CERN's Large Hadron Collider: Are we doomed?

[dave_mc]

All a load of media hype if you ask me.

Not sure where i read it (might've been the Scotsman) but in India a teenage girl got so scared about this black hole nonsense that she killed herself.

wow.

[Adam.M]

All a load of media hype if you ask me.

Not sure where i read it (might've been the Scotsman) but in India a teenage girl got so scared about this black hole nonsense that she killed herself.

This was one of my main concerns when i first read about the black-hole theories... poor girl :(

[Nadz1lla]

so if they don't destroy the world they may just create an "Event Horizon" situation and create literally Hell on Earth.

What happens during this "event horizon"?

I actually meant the film rather than the scientific term, hehe.

In the film "Event Horizon" (which is the name of the spaceship in the film), I thik the vessel is a science ship or something that does an experiment which goes wrong. The ship disappears, re-appears years later and the crew are missing. Basically what happened is the experiment tore a hole between dimensions and went through, but the other side was basically hell and the crew went loopy and killed each other in pretty gross ways....eurgh. Nasty stuff.

Anyway, that guy who was in Jurassic Park turns into a demon thing at the end but Laurence Fishburn blows up the ship. Or something.  :lol: :shock:

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so if they don't destroy the world they may just create an "Event Horizon" situation and create literally Hell on Earth.

What happens during this "event horizon"?

I actually meant the film rather than the scientific term, hehe.

In the film "Event Horizon" (which is the name of the spaceship in the film), I thik the vessel is a science ship or something that does an experiment which goes wrong. The ship disappears, re-appears years later and the crew are missing. Basically what happened is the experiment tore a hole between dimensions and went through, but the other side was basically hell and the crew went loopy and killed each other in pretty gross ways....eurgh. Nasty stuff.

Anyway, that guy who was in Jurassic Park turns into a demon thing at the end but Laurence Fishburn blows up the ship. Or something.  :lol: :shock:

Love that film :D

[Stevepage]

apparently, this thing has broken down again. It won't be up and running again for 2 months  :lol:

[Nadz1lla]

You see why I get so nervous? Schoolboy errors are abundant in the CERN labs! They even got hacked last week.

[noodleplugerine]

These aren't "schoolboy" errors, its not even a big problem. The only thing is, ANY problem takes months to fix since you have to heat it up, and cool it down again.

And they didn't think anyone would try to hack an innocent physics experiment.

[Nadz1lla]

And they didn't think anyone would try to hack an innocent physics experiment.

But that's exactly what I mean! They didn't think anyone would, and rather than put precautions in place just in case, they just carried on. It's this lack of foresight that worries me, lol. Anyone who knows anything about the internet knows that if something is in the public eye, hackers are going to go for it. Plain and simple.

Considering these guys pretty much invented the net I would have thought they'd be all over their net security like a rash. Obviously not.

[Will]

Tim Berners Lee 'invented' the internet. University of California, although English

(everyone knows something useless right?)

[noodleplugerine]

And they didn't think anyone would try to hack an innocent physics experiment.

But that's exactly what I mean! They didn't think anyone would, and rather than put precautions in place just in case, they just carried on. It's this lack of foresight that worries me, lol. Anyone who knows anything about the internet knows that if something is in the public eye, hackers are going to go for it. Plain and simple.

Considering these guys pretty much invented the net I would have thought they'd be all over their net security like a rash. Obviously not.

The site that was hacked was nothing to do with the experiment itself, just a site for public information that was cooped up to inform. Most likely designed by some IT company in Portsmouth at the request of someone high up bored of sending out emails.

None of the scientists were affected at all.

[Kilby]

Tim Berners Lee 'invented' the internet. University of California, although English

(everyone knows something useless right?)

Fraud he didn't it was only the web browsing bit he came up with

The real internet is the network that connects the machines together [smug] even he hypertext stuff happened earlier with the Gopher protocol [/smug]

[Nadz1lla]

And they didn't think anyone would try to hack an innocent physics experiment.

But that's exactly what I mean! They didn't think anyone would, and rather than put precautions in place just in case, they just carried on. It's this lack of foresight that worries me, lol. Anyone who knows anything about the internet knows that if something is in the public eye, hackers are going to go for it. Plain and simple.

Considering these guys pretty much invented the net I would have thought they'd be all over their net security like a rash. Obviously not.

The site that was hacked was nothing to do with the experiment itself, just a site for public information that was cooped up to inform. Most likely designed by some IT company in Portsmouth at the request of someone high up bored of sending out emails.

None of the scientists were affected at all.

Yeah well..blah.  :lol:

I would have thought the important stuff was kept strictly offline or else a completely cut-off network anyway. But still. Meh.  :) :shock:

[gingataff]

Tim Berners Lee 'invented' the internet. University of California, although English

(everyone knows something useless right?)

Fraud he didn't it was only the web browsing bit he came up with

The real internet is the network that connects the machines together [smug] even he hypertext stuff happened earlier with the Gopher protocol [/smug]

Arpanet anyone?

[Kilby]

Arpanet anyone?

Exactly you really can go back quite far (my own experiance only goes back to 92) and I still have a preference for Telnet & FTP

[indysmith]

All a load of media hype if you ask me.

Not sure where i read it (might've been the Scotsman) but in India a teenage girl got so scared about this black hole nonsense that she killed herself.

This was one of my main concerns when i first read about the black-hole theories... poor girl :(

Haha $%&#ing idiot