Hadron.

It will be called the Hardon Collider by all.

So, the internet is running out of tubes and the "Hardon Collider" ( Heh... hard-on collider... hehe...) is the solution?

Really... the internet is still fucking amusing to me... next thing you know they will ban Lolcats out of the web clearing about 100 Terabytes of data per month

Regarding Arhra's link...

That's both tragic and awesome, that we would literally be destroyed by the internet.

Unfortunately, not only are those launching the lawsuit idiots, the LHC isn't actually the grid. Sorry.

Arhra always knows the best stuff.

Well, when they actually switch the Large Hadron Collider on in mid June, there's a chance it will kill us all.

Either by creating a miniature black hole that doesn't dissipate as fast as predicted or by making strangelets, which are a theorised form of matter that would convert all matter on earth into more strangelets.

Kind of like how they were afraid a runaway nuclear reaction could possibly set the atmosphere on fire back when they were developing the atomic bomb.

SCIENCE!

Wow. So, I guess here's to me being afloat in space somewhere to eventually be found by another civilization.

If I need to explain that, you haven't read my Wiki article.




But, thankfully, I'm pretty sure that it won't create a black hole or damage the entire planet by converting its matter state, or else they'd have built it elsewhere to minimize losses. The moon still would have its gravitational effect; we just wouldn't be able to go there anymore.



But to comment on the original point of the thread, half those jerks are nerfing their service as it is, so forgive me if I'm less than sympathetic when they whine about actually having to keep up with what people are paying their hard-earned cash for in the next few years when they should be on it already.

http://overcompensating.com/comics/lhc.png

Way to drop the ball, Seil.

The internet fascinates me, but so do black holes. This is a win-win for me.

Well, at least the world will get one Large Hardon before its sucked into the hole.