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Doomsday Watch, Sort Of

Monitor Large Hadron Collider's Magnet Temperatures With Real Time Status Website

Yeah, yeah, the Large Hadron Collider is in no real danger of accidentally opening up a black hole that swallows the world when it's finally fired up on August 7. We know. But still, we sometimes like to pretend it is, and this is where Cern's LHC cooldown status website comes in. Using it you can track the current temperatures of its 1600+ superconducting magnets in real time. But what should you be looking for? More »

9:30 AM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By John Mahoney
12,053 views, 42 comments

Latest by n/a: Do you know what you get when you mix high energy colliders with Professor Otto Rossler?s charged micro black hole theory? Answer: a golf ball (in 50 months to 50 years...) [translate.google.com] more »

pentagon report

Paper Sheet Protects World from Nuclear Holocaust

A report released this month by the Pentagon has revealed the truth behind the B-52 bomber—loaded with six live nuclear warheads—flying over the US, a mistake that could have had catastrophic consequences. Their explanation: a 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of printed paper used to differentiate between nuclear and conventional missiles. Really, it can't get any more absurd than this: More »

7:45 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Jesus Diaz
21,101 views, 109 comments

Latest by ScramDiggyBooBoo: So when it is "accidentally" dropped, do we enter Nuclear War and retaliate against the Russians thinking it was them, cause after all, noone knew about the nukes missing for 36 HOURS! Thats the sad part. " Wait a minute, i more »

nuclear war

Germany Titanic Doomsday Bunker Is Groovy, Surprisingly Not Full of Nazis

Here's where the West German political elite was planning to spend nuclear winter, drinking Martinis and having toga parties after armageddon, waiting to see who emerged victorious from a worldwide thermonuclear war: a gigantic nuclear bunker with 17 kilometers of tunnels equipped with all kinds of commodities.

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9:20 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Jesus Diaz
23,624 views, 36 comments

doomsday clock

Countdown Clock Sets Your Goal, Hollywood Style

Here's another spin on that countdown clock idea, but this one takes more of a Hollywood movie star approach. Decide your goal from among the few printed strips of paper included (or go ahead and make your own), slide that goal into the slot on the front of this clock, enter the day and year of your big special occasion, and you're off and counting. More »

3:15 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Charlie White
3,118 views, 3 comments

gadgets

Doomsday Plane: A Floating Pentagon 'Just in Case'

Think your ride is cool? I bet it's no match for the National Airborne Operations Center, no matter how pimped out yours is. Known colloquially as the "Doomsday Plane," the Boeing 747 is outfitted enough to be considered a floating Pentagon. (In the event of a devastating attack upon the United States, the Doomsday Plane serves as a mobile Pentagon.) It's got enough food, water, fuel, etc. to stay afloat for days on end. To top it off, about a dozen of the most "relevant" war plans are always onboard. Watch your ass, Sealand. More »

10:11 AM on Mon Jan 15 2007
By Gizloco
4,436 views, 21 comments

Latest by tlaloc: It makes me feel much better that, should nuclear war break out the (expletive deleted) undoubtedly at least half responsible for it, will get to watch from a safe distance while we all fry, while eating Fritos bought with your more »

gadgets

What If All Humans Vanished?

Our recent ruminations about nuclear weapons and who's got 'em/who doesn't got us to thinking about apocalypse. It's the stuff of science fiction, but what would happen if all of a sudden there were no people on Earth? The Times of London put together a timeline of what the Earth would look like 20 years from now, 100 years from now, all the way up to 200,000 years from now, if humans simply vanished. More »

1:29 PM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By Charlie White
1,455 views, 37 comments