^This is the most kick-ass picture ever. SCIENCE! 8-)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2884322&userid=98756 <- The Guy in the picture.

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can you imagine writing that risk assesment thought?

Chances of it going wrong? very very small (good thing!)

Number of people effected if it does go wrong? ~6 Billion humans + many billions of other animals (bad thing!)

Nature of effect if things go wrong? destruction of the world (VERY bad thing!)

haha yeah - god I hated COSHH forms

My solution to "what would you do in the case of an accident" was almost always "use absorbant sand".  Wonder if that would help a black hole...

Rofl that almost deserves its own t-shirt.

You could do loads based on this concept or send workers there.

"I work on the worlds largest particle accelerator"
and on the back something like..
"If you see me snogging your mum, we just f**ked up"
"WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
Not as good as the above but you get the idea.

All together now.  

Thats great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasnt coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but itll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

Its the end of the world as we know it.
Its the end of the world as we know it.
Its the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Doomed I say! Doooooooomed! LOL!

It amuses me how many people go on about it, it turns on at 6am GMT does it? I plan to be asleep!

If it does go wrong well then... No one is really going to know about it... Anybody got the number for a Mr.G Freeman?

I will bet anyone that this wont be the end of the world - at odds of 100 to 1

I can feel it, I can feeel it happening, WERE Dooo.... Oh wait, its just my mobile.

saw this on xkcd this morning