# Should we be scared? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 13, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731 "2008-04-13T12:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![HallockR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hallockr/32/5331_2.png) [@HallockR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HallockR)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/241 "2009-10-13T13:49:00Z")
That .PDF was a good read since I’ve been sitting in class since 2. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/242 "2009-10-13T13:53:16Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > You realize that if it were not for experiments carried out by CERN you wouldn’t have the very internet that lets you post your nonsense right? That makes me think of how my life might be different without the internet. Hmmm… How do I go back in time and stop that from happening, again? ---
**Author:** ![SpenceSpeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spencespeed/32/7355_2.png) [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/243 "2009-10-13T13:56:42Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > You realize that if it were not for experiments carried out by CERN you wouldn’t have the very internet that lets you post your nonsense right? CERN Experiment ![http://www.lolcat.net/d/2185-2/anti-gravity_cat.gif](http://www.lolcat.net/d/2185-2/anti-gravity_cat.gif) ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/244 "2009-11-24T10:24:16Z")
> **[Large Hadron Collider starts up, produces first collisions](https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/11/large-hadron-collider-starts-up-produces-first-collisions/)** > > After a series of complications and setbacks, the Large Hadron Collider sees … ---
**Author:** ![Hass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/245 "2009-11-24T14:49:22Z")
lol… wonder what kinda hell the guy got for his solder breaking. I know what kinda hell people at my work get for fudging up a weld that leaves the house unnoticed. Just having to pay shipping costs and loss of customers trust… let alone causing that kinda damage ;p ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/246 "2011-09-07T07:20:47Z")
BUMP! I am actually touring this thing next year. Hell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/247 "2011-09-07T07:28:19Z")
Post pictures of a Higgs boson! ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/248 "2011-09-07T07:59:17Z")
> [@Karter](#): > > $8 billion dollars better spent elsewhere. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9ImScQGAo) ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/249 "2011-09-07T08:00:31Z")
^^^^ LOL ---
**Author:** ![Jskrapper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jskrapper/32/7570_2.png) [@Jskrapper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jskrapper)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/250 "2011-09-07T08:24:08Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Post pictures of a Higgs boson! Extra credit for mass of Higgs boson. Show your work. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/251 "2012-07-04T20:24:00Z")
Bump for news story on the God particle… > **[Physicists are celebrating their Higgs boson 'triumph'](http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/05/science/la-sci-higgs-boson-new-particle-20120705)** > > For physicists, it was a moment like landing on the moon or the discovery of DNA.The focus was the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for a mere fraction of a second. Long theorized but... ---
**Author:** ![Jskrapper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jskrapper/32/7570_2.png) [@Jskrapper](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jskrapper)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/252 "2012-07-04T20:43:56Z")
“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably at least a bird,” That is a great line. On another note, were the reports of the LHC breaking the speed of light ever debunked? I assumed someones stopwatch was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/253 "2012-07-05T05:29:15Z")
> [@Jskrapper](#): > > “If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably at least a bird,” That is a great line. > > On another note, were the reports of the LHC breaking the speed of light ever debunked? I assumed someones stopwatch was wrong. They pined it down to a lose connection between a timer and computer last I saw. If you are staring at this thread blankly: ![http://i.imgur.com/arUcX.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/2/9/297a08bb01883addea8a1f3914136c892077da0c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/254 "2014-03-27T04:56:08Z")
Bump. > **[Breakthrough: Physicists calculate mass of heaviest elementary particle](https://www.rt.com/usa/physicists-calculate-mass-elementary-particle-165/)** > > Scientists participating in four different particle collider experiments joined forces, combined their data, and did together what would've been much harder to do alone: Calculate the mass of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/255 "2015-09-17T12:11:21Z")
Bump. :tinfoilhat: ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/256 "2015-09-17T12:19:07Z")
Still safe since it is running at full power after the two year upgrade. Sep 15th - LHC creates liquid thought to be around at the start of the universe. [https://earthsky.org/human-world/lhc-creates-liquid-from-big-bang](https://earthsky.org/human-world/lhc-creates-liquid-from-big-bang) ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/257 "2015-09-17T12:45:51Z")
I’m sad thinking about all the awesome technology and advances in mankind we won’t be able to experience long after we’re dead ☹ ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/258 "2015-09-17T13:06:23Z")
> [@ubengineering](#): > > I’m sad thinking about all the awesome technology and advances in mankind we won’t be able to experience long after we’re dead ☹ I was really hoping to go to space and look at the earth from afar at some point in my life. ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/259 "2015-09-17T15:21:51Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > I was really hoping to go to space and look at the earth from afar at some point in my life. I believe by the time I’m in my 60’s-70’s (40 years from now) space tourism will be at the point where I’d be willing to pay between 25-50 grand to go to space as a retirement gift to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/260 "2017-10-06T05:10:02Z")
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