"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

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

in reverse order -

the lolli shoot is very cute.. You definitely need more stripey blouses.

Uncle Andy is still far too outright bitchy about the people who come to see him for me to want to contribute to his coffers.

The only reason why the physicists have said it is *possible* that the Hadron will end the world is that they are scientists and until things are proved impossible, they must allow for all possibilities regardless of probability. I think spydrman put it best when he said "it's also *possible* monkeys might fly out of my ass".

The real reason why the world is going to "end" is more idealogical than physical. They are looking for things that will provide/prove a unified theory, once and for *all*. It is true, in most senses of the word, that what they are looking for with this is God. I see it as a great escalation in the war between science and religion. This is the next big step... like sailing around the world proved it was round. This is fucking HUGE... like 'holy crap am I going to pay attention to this because it is likely to be the most important thing that happens in our lifetimes' huge.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Even if the LHC folks find the Higgs boson, I doubt that anybody except the particle physicists will care. I'd be tremendously surprised if the Jeeezus freaks even noticed. Remember, they're still fixated on 19th century science, namely Darwin. And I said for the LHC goes for extraterrestrial life, too.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I agree that the Jayzus freaks aren't going to care right now about it. They will *eventually*, as more things are written about it, and it makes a lot of magazine and newspapers...

And really, they won't make a huge stink about it in our lifetimes.