Comments on: LHC Goes Live – Earth Has Not Been Consumed By a Black Hole

By: Bruce Hood

Bruce Hood — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:49:47 +0000

No problem, I’m always happy to promote such critical thinking, even if this is a bit off topic for this discussion.

If you’d like to email me with some more info I’ll make a dedicated post about it.

Thanks so much…. the comments on the book are starting to come in and I think your readers would be interested in this line of work.

Unfortunately publication is not for another 6 months!!!! argh but you should start to see more in the media about it.
best
bruce

By: DV82XL

DV82XL — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:17:05 +0000

No question the girl in question was unstable and was likely to have gone off on just about anything. However there are several reports of elementary school teachers having had to deal with panicked kids on Wednesday over this issue, and this is not right. The claims were not coming from some doomsday cult, but from scientists, and that gave the concerns more weight than they deserved. In my view this is irresponsible, and does nothing to help the rationalist movement at all.

By: Seven

Seven — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:22:15 +0000

CBMTTek said:

Actually, I think that she would have been likely to commit suicide anyway, it is just convenient to blame some news story. Kind of like they blamed heavy metal for suicides in the 80s, etc…

Ummm, did I just defend the media?

Yes Judas Priest went to trial because they said there was a subliminal message in their music. It’s idiotic that it even went to a court because the whole idea was such a farse. There is a point where there is a sound in one of the songs on the record that the lawyers claimed was the words “do it” but the band said it was not those words and it was a combination of the singer inhaling and background noise. I heard it and it sounded more like a grunt to me or a “ho-way” than “do-it” but I still don’t get what “do it” means. It might mean “Do it. Go to the bathroom” but I guess the song was kind of dark and angry so they said it was saying “do it” and kill yourself.

This isn’t as crazy to say the news media caused a girl to commit suicide, but I still think it’s unfair because no normal level headed person commits suicide over something like a far out news report. She must have had issues and this was just the trigger and if not this it would be something else.

By: Burya Rubenstein

Burya Rubenstein — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:40:42 +0000

Creating a mini-black hole and sticking a charge on it and spinning it up should be extremely useful for a power source, and for a way of propelling space craft.

By: CBMTTek

CBMTTek — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:21:13 +0000

Luke Weston said:

Yeah, DV82XL, that was a really tragic thing to hear about.

I think stupid sensationalist journalism has got a lot to answer for in that regard.

Actually, I think that she would have been likely to commit suicide anyway, it is just convenient to blame some news story. Kind of like they blamed heavy metal for suicides in the 80s, etc…

Ummm, did I just defend the media?

By: drbuzz0

drbuzz0 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:17:29 +0000

bruce hood said:

Hi guys,

I am doing the rounds of the skeptic (and paranorma) blogs to shamelessly promote the site and book. Take a peek if you have time.
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best
Bruce

No problem, I’m always happy to promote such critical thinking, even if this is a bit off topic for this discussion. If you’d like to email me with some more info I’ll make a dedicated post about it.

By: bruce hood

bruce hood — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:54:22 +0000

Hi guys,

I am doing the rounds of the skeptic (and paranorma) blogs to shamelessly promote the site and book. Take a peek if you have time.
http://www.brucemhood.com
best
Bruce

By: Luke Weston

Luke Weston — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:21:31 +0000

Yeah, DV82XL, that was a really tragic thing to hear about.

I think stupid sensationalist journalism has got a lot to answer for in that regard.

By: An Actual Scientist

An Actual Scientist — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:43:26 +0000

I’m glad things are going well. As you say, any system this large, it would not be that unusual to find a few bugs when it is first powered on. Hopefully things will continue smoothly. There’s huge potential for some great discoveries.

By: Howdy

Howdy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:38:58 +0000

See link below for a reasoned argument of why the LHC hasn’t ended the universe

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2008/871.html