Comments on: We’re All Gonna Die! http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/ Feisty fresh rants from a Wyoming libertarian Republican Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:29:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: skip lunch http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-110 skip lunch Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:18:04 +0000 http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-110 no mind, never matter. no matter, nevermind! no mind, never matter. no matter, nevermind!

]]> By: Boris Kafka http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-106 Boris Kafka Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:52:24 +0000 http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-106 “People both inside and outside of the physics community have voiced concern that the LHC might trigger one of several theoretical disasters capable of destroying the Earth or even the entire Universe.” Does it matter? How would you know if and when it happened? Anyone that follows quantum theory could argue that this may have already happened as there is the possibility that time actually travels backward. Assuming that time does not travel backwards and this does destroy the universe, who cares? We would be instantly compressed to something so unimaginably small. Reminds me of a Flaming Lips song "one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning" Add a whole bunch of zero's behind the "million billionth" and that is how quickly you will be nothing. Life is short. Make today mean something. Tomorrow you could be nothing... again. “People both inside and outside of the physics community have voiced concern that the LHC might trigger one of several theoretical disasters capable of destroying the Earth or even the entire Universe.”

Does it matter? How would you know if and when it happened? Anyone that follows quantum theory could argue that this may have already happened as there is the possibility that time actually travels backward.

Assuming that time does not travel backwards and this does destroy the universe, who cares? We would be instantly compressed to something so unimaginably small. Reminds me of a Flaming Lips song “one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning” Add a whole bunch of zero’s behind the “million billionth” and that is how quickly you will be nothing. Life is short. Make today mean something. Tomorrow you could be nothing… again.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-88 Shawn Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:39:55 +0000 http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-88 "Micro black holes." Sounds cool to me. “Micro black holes.” Sounds cool to me.

]]> By: Michael W. Dean http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-83 Michael W. Dean Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:01:49 +0000 http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-83 >At 12:53 AM 8/28/2007, Julie wrote: >Hold on hold on hold on, >you mean to tell me that the INVENTOR of the INTERNET MWD replied: The Web, not the Internet. >personally sent you a message back saying "you're welcome"? Yes. >I am so impressed! Do you still have it? No. That was about six computers ago. I also sent a fan e-mail to Doug Engelbart, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart the guy who invented the mouse, and he also wrote me back. MWD >At 12:53 AM 8/28/2007, Julie wrote:
>Hold on hold on hold on,
>you mean to tell me that the INVENTOR of the INTERNET

MWD replied:
The Web, not the Internet.

>personally sent you a message back saying “you’re
welcome”?

Yes.

>I am so impressed! Do you still have it?

No. That was about six computers ago.

I also sent a fan e-mail to Doug Engelbart,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
the guy who invented the mouse, and he also wrote me back.

MWD

]]> By: Michael W. Dean http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-80 Michael W. Dean Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:55:04 +0000 http://www.stinkfight.com/2007/08/27/we%e2%80%99re-all-gonna-die/#comment-80 Neat! Fermilab should be good in the competition with CERN. Didn't Fermilab have a core meltdown in the early days of atomic energy? I recall some quote about "We almost lost Chicago...." By the way, the World Wide Web was invented at CERN, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_Science_and_CERN by Tim Berners Lee. I once wrote Lee a fan e-mail thanking him. He wrote back and said "you're welcome" and more. It was cool. Neat!

Fermilab should be good in the competition with CERN. Didn’t Fermilab have a core meltdown in the early days of atomic energy? I recall some quote about “We almost lost Chicago….”

By the way, the World Wide Web was invented at CERN,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Computer_Science_and_CERN
by Tim Berners Lee.

I once wrote Lee a fan e-mail thanking him. He wrote back and said “you’re welcome” and more. It was cool.

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