We're Still Here; Now What, Doomsayers?
The Large Hadron Collider was successfully activated, tested, and used today. Yeah, that same LHC that quite a few paranoid, moronic wingnuts said would destroy the Earth has been successfully started and used, and we’re still here.
What now, guys? Where’s that thunderous rhetoric about the destruction of the Earth at the hands of microscopic black holes? Where’s the doomsday you were warning about?
All that silence you’re hearing? That’s the sound of thousands of very embarrassed people, hoping to slink away unnoticed to wait for the next “big, scary thing” they can hate, while the rest of us perk up and get excited about the real science being done by real physicists and real engineers … right now.
That silence will soon be replaced by cheers as the scientists doing actual work start learning more about our universe with the help of this giant machine. Feel free to openly mock anyone you know who actually parroted the “we’re going to die because of this machine!” paranoia. It’s okay to point out they were wrong. The sky isn’t falling today.
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More Testing to Come
Naturally, the doomsayers persist — after all, the LHC was just tested on Wednesday, not actually used in the capacity that doomsayers believe will destroy the Earth. Nevermind the fact that the damned thing worked correctly yesterday and did what it was supposed to, with no abnormalities observed and no “black hole weirdness.”
Oh well. I’ll be back to rub it in once the LHC does smash particles together at the speeds it’s designed to, just to make sure everyone remembers how much argument there was about nothing.
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