http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

Awesome peice of engineering - and here’s me being confused by a standard domestic lighting circuit…

I love some of the comments at the bottom:

“83:  by their calculations, there’s a 1 in 50 million chance of creating a black hole and consuming the earth. there are 6.6 billion people alive on the earth. turning this thing on is the moral equivalent of killing 132 people. nobels all around!

Posted by jee August 1, 08 05:42 PM”

AMD PhenomII X6 1090T 3.21GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Radeon 5800 1GB, Windows7 64bit

I’ve dusted off my hazard suit and charged the battery.

Has anyone seen my crowbar?

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

A comment below the pics: “Don’t worry, they have confirmed that the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth is quite small.”

Good to know there’s a better chance of destroying the solar system than winning the lottery.

Edit: another good one:

“4th photo....

Man 1: So, you ready to blow up the world today, Ralph?
Man 2: *sigh* Might as well, Bob. Might as well.”

wade s

Max 8 (no mo) & 9 (solo) SP2
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Quadro FX 3400

CERN’s LHC ‘First Beam’ to be broadcast live on Wednesday

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/...adcast-live-on-wednesday/

Michel (aka Mike)
software engineer by day...3D interest by night
Max v7
hardware: who cares