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

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> 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.


See, all day to get wasted.  By the end of it you won't care it was your 
last. :-)

Eva
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