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Previously on "Hadron Collider halted for months"

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    I wonder how much they charge the protons for a ride around the accelerator?
    One each.

    I think I'm turning into a proton.
    Are you sure.
    Yes, I'm positive.

    IGMC

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
    The firemen in France must have been trained pretty well.

    -Hey Marcel, how was le shift?
    -Bof, just the one particle accelerator job, comme toujours. Encore du liquid helium.
    I wonder how much they charge the protons for a ride around the accelerator?


    Geddit, Charge? No!

    IGMC

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  • thunderlizard
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    The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel
    The firemen in France must have been trained pretty well.

    -Hey Marcel, how was le shift?
    -Bof, just the one particle accelerator job, comme toujours. Encore du liquid helium.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Higher energy collisions have been happening since the universe began. It's still here.

    Higher energy collisions have been happening in the Earth's atmosphere for the past 4000 million years or so. And it's still here.

    Go and play with your nuts.
    There was one down the road from me today.
    The fiesta was a write off

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    We delivered the coffe machine. It broke in the first 30 seconds.

    HTH
    and the french, swiss, germans, spanish and most of the rest of the world know that what comes out of british coffee machines would never be called coffee in a civillized country and refused to use it

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  • NotAllThere
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    Higher energy collisions have been happening since the universe began. It's still here.

    Higher energy collisions have been happening in the Earth's atmosphere for the past 4000 million years or so. And it's still here.

    Go and play with your nuts.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    How are the parts made in the UK holding up?
    We delivered the coffe machine. It broke in the first 30 seconds.

    HTH

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Learn not to try to re-create Big Bang because it might just be enough to destroy the planet?
    nonsense.

    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    This is simple risk management - benefits from this project are totally unknown, while risks are extreme:
    Close enough to zero not to matter.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Good thing. They should have never been allowed to do something like this anytime soon.
    Ridiculous
    Last edited by NotAllThere; 20 September 2008, 20:15.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shoes View Post
    Spotted that did you, well you're too smart for me, and for the rest of mankind clearly.

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  • shoes
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Nice try - after losing £100 on by making stupid bet to mcquigdt (?) on this forum I don't bet, especially when I can't win in the bet...
    Spotted that did you, well you're too smart for me, and for the rest of mankind clearly.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shoes View Post
    I will bet you £1 million that the world does not end within the next year AtW.
    Nice try - after losing £100 on by making stupid bet to mcquigdt (?) on this forum I don't bet, especially when I can't win in the bet...

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  • shoes
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    The animated squirrel avatar was more realistic.


    I will bet you £1 million that the world does not end within the next year AtW.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    Rearrange these words into a well-known phrase or saying: -

    Barrel, Fish, in, Shooting

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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    You stop winding up cowboy bob
    Rearrange these words into a well-known phrase or saying: -

    Barrel, fish, like, in, shooting

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