Doomsday

[smash]

Yes, I agree, Smash. People walking around saying "well, I guess we're still alive" just pisses me off on so many levels.

We're such nerds.


I blame Angelbaby.

[psyper]

lol - I was a nerd long before I knew angelbaby!!

Anyone know when they are gonna start the first collision that is apocalypse worthy?

[Bob]

one of the teens in october. I wanna say october 15th is the day we all die

[Seriously]

We've died already

Turns out eternal damnation is an infinity ofTuesdays.

[AngelBaby]

Is someone trying to tell us something?

[walker4409]

Doomsday..not my thing ! Independence day was at least logic...and boring .

[exelis]

Doomsday..not my thing ! Independence day was at least logic...and boring .

?

[walker4409]

?-answer = That was a joke

[psyper]

?-answer = That was a joke

I got it

Is someone trying to tell us something?

Whats the betting that its sabotage? Question is:
Is it from a future Earth which had a large portion of Europe destroyed by this thing so they've gone back in time to stop it from happening again
Is it beings from another dimension leaking in to our dimension to stop the LHC because it will close up their dimension during the tests
Or is it aliens from this dimension which travel the universe stopping sentient beings from running these tests as it will destroy their planet much like Janeway did in Voyager when those human like aliens wiped themselves out and it ended up being Janeway that caused the destruction in the first place...
Answers on a postcard to the above address.

[Seriously]

The sun's protective embrace against the intergalactic death rays is weakening as the life-giving orb begins to fizzle and die.

"The solar wind isn't inflating the heliosphere as much as it used to," says McComas. "That means less shielding against cosmic rays."

See?

We're all going to fry.

Unpublished Ulysses cosmic ray data show that, indeed, high energy (GeV) electrons, a minor but telltale component of cosmic rays around Earth, have jumped in number by about 20%.

These extra particles pose no threat to people on Earth's surface. Our thick atmosphere and planetary magnetic field provide additional layers of protection that keep us safe.

Yeah, whatever.

It'll fry the Voyager satellites though.

[Steampunk]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-com ... lcano.html

And here is what the Discovery channel has to say about Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes:

One way of looking at the power of volcanoes is what scientists call the Volcano Explosivity Index (VEI) — sort of a Richter scale for eruptions. And like the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes, the power of an eruption increases exponentially from number to number in the VEI index.

The VEI scale runs from zero to eight. The higher the VEI number, the bigger — and less frequent — the eruptions. On one end there are the burbling, rather gentle eruptions that happen on the big island of Hawaii. These happen daily on Earth, and even with their occasional impressive fountains of lava, they rate a zero on the VEI.

At the other extreme is the Yellowstone eruption of 2.1 million years ago, which is described on the VEI as an eight: mega-colossal, with a towering ash cloud 10 miles high that pours out at least a thousand cubic miles of ash. That Yellowstone eruption had 10 times the ejected material as a VEI 7 volcano, which modern humans have never seen either.

In fact, the last VEI 7 eruption was in Toba, Indonesia, 74,000 years ago, and it caused such global cooling that some scientists think it nearly drove humans to extinction.