California Lab Plans To Destroy World

[Proctorninja]

Meh. Call me when they open a gateway to hell.

dont worry ill be on the other side to drag people in muhahahahahahahahaha....*cough umm yeah well if the sun dose happen to form beyond the control of the people there ill take solace in the fact i have one nice warm day

 

[truncatd]

My opinions on the whole idea of impending apocalypse are neatly summed up here:

http://9gag.com/photo/16069_540.jpg

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Impending death for all? That calls for a song.

 

[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.

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

Didn't they mention an incredibly powerful new energy source? That's the reason they are making the star.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

NO! I want my nuclear war / zombie apocalypses, dammit! Not some death-by-mini-star bullshit!

Sounds pretty epic, though.

 

[Ryokai]

Why should I form an opinion on whether it destroys the world? I'm not a physicist, and clearly the people engineering it have far more experience than me, so unless some other qualified scientist said otherwise, I'll just have to take their word that it's safe.

It's either that or form ignorant opinions and scream that the world will end.

You know, I read the entire article looking for some mention of possible earth shattering consequences... because I forgot some people are still harping this arbitrary year as the end of all life on earth.

Please, for the love of god, get over it.

You guys realize that the thread title is a joke, right? I was just amused by the coincidence in timing meaning that this would happen around 2012. In all honesty, the experiment sounds interesting, and I hope they succeed.

I realize it's a joke. What I'm sarcastically commenting on is the fact that people will undoubtably think it will destroy the world, like the Hadron Collider black hole the crazies said would end the world.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Thirty dollars says they are doing that on purpose to fuck with people.

 

[FlameUnquenchable]

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

The reason is that they could create an extremely large energy source that could help global energy needs, reduce more hazardous means of creating energy, and allow for even more development in countries that are poor, so on and so forth.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

this is similar to what happened last year(i think) in switzerland. where there are only 2 outcomes: nothing will happen at all or END OF THE WORLD.
I lol'd at "The expected date for the end of their research: the end of 2012"

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

You know if scientist went ahead and did this stuff and then told people afterwards (i.e after everything goes fine, as it most certainly will) then there would be no problem.

The problem only occurs when they announce this stuff way in advance and give all the idiots time to crawl out of the woodwork and start shouting unfounded, unintelligent theories about how this experiment will go wrong and destroy the world.

Its the Hadron Super Collider all over again.

 

[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

Didn't they mention an incredibly powerful new energy source? That's the reason they are making the star.

But didnt they also say the star itself is gonna die right away?

 

[ArcWinter]

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

Didn't they mention an incredibly powerful new energy source? That's the reason they are making the star.

But didnt they also say the star itself is gonna die right away?

Yes, but the star is an experiment to see if the technology succeeds. If it does, then in 20 years or so this could be a sustainable energy source.

With proper funding, of course.

 

[ClassicJokester]

I think I'll cut my ears off before I die if the world happens to end in 2012, because otherwise I'd never hear the end of it. That'd be a dick move, God, just so you know.
I would laugh if the world ends in 2013 though. That'd be a good one.

 

[tehweave]

Isn't this how Spiderman 2 started?

Yes.

 

[quiet_samurai]

What do you think an nuclear weapon does? It pretty much creates a tiny star for a brief moment as well.

 

[RedFox042]

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.

Shhhh I wasn't telling them that bit!

 

[Wicky_42]

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.

Shhhh I wasn't telling them that bit!

Interesting plan...

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I can think of much better ways to use this laser...aim it at a certain South Australian.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

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 always. A star needs to be of a particular size and needs to collapse at a particular speed to form a black hole. More likely, whatever they create will go nova, which would be dangerous if it wasn't so small. Failing that, it could just burn out. Stars do that on occasion- that's what dwarf stars are, basically.

And if it did create a black hole, it'd be so small that it probably wouldn't last very long.

If Stephen Hawking is to be believed, the smaller the black hole the quicker it "evaporates". Very technically, his proposed process is actually the result of matter/anti-matter annihilation.