End of the world 10th Sept 2008

[Bryan]

everyone has valid points

but my final say in the matter is - why destroy the world to get answers if we won't be around to know them.

that's my last post about the subject.

[Trinity]

True, but in early history, war meant thousands of soldiers fighting. With nuclear warfare developed by scientists a person does not even have to leave an office or put a bullet into a gun - on the push of a button millions are dead and the environment is destroyed, possibly for ever. Science is brilliant - but experiments are carried out by humans and, of course, to err is human. There just is not much room for human regrets if it all goes horribly wrong, is there.

60 million people died in the second world war. Of these 66,000 died at Hiroshima and 20,000 at Nagasaki (although this figure is revised to 87,000 if you include people who died of the effects of the atom bomb up to years afterwards).

Man can kill man quite easily without the atom bomb.

[Trinity]

everyone has valid points

but my final say in the matter is - why destroy the world to get answers if we won't be around to know them.

that's my last post about the subject.

Which is why it won't. Tabloid journalism has a lot to answer for!

[Abi]

everyone has valid points

but my final say in the matter is - why destroy the world to get answers if we won't be around to know them.

that's my last post about the subject.

We never were going to destroy the world. It's just hype from Journalists who want to sell papers (After else, what is more sensational than the end of the world?) and people who are too thick to understand that CERN would never have allowed it to happen. These are the best scientists in the world, they have been working on this for years and years - If there was even the slightest chance, they would have stopped the experiment.

As i said a few pages back, it is a load of rubbish. This is the most important experiment we will ever see in our lifetimes. It may show us the very foundations of humanity. We should be embracing it, not rubbishing it as dangerous. Especially when those claims are entirely unfounded.

[Abbie]

I thought it was happening tonight.
Well thats what people at college thought too

So what did happen?

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

It was started up at 8.31am and everything seems okay.
My form tutor (specialises in Biology) says it will probably be about 6 months or something before they actually bash the two things together

[Abbie]

Oh right, so what is happening at the moment?

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Oh right, so what is happening at the moment?

Since it's Science I find the information he mentioned hard to register to my brain But I think he said they are just going to be circulating and then they will bash them together as soon as they are both circulating at the speed of light x

[sindydoll]

well the world didnt end

[DaVeyWaVey]

Thank god the world hasn't ended! My little sister who's 7 heard about it on Newsround and started crying as she thought the world would end.