A fond farewell to you one and all...

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Wenchy

Musings from my daughter who is SO far away. The voice of reason?

What fun is reason? Speculation is where it's at! Wild speculation!

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by desertrat

I think it will be a year or so before they actually collide particles. Then it will be like "The Mist". Or else we may start a new universe. I mean someone started this one right? Some advanced civilization assuring the population there was nothing to worry about.
I may buy that new Grady White after all.

I bought an Oreck right before January 2000 and blew 38K on a new SUV right after 9/11. Go for it...but sell me your old one super cheap first.

[Kerad (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Beth_kennedy

I never implied that. I did imply that there could be unknown risks and will throw on top of that, they may even know of risks but feel they outweigh the better good.

Maybe this will help.

The safety of the LHC

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LSAG reaffirms and extends the conclusions of the 2003 report that LHC collisions present no danger and that there are no reasons for concern. Whatever the LHC will do, Nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies.
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Originally Posted by Kerad

Maybe this will help.

The safety of the LHC

Kerad, thanks and I am sure once it is done and over I will be laughing at myself for being such a worrywart, but from what I have seen and experienced unknown risks can occur not to mention the fact that some projects where internal knew of the risks and decided to sweep them under the rug so the project would not die.

[Dougstermd (Premo)]

Originally Posted by pcjohnnyb

well, are we talking about MY heaven...or the non-sinner heaven? I think we'd have two different perceptions of what eternal-happiness means

So the theory "god made dirt dirt won't hurt" does not apply to this situation???

[Wenchy (Premo)]

I read too many sci-fi books and horror novels/movies.

Here we go...Weeeeeeeeeee!

[Cowgirl]

My ADD attention span won't allow me to absorb what I just read on that THC website. Can someone please explain what this atom-smashing is all about?

[Kerad (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Beth_kennedy

Kerad, thanks and I am sure once it is done and over I will be laughing at myself for being such a worrywart, but from what I have seen and experienced unknown risks can occur not to mention the fact that some projects where internal knew of the risks and decided to sweep them under the rug so the project would not die.

No problem.

With all the rampant speculation and doomsdayers out there about it, it's no wonder there's concern.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Beth_kennedy

I never implied that. I did imply that there could be unknown risks and will throw on top of that, they may even know of risks but feel they outweigh the better good.

just think about how many times scientists have said OOPS after the fact in the past.

we gonna die.

make sure to have on clean underwear tonight when you go to bed,, I have no idea what difference it will make, but my mother always warned me that wearing dirty underwear would make me get hit by a bus or something and then everyone at the hospital would laugh at me
she found no humor the day she said that and I told her that if a bus was going to hit me, my clean underwear would be dirty just seconds before impact anyway.

Originally Posted by Kerad

No problem.

With all the rampant speculation and doomsdayers out there about it, it's no wonder there's concern.

Occupational hazard too, (mine not theirs)