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Originally posted by muzzleflash
You know what, the LHC is so useless, primitive, and impractical
and in the truest sense a huge massive waste of money - at a time when people are facing starvation and mass poverty in every nation on Earth.
The rest must go to black ops. Something useful, practical, important, and worth the money.
I just am skeptical and cannot believe that all of these so called "intelligent" scientists and government officials and military heads wouldn't go straight for something a bit more useful. Like another weapon, security, or defense system.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by buddhasystem
Incorrect.
They were fairly certain about self-sustaining fission process, and were able to calibrate their calculations to experimental data, good work there by Fermi and others. One part of the project was to create a bomb, and again they were able to implement a fairly sophisticated detonation mechanism by compression of plutonium. That just doesn't happen in a "what if" manner. These guys nailed it down cold.
I think the "fairly certain" part does it for me.
Men in white coats worry me
It just seems like a huge smoke and mirrors effect.
Similar to NASA in a odd sense.
They drain all this funding, and in reality only use a small portion of it.
The rest must go to black ops.
Originally posted by nightbringr
i dont see any way we can carry on without these experiments.
To get this far, the Cern researchers have had to pioneer new techniques and design new technologies at almost every step of the way. The last great Cern instrument, called the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP), produced so much data that one of the team invented the world wide web to share the research around the planet. Nobody yet can be sure of spin-off from the LHC, but there will be wider benefits: if knowledge is power, then the LHC has already begun to deliver. In 10 years, the project has delivered skills and experience to thousands of engineering businesses and maintained tens of thousands of jobs, and all for a fraction of the $33bn that US bankers paid themselves in bonuses in 2008 alone, while losing money and closing down businesses everywhere.
Originally posted by spokaneman1983
reply to post by estar
What astounds me is that we develop technologies. Call it progress. Then use the info or device as a weapon. That is why I have to shun this. I don't think it's good points are relevant until us Humans get out of the Dark Ages and stop trying to rape the planet and kill each other. We need to grow up first or we will likely suffer nature's punishment for being a spontaneous, rebellious, childish species.
When money stops running the world, and we do things based on common good and the intelligent pursuit of progress for all then we might be ready.edit on 9-11-2010 by spokaneman1983 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by xxshadowfaxx
I am 100% for the LHC. There is nothing sinister about it. It's science. In a worst case scenario, if an experiment went horribly wrong, the LHC and area it is in, would explode. It is far too small to make the entire planet explode. The scientists aren't stupid. They know what they are doing. If the LHC was really dangerous to the planet, they would not do it. They wouldn't even be allowed to do it. All this fear about the LHC is unfounded. I really hope they can get a better understand about the universe and the god particle and so on. The LHC is the one and only thing on this planet, that can explain how life began. And that is certainly one question that has been on my mind since I was a kid.
It sounds more like you want to go into the dark ages than come out of them.
Originally posted by spokaneman1983
I don't think it's good points are relevant until us Humans get out of the Dark Ages and stop trying to rape the planet and kill each other. We need to grow up first or we will likely suffer nature's punishment for being a spontaneous, rebellious, childish species.
Originally posted by xxshadowfaxx
The scientists aren't stupid. They know what they are doing.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
I'm not sure how I feel about it...I like progress...but then again I don't like people messing with stuff they don't completely understand.
What are people's thoughts on this...for it...against it? Suprised it didn't blow us all up?