"And the punchline of the joke is asking someone save us"

[cupcake_goth]

(There are maybe 10 of you who will recognize where I took the title of this post from, and are probably giggling to yourselves.)

Hey look at that! The world didn't end when the Large Hadron Collider was switched on. Of course, as several people have pointed out, there are all sorts of doomsday possibilities that would take a few weeks to really get started, but that just means everyone has time to prepare for the possible rip in space-time and/or a zombie uprising.

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So I'm going to see the Sisters Of Mercy in November, when they play El Corazon. Because apparently I am an optimist, and think the show will be better than the last time I saw them. (You couldn't tell what songs were being performed thanks to the WALL OF DISTORTION, and the smoke machine was cranked so high that it set off the smoke alarm. Fun for everyone!) But my dear StuntHusband has never seen them live, AND stroppy_baggage is planning on attending. Mostly so we can tell people he's Uncle Andy's younger brother. (Because Andrew Eldritch really does look like he's the older, drug-addled brother of the Stroppy One. It's kind of eerie.)

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Random gothy eye candy clicky-link: A pirate-loli photo shoot from egl. I think her outfit is lovely, and it is making me covet more stripey blouses.

Comments

[wbyonder.livejournal.com]

First of all and I don't know why the scientific community hasn't debunked this. The amount of mass involved with the LHC even if it swallowed the earth would not be .00001% big enough to start a black hole. Any info even suggesting this is either paranoia or publicity.

Having said that the density of smoke at the last SoM concert I attended (with you I believe) is far more likely to cause a black hole from an accreation disk then the LHC. I will not be attending that. I do miss hanging out with you but this will not be the event to hang out at. I do hope to see you again sometime. I know our social circles have diverged somewhat but that doesn't mean I've lost interest in you. Love always, -Jon

[marc17.livejournal.com]

Because the scientific community knows that black holes can be created at any mass. Send two particles colliding into each other with enough energy to get them to critical density and you could end up with a mini black hole. However, they'd only suck in items that actually touched their event horizon which would be incredibly small, much smaller than the nucleus of an atom. Meaning, it would probably just pass through most matter without anything happening. If it wasn't at escape velocity though, it would begin to orbit or oscillate around the Earth's center of gravity and eventually gather more mass as it does hit things over time. However, at the sizes we are working with Hawking radiation would probably cause it to bleed off energy (and therefore mass) and evaporate much faster than it could gather mass.

What we really need to worry about are stranglets that would turn everything around them into more stranglets.