“…By many measures, the Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine in the world. It is designed to smash together proton beams to test ultimate theories of matter. Its science teams, drawing on independent researchers, resources and funds from 150 universities and dozens of government agencies, already transcend the physics of conventional management.
Strictly speaking, no one is in charge.
“None of them can do the research without each other,” says Barbara Gray, a management analyst at Pennsylvania State University. “No one can play with the Large Hadron Collider unless they all play together.”
In one sign of trust, the scientists who designed the systems relied on technologies that did not yet exist, delaying key decisions as long as practicable in the expectation someone would invent a way out of the problem. “There is enough confidence in the community that the technical problems will be solved at the last possible affordable moment,” says Dr. Nordberg. “That is not the way industry works.”
For all their skill, the scientists starting up the Large Hadron Collider have encountered any number of operational glitches this year and, perhaps, one unique obstacle. The accelerator is expected to unleash forces so fundamental — even a black hole, some fear — that a few physicists fret the universe may be sabotaging the project to protect itself…”
I love that this lot also invented the Internet, just to help them get to grips with the science they’re doing.
AND THE MACHINE IS BEING SWITCHED BACK ON AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY!
The astro? It’s Mercury moving to square a soon-to-be Direct Uranus. If there is any planet officially ruling weird science, it’s Uranus. A.k.a. Prometheus.
How do you lot think next week’s Particle Colliding will work out…???
If you’re not sure what I am on about, please click on the above link as it is a fab article, easy & quick with all the info you might want.
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Strictly speaking, no one is in charge.
So all the scientist are standing around next friday waiting for something to happen… a bang maybe? All quiet & nothing is happening when someone says ‘did anyone actually turn it on?’ they all look at each other scratching their heads saying ‘no, I thought you were going to do it’…. lol
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o shit i was reading some stuff about the mythology of the americas and I think the particle collider will find something big in 2012 or they’ll find it before hand and let us know then – really i’m not into the whole doomsday thing but they (they being the first nation people of north /south america) have prophesies about a place in the universe where it’s completely black and nothing of our density can live there and the time of it becoming known to us is based on signs they’ve had stacking up for the last 20-30 years and we’re almost there ie. when the wheel of the present calendar of the mayans turns it’ll be time. This place sounds remarkably like the black hole stuff being bandied about. I think the mayan calendar ends and a new cycle begins. We start again at 0 – the everything and the nothing. The scientists discover something and all bets are off we have to revise our idea of reality (something I do on a daily basis so I’m thinking I’ll take that in my stride). That’s my grandoise un scientific theory.
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O I was doing that stringing disparate things together and running with it thing I wasn’t serious. You thought I was serious? THAT’S funny. The particle collider has nothing to do with the mayan calendar other than people have been freaking out about the black hole scenario and it sounds remarkably similar to the mayan black void that we humans are too dense to dwell in mythology – sounds remarkably like a vagina /sheela na gig myth to me. I’m sure something amazing will be discovered when they finally crank it up – and if they find croissant crumbs in there we’ll know the big yoni in the sky had crabs.
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But you will still be able to read my blog! So it will be fine…I got some black hole insurance off this really spunky guy who said he was from Alpha Centauri…
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funny – don’t take any sweeties from the ones from the pleiades – those pleiadian sweeties are bad news.
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have u got any pictures of these dudes mystic ?
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They would look like the arrogant S.O.B.`s that they are.
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the scientists you mean? I wanna test my visual theory.
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I still love this from the LHC’s debut all that time ago…
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I love your avatar.
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I think that rap was the best explanation of physics, as in easy to digest, that I’ve seen in a while. Or is it just that I actually was one of those people who remembered stuff if I sang it to a tune….
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o i just found one of markus nordberg who is one of the dudes associated on the project – its just him with his hands up in the air against a black background – maybe he just met the baguette weilding dinosaur !
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I don’t want to sound uninformed on all this and the Nordberg person is in the Wall St Journal article and i trust people whose n ames start with “nord” for some reason BUT the pictures of the god particle smasher are beginning to really worry me. They are like the deathstar in star wars and why is everyone worried about what the mayans said? didn’t revelations say something about this?
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Do we have photos of anyone associated with it getting around in masks/full length capes with hoods and/or breathing deeply AND loudly?
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The problem with all these end of the world scenarios is that there seems to be a never ending stream of the bloody things. First it was nuclear holocaust. Well that fizzled into nothingness didn’t it? No more stupid movies with people hiding under mattresses and giving birth to what looks like charcoal chicken are there? Then it was the year 2000 fiasco when all the technology was supposed to spit the dummy conveniently on new years eve just in time to wreck the fireworks and short circuit the beer fridge. Nada. Just a load of people with hangovers looking perhaps like they wished they were dead. Then we’ve had AIDS which seemed to only kill off a few gay lawyers, bird flu, swine flu, horse flu, flesh eating flu, brain eating flu … I mean how many mutated virus bacteria does it take to get a proper biocatastrophe happening these days???? Last century all it took was a few freakin rats …
Now it’s Mayan end of the world prophesies because I dunno the numerology adds up to zero or sumthin and HELLO did those guys not eat human brains or hearts or something? Sorry but I wouldn’t care how advanced their mathematical calculations are, I could never trust a race of cannibalistic weirdos with bad haircuts. Besides they probably just got bored, or annihilated or ran out of paper or woteva!!
As for this latest techno mumbo jumbo ridiculously expensive piece of whacked out junk …….. like like … just make it DO something. Anything. Useful. Preferably blow up pluto and saturn so I don’t have to do these bazillion transits next year. A black hole could be fun. Who knows?
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You forgot the Nostradamus hoo ha and carry on from about twenty years ago.
Yah, the end of days has been on the way since the beginning of days. zzzzzzzzzz etc.
Actually, none of the Eastern calendars have any kind of doomsday balderdash. Possibly because we all have a zillion lifetimes to get through before we resemble Buddha material. (That’s a lot of Saturn transits)
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It’s bizarre isn’t it? Like we’ve got this inbuilt twitchy self destruct mechanism embedded in the collective conscience. And yet the irony of it all is that with climate change, ice caps melting, sea level rises, temperature rises, overpopulation, deforestation, energy shortages, food shortages, water shortages, air pollution, water pollution and where the hell is all the garbage supposed to go … we actually are creating our own demise quite briskly by evolutionary standards without any help from the wrath of god, intergalactic gremlins or inopportune black holes.
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“we actually are creating our own demise… ”
You’re not wrong there! People are missing the elephant in the room and it ain’t the bloody LHC!
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stupid humas! refusing to take any respojnsibility for things that might actually make our collective lives better, but as soon as something wierd or different comes along which we can point our fingers at and blame for everything, it’s all on. Just think, before we understood solar eclipses, or droughts, or plagues, or women’s menstruation (!) THAT was to blame for society’s misfortune. Now it’s all just gone high tech. we love a d-day deadline and a scapegoat as much as we ever did! innit.
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well personally I think the fundamental problem is too many humans for what the planet is capable of supporting without actually causing damage to the planet. Plus an unsustainable economic structure – continuous growth is just … NUTS … but what to do about it? The structure is completely embedded in how we live and the only way to change it at this stage is to destroy it. As for population control … who’s gonna ever make that call? No one wants to tell anyone how many children they should or shouldn’t be allowed to have. I mean there are those still screaming like a pack of rabid kujos that aborting a bunch of cells no bigger than the head of a thumbtack is murder and that stem cell research is immoral, so could you imagine the reaction to selective breeding??? Erk … it even bugs me and I have no religious persuasions influencing me.
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Agree about the problems but what I learned is that billions of souls are coming to the earth to be part of Her transitions.
There are those who also have the knowledge to clean up the mess but that knowledge would not be appreciated until mankind learns to solve the problems itself. So we are in the throws of some very serious problem solving and those who have the knowledge are not completely aware of what it is that they know as it has been veiled until these past decades and is slowly coming forward. It was simply too dangerous to be consciously aware of certain things so the art of forgetfullness was learned.
The energy is available for mankind to use as there are some here that are bringing higher consciousness into three D so this is why we will see techno advances and such like our beloved collider. Harmless tinker toys I venture. There will be no destroying the earth. She is going to ascend eventually and those who are seeking to destroy will simply not be here….
The earth is in one huge therapy session at this time. Be grateful we are aware of this and can add hope and light.
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I still can’t get the misspelling of the LHC out of my head, and I’ve decided I prefer to call it the Large Hardon Collider. It’s sounds like something out of Flesh Gordon.
I voted for the billions spent to find out something irrelevant (or that the scientists know less than they thought) BUT that was before I read the switch flicking date will be Merc square Uranus, in which case it’ll certainly cock up and there’ll be another whackjob excuse.
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heh … yeah the answer will be 42
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Oh look … it’s all going to be ok because we’re heading for Ascension and the planet blowing up is part of the Grand Intergalactic Plan … phew and there I was thinking we might be heading for real trouble for a sec
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Stop already, my brain is turning to molten fudge.
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spazzy Aqua is still adamant that the street sculpture in west end, brissie was donated by the raelians.
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Holy crap I thought she was joking…except when I say raelians I should clarify to raelian artist.
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OMG, I met a Raelian ‘priest’ dude once. Far out. I’ve never heard such an uninterrupted stream of bullshit in my life. It would have been funny if he hadn’t taken himself so seriously.
Is Luke Roberts a Raelian? I always thought his art was drug whacked, but that adds a whole new dimension…
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He called himself a raelian artist in this article…but then he also calls himself, or part of himself pope alice…for a variety of reasons.
‘These days, as PopeAlice has supported particular events, especially some connected with the Raelian Movement, a different kind of energy comes into play. Pope Alice, is an enigma. She is neither Raelian nor of the Elohim (those who come from the sky). The Elohim are the people the Raelian Movement are preparing to welcome and are planning an embassy for. Elohim is the Hebrew word that has been translated as god, but ultimately it is a plural word and refers to a particular group of people from another planet.’http://heyokamagazine.com/ArtListWebsite/ARTList-PAINTINGS.LukeRoberts.htm
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OMG I was accosted by raelians once due to weird jewellery I was wearing and they wanted me to come meet their leader because weird jewellery had made it obvious to them that I was the one he wanted to see. Lunatics – with the spacey eyes like born agains. Creepy weak looking people. Wanted to sit them down and feed them steak or at least miso. Weird jewellery was made by a witch so I gave them his deets and told them to contact him because it was really him they were looking for that I was just his messenger – they had the weirdest vibe – I have since learnt that’s the “cult” vibe. Trippers.
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do the raelians have a manifesto? or whatever cults call their book. Are they some kind of judeo ufo sect?
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are those raelians into like free sex and stuff ? or is all the sex only for the great leader or somefing.. The last photo I saw of the great leader he looked eirily like Barry Gibb in the 70’s, spooky..its not a judeo UFO cult whatever, they wish, that might give them 1 drop of credibility, but no, I think their UFO embassy is in Israel, (better tax deductibility there), and of course aligns them with the majors.
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O so they’re stealing stuff from youse guys? the elohim thing? Don’t even know why I’m asking I’m not having that 9th house transit anymore think it’s just force of habit to enquire as to the deets maybe I wait till the next time it comes round to find out.
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The Raelian priest gave me the full spiel, but all I remember was that it was utterly incoherent and featured extra terrestrials. Similar to the Scientology spiel used to bamboozle vulnerable people into joining. I’m sure they have a website, but really the dose I got was TMI already. He looked amazing though. French accent, sexy, spacy clothes, jewellery, long brown hair. Very glam. The followers all looked inbred though.
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re the west end ufo – yes the raelians – though i think it was ‘commissioned’ – I heard it was supposed to be some kind of flower though.
I forgot how ridiculously fabulous that thing actually is – love it when it does the mist ‘take off’ thing.
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Hah! That’s what I was thinking !
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I meant the answer being 42.. My iPhone did somekind of wrongness.
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Oh and I’m all for a parallel universe as long as Robert Pattinson isn’t there and they have hot chips.
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Isn’t every other life story other than our own a parallel life or world, sheesh we make a lot of fuss about stuff thats right in front of our fuqing face don’t we..silly monkeys
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These scientists have to be Aquas…and/or Virgos
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Hey Anon, consider adopting a name for yourself, as Anonymous is getting a bad name here, thanks to a petty little cyber stalker.
I think I can speak for most here by saying we prefer to interact with contributors who identify themselves in some way. You’ll get more out of it and you won’t be mistaken for the serial whiner.
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I do it just to pizz off cranky Virgos : )
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Oh well, if you’re happy to identify yourself as the person who makes narky personal attacks on contributors to this site and shows contempt of everyone else by using the anon tag, I imagine you’ll be treated with the respect and affection you deserve.
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hehe… i dated a Virgo with a moon in Aqua. He was an electrical engineer. *sigh* super brainy and good looking!
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well, that’s more than plenty to think about on this rainy saturday mornin-my brain particles are colliding! Can we hope that the technology for avoiding being sucked into a Black Hole will be discovered shortly?maybe they ought to delay flippin th switch until that small detail had been attended to-just a thought…mayb th crumb that saves us will b manna from Heaven!we are in miracle mode now,baby!
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Well I must reveal that Ive had a little to do with the LHC. In the mid/late 80’s I was involved with holography and was working with one of the worlds top holographers. Lets just say holography is a great method for taking images of smashing atoms…dealt with CERN, yes, they have been colliding since then, yes they did use the internet then, I did too,thru the CSIRO here in Aus, but they didn’t ‘invent it’.
I voted for the spend billions to find out what we would consider to be boring.In every generation there are apocalypse stories, every generation has the ego inflation to think they they will be the last generation…bulldust. We are in dimensional lock up here guys, no easy outs.. stop worrying about a machine that cant do half of what your little brain could do if it remembered how.
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I agree. As soon as Christ died the apostles were saying “he’s going to come back this year because…”. And every generation since. And plenty of other cultures too. Had an interesting graduate seminar where the prof suggested it was not superior military capability that allowed the spanish to ruin the mayan civilization, but because the Mayan’s thought they had fucked up their own calendar THEN, had invited the apocalypse in and simply gave up.
So yeah. I agree that we are locked in our dimension. Barring spiritual practices that require discipline, and cannot be sustained for any great length of time. The eternal return back to our dimension. I think God is a relflection of us, but only collectively, and over far vaster tracks of time.
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yeah interesting in the sky scorp yours is along similar lines to my loose idea of it – I believe we are gods and that together there’s an exponentially expanding spiral (for want of a better word) of energy we can harness. I don’t have so much of a linear chronological perspective on time though. I think time’s tricky. The clock based version of it anyhow.
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More’s the pity too, that people literalize the apocalypse stories and fail to see the metaphor for the inner spiritual journey.
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Did you have anything to do with the hologram exhibition at the powerhouse museum in the 80s? THAT rocked my teen world (yes a nerd from the get go).
I’d never thought of it as ego (the apocalypse believers) but that’s an interesting angle David – I’ve always thought it gives them a way of not having any attachment or commitment to anything because it’s all going to end anyhow – as though they’re relinquishing their power and allowing themselves to be manipulated. Almost like they’re asleep at the wheel.
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Yep, the Spacelight exhibition, that was how I got involved, ended up being a partner in the business.
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that’s totally bizarre – you’ve been helping me see things in a different way for far longer than I knew. I didn’t want to leave and they forced us out because it was closing. I was 12 LOL I even remember what I was wearing that day. That lovely dark blue puffer jacket with the light blue and white chevrons and the red pinstripe binding and my bata bullets… sigh THAT was an outfit. In the exhibition I remember there was a flower (a rose?) in a vase and a room with a chair something to do with a chair in a room? That was the day my dad explained radio waves to me. I liked the thought of invisible stuff undulating around us. Nice. O well thanks from the 12 year old me David – it was a pivotal moment for the nerd.
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was there a william tell thing too – an apple being shot with an arrow? have a vague memory of some kind of fruit exploding. maybe that’s some other memory – that phase of microwave experiments that was quickly nipped in the bud by my mother, the keeper of the microwaves.
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So davey, you an astronaut?
Knew you were a freakin’ genius Gem Moon hidin’ out in the 12th house.
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a ’specimen’ (as in Italian astronaut ). No, but did dealings with a few of the large aeronautic and aerospace industries in the US. Did you know that they have been making holograms of the earth from the space shuttle since the eighties. Holography allows for incredibly small measurements, as in 1000th of an angstrom (light wave). It means you can find extremely small stress faults/changes in objects that go very fast or go thru very intense heat. Well thats one application. It also works in finding extremely small changes in the body, but the medical world is just getting into that now.
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Wow, I didn’t know that. Fascinating!
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Hmmmm, next Friday … that Mercury is right in black hole territory in Sagg, also th Sun, (not sure of the exact locations of black holes there). And Moon just coming off that Ouranus and into (go the boooys!!!) Aries. With stellium in Aqua as well… hahah what would i know ?
Just finished reading Angels & Demons so it all just seems like a gripping but harmless yarn…
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Leonelly,
I read the book a few years ago, so when the hardon collider became public
it was a titch mindblowing about anti matter.
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SOME forign aircraft will miraculously drop a fried chicken into its power grid – which will ooze its juicy liquids over the circuits and cause a automatic shutdown!
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kentucky fried particles?
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lmfao yes! KFC will be sponsoring Apple from now on! lol
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well it started without a hitch at 10pm last night and they expect to increase the speeds to some new physics level this weekend as well
And I slept like a log last night too
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Yes but they haven’t smashed the particles together yet. They are just sending beams around and around v.fast, getting them sort of revved up to be fast enough for when they smash them up to recreate the big bang.
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So do you mean that as I sit here off my eating plan noshing on crunchy Cheetos and cab that I’m actually, quite possibly, having my last meal and waiting to….gulp/shiver me timbers….die?
Shittin’ A….
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Speaking of KFC, I say that here in the US, we take all the potatoes for Thanksgiving on Thursday and put in the collider….”smashed potatoes” with a possible otherwordly flare/after taste.
Hillbilly dinner….
“And them there lumps in yer taters….those aren’t skins. Those spozzed to be particals. That’s what I heard over yonder.. Spozzed to be good fer ya, vitamins or somethin’.”
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I don’t know if I wish they would leave things alone as I am equally as fascinated to see if anything happens
so glad I was not a science whiz at school as I would have blown up ’something’ just to see what would happen, with only half the info and a fair bit of hope that I knew what i was doing – which is why these peeps ripple the nerves! anyone like me and we’re in trouble :O
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Think there is something to be said about the largest machine in the world being needed to figure out a particle….
Talk about naff…
I voted for third one down.
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However, if they find that the machine is held within the universe of the particle then I’ll cheer them on perhaps. Of course this could have been done without a machine to begin with but of course scientists don’t know that as they continue the search “out there”.
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Make that the fifth from the bottom. Swear I’m seeing things today.
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Effin A, SIXTH from the bottom.
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Seventh! Mystic what the hell is going on with that poll? Maybe “Hal”, er, the collider heard me and now resents…lol
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Now 8th from the bottom… Gawd Damn, strange poll that one. Maybe possessed as the order keeps changing each time I look back…
In any case, choice was “Something boring & irrelevant to most peeps lives will be discovered at billions of $ expense”
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Is it obvious that I’m half wacked today (as in bats, not drunk…
)Started with that dang gone Pisces jumpin into the abyss. Me thinks I’ll be right behind him…
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Right well the bloody thing is working again and SOMEHOW these fuqers have managed to fuq my washing machine. Totally rooted. lol
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Haha…… or was it the dancepants?
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You sure there isn’t any remnants of baguette etc. Pidgeon droppings ? maybe your washing machine is a worm hole . I can see a great tv series in this. Mystic the astrologer mum, discovers her washing machine is an ‘event horizon’ leading to an alternate universe. This universe is ruled by an evil aquarian tyrant, called Blasphemous Prime. We start our first episode with Mystic, separating colours and whites…yadda yadda
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Yeah, I think you are onto something there david. Out here in the boonies is another ‘event horizon’ in the form of my old fat-back TV, which also went bung on Friday night… wooooohhhhh. The Universe accessed through my tele, ah sorry, event horizon, is ruled by a benevolent Taurus called Love Tucker &/or an action Aries called Come on How About It (Aquarians NOT my weakness!). So I’m guessing they might be best channelled via shows on cooking and sport… if only I could tune in…
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“We start our first episode with Mystic, separating colours and whites”…
Whilst single handedly parting the Red Sea at the same time…
Yes folks, it’s the Magic Laundry Wand….Gets out stains and separates whatever the fuq you’d like separatin’….
Ex flame lip locked with a biatch that you dont like? The Laundry Wand not only will separate, but with Smash/Collide technology, faster than a laser and guaranteed to burn their lips right off their face.”
Mystic, you’re hot…
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Mystic,
Stand back of the spin cycle as you may smash/collide and dissapear altogether….Pouf!~~ Then daveyl will have to use hologram tech to come find you!
But I can see it, I really can. Aqua rising floated away inside of a soap bubble…
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I hope someone pukes into this machine and gums it all up
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LMFAO SAME!
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I used to go running and drink tea and eat scones and have the occasional beer with 2 senior physicists working on this project. I have not met two more normal, sweet well adjusted people with nice normal, sweet well adjusted kids (mohawks, bad t-shirts, Facebook accounts etc the usual teenage stuff) EVER. Hate to rain on all you crazies’ parade, and I had doubts too, but I think they are just kind of doing science rather than trying to blow us all into a black hole and recreate the entire oeuvre of Dr Who.
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