<p>Well, I got the obligatory email forward from my fearmonger friend. I wasn’t surprised, though it was a nice change from the political ones she usually sends me. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I don;t think they operated at full power and probably didn’t get a collison of whatever they were trying to bash together. </p>
<p>I’m having great difficulty in typing this, 2 shots of Canadian Whiskey on an empty stomach. To ease the big bang. See you in later where-ever, whenever.</p>
<p>[Some</a> 13 Billion Years Ago…](<a href=“http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/toblin/440884]Some”>Some 13 Billion Years Ago................. by toblin : stripcreator)</p>
<p>^^ Ahh…now we finally know how the big bang 13B years ago happened.</p>
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S2 is in a “freshman foundations” class called “Frontiers of Science”. It sounds really interesting. They had a Wolfe Prize winning physicist teaching them about quantum mechanics the last couple of weeks (kind of “quantum mechanics for dummies” if you know what I mean), and this week they are starting neuroscience. Anyway, he has to do a 10 minute presentation at the end of the semester on an emerging area of science. He thinks he is going to do his on the supercollider and the ethical implications of performing an experiment which has even an infinitessimally small chance of destroying the earth.</p>
<p>^ Is he at Columbia? S took Frontiers of Science there and the class sounds familiar. He was a onetime physics student, and the whole family is astronomy-crazy, so I didn’t ask the question lightly. But you are the only one who has acknowledged it. Thank you.</p>
<p>This is like “Russian troops advancing on the Pennsylvania Turnpike…film at eleven. In other news,…”</p>
<p>I think that was from a Saturday Night Live skit years ago.</p>
<p>For updates on the LHC and Earth, go here. :)</p>
<p>Hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com</p>
<p>Thanks. I appreciate the level of discourse. What about *my *question provoked that? just wondering. You have that much faith in mankind to never screw up?</p>
<p>Garland, S2 is at Chapman, in California. He really likes the class. I was actually a bit concerned that him choosing that topic would “look bad”, but then I thought better of it. We need to ask these questions. Marie Curie died of radiation poisoning, didn’t she? She was a smart lady, but there were things about radiation that she just didn’t know.</p>
<p>Oh–cool that the classes sound so similar! </p>
<p>I think discussing the ramifications of what we don’t know and how what we don’t know might cause things we don’t expect is a useful question at any time (and maybe especially these times) but I’m surprised by the level of derisiveness and ridicule here. Feels like the campaign threads, honestly. I find myself disappointed.</p>