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with the lights out
02/09/2008 10:39
its less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us! - turbo_superboss |
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LOL
02/09/2008 10:41
Haha Dave this is your best column ever!! Loved it, really made me laugh out loud quite literally. Ended up having to explain my laughter to my less than amused colleagues. Enjoy the rest of the trip, I'm thoroughly jealous! - Richard |
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When the music's over...
02/09/2008 10:51
Turn out the lights? Hahaha, thanks, had one of those deep belly chuckles that make co-workers look at me strangely. I'm excited about this experiment. I think the possibilities, the scientists' hopes of what they'll discover, is fascinating. - Shantih |
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Stargazing
02/09/2008 10:58
Bean me up,Scottie!!! Very witty - rosemary |
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Awesome. Can't wait.
02/09/2008 11:00
I'm imagining next Wednesday, talking to my wife and then noticing that all sound has disappeared. Then my hands are missing. Then just a quiet "foop" and we're all in some parallel dimension being stared at by drooling, tentacled aliens.
I reckon they'd eat our politicians first. Which alien wouldn't find Manto Shabalala-Msimang to be a juicy morsel? - Some Bloke |
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Pale ale?
02/09/2008 11:00
Skip the kak stuff. Head straight to the Emerald Isle, & drink Guiness!! It's good for you. Oh yah - their whiskey is not too bad either. Enjoy whats left of your holiday! - sarah |
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LHC
02/09/2008 11:13
Haha, very funny piece, Dave. Nice reading. Would hate to be in Scotland rite now, but would give anything to be Geneva when they fire that baby up (probably wouldnt notice much, but still). Put your houses in order people, and prepare to meet your maker. - seeker |
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02/09/2008 11:20
I'm surprised anybody in SA noticed this. I've been following the development of the LHC for the last 2 years, not because I'm into particle physics, just because I'm curious. South Africans tend to be seriously clueless about these ground breaking stuff happening in the world, unless it comes under a "end of the world" banner. On that note I should mention that apart from mini black holes, there is also the risk of creating strangelets, false vacuum's and magnetic monopoles, all planet killers (I particular like the strangelet "ice-9" scenario). Wikipedia these if you're bored, it makes some interesting reading. Personally, I'm not making any end of the world lists just yet. Enjoy the pale ales. - M |
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The world has already entered that time warp
02/09/2008 11:21
It used to be that the Scottish Sun devoted 48 pages to the Celtic-Rangers derby ... ah my, what's the world coming to! Cheers David, for the highly enjoyable column... any chance you wrote this in the World's End pub in Edinburgh...? - Jaco Wium |
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It's the end of the world as we know it
02/09/2008 11:24
And I feel fine! - James |
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LHC???
02/09/2008 11:27
You should also mention that apart from mini black holes, there's also the risk of creating strangelets, false vacuums and magnetic monopoles, all planet killers. There's also the risk of misspelling hadron, by swapping the r and d, making a totally different kind of weapon. Enjoy the ales!! - M |
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End of the World
02/09/2008 11:30
Seeing as the LHC just a really big (and therefore cool) particle accelerator, and this sort of tomfoolery has been going on for a while now, i won't be reaching for the switch just yet. I presume the LHC will also be housed at CERN, which is where the next biggest accelerator is in any case. Same scientists - new tricks. Some answers, more questions. etc. - Chap |
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Failure
02/09/2008 11:34
Haha, brilliantly put mate! I believe something BIG can be discovered from the LHC. But from my point of view, even if they prove they're theory of the big bang, they'll still miss the BIGGER QUESTION... WHO CREATED THE BIG BANG!!!! Something can't be created out of nothing. Muppets!!!
Njoy your trip mate, go LARGE!!! - Rey |
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Huh?
02/09/2008 11:40
Awesome column had a good laugh...Enjoy your vacation and do all you have to do before the end of the world...or our great move to a parallel dimension...Think I would get to meet ET there? - KK@ |
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Star Wars
02/09/2008 11:46
Don't invest in 2012 the Mayans have already predicted this is when the world will end. Carry on drinking yourself into oblivion or some other place. Not black holes but drinking holes is where to invest your cash. - Trish |
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So did anyone notice ...
02/09/2008 11:47
... that next Wednesday is 10/09/08 7..6..5..4..3..2.. :-) Funny column. But one has to wonder about these scientists... Is there something we should know that they're not telling? - Joe Soap |
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Just chill and relax ... No Stress....
02/09/2008 11:53
Remember y2k fear that was fueled by the attendant press coverage and other media speculation, as well as corporate and government reports.
While no significant computer failures occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000 - Ngongolo |
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Denial and tentacle porn...
02/09/2008 12:01
Great article BTW, I'm just trying to make as if the THC is not there, it's the single best ability I've earned from my country, if you insist that something doesn't exist long and hard enough, soon 40 million people will follow dancing and celebrating in your footsteps... @ Some Bloke I'm sure the Japanese would be happy being able to finally shoot tentacle porn with a real camera, and not having to draw everything by hand...*HAHAHA* - Francois Roux |
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oake akes
02/09/2008 12:26
I'll drink the 3 remaining pale ales in SA. Anyway, why don't we have a larger variety of beer in this country? If you take out the lagers there aren't much left. - Nanker Phelge |
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One for Rey...
02/09/2008 12:36
Dude...Who created the entity that created the big bang? We could go on for ever if you want. - Freelance Mycophagist |
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Ignorance is bliss
02/09/2008 12:36
So, will you be ready when it is the end of the world? - Slaptjips |
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Pancakes Anyone
02/09/2008 12:43
Do you think a particel accelerator would cook great pancakes. Now thats technology well spent! - bj |
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Slaptjips
02/09/2008 13:04
What do people mean when they ask "will you be ready when the world ends?". Ready for what? We can never really know what's going to go down on the day, so how do you prepare for the unknown? Pack a toothbrush? - LW |
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@FREELANCE MYCOPHAGIST
02/09/2008 13:05
That's where the buck stops dude! Something far greater than our average,- limited by our experience- brains comes in....one only has to look at th eorder and precision in the universe to know there is a CREATOR - ROSEMARY |
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Afterparty!
02/09/2008 13:07
Great stuff, all just in time to make the following weekend's trance party an afterparty! - AW |
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They have tried this before and didn't win
02/09/2008 13:25
For all the nerds out there that are interested there is a thing called a RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in New York where they had bash (excuse the pun) at ending the world a little while back. It didn't work, so they spend another few billion on another toy. And people say that scientists don't have any fun. - Mark |
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Relax ... it's only gravity which we all know sucks...
02/09/2008 13:30
There's not much chance of a singularity forming for too long considering how much power is needed just to make these nano-scale black holes. We'd need to burn the entire planet to set-up a stable black hole of any significance.Unstable Black holes are fine: They'll dissipate due to Hawking Radiation so long as they're below the critical mass required for stability. It's the "Stable Black Holes" we have to worry about like BEE and other black bodies set-up to drain the universe of energy. - Eff.Kay |
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joker
02/09/2008 13:49
Dave, i think you have a brilliant sense of humour and enjoy your witty exploits from time to time. I do however long for an article from you with a little more substance and ... not so much bull@#$% to put it bluntly. - Shaun |
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Rhodes University
02/09/2008 13:53
David Mosely. You went to Rhodes ne? I think you drank too much alcohol like the rest of the varsity and killed off your own brain cells. Its taking its toll ... *sigh* - Roderick |
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That's the way it should be
02/09/2008 13:58
You know, we should be doing the things we want to do before we die now anyway, even if the world doesn't end in a week's time, because your world could end at anytime - now that is something that none of us have any control over - Sammy |
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Gone
02/09/2008 13:59
Whooohooo, this means I can go out and buy that dream Ferrari on credit and lets see, whatever else I have always wanted - hope the credit act ppl has a sense of humour after 10/09/08 if like the y2k nothing actually happens. But seriously, if this thing goes pearshaped I would like to know how warm to dress to be sucked into the other dimensions???? - MJS |
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@ Ngongolo Y2K
02/09/2008 14:05
Nothing happened in 2000 because computer programmers like myself, spent close on 5 years fixing the problem... IT proffesionals never claimed it was the end of the world, as all the Y2K bug was, was that the Century was not included in date fields.... The worst that would have happened is that your age would have been calculated incorrectly e.g. If you were 35 in 2000, the computer program would have taken the year 00, subtracted you D.O.B 65 (1965) and calculated that you were 65 years old... - The Anti Bunny |
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Why was this gadget not set up in Gauteng?
02/09/2008 14:12
SA can do with that province vanishing in a black hole. Ag no, won't work. Will get stolen or hijacked and vanish before D-Day. - TB |
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I'm with "H'
02/09/2008 14:14
the hardon created the big bang - cameron |
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End of the world
02/09/2008 14:38
As long as you have your towel (hitchhikers guide, for people that dont know), youll be o.k. at the end of the world! - Eve |
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Alistair Fairweather already wrote about this
02/09/2008 14:51
...a few weeks ago. Tell your subs to catch a wake-up. - Mandy |
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@LW
02/09/2008 15:00
No, a Towel... - Hie Hie |
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Time to hitchhike?
02/09/2008 15:11
Good one, enjoyed today's column! So, do you think all the world-enders have stocked up on sardines & bottled water, just in case? I'm off to the pub for a couple of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters & hitch a lift from the Vogons! - Nel |
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