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[Mizango]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26641652/


Updated 11:03 a.m. CT, Wed., Sept. 10, 2008

BHOPAL, India - A teenage girl in central India killed herself on Wednesday after being traumatized by media reports that a "Big Bang" experiment in Europe could bring about the end of the world, her father said.

The 16-year old girl from the state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said.Her father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programs."In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on September 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying."We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he said.

For the past two days, many Indian news channels held discussions airing doomsday predictions over a huge particle-smashing machine buried under the Swiss-French border.
The machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on on Wednesday, at the start of what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.
The machine smashes particles together to achieve, on a small-scale, re-enactments of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

Leading scientists and researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said the experiment was safe. They dismissed as "pure fiction" doomsday predictions that the experiment could create anti-matter, or black holes.

But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks associated with it spread rapidly through the media.In east India, thousands of people rushed to temples to pray and fast while others savored their favorite foods in anticipation of the world's end."There were a thousand more devotees yesterday as well as today compared to (any) other normal day," Benudhara Sahu, a temple official in Orissa state, told Reuters.

Many women and children rushed to temples and observed fasts as they prayed for deliverance, officials and witnesses said.Assurances by scientists and the media that nothing would happen counted for nothing for housewife Rukmini Moharana."I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."


/sigh. Again? Really? I liked when I was the only one of the people I was the only one in my family and amongst my friends that knew and understood Particle Physics. It seems everyone now has to chime in on shit they know absolutely nothing about.

I know I am going to come off as an asshole for saying this but I really hope people see her as a Martyr and decide to follow her into the abyss. I can understand logical concern but c'mon, really? Lemming effect initiate.


"I visited temple, prayed to god," Moharana said. "I am observing the fast for safety because god can only save us."

/facepalm

[Palin]

Who says natural selection is extinct?

[Mizango]

Amen. lol

[HAcoreRD]

The chances the experiment can end the world are slim. Even then, it'd likely open a black hole and we'd all be crushed by such a gravity force we'd never feel it

[Draggy]

Who says natural selection is extinct?

qft

been so annoyed today with all these ppl going on about black holes and the end of the earth lol. I just find it interesting but i am a bit of a science nerd

[Correction]

The chances the experiment can end the world are slim. Even then, it'd likely open a black hole and we'd all be crushed by such a gravity force we'd never feel it

That or Hawking radiation is real and the hole would decay too fast to do damage.

[Priran]

what the fuck is wrong with india

[zoobernut]

I am so excited I cannot wait till October or whenever they are going to start the full scale experiments. Go Collider!

[zoobernut]

That or Hawking radiation is real and the hole would decay too fast to do damage.

Had to touch on this because I believe they have already created mini black holes in other colliders on a very small scale and due to Hawking radiation or some other unknown factor the black holes quickly decayed into nothing.

Edit: Oops sorry for the double post.

[Zalius]

what the fuck is wrong with india

idk maybe its cause theyre fuckin all indian

[Rivieras]

Who says natural selection is extinct?

QFT

[Priran]

idk maybe its cause theyre fuckin all indian

[Azkarin2]

Anyone else say it in their mind as Colander? I can't be the only one, can I?

[Lbelle]

idk maybe its cause theyre fuckin all indian

wow, lololol. Also:

http://jagadguru.in/2007/04/20/it-ha...in-india-baby/

[Eston]

Wow... what a great Darwin Award.

[Fhqwghads]

You know, you'd think that evolution and progressive thinking would have advanced us as human beings beyond the point of viewing relatively complex technology as the work of the devil. Apparently for some of us that hasn't happened. Oh well, good riddance.

[Woozie]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!































someday

[Mizango]

That's what I'm talking about Woozie, why off yourself over nothing lol. So whats good man? Hadn't seen you in a while.

[Woozie]

I'm not on MSN much anymore every since school started, but I still need to catch up to you to get that Higgs Boson documentary you were talking about. Are you going to be on AIM/MSN at all tonight?

[Kaylia]

I don't understand the point of killing yourself before the end of the world? Couldnt you just let the world do it 1 day later? Killing myself sound painful, and I would rather not do it.