Large Hardon Collider

[Neosutra]

I love Flagstaff Denchi, currently in Tucson myself.

[Mizango]

Nat Geo is showing an special on "Worlds toughest fixes" where they are showing the repairs on the LHC, its on right now and an encore should be on around midnight or so.

Insane seeing them check 17 miles of pipe for a bad magnet or a gas leak the size of a pin hole.

[Mizango]

Yay! They are talking about the rovers spirit and oppurtunity that are on Mars and about the presence of water ice and salt. Yep good old plain jane salt all over Mars.

If you haven't seen it it's a good show and talks about what we have found on the Red Planet.

[Woozie]

The universe around us is the best example of beauty one can find. I myself will never be able to get over the first time I saw the effects of Ĉerenkov radiation personally.

I want to see that D:

[Khamsin]

Yay! They are talking about the rovers spirit and oppurtunity that are on Mars and about the presence of water ice and salt. Yep good old plain jane salt all over Mars.

If you haven't seen it it's a good show and talks about what we have found on the Red Planet.

Speaking of Spirit and Opportunity and other NASA names, when does the Colbert go into orbit?

[Denchi]

I love Flagstaff Denchi, currently in Tucson myself.

Yeah Flagstaff is great. I was in Phoenix for 3 1/2 years before I decided to hate Phoenix and ran up here.

Tucson can be awesome, too, if you know the right places to go. I was down there a few times this last spring for various ultimate frisbee tournaments. I camped up on Mt Lemon a few years ago too, also really great for star gazing.

[Kilhart]

I was just thinking about something. If the chance of a catastrophic event occurring due to the LHC hypothetically (and I stress "hypothetically") WASN'T negligible, would the scientists even risk telling the public and letting their research be shut down and go to waste? :3

[Woozie]

Scientist want to live just as much as non-scientist do.

[Kryssan]

I was just thinking about something. If the chance of a catastrophic event occurring due to the LHC hypothetically (and I stress "hypothetically") WASN'T negligible, would the scientists even risk telling the public and letting their research be shut down and go to waste? :3

Chernobyl 4 experienced a steam explosion as a result of a prompt criticality accident due to operator stupidity and poor design practice accompanied by pathetic engineering ideology compounded by improper planning. Chernobyl 1, 2, and 3 continued to operate for several years after the accident. Chernobyl 5 and 6 were cancelled on order.


How does that correlate to your question? In short, the answer to your question, yes, the public would know, and no, that wouldn't stop us from doing it anyway. In addition to the Chernobyl accident, there was also SL-1, HEAT-2, HEAT-3, TMI-2; those are just reactors that have failed catastrophically. If we were to cover the number of incidents/accidents outside of that, the list is quite substantial. Danger has never stopped us from moving forwards, and it shouldn't stop us now. Knowledge without experience is the deadliest type of information; without experiencing the pains of the bad, you cannot properly respect the power with which you are playing.

[Mizango]

Scientist want to live just as much as non-scientist do.

Pretty much lol

[Khamsin]

Scientist want to live just as much as non-scientist do.

Not mad scientist.

[Enygma55]

The Science Channel is having a show on the LHC called "The Big Bang Machine" airing today (Sunday)

Kinda excited on what they will be showing or when it was filmed.

The Science Channel :: TV Listings :: The Big Bang Machine


I hope its a new one. I do remember awhile back there was a show on the LHC where they show micro black holes inside during CGI simulations.

I think it is the old one =( ...but i guess new to some who have never seen it =)

[Woozie]

The Science Channel is having a show on the LHC called "The Big Bang Machine" airing today (Sunday)

Kinda excited on what they will be showing or when it was filmed.

The Science Channel :: TV Listings :: The Big Bang Machine


I hope its a new one. I do remember awhile back there was a show on the LHC where they show micro black holes inside during CGI simulations.

I think it is the old one =( ...but i guess new to some who have never seen it =)

I already posted this, you're a few days too late. Step yo game up son. Get on mah level!

Just kidding, thanks for the extra heads up, I had honestly forgotten about this lol.

The commercial says it's brand new, btw.

[Mizango]

Yep this is a different one. I have the old one Tivo'd and this appears from the previews to be something totally different.

[zoobernut]

The episode of worlds toughest fixes where they were in the LHC was amazing. That machine is so impressive on its massive scale.

[Mizango]

The episode of worlds toughest fixes where they were in the LHC was amazing. That machine is so impressive on its massive scale.

Absolutely. You never grasp a concept of how large the LHC is in actuality unless you see it up close. Nat. Geo did a great job on that one.

[Woozie]

Something about particle physics is coming on at 8, right before the big bang machine.

Edit: http://science.discovery.com/tv-sche...125295.36135.0

[Woozie]

Why does all this awesome stuff have to be on the same night shark week starts?

[Mizango]

Why does all this awesome stuff have to be on the same night shark week starts?

Exactly lol.

[Woozie]

I don't know who you are, but with an avatar like that, you need to post more often.