You may have noticed an ad running on scienceblogs which says "Has the LHC destoyed the Earth?" If you click on it you find a webpage that says in big letters simply "NO". What's up with that? Check out the webpage source for the page (http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/).
Update 9/12/08: Check out the comments for more fun and also read the cat projectile analyzers take on how you can click to save the world.
br /> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
NO
href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/09/large_and_in_charge.php"
style="font-weight: light; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
text-decoration: none; color: #999999;" >?
Oh shit, bears.
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There's also an RSS feed should you feel the need to be updated on the status of your own existence.
Wow. Well spotted.
The Coleman and de Luccia paper looks quite interesting, but unfortunately it seems it was published in the days before there was an arXiv and the paper appears to be behind a paywall :-(
I've edited the page so it now points to this one, for tail recursion of a sort...
Here's the paper: http://www.3e.org/local/Coleman80_Bears.pdf
Ha! Round in round we go, where the world ends, nobody knows!
I'm now LMAO after typing
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/robots.txt
and
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/d
Daniel Drucker, thanks for that... taking a look at it now.
Viewing the source of the competitor's site,
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Yields some funny results too:
and
It seems that if you disable JavaScript, you are totally protected:
"<noscript>NOPE.</noscript>"
Should you feel that text isn't enough and you need to visually monitor the situation:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Improved
I was hoping the feed would say "No. The magnet's broken." today.
Heh, I didn't know it was you.