California Lab Plans To Destroy World

[Audioave10]

I should buy stock in the Tin Foil companies. This will only be dangerous to those that push the button nearby.

 

[AMMO Kid]

I personally don't have a problem with them destroying the world...oh wait

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Assuming life does have to end at the end of 2012, I'm kind of sad that we are going to do it to ourselves.

That is, assuming this doesn't work properly and actually does end the world.

You do remember we said this about the Super Hadrion Collider if it works. That didn't work, bit dramazied.

And looking on it, why can't aliens end the world?

 

[flamingjimmy]

So then, just like with the LHC there's no real danger, but that's not good enough for the media. They just can't resists a 'crazy scientists will kill us all' story. Idiots.

 

[chemicalfire]

They've actually been doing this experiment since the mid 70's. This is just the largest device of its type since the beginning and the only one that is expected to make as much energy as it uses. The first time they did it was with only two lasers and a deuterium/tritium pellet.

 

[Klarinette]

You know if it does kill us all, at least in the afterlife we could answer "How did you die" with "We made a freaking new sun! Top that."

I just hope their response isn't, "Oh.... well, that was stupid," because they'll definitely be able to read the "I know..." on my face.

 

[jultub]

I almost thought someone was trying to beat me to it

 

[Jnat]

I laughed so f*cking hard.

 

[Cabisco]

Heres a question, when a Star dies doesn't it make a black hole? Just saying... I hear those things are pretty bad for our collective health.

not necessarily, the creation of a black hole is thought to require massive amounts of matter/energy collapsing in on its self. and the death of a sun usually results in a Neutron star, black whole, or a big cloud of gas. The star this lab would ( eventually) be creating is smaller than the thickness of a human hair. So in all likelyhood it would consume itself and dissipate.

But on the other hand The creation of a black hole on the planets surface would expedite the need for off world travel which would push that area of research and development ahead 50-100 years. also it would most likely force everyone to work together so that as a race we can leave this rock behind and start again somewhere else.

Like I said to someone else, thank you for educating me on stars as beyond "it's that big thing in the sky" I don't know that much about it.

 

[Giantcain]

Assuming life does have to end at the end of 2012, I'm kind of sad that we are going to do it to ourselves.

That is, assuming this doesn't work properly and actually does end the world.

if we end up doing it via science wouldnt it class as mass suicide thus we would all go out own religeon's version of hell i guess your safe if your an atheist

 

[Wicky_42]

Heres a question, when a Star dies doesn't it make a black hole? Just saying... I hear those things are pretty bad for our collective health.

not necessarily, the creation of a black hole is thought to require massive amounts of matter/energy collapsing in on its self. and the death of a sun usually results in a Neutron star, black whole, or a big cloud of gas. The star this lab would ( eventually) be creating is smaller than the thickness of a human hair. So in all likelyhood it would consume itself and dissipate.

But on the other hand The creation of a black hole on the planets surface would expedite the need for off world travel which would push that area of research and development ahead 50-100 years. also it would most likely force everyone to work together so that as a race we can leave this rock behind and start again somewhere else.

Dude - there wouldn't be a world left if we made a stable black hole on the planet's surface, no rapid development of off world travel. Just an exponentially increasing rate of compression, time dilation and death.

 

[Scde2]

Aw shit...I live 20 miles (32 km) away from the lab.

 

[Scobie]

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[Georgie_Leech]

*ahem*

Am I really the only one who, upon reading what this was about, went: "Fusion power? IN MY LIFETIME?!"

Seriously people, every scientific development gets some doomsday stuff about it, in the "What if something goes wrong?" variety. Generally, the laws of physics are agreeable laws that, provided calculations are done right, you can predict what happens. Far more likely that nothing will happen than the apocalypse, and more likely still that it will be a proof-positive (I hope).

 

[Composer]

cant wait...(god ive been doing alot of low content replies)

 

[ArcWinter]

Bah. Funding will hopefully be cut before then.

Scientists always want to kill us some how (so yeah cut their funding)

I'm pretty sure the scientist want to save us and the general public want to kill us.

And by us I mean the general public.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

For Science!

Isn't this how Spiderman 2 started?

Yep. And we all know how THAT turned out...

We certainly do. One of the most epic Villains of all time gets some super arms and a badass nickname.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Bah. Funding will hopefully be cut before then.

Scientists always want to kill us some how (so yeah cut their funding)

I'm pretty sure the scientist want to save us and the general public want to kill us.

And by us I mean the general public.

I'm just saying instead of wasting money on just making a star (oh so you made a star....how is that useful to us?) why don't they try to make something that will benefit mankind