{"id":2059,"date":"2008-09-11T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2008-09-11T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:31:05","slug":"lhc-ad-beware-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/11\/lhc-ad-beware-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC Ad: Beware Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have noticed an ad running on scienceblogs which says “Has the LHC destoyed the Earth?” If you click on it you find a webpage that says in big letters simply “NO”. What’s up with that? Check out the webpage source for the page (http:\/\/www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com\/<\/a>).
\nUpdate 9\/12\/08:<\/b> Check out the comments for more fun and also read the cat projectile analyzers take on how you can click to save the world.
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Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?<\/title><br \/>\n<!--\nthis is the fault of daniel drucker dmd@3e.org\nthe first person to ask for an RSS feed gets a free black hole in their junk\nyou are too late, people have already asked. ok fine i made one. rss.xml.\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- oh shit bears --><br \/>\n<!--\n[ddrucker@scatter ~]$ host -t txt freon.3e.org\nfreon.3e.org descriptive text \"Anesthetized monkeys exposed to\n25,000 ppm or 50,000 ppm [of freon] for 5 minutes had [cardiac]\n[arrhythmia]s including [tachycardia] and decreased contractility\n(U.S. EPA 1983)\"\nIn their paper, Coleman and de Luccia noted:\nThe possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never\nbeen a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate\necological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of\nnature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible,\nso is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic\ncomfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the\nnew vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some\nstructures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been\neliminated.\nThe second special case ... applies if we are now living in the\ndebris of a false vacuum ... This case presents us with less\ninteresting physics and with fewer occasions for rhetorical excess\nthan the preceding one.\nS. Coleman and F. De Luccia (1980). \"Gravitational effects on and\nof vacuum decay\". Physical Review D21: 3305.\nthe crab always wins; it makes the baby syntacticians cry.\n--><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 120pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;text-decoration: none;color: black\">NO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- this is valid xhtml, biotechs --><\/p>\n<p><!-- ok i have succumbed to the siren call of adding useful information\nto this page, here is Seed Magazine's coverage of the LHC --><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/large_and_in_charge\/\" style=\"font-weight: light;font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;text-decoration: none;color: #999999\">?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https:\/\/ssl.” : “http:\/\/www.”);<br \/>\ndocument.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com\/ga.js’<br \/>\ntype=’text\/javascript’%3E%3C\/script%3E”));<\/p>\n<p>var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-143825-2”);<br \/>\npageTracker._trackPageview();<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh shit, bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed an ad running on scienceblogs which says “Has the LHC destoyed the Earth?” If you click on it you find a webpage that says in big letters simply “NO”. What’s up with that? Check out the webpage source for the page (http:\/\/www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com\/). Update 9\/12\/08: Check out the comments for more fun … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/09\/11\/lhc-ad-beware-bears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “LHC Ad: Beware Bears”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}