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LHC Ad: Beware Bears
Category: Off The Deep End • Physics
Posted on: September 11, 2008 5:31 PM, by Dave Bacon
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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.
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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.
Posted by: Ian Durham | September 11, 2008 6:32 PM
Wow. Well spotted.
Posted by: Greg Laden | September 11, 2008 7:28 PM
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 :-(
Posted by: andy | September 12, 2008 8:33 AM
I've edited the page so it now points to this one, for tail recursion of a sort...
Posted by: Daniel Drucker | September 12, 2008 12:48 PM
Here's the paper: http://www.3e.org/local/Coleman80_Bears.pdf
Posted by: Daniel Drucker | September 12, 2008 12:53 PM
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
Posted by: Dave Bacon | September 12, 2008 12:59 PM
Daniel Drucker, thanks for that... taking a look at it now.
Posted by: andy | September 12, 2008 1:04 PM
Viewing the source of the competitor's site,
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Yields some funny results too:
and
Posted by: Dave Munger | September 12, 2008 1:12 PM
It seems that if you disable JavaScript, you are totally protected:
"<noscript>NOPE.</noscript>"
Posted by: rich | September 14, 2008 6:25 PM
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
Posted by: Higgs Boson | September 16, 2008 11:52 AM
Improved
Posted by: ChinChin | September 17, 2008 6:42 AM
I was hoping the feed would say "No. The magnet's broken." today.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | September 21, 2008 11:29 PM
Heh, I didn't know it was you.
Posted by: Daniel de França MTd2 | September 10, 2009 11:35 PM