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Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.

Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.

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2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

And I have full confidence we’ll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.

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That’s a flippin colossal collider

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Right? That’s an unimaginable amount of work. Imagine trying to debug that thing if there are issues. Walking miles a day just checking on stuff lol

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Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Imagine designing this thing that probably won’t be completed until you’re dust!

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How cathedral architects must feel.

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Then you can get accelerated in the thing you designed.

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Is it by smashing stuff together until they break something fundamental, and the universe goes dark?

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Whoops, blew the galactic breaker. Somebody has to go down to the supermassive black hole and flip it back on.

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I’m sure Mehdi can find it for us.

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Instead of building it this big, they should build it as big as the following one will be.

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Instead of building it that big, they should build it as big as the following one after the following one will be.

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Build it along the equator

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Build it in orbit around the sun.

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But where’s the fun in that?

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