Cruelty at the subatomic level.
Posted on: August 7, 2008 - 5:50pm
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Cruelty at the subatomic level.
Is no one concerned about the ethics of the LHC? And I don't mean strange matter! Join PETH now!
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People should actually be protesting the mistreatment of hardons. Any woman who doesn't put out on a date should have hundreds of protestors on her lawn the next day.
Matt Shizzle has been banned from the Rational Response Squad website. This event shall provide an atmosphere more conducive to social growth. - Majority of the mod team
My only complaint is this will ikely shift attention away from what I feel is their more pressing cause:
Warning people about the dangers of unDead Driving.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
People are so ignorant about science it's pathetic. They actually think it's possible for these things to cause a black hole tha would destroy the Earth.
Matt Shizzle has been banned from the Rational Response Squad website. This event shall provide an atmosphere more conducive to social growth. - Majority of the mod team
I tried my best to explain that even if the LHC did generate a super-dense ball of matter it wouldn't be a problem because "black hole gravity" is a function of mass and not some magical form of meta-gravity. No one seemed to be able to grasp that, "retorting" with things like "But not even light can escape a black hole".
Oi.
The strangest part of it all was that they seemed comforted when I got exasperated and said that the black hole would devour the world so quickly that no one would have the chance to notice.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
I've seen horror movies and enjoyed myself. Sometimes.. people just want to be scared, I guess.
I wonder if there's some strange instinct to fixate on the most dangerous thing we can find at any given moment, then, you know.. try to survive it... leading to a behaviour of manufacturing things to fear... maybe...
or, I suppose, it could be straight ignorance.
If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. - JP Sartre
And then along comes this woman who goes and tries to take all the fun out of it by being realistic. It is possible they all chose to deny what i was saying because it wasn't nearly as interesting and being afraid. Plus the possibility that accepting what I was saying was right might make them feel foolish.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray