On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:16:44 -0700, "azotic"
wrote:
The doomsday machine is finished and will be tested tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsZQOlJU_Hg
Impressive metalworking to say the least.
Best Regards
Tom.
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As an update for the people that were waiting for the "black hole
solution" to the current economic problems
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From Times Online
September 9, 2008
Apocalypse now? 30 days when the world didn't end
Will the LHC cause the world to end? Here are some other
occasions when reports of the Earth's demise have proven to be
premature..
Michael Moran
The beginning of the first serious experiments using CERN’s Large
Hadron Collider this week has given rise to a welter of fanciful
scare stories about the obliteration of the Earth by a pocket
black hole or a cascade reaction of exotic particles. Similar
predictions have been made around the launch of several other
particle physics experiments and even the first atomic weapons
tests.
Predictions of the world’s end are nothing new though. We’ve
picked out 30 of the most memorable apocalypses that never, for
one reason or another, quite happened.
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1: 2,800BC: The oldest surviving prediction of the world’s
imminent demise was found inscribed upon an Assyrian clay tablet
which stated: "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days.
There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end.
Bribery and corruption are common."
snip
30: Mar 21, 2008. A minor Christian sect The Lords' Witnesses
announced this date for the end of days on their website, which
is still online.
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for entire article click on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4717864.ece
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).