"Blackhole Machine" Suicide

by Thomas

Posted: 16 years ago 22 replies

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A young girl so terrified of the doomsday predictions about the Large Hadron Collider experiment that she killed herself just before it was activated:

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Girl suicide 'over Big Bang fear'

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HeySal 16 years ago

Incredible. I suppose we should get used to that kind of thing......if the conspiracy theorists are right and Bush lets that hologram of flying saucers hit the skies, chaos will ensue. Look at what the War of the Worlds broadcast did - and that was on Halloween so you'd think people might have suspected it was a story, even if they didn't hear the disclaimers.

People flip extremely easily. It's so easy to scare people witless that you can make them stampede like cattle. It just boggles my mind that they can graze through some things that are going on for real right now - and that which we don't even know for certain is dangerous will cause this type of reaction.
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Ephrils 16 years ago

The Orson Wells thing is a great comparison. There's so much that's supposed to happen in the next 4 years. I was just thinking that in the cosmic order of things 4 years is quicker than the blink of an eye.

The Hadron Collider, the mock Alien invasion you're touching on, the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy on the Winter Solstice.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.
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- ThomM 16 years ago
  
  So being afraid to die, she killed herself?
  
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  Thomas 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ThomM
  
  So being afraid to die, she killed herself?
  
  Actually, when you put it like that... (Now, I KNOW I'm going the Hell!)
  
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  Patrician 16 years ago
  
  well at least she doesn't have to worry anymore:rolleyes:
  
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Thomas Wilkinson 16 years ago

Doesn't the Mayan calender end on December
21st, 2012?

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- HeySal 16 years ago
  
  Sure - and they didn't foresee their culture was going to end so no one was around to print the new one.
  
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- GeorgettaSterling 16 years ago
  
  Technically, the Mayan calendar "runs out" in 2012. It didn't really "end", they just didn't have a reason to keep calculating it out (this was something like 1000 years ago...). The computer calendar ended in 1999, but the earth continued on after that too.
  
  I am not surprised by this story about this girl killing herself. I am disappointed, but not surprised. I avoid the news, but if you watch, it is nothing but FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. All the big media outlets push the fear button endlessly. People have only a couple of possible responses to that - become numb, live in terror, or self-destruct. Sadly this girl chose self-destruction.
  
  I attended a presentation by a scientist from Fermilab (probably the first supercollider, maybe 30 years old) and he said there was huge opposition to the supercollider there - dire predictions about how it would end the world. He pointed out that smashing two subatomic particles together couldn't possibly do that, and much more energetic particles are AT THIS VERY MOMENT smashing into each other naturally, all over the world. The supercollider just lets scientists record data, as opposed to the natural incidents that are random.
  
  High energy particles are, at this very moment, zipping right THROUGH you. They have been since you were conceived.
  
  When they where going to detonate the first atomic bombs, so-called "credible" scientists claimed that it would create a chain reaction that would vaporize the entire planet. Yet 100 year old physics, and experience with small nuclear events (such as pushing together two U235 bars and initiating a nuclear reaction right on a counter top) showed that wasn't even possible.
  
  Some scientists said rockets could never work in space because they "didn't have an atmosphere to push against." They apparently missed Physics 101 about "momentum" and "mass transfer" and the fact that rockets couldn't possibly work by "pushing against air."
  
  People really need to get a sense of scale before jumping up and down in terror. We are talking about smashing two little atoms together (at most) and more likely just a couple of subatomic particles. That won't unleash some "giant" effect. If you initiated fission of one uranium ATOM you wouldn't get much effect. Fuse two deuterium atoms together and you don't get much either. Warm a beaker by a few degrees. Your TV (if it uses a cathode ray tube) has been accelerating electrons and smashing them into a phosphor screen for decades. At most, you get a little spec of light.
  
  If they were smashing two stars together, I would say "hey, let's worry." But two atoms?
  
  Just saying. Sigh. I am sure it won't change anyone's panic about the impending doom from Hadron or 2012 or global warming or aliens or whatever. And that is just the way that the politicians and big corporations want it to be.
  
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- John Rogers 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Thomas Wilkinson
  
  Doesn't the Mayan calender end on December
  21st, 2012?
  
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  Shit! Five days before my birthday.
  
  Do you think I can get the end of the world postponed for a week?
  
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  myob 16 years ago
  
  Unlike the Mayan calendar, our calendar can go up to 9999. Then it just starts over.
  
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  gareth 16 years ago
  
  I want to see the grid thingy in action.
  
  I want my own 5 gb per second internet.
  
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  Kay King 16 years ago
  
  Do you think I can get the end of the world postponed for a week?
  
  Just to be safe you might want to celebrate a week early - at least you'll be certain of having time to open your presents.
  
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ktworks 16 years ago

Well I think media have played huge part to make this thing controversial and in result they got the good TRP in television and good traffic in their internet version.

Just imagine why country like USA and France will finance it obviously we will be able to see some good results. And every new thing demand some kind of sacrifice and this is universal truth.
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ulogo

16 years ago

Yeah this done and effect of it will come after one month. I am eagerly waiting to see the results. As in our country it showing that this one is one of the big experiment by human being.

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Ephrils

16 years ago

Originally Posted by espacecadet

"Sure - and they didn't foresee their culture was going to end so no one was around to print the new one." Sal

Damn. Now where am I going to get a new Mayan calender to replace the old one at the end of 2012?!

The Mayan Calendar is actually set upon a wheel. So by it's very nature suggests a cycle from the ending of one to the next. The Hopi Indians believe the world has been destroyed and renewed 4 times in the past, and we're on the drink of the 5th world.

No one is specific as to what causes this end, though it is likely cosmic event far powerful than things we can produce, so I don't think this LHC will be powerful enough to end the cycle.

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bendiggs 16 years ago

The Large Hadron Collider was fierd up and shooting protons clockwise and counterclockwise around the entire 17 mile run on Wednesday. When Vladislav says that the experiment doesn't start until October he is sort of correct. There will be no particle collisions for another three weeks or so. After the first round of particle collisions we will know a lot more about what to expect from the collider.

Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er!
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Cerys 16 years ago

This was rather silly. I think that we have come a long way since the war of the worlds days-I would hope that people are a little more used to what the media can do now.
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johnymartin11 16 years ago

They flash news in such a way that any one can get scare. Something like atomic explosion, half burned bodies and many more. So I think there is a need to impliment a line which these media should respect.

Seems to me that they are in the blind race and just want to grab the market as much as they want.
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- Kay King 16 years ago
  
  after watching local TV reports that the experiment would cause the "Earth to crack up and everybody in the village would die
  
  And we think OUR news media is bad!
  
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  myob 16 years ago
  
  When the first atomic bomb was developed, many scientists believed it would ignite the atmosphere and incinerate the whole world. As it turned out, it only killed 100,000 people.
  
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  Kay King 16 years ago
  
  Which is what it was designed to do....
  
  And long before that it was common knowledge that if you sailed too far, you would fall off the edge of the earth.
  
  Thankfully, the fear of what "might" happen is countered by the curiosity of scientists to see what happens. Otherwise - would we ever try anything new?
  
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Thomas Wilkinson 16 years ago

"it ONLY killed 100,000 people" now THERE
is a quote.

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