• IninewCrow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They tried but couldn’t affect the laws of universe to do anything catastrophic … but they keep firing the thing without really knowing what will happen until it happens.

    It’s like a bunch of kids with access to firecrackers and thousands of pounds of TNT.

    Maybe nothing will happen … maybe something will.

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      1 year ago

      That is so meh… The entire thing started with some scientist made the mistake of not using dumb normal people terms when speaking with a journalist and instead used scientific terms. So there’s a theretical possibility it may destroy the earth. There is also a theretical possibility that the atoms of a pencil may randomly align with the atoms of the table it’s resting on and fall through it to the floor below.

      It will never happen of course but there is a theoretical chance it will happen just as there is a theoretical chance the the collider will destroy the earth.

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        1 year ago

        That second one happens all the time to me, though. I’ve stopped counting the things that have presumably phased through the floor. Most infuriating, only one out of a pair of knitting needles I have scoured that entire room for four times. It’s gone. Finito. It’s shaken off this mortal coil and returned to Sarah Hauschka.