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Has the LHC destroyed the world?

Category: Haha, a funny
Posted on: September 10, 2008 12:29 PM, by NotoriousLTP

Now -- via this useful website -- you can check whether the activation of the Large Hadron has destroyed the Earth.

Go ahead...click it...you know you want to...

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My students asked me today if they still have to study for tomorrow's math exam, seeing as the world could end at any moment. I told them the world will certainly end if they don't.

Posted by: Zeno | September 10, 2008 1:02 PM

I clicked the link. I got a 403 Error. Does that mean that the world ended and those of us in Scranton, PA, won't know it for another 20 years?

Posted by: (((Billy))) The Atheist | September 10, 2008 1:17 PM

Look at the source code, some pretty funny stuff in there

Posted by: slapdisease | September 10, 2008 1:50 PM

I like that it has an RSS feed:

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/rss.xml

Posted by: Dave X | September 10, 2008 3:00 PM

Actually, that's suppose to read "NOT YET", but right in the middle of coding the page, the author died from fright. And so, for him/her at least, the LHC did end the world.

Posted by: jope | September 10, 2008 5:07 PM

Look at what could really happen, if the universe itself were a quantum reality:
http://gaudwin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!75D2857795790980!236.entry

Posted by: A Gaudwin | December 18, 2008 12:17 PM

There's another one. http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearthyet.com/

Check out the javascript on this one, it looks like it might actually be accurate!

Posted by: Jasper | December 21, 2008 8:57 AM