashed on a computer screen indicating that the protons reached the final point of the world's largest particle collider.
Scientists hope to see what the components of atoms are made of by smashing them together. The startup had been eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists fired the first beam of protons around the world's largest particle collider on Wednesday in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider — built since 2003 at a cost of $3.8 billion — provides scientists with much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms in a bid to see how they are made.
"The beam is the size of a human hair," Paola Catapano, a spokeswoman for the host European Organization for Nuclear Research said after the protons were fired into the accelerator below the Swiss-French border at 9:32 a.m. (3:32 a.m. EDT).
The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, is firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages, several miles at a time.
Once the beam has successfully been tested in clockwise direction, CERN will send it counterclockwise. Eventually the two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to see how they are made.
The startup — eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here — comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collisions of protons could eventually imperil the earth.
The skeptics theorize that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.
"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday's start.
CERN is backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking in dismissing the fears and declaring the experiments to be absolutely safe.
Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
And full power is probably a year away.
"On Wednesday we start small," said Gillies. "What we're putting in to start with is one single low intensity bunch at low energy and we thread that around. We get experience with low energy things and then we ramp up as we get to know the machine better."
He said a good result for Wednesday would be to have one beam going all the way around the tunnel in a counterclockwise direction. If that works, the scientists will then try to send a beam in the other direction.
"A really good result would be to have the other beam going around, too, because once you've got a beam around once in both directions you know that there is no show stopper," Gillies said. "It's going to work."
However, if there is some blockage in the machine, experts will have to go in and fix the problem, and that could take time.
The LHC, as the collider is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the big bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.
The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers of 80 nationalities. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country which contributed $531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.
The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.
Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.
The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.
Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC. But even their younger colleagues are excited that startup has finally arrived.
"I think it's a very important project," said Katie McAlpine, 23, a Michigan State University graduate who made a rap video about the project.
"It's mostly out of scientific curiosity, what is the universe made of? How does it work? What are the rules? That's very exciting and it's important to advance our knowledge," she told Associated Press Television News.
She said she was surprised by the success of the video, which has had more than a million views on YouTube and which has received approval from CERN for its scientific accuracy, especially in its success with young people.
"I was really hoping that this would get taken into classrooms," McAlpine said. "I don't imagine that elementary school and most middle school children will understand it very well, but a lot of parents have e-mailed me, saying I have a 9-year-old or a 7-year-old and showed them your rap and they really love it.
"If elementary kids can get excited about it, too, that's just great."
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On the Net:
CERN: http://www.cern.ch
The U.S. at the LHC: http://www.uslhc.us/
Large Hadron Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?vf6aU-wFSqt0
Bet you never read that lot:rolleyes::sneaky::p
GENEVA — The world's biggest physics experiment has succeeded in its first major test as a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.
The protons traveled the full length Wednesday of the $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider that scientists hope is the next great step to understand the makeup of the universe. There were a series of trial runs.
Two white dots flashed on a computer screen indicating that the protons reached the final point of the world's largest particle collider.
Scientists hope to see what the components of atoms are made of by smashing them together. The startup had been eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists fired the first beam of protons around the world's largest particle collider on Wednesday in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider — built since 2003 at a cost of $3.8 billion — provides scientists with much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms in a bid to see how they are made.
"The beam is the size of a human hair," Paola Catapano, a spokeswoman for the host European Organization for Nuclear Research said after the protons were fired into the accelerator below the Swiss-French border at 9:32 a.m. (3:32 a.m. EDT).
The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, is firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages, several miles at a time.
Once the beam has successfully been tested in clockwise direction, CERN will send it counterclockwise. Eventually the two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to see how they are made.
The startup — eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here — comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collisions of protons could eventually imperil the earth.
The skeptics theorize that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.
"It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday's start.
CERN is backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking in dismissing the fears and declaring the experiments to be absolutely safe.
Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.
And full power is probably a year away.
"On Wednesday we start small," said Gillies. "What we're putting in to start with is one single low intensity bunch at low energy and we thread that around. We get experience with low energy things and then we ramp up as we get to know the machine better."
He said a good result for Wednesday would be to have one beam going all the way around the tunnel in a counterclockwise direction. If that works, the scientists will then try to send a beam in the other direction.
"A really good result would be to have the other beam going around, too, because once you've got a beam around once in both directions you know that there is no show stopper," Gillies said. "It's going to work."
However, if there is some blockage in the machine, experts will have to go in and fix the problem, and that could take time.
The LHC, as the collider is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the big bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.
The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers of 80 nationalities. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country which contributed $531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.
The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.
Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.
The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.
Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC. But even their younger colleagues are excited that startup has finally arrived.
"I think it's a very important project," said Katie McAlpine, 23, a Michigan State University graduate who made a rap video about the project.
"It's mostly out of scientific curiosity, what is the universe made of? How does it work? What are the rules? That's very exciting and it's important to advance our knowledge," she told Associated Press Television News.
She said she was surprised by the success of the video, which has had more than a million views on YouTube and which has received approval from CERN for its scientific accuracy, especially in its success with young people.
"I was really hoping that this would get taken into classrooms," McAlpine said. "I don't imagine that elementary school and most middle school children will understand it very well, but a lot of parents have e-mailed me, saying I have a 9-year-old or a 7-year-old and showed them your rap and they really love it.
"If elementary kids can get excited about it, too, that's just great."
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On the Net:
CERN: http://www.cern.ch
The U.S. at the LHC: http://www.uslhc.us/
Large Hadron Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?vf6aU-wFSqt0
Bet you never read that lot:rolleyes::sneaky::p
Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.
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Gawd, I lost concentration after the first paragraph!:o
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Pinky;979729 wrote: Gawd, I lost concentration after the first paragraph!:o
I couldnt even understand it never mind about read the lot fgs.....can you honestly seeing our little Winkle reading that lot........his aving a laugh!!!:rolleyes:;)
I couldnt even understand it never mind about read the lot fgs.....can you honestly seeing our little Winkle reading that lot........his aving a laugh!!!:rolleyes:;)
Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.
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Carolly;979734 wrote: I couldnt even understand it never mind about read the lot fgs.....can you honestly seeing our little Winkle reading that lot........his aving a laugh!!!:rolleyes:;)
:wah::wah:
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
:wah::wah:
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
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Pinky;979738 wrote: :wah::wah:
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
:wah::wah::D
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
:wah::wah::D
FOC THREAD PART1
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Pinky;979738 wrote: :wah:
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
:wah::wah:ye can see him doing that alright:wah:;)
I can just picture it....
'Bing bang...yadayadaya.....black hole...yeah, yeah....yadayadayada....oh bugger it, I'll post it anyway!'
:wah::wah:ye can see him doing that alright:wah:;)Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.
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jimbo;979771 wrote: actually i did read every word
and i am in fact a member of DENSA
space ,time travel ,this sort of thing fascinates me
DENSA!!!!!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
I know what you mean, I kinda like it too.
and i am in fact a member of DENSA
space ,time travel ,this sort of thing fascinates me
DENSA!!!!!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
I know what you mean, I kinda like it too.
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Pinky;979780 wrote: DENSA!!!!!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
I know what you mean, I kinda like it too.
DENSA???-----Is that like SALSA??:wah:
I know what you mean, I kinda like it too.
DENSA???-----Is that like SALSA??:wah:
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jimbo;979785 wrote: when the mother ship comes we will be waiting ;)Better go and get ready now:-3:driving:
;)Better go and get ready now:-3:driving:Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.