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« on: September 09, 2008, 21:32:40 »

Just keep clicking this link to reassure yourselves.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2008, 21:55:53 »

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Just keep clicking this link to reassure yourselves.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?

The metatags in the header of that page don't disable the browser cache, so once you visit the page there's no guarantee the information is up-to-date when you return Wink
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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2008, 22:02:08 »

The metatags in the header of that page don't disable the browser cache, so once you visit the page there's no guarantee the information is up-to-date when you return Wink

So the earth might have been destroyed, but the page will keep on showing?
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2008, 22:20:13 »

Just keep clicking this link to reassure yourselves.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?


Great! Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2008, 23:37:03 »

Reminds me of my school geography teacher, who told us that the sun is 93 million miles away, so if the sun suddenly went out (?) it would be nine minutes before we noticed ...  Shocked
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« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2008, 00:26:44 »

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The metatags in the header of that page don't disable the browser cache, so once you visit the page there's no guarantee the information is up-to-date when you return Wink

So the earth might have been destroyed, but the page will keep on showing?

I have an off-site backup Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2008, 00:34:25 »

... in a bunker, one hundred feet underground, with concrete walls twelve feet thick ... ? Tongue Roll Eyes Grin
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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2008, 02:25:36 »

... and, for my fellow insomniacs amongst us ... see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7607363.stm  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2008, 17:03:12 »

Reminds me of my school geography teacher, who told us that the sun is 93 million miles away, so if the sun suddenly went out (?) it would be nine minutes before we noticed ...  Shocked

Eight minutes where i'm from  Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2008, 23:06:09 »

"Plans to begin smashing particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be delayed after a magnet failure forced engineers to halt work.  The failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.  The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva.  The LHC beam will remain turned off over the weekend while engineers investigate the severity of the fault."

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7626256.stm  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2008, 07:10:30 »

I love this:

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