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I'm not sure how important this is for the discussion (and sorry if I sidetrack) but I'd like to make a few observations: 1. Can you define "impact"? In what sense would a 20 megaton explosion on Earth be different from the same bomb (20 mT) exploding on the moon? If you mean blast, remember that bl...

Yup, that's how far I got with Babel Fish as well.

(It's interesting by the way, how 3 different translation engines "translate" it the same way. You'd almost think...)

How about a forum rule where we stick to languages that we all can understand (e.g., English) when posting on the forum?

I thought we were trying to communicate here?

(Obviously would not apply to pms)

Oh and I've also read that they made a mistake in interpreting the Maya calendar, and that the end of the Maya era is now set for 2020 or somewhere.

No need to trust the predictions by people who can't even calculate the outcome of 1+1 without making a simple error on the way.

their explaination is that the cosmic particles are very fast and the moon and the earth are rather at rest, so if black holes are created they have a momentum, will disappear in space and starve. Since the LHC produces headoncollisions of protons with aproximately the same speed the momentum of th...

... let's not forget the state the observer is in (hungry, vertigo, etc.), and whether someone is observing the observer or not...

Sheep tend to stand with their rears in the wind as well. When I was a student I lived for several years in a place with lots of sheep around, so I had ample chance to observe their behavior. Anyway... 1. The study penguin42 refers to mentions cows standing predominantly in the North-South direction...

Interesting read, Josch222. Thanks!

Ok sorry - back to the topic.

The only way I believe theories that I do not direct understand is if there is a significant consensus among people who *understand* the science behind it - in detail. Aye. As I wrote before - show me the experimental proof and the peer reviews and we might be able to discuss stuff. Without it, no ...

Looks like everybody is back from the holidays and work is resuming on commissioning... Lovely!! I see that we got 2 cryo sectors in the green already... now I understand why we got so much snow here in The Netherlands this winter :angry-chillpill: :angry-chillpill: Oh and A Great 2010 to all you f...

Nah, if he'd be off to the experimental department there would be reason to worry about black holes (and who knows what else!). No chance there'd be a black hole in the theory dept... except of course for theoretical black holes, but those aren't too dangerous as long as you don't approach them theo...

Ah so that's what this was about!
http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/News/e-comme ... 222_05.jpg

Huh... where did Anitusar suddenly go to?

Yippee, something to keep us occupied until the LHC fires up again!

I think it's that one that got me here (either that one or the next one)!

Speaking of El Reg... did you know that the circumference of the LHC ring is about 613.37 Brontosauruses?

(if confused, go ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/pag ... erter.html)