Comments on: Get Your Crowbars (and Towels) Ready! http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/ The Journal of Gamer Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Game http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58583 The Game Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:46:01 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58583 Your mom works at NASA!... wait... Here's another interesting page on the subject, done by scientists and not the mass media: http://www.kressworks.com/Science/A_black_hole_ate_my_planet.htm Your mom works at NASA!… wait…

Here’s another interesting page on the subject, done by scientists and not the mass media:
http://www.kressworks.com/Science/A_black_hole_ate_my_planet.htm

]]> By: Bartoneus http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58582 Bartoneus Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:29:31 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58582 You should be working for NASA... ...in their Jerk Department. Jerk. :P You should be working for NASA…

…in their Jerk Department. Jerk. :P

]]> By: The Game http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58581 The Game Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:05:30 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58581 You're simplifying and taking quotes out of context: "For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction." is referring to the possibility of showing evidence of higher dimensions then our own- NOT "Well, hell, we're just going to throw the switch and see what happens, 'cause we're just plum outta ideas 'bout what this here proton thrower can do!" Trying to get unexpected results (and then repeating them.) And as for the probability of the planet being destroyed... well, scientists have assigned a probabiltiy of the Earth spontaneously destroying itself. (It's greater than 1 to 10^10^100) Oh, and you wouldn't be atomized instantly, unless there's really something they're not telling us. If the black holes don't evaporate and somehow become stable, they'd drill into the center of the Earth and start eating the planet from the inside. You'd have PLENTY of time to send me an email saying "I told ya so!" A page definitely worth checking out about a related subject: http://www.qntm.org/destroy You’re simplifying and taking quotes out of context: “For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction.” is referring to the possibility of showing evidence of higher dimensions then our own- NOT “Well, hell, we’re just going to throw the switch and see what happens, ’cause we’re just plum outta ideas ’bout what this here proton thrower can do!” Trying to get unexpected results (and then repeating them.)

And as for the probability of the planet being destroyed… well, scientists have assigned a probabiltiy of the Earth spontaneously destroying itself. (It’s greater than 1 to 10^10^100)

Oh, and you wouldn’t be atomized instantly, unless there’s really something they’re not telling us. If the black holes don’t evaporate and somehow become stable, they’d drill into the center of the Earth and start eating the planet from the inside. You’d have PLENTY of time to send me an email saying “I told ya so!”

A page definitely worth checking out about a related subject: http://www.qntm.org/destroy

]]> By: Bartoneus http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58580 Bartoneus Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:05:15 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58580 Which parts of "exceeds our powers of prediction" and "here's our PREDICTED statistic of the world being destroyed" did you miss? Facetious? Maybe, but something definitely bothers me about the contradictory quotes coming out of these people. If they're willing to give a probability that the planet will be destroyed, then they consider it a possible outcome. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, yes, but I care now because I won't have time to care when I'm atomized, I'll be too busy floating through space or something. Which parts of “exceeds our powers of prediction” and “here’s our PREDICTED statistic of the world being destroyed” did you miss?

Facetious? Maybe, but something definitely bothers me about the contradictory quotes coming out of these people. If they’re willing to give a probability that the planet will be destroyed, then they consider it a possible outcome. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt, yes, but I care now because I won’t have time to care when I’m atomized, I’ll be too busy floating through space or something.

]]> By: The Game http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58579 The Game Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:46:45 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58579 I know you're being facetious, but I wouldn't worry about the planet being destroyed just yet. 10^(-40)% chance of anything destructive happening. It's also not "We have no idea what's going to happen!" in terms of we don't know if this experiment will destroy the earth or not, it's "we don't know what's going happen to the protons", you know, teeny tiny subatomic particles. It's really not that easy to make a black hole. Experiments like this are important to furthering scientific inquiry: science has a way of making itself useful. I know you’re being facetious, but I wouldn’t worry about the planet being destroyed just yet. 10^(-40)% chance of anything destructive happening. It’s also not “We have no idea what’s going to happen!” in terms of we don’t know if this experiment will destroy the earth or not, it’s “we don’t know what’s going happen to the protons”, you know, teeny tiny subatomic particles. It’s really not that easy to make a black hole. Experiments like this are important to furthering scientific inquiry: science has a way of making itself useful.

]]> By: Sucilaria http://critical-hits.com/2006/09/21/get-your-crowbars-and-towels-ready/#comment-58578 Sucilaria Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:07:10 +0000 http://www.critical-hits.com/?p=370#comment-58578 This reminds me of that episode of Ren and Stimpy where they were on the space station, and Stimpy was assigned to guard the big red button. I mean...come on! Who wouldn't? Of course, when it comes to NOT pushing buttons, that's a bit harder. (And yes, I'm aware that no where in your post was the word 'button' even mentioned. We've taken the train to tangent-land!!! Woo!!) This reminds me of that episode of Ren and Stimpy where they were on the space station, and Stimpy was assigned to guard the big red button.

I mean…come on! Who wouldn’t?

Of course, when it comes to NOT pushing buttons, that’s a bit harder.

(And yes, I’m aware that no where in your post was the word ‘button’ even mentioned. We’ve taken the train to tangent-land!!! Woo!!)

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