BS: Big Bang Day

Subject: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:10 AM

Is that a Higgs Boson you've got in your pocket, or are you just pleased to Big Bang me?

Make it quick, there are only 20 minutes left.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:13 AM

What if they bang a whole new universe into being and it blows this one completely away?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:19 AM

Especially if the new one starts exactly where the old one left off- the Universe could come to an end AND WE COULDN'T TELL.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:21 AM

Do they ever think of these things when they design their little toys?!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:24 AM

But in the parallel universes it creates I wouldn't have got divorced - because I wouldn't have married "thing".

I can't wait to slip into that universe.

As they say - use your branes.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:37 AM

The thread title gave me quite a thrill at first...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 04:28 AM

Large Hadron Collider, sounds like an Indie Band. It can't be that important The Sun (UK Tabloid) is featuring Posh Beck's new hairstyle.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:03 AM

All this stuff about it resulting in The End Of The World seems to be grounded less in the science of nuclear physics than in the science of selling tabloid newspapers.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:30 AM

This will no more end the world than the first atom bomb did. But it does sell papers.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:36 AM

Well - did anyopne feel the earth move?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:39 AM

I'm listening to NPR intently as they describe the Hadron collider and then they go to a recorded audio of the countdown that occured 4 hours ago; "5 4 3 2 1 0YAAAAY" then the radio went dead. I switched to Pacifica, no signal, I turned off the car radio and came inside. The battery radio did not get any FM stations below 84.

They came back 5 minutes later.


damn black holes sucked my signals.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:46 AM

"Large Hadron Collider, sounds like an Indie Band."

The Wikipedia Band Game:

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2. Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3. Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

Middle picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.



This may need its own thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rasener
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:54 AM

My autistic daughter has taken this issue literally and is so scared and we can't convince her that it will be OK

Damn the shit stirrers

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Lox
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:02 AM

But didn't you know that tabloid editors understand the science much better than these irresponsible specky geeks and their dangerous experiments?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:05 AM

There's a Black Hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: olddude
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:44 AM

It just happened, I am reading the thread backwards ... now it is sliding off my screen ... doomed I say doomed

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:49 AM

You old fool - you are standing on your head with your glasses on backwards. Get a grip!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: GUEST,Fife
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:50 AM

A waste of a ridiculous amount of money that could be better used. Billions spent on a fun day out for a handful of university bores.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: olddude
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:01 AM

sins
you are right thank you, now I can see it clearly

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:11 AM

I can see clearly now, the air has gone....

I ain't worried cuz I live in Idaho an' we don't care what them Yurpean syentists do. 'Sides, we got five (5) nuklur selleraters rite here in town and the whole damned Idyho Nashunal Labradory out bout sixty miles from here. They got more nuklur re-akters out there than you kin shake a stick at.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:19 AM

Ruth- cool game!
My band name : Yamil Chade
My album name: The horse will go along, too. (I had to add "the horse" for interest)

My photo is a blue broken-down house.

I love it!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:40 AM

My band is Bernadino MB-3 Tamoyo
Album is "Out of personal opinions" (I actually kinda like that!)

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: GUEST,Joe P somewhere else
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:57 AM

My band - Better Than Chocolate
Album - Can Only Be Given

and the photo is a snow white figure kissing one of the seven dwarves.

Couldnt do better if I tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 11:06 AM

"A waste of a ridiculous amount of money that could be better used. Billions spent on a fun day out for a handful of university bores."


I strongly suspect that something similar was said about the first guy to toy with a wheel.

Followed by "Nothing good will come of this."

Read about the implications..in fact, nevermind. It will probably be a waste of your time.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 11:30 AM

I'm disappointed- I thought it was the Large Hardon Collider.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 11:52 AM

Band: The Cairns Post

Album: Keeps On Writing Prose

Album Cover

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 12:07 PM

Band: Kelambakkam
Album title: Side in a quarrel
Cover: A peaceful grove of trees.

I had to do the band name twice because the first one was Topsider, which was already a band.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 12:11 PM

Band: Muhwagwa

Album title: To Fulfilling Your Dreams

Photo: Table set with full English breakfast, tourist brochures and air tickets for Japan

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Alice
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 12:14 PM

band name "Pilgrimage Centers"

album "our adversaries are insane"

coverclick for image

This is fun!
Yes, it needs its own thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 12:53 PM

Hey this is Big Bang Day not Big Band Gay

sheesh..........

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:24 PM

Now I'm really miffed. I was promised the world would end today so I spent all my money! And that Geoffrey is why we haven't got any honest :0)














What shoes????

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:41 PM

These scares are not new.

year, 1952..me, on my paper route, find a tiny tabloid magazine about 4"x6" (well, I picked it up because it had Marilyn Monroe on the cover)..but one article was titled: "Can the H-Bomb destroy the world?"
...the answer: Um...we dunno, but rhetorical questions about it helps sell magazines.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 03:56 PM

Hello, Ruth and everybody.
My band's called Correctness
Our Album's Called Themselves Contend In Vain
My cover is an old bloke leaning on a fence with his back to camera.
(Sorry I couldn't do the clicky thing)

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 04:11 PM

My band is going to play Celtic-Cajun Klezmer. Just think of those DJs trying to say, "Kelambakkam: Celtic-Cajun Klezmer" and not injuring themselves in the process.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 04:33 PM

One more cosmological pun and I'll implode.





Anyone remember the TV show Time Tunnel?

It sure looks like their stage set

you don't suppose...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 04:42 PM

Have some people actually taken the tongue-in-cheek playing around in this thread seriously? My goodness!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:29 PM

I wonder how much power this little toy uses? Bet their electricity meter didn't half whizz round when they switched it on.

And they tell the rest of us to switch off the stand-by on our TV's because it's a terrible waste of energy? Beam me up Scotty, beam me up...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 06:31 PM

!reguoy gnitteg m'I ylnedduS.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 06:51 PM

fat B****rd

You got the wrong thread... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 07:01 PM

!reguoy gnitteg m'I ylnedduS.



I am falling around over here....*that is *so* funny! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:07 PM

I get my yougers at the bakery downtown. Where did you get yours, Rapaire?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: GUEST,Brian Stein
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:00 PM

not exactly spectacular today:


big bang ?



more like a wet fart!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 09:10 PM

Funny, all the bosons around here seem to be just fine, and....wait...there's something...NO...help! I'm too young and

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 10:38 PM

Did King Hadron sit in a boson's chair?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 08:43 AM

The particles are flying around in both directions now. Just a matter of a few weeks before we see. Very exciting stuff when you are getting updates periodically from the press. But I wonder who gets to sit and watch them go round and round and round like clothes in a dryer.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: MaineDog
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 11:03 AM

Dan Brown has done considerable research on modern particle physics and potential problems. Read "Angels and Demons"
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 08:39 AM

Due to an unusual temporal flux the first test of the Hadron will be in about 2 weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 04:09 AM

My Band - Modes of Limited Transposition
Album - New one holds water
and the picture - aptly enough - the Higgs Boson thingy!

To be honest, I didn't know about it and thus my world is not ending.

Bugger.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bang Day
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 10:19 AM

If a boson falls in a forest, and there's no collector to document it, do we have to mobilize Boy Scouts to find it?