LHC Shut Down by Bird with Bread

[Captain Ron]

I think the Holocaust was an attempt by particles in the future to prevent their discovery by Jewish scientists in 2010. 

Gwuh?

[Midatlantic]

I was joking there.  And I refuse to write it in purple, because novels where there is saracasm do not have such lines written in purple.  I think you all are smart enough not to need things written in crayon in order to recognize the nature of a comment.

[wiccawench]

I was joking there.  And I refuse to write it in purple, because novels where there is saracasm do not have such lines written in purple.  I think you all are smart enough not to need things written in crayon in order to recognize the nature of a comment.

Novels don't have trolls writing through them with many different voices......(as you find on a forum like this) so it is an incomplete comparison. Each to their own midatlantic..... it is all about clarity of communication is all. In an effort to avoid being misunderstood. It is a convention not a 'rule' 

[Annie Okra]

rofl  That sounds like a Neil Gaiman novel - birdie baguette halts hadron collider doom....heehee

[firewalker]

I think you mean Dec 21

12, 21 - Whatever it takes 

[Animus]

I get the feeling that this is going to be a total failure... Just like the Star Wars project 

[Ellie]

I was joking there.  And I refuse to write it in purple, because novels where there is saracasm do not have such lines written in purple.  I think you all are smart enough not to need things written in crayon in order to recognize the nature of a comment.

I'm right there with ya. Plus, when people color code their comments, it takes away any bite or humor the comment would have had as I'm too busy being distracted by the color to appreciate the actual words.

[kathleen]

The bird made the temperature go up, what.... about 6 degrees and that was just enough heat to stop the magnets from superconducting? That's just crazy.; I love the theories surrounding this. I can't wait to hear about the next mishap. Perhaps someone will spill some soda next.

[Captain Ron]

I was joking there.  And I refuse to write it in purple, because novels where there is saracasm do not have such lines written in purple.  I think you all are smart enough not to need things written in crayon in order to recognize the nature of a comment.

I'm right there with ya. Plus, when people color code their comments, it takes away any bite or humor the comment would have had as I'm too busy being distracted by the color to appreciate the actual words.

I get all that, color-coding your sarcastic intent is kinda silly, I tend to avoid it as well.  But the burden of conveying intent is on the writer, not the reader, and especially on an internet forum, where communications are terse and vague and lack visual body-language cues, the burden is even moreso on the writer to convey his/her intent when choosing to neglect to use body-language shortcuts, which is what the color-coding essentially is.

But aside from all that, I got that midatlantic was joking or being sarcastic in the first place.  I just didn't think it was very funny.

Don't know why I'm going on about this, guess I just have a certain thing about the Holocaust.  Not trying to make enemies or start a flamewar here, just wanted to express that some of us might not find such comments so funny.

Not that I'm opposed to dark or sick humor, far from it.  It's just that if you're gonna joke about the Holocaust, you better be real damn hilarious.  Mid's comment was just kinda crass.

[S E Pearson]

Here it is, Louie...

http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,54599.0.html

Also, here's the story again, this time in the Telegraph...

Large Hadron Collider broken by bread dropped by passing bird
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/6514155/Large-Hadron-Collider-broken-by-bread-dropped-by-passing-bird.html

Yeah but if that's true then  the LHC must successfully operate in the future to cause the effect.

Given this we can declare victory and shut it down, thus saving a fortune.

They even noted:

"The succession of technical problems the LHC has suffered has led some physicists, apparently in all seriousness, to claim that it is being sabotaged by time-travelling particles from its own future. "

[Autonomous Unit]

So the LHC is broken....big deal!
It's not the End of the World! 

[JoMama]

According to one theory, the LHC is sabotaging itself from the future.  I'm not kidding, this is serious science, and papers have been submitted for peer review and publication:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2991
From the abstract:

It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged as to finally not allow these accelerators to come to work.

Read that sentence a second time

http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919
From the abstract:

Since LHC will produce particles of a mathematically new type of fundamental scalars, i.e., the Higgs particles, there is potentially a chance to find unseen effects, such as on influence going from future to past, which we suggest in the present paper.

[haniel]

I was joking there.  And I refuse to write it in purple, because novels where there is saracasm do not have such lines written in purple.  I think you all are smart enough not to need things written in crayon in order to recognize the nature of a comment.

Of course we are.