1st extinction event: Leaked CERN documents state LHC has 70% chances to produce strangelets on 11/9

Did you know an asteroid could hit earth at any moment and kill all humans too?

If science doesn't progress quickly we're teh doomed! Worth taking the risk IMO.

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CERN completes transition to lead-ion running at the LHC


An image of one of the first lead-ion collisions seen by the ALICE experiment on 7 November.

Four days is all it took for the LHC operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC. After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on 4 November, commissioning the lead-ion beam was underway by early afternoon. First collisions were recorded at 00:30 CET on 7 November, and stable running conditions marked the start of physics with heavy ions at 11:20 CET today.

“The speed of the transition to lead ions is a sign of the maturity of the LHC,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “The machine is running like clockwork after just a few months of routine operation.”
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with apologies to Country Joe And The Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

Well, come on all of you big bang brained men,
Uncle Shiva needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Cernscam
So put down your physics books and pick up a lead ion gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one quark, two quark, three quark,
What are we ion lead slinging for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a neutronized damn,
Next stop is what's left of Kingdom Come;
And it's five quark, six quark, seventh level of hell quark,
Blow up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time-space to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.