Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

In article <vfsec5-qku.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,  <spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In the sacred domain of alt.tv.stargate-sg1,
>Magda <hello@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
>> ... The thing is, you won't know when that 8-minute clock starts
counting 
>> ... down. Since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, your

>> ... first clue that something has happened will be when the countdown 
>> ... reaches zero and the earth is flash-fried to a cinder.
>
>> Spoil s****t. :((
>
>OK, look on the bright side...
>The sun might not explode/go nova...
>It might just go out...
>Or get mysteriously tele****ted to some distant corner of the universe by
>powerful aliens (because their sunlamp died)
>
>If that happens, then the first you'll know of it will be 8 minutes later
>when it becomes instant night globally, the earth is wracked by
earthquakes
>and tsunami as it's unleashed into the void as its gravitational tethers
are
>cut... It'll also get very cold very quickly, which will be nice at
chilling
>your champagun.
>:)
>
>In those cir***stances, you might have a day to enjoy an entire crate of
>champagun before all the heat has bled into space and the atmpsphere has
>begun to condense.

There's a short story about this. The main character is on the night
side of the planet and learns of the solar ray or nova or whatever
it is and has some minutes left to live because the bulk of the
earth is protection.

Jill
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