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Re: The Americans are gonna destroy the Earth!!
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:52:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> Carbon 60 wrote:
> > http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/07/18/stinwenws02029.html? • 999
> 
> Follow-up article:
> 
> http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/284/science/Defusing_fear_of_Big_Bang_machine+.s • html
> 
> I wonder:  if the collision of two elementary charged particles generates a
> huge amount of energy within a tiny space, what would happen if someone just
> happened to be sitting in the collision chamber at the instant of collision?

Hemorrhoids, you silly..

Oh wait.. sitting in it, not on it. Oh, well that's different.

> - Would he or she instantiate a new and sentient parallel universe,
> irrationally bent upon building an accelerator which could collide spamcake
> particles?

Most everything collides with spamcake particles. That's a cheap shot and you
know it.

> - Would they go out in a shower of sparks and huge bouts of flame?

No. Actually, huge bouts of sparks and showers of flame.

> - Would the intense electrical and magnetic fields simply kill them first?

Spamcake particles have a noted behavior of being energy absorbant, that is,
any energy released in a collision that would cause their creation would
instantly be absorbed by the new particle, as well as energy in a radius of
1.6 x 10^18 mm of 1.2 x 10^-3 mj per square mm of exposed spamcake at 20
degrees centigrade. Which accounts for low sales resistance in many cases.

> - Could this be used as a murder weapon in an Asimov-esque mystery?  "There's
> nothing here but this tiny pile of highly-charged dark matter, Sarge."  "Yes
> but what's this...?  It has an autographed photo of Hari Seldon and a smudge
> of lipstick on its collar!"

Hmm. Obviously a Second Foundation trap.

-Tom McD.
when replying, wild South American spamcakes can sense fear up to 20 meters.



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(...) I can't speak to spamcake energy density gradients but I can tell you one thing. The bogon flux density is definitely on the increase around here. See the Hacker's dictionary (a hard copy of which I saw for the first time last week. I knew it (...) (27 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) (URL) wonder: if the collision of two elementary charged particles generates a huge amount of energy within a tiny space, what would happen if someone just happened to be sitting in the collision chamber at the instant of collision? - Would he (...) (27 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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