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    Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level

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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    So if CERN is Black Mesa, just who is Aperture Science? #cernhalflife
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    I hope they have some big doors there that lock tight, to hold all the aliens in there.

    But, the vortigons (sp?), can actually be useful and go into the medical industry. Since they revived Alyx after her enounter with the hunter. #cernhalflife
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    Not sure about that. I don't see the crowbar... #cernhalflife
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    As a guy named Gordon -- and a Gordon who has worked at particle accelerators before, and is wearing a SLAC hoodie at this very moment, at that -- I completely agree with this assessment. #cernhalflife
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    spannu promoted this comment Gordonium was starred Gordonium was unstarred
    Image of Jackhole Jackhole
    10/30/09

    In reply to Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level
    Needs more boxes and 50 gallon barrels. And headcrabs. #cernhalflife
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    dingus promoted this comment Jackhole was starred Jackhole was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    10/30/09

    @Jackhole: The halls in the basement of the local University's physics department are lined with big crates, usually marked with some indication that it had once shipped some sort of big honking laser. #cernhalflife
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    10/31/09

    @dingus: Clearly CERN needs some instruction from your local Univ. They also need more dangling, sparking electrical wires. #cernhalflife
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    Image of bonedog73 bonedog73
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Can I download the plans for this off the interwebs? I'm going to build one in my back yard, then maybe my jacknumber neighbors will move away! #lhcrepairs
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    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Not before my birthday I'm not! Nov 18 - Oh yes, I'm a Scorpio. I'm such a selfish bastard that all I can think about is my gifts, which ammount to zero.

    Let's just hope it breaks again. I just want to live long enough to see SSD prices drop. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Well, I'm doing the one thing this weekend I really thought I'd never ever do in my entire life: act on a theatre play.

    So... that sounds about right. The world really had to end after that. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    So what you're saying is, I don't have to worry about Christmas shopping? #lhcrepairs
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    10/28/09

    They'll be too late to destroy the world, for I, Professor Chaos and my assistant General Disarray (and our minions) have already put our devious plan into action. The world should be destroyed any minute now... #lhcrepairs
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/28/09

    @kfonda: Cool. Thanks. Aaaaany mimute now. All righty. (Checks watch) Coming up. Any minute. (pause) So, you get the tin foil for your mask from Reynold's Wrap, or Ding Dong wrappers or what? #lhcrepairs
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    10/28/09

    @badhatharry: aww shucks, looks like Mysterion and The Coon have foiled my plan this time but rest assured my next plan wont fail. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/28/09

    @kfonda: So what you're saying is, I do have to worry about Christmas shopping? Thanks a lot, Professor. You've marginally inconvenienced me once again. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Hopefully I get to see the reaction of other people getting sucked into the black hole before getting sucked in myself. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of TailsNZ TailsNZ
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Right now high school boys around the world and probably showing this to high school girls, hoping they'll get lucky like that guy in the Australian school earlier this year. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/28/09

    @TailsNZ: yeah, cuz high school girls aren't just giving it up for jelly bracelets. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    Well that’s just peachy!!!!

    I had plans for November! #lhcrepairs
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    Image of jgeezy jgeezy
    10/28/09

    In reply to LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying Universe Yet Again
    well according to Nostradamus and the ancient Mayans, they will have another setback that will keep them from flipping the switch until December 2012. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/28/09

    @jgeezy: Dear lord, do people still think the Mayans "predicted" the end of the world because they didn't carve the next iteration of their calendar that wouldn't be usable for over 2000 years? Do you think the world will end in the middle of 2010 because your 2009 calendar ends then?

    [skeptoid.com] #lhcrepairs
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    Image of jgeezy jgeezy
    10/28/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: uhh..yeah bub i was being sarcastic. I watch History channel. #lhcrepairs
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    10/12/09

    In reply to She's Got It Where It Counts, Kid: LHC Hyperdrive Testing a Possibility
    That's actually really, really interesting. Basically, the way a space vehicle works is you fling stuff out the back. The exhaust gains some momentum in one direction and you get an equal amount of momentum in the direction you want to go. Chemical rockets work by shooting large amounts of propellant (exhaust) out the back at low speeds. Electrical rockets work by shooting out a lot less propellant, at much higher speeds. The amount of momentum you gain for a given amount of propellant is known as specific impulse, and generally the bigger number the better. Increasing specific impulse can have a huge impact on the fuel requirements for a given mission, which is why electrical engines (with very high specific impulses) are so interesting.

    But what Hilbert proposed is that you can actually get MORE momentum out of your propellant than you put in, if your exhaust speed is above half the speed of light. Now usually what relativity giveth, relativity taketh away. But assuming that there aren't any gotchas that make this useless in practical terms (big assumption), it could point the way toward engine designs which require an order of magnitude less fuel than even fancy shmancy electrical engines.
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    Image of jp.rider63 jp.rider63
    10/12/09

    @jepzilla: Doesn't this break conservation of energy, assuming there is only kinetic energy? Do you know where an english copy of the paper is?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/11/09

    In reply to She's Got It Where It Counts, Kid: LHC Hyperdrive Testing a Possibility
    All the drama surrounding this thing isnt helping We, the Paranoid Public, feel any better about it.
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