Broken Toys

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy. We’s a-goin’ home.

Does that include the RNC?

Shades of Metal Gear Solid 3-esque ‘You’ve created a time paradox!’ start floating around with this grand revelation.

“* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.”

Shouldn’t even an extremely low possibility be considered a 100% possibility?

“The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 – a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance.”

*translate geek to redneck*

“Hey guys, watch this!”

This is not good. Referencing this site: http://qntm.org/destroy we can see that option #3 provides us with a 3/10 chance of destroying the earth which is exactly what these people are doing. Damned New Zealanders.

If you check the chance of intentionally destroying the planet, the chance of doom is several orders of magnitude higher.

THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO HIT RESET.

Hmm. Perhaps it’s time we learned to ‘take off every zig’

“Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen. “

Where’s James Franciscus when you need him?

Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer disagreed on one key issue during the Manhattan Project. Teller, you see, wasn’t entirely sure that recreating the powerful heat and energy of the sun on the face of the Earth wouldn’t ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere and turn the planet into an ocean of fire.
Oppenheimer was more optimistic. Aren’t we fortunate that it worked out?

How can they estimate the risk at 10 to the minus 40 if they have no idea what will happen?

“”For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction”

Graduate Science schools really need a required course in things you don’t say to reporters.

“We don’t know what 95 per cent of the universe is made of – which is a bit embarrassing for a subject that claims to be fundamental.”

I think accidentally destroying the planet would be a bit more embarassing.

“Oops. Sorry about that.”

Surprised no one’s brought up a Terry Pratchett quote yet. Such as:

“Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

That Terry Pratchett quote?

For real.

We are Doomed.

BTW, Didn’t Doom the game start out with the opening dimensions bit? …

That Gizmo even LOOKS like it should open a portal to hell. Awesome.

As someone who works on the extreme fringe of the particle physics scientific community, and have heard lots of chatter about CERN in recent years, I have never heard one person speak as breathlessly of the LHC as that fellow.

The dominant opinion seems to be guarded optimism. “Yeah, it’ll be great.. when they can actually get the thing to work.” There seems to be some doubt it’ll actually function at any useful capacity when they turn it on next year.

Moral of the story, outlook is grim for interdimensional portals in 2007.

“There has never been such a jump in particle physics. It will go into an area that we don’t really understand,” he added.

So we’re boldly going where no man has gone before? And this is important because…?

Besides, it’s not like they have any test subjects to try it out. Besides, if it’s unknown what will happen who knows what might become of us?

Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results. Two: it seems I am the only person left on Earth.

Sounds worse than it is, and we’ve apparently walked down a similar road before.

That said, at some point we will be able to build a doomsday device, and it will likely be a scientists going ‘Oops..’ right before we all die.

Pick up box.
Smash box on floor.
Pick up crowbar.
Walk through glass to next level.
Cry.