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September 10, 2008 by Libby Send to a Friend Send to a Friend

The first test of the Large Hadron Collider was held at 3:30 AM. Has the LHC destroyed the Earth yet?

Ok, no.

If the end of the world were to occur today, or any other day in the post-LHC era, it would most likely be due to an asteroid hitting the surface of the Earth. This is how it would all go down and how it has gone down six times already in the history of our planet:

(best video ever. watch with audio. get headphones if you’re at work)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlF8APEkh-E

If not by asteroid, how do you think the world will end? Pandemic? Killer Robots?

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Al Says:

Someone will figure out how to do one of these 10 things: http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html

I particularly like number 8 - it’s so visual.

September 10, 2008 at 8:12 am
Cale Says:

Wiping out 90% of all living things by asteroid every 15 million years is God’s beautiful plan. Duh.

September 10, 2008 at 8:41 am
Amanda Says:

if we’re going to talk about the end of life as we know it, isn’t this required?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqroT1FZ5Y

September 10, 2008 at 8:51 am
Michael M. Says:

If I’m typing erratically, it’s because I just slit my wrists. Thanks.

September 10, 2008 at 9:30 am
eddie Says:

the test of the collider couldn’t have possibly been the actual test of colliding protons yet since it takes a month or so to reach full power (and start the real test) once they turn it on, so of course the LHC hasn’t destroyed anything yet.

but on a more serious and scientific note, the end of the world will come when flying monkeys follow henry gale’s balloon back to civilization. it will be armegeddon.

September 10, 2008 at 9:45 am
Greg Says:

that headline graphic is amazing.

September 10, 2008 at 9:45 am
Merit Says:

so just to clarify…big ben and the parthenon are the places to be when this happens, right? because they seemed sort of fine..

September 10, 2008 at 9:49 am
Jason Bond Says:

Is this really Heaven?

September 10, 2008 at 10:04 am
dan Says:

no jason, they don’t play “the end of the world as we know it” in heaven

September 10, 2008 at 10:25 am
eddie Says:

i love old pink floyd. i think i just had a flashback.

September 10, 2008 at 10:37 am
Neutrality Says:

The best part of the LHC destroying the earth is the irony that after being such a pleasant, neutral place for so long, it would be Switzerland that finally did us in.

September 10, 2008 at 3:16 pm
marty royle Says:

everyone has always thought the world was going to end, the first problem that christianity had as a religion was that the world didn’t end in 70AD like the first christians said it would.

i think that it’s arrogant to think the world will end in your lifetime. the truth is, we’re not special, we’re not living in the end times, we’re just another frustrated generation hoping against hope that our lives will have relevance and meaning.

or maybe it’ll end in 2012 like the Mayans say….either way i’ll be dead right.

September 11, 2008 at 6:05 am
Cale Says:

Marty, you bring up an interesting point that most Christians overlook - Jesus himself thought the world would end during the lifetime of the people he was talking to.

Maybe he forgot to carry the 3 or convert to metric?

September 11, 2008 at 8:49 am
Michael Says:

Cale - you positive about that, or are you confusing Jesus with S/paul?

Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. ”

Paul, who greatly corrupted the Jewis Reformer Jesus’ message, and contradicts it on many occassions, and who modern Christianity follows more than Jesus, was much more specific and in 1st or 2d Thess (chapter 4 I believe) does talk about it ending during his lifetime - pardon if I’m wrong on the text, I haven’t read the bible in about 10 years.

September 11, 2008 at 9:24 am
Cale Says:

Sure, Paul turned Jesus’ ingroup message to the Jews into salvation for all, but there are a couple Jesus “quotes” out there from other gospels that seem to point to him thinking the rapture was coming in the near future, such as:

Matthew 24:34: “…This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”

Luke 9:26-27: “For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels. But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.”

September 11, 2008 at 9:41 am
Michael Says:

Eh, well Luke was a damned liar anyway, any religious scholar knows that.

September 11, 2008 at 9:55 am
eddie Says:

did anyone see the time travel episode of ‘naked science’ on national geo last night? it was only effing AWESOME. look, i didn’t cuss for once. i said to myself, “don’t effing cuss this time, self.”

September 19, 2008 at 3:16 pm