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Are we dead yet…?

From: Yahoo!

GENEVA – The world’s largest particle collider passed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.

“There it is,” project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap. (more…)

After the last post, and the end of the world. I thought I’d post 10 things I would do before I die. I also collected others’ lists

Shaibanii:
10. Beat up Steven.
09. Play SVR09, and create ‘Shaibani II’
08. Hack Piczo and delete all sites.
07. Say goodbye to all friends and family.
06. Go to Hawaii.
05. Switch off computer
04. Eat, eat, eat!
03. Meet Candice, and Undertaker
02. Try to understand stocks.
01. Break WordPress

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We die in 7 days

From: The Sun

SCIENTISTS are trying to stop the most powerful experiment ever – saying the black holes it will create could destroy the world.

Dubbed by some the Doomsday test, it will be carried out next week in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located 300ft underground near the French-Swiss border.

The machine is 17 miles long and cost £4.4billion to create.

When its switch is pulled on September 10, this atom-smasher will become a virtual time machine, revealing what happened when the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago. (more…)