idiocracy

[Stephi_B]

Originally Posted by The Duke

I still think an unruly, angry gang of conservatives would be far more dangerous and threatening than any of those apocolypses at that website ...especially if the conservatives were waiting right outside your door , menacingly waving rolled up copies of the wall street Journal and yelling pro capitalist profanities rofl

OK... breathing slowly... touching Karl Marx' Manifesto and Mao Bible... adjusting Red Star button... singing Internationale............. ahh, already feeling better again!

Don't do that again, Duke, particularly not on Mondays!

[The Duke]

Originally Posted by Stephi_B

OK... breathing slowly... touching Karl Marx' Manifesto and Mao Bible... adjusting Red Star button... singing Internationale............. ahh, already feeling better again!

Don't do that again, Duke, particularly not on Mondays!

Lol .You know you loved it ! .

[Stephi_B]

Originally Posted by The Duke

Lol .You know you loved it ! .

Ya, it's scary alright (did you know I fear yuppies more than big, hairy spiders? , that laughing suit-wearers are creepy btw), but you know the conservative apocalypse just isn't sexy enough IMO....

Love this here - Quantum collapse

Originally Posted by exitmundi.nl

Sorry! Er... I Think I Messed Up The Universe A Bit
Alright, so accidents happen. But the accident that happened today is a rather awful one. Scientists triggered the end of the Universe. By mistake, that is.
It was all supposed to be under control. Sure, in the 1990s, there were some oddball scientists who gave off warnings that things might one day go terribly wrong at the lab. But no-one really cared.
Unfortunately, the oddballs were right. Today, during an experiment in high-energy physics, the inconceivable happened. The experiment triggered what scientists call a quantum vacuum collapse. And one second later, the dreaded phenomenon has wiped out all matter on the planet. The world with everything and everyone on it has simply ceased to exist.
But that's not all. Traveling at the speed of light, a huge wave of destruction sets out from where the Earth used to be. Like the shockwave of a bomb exploding, it flings off into all directions. And everywhere it passes, it brings about mayhem and destruction. Voom! -- there goes the Moon. Slam! -- that was the Sun. Spat! -- Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; all gone. The shockwave never stops. It will expand and expand. And expand, until every molecule in the Universe is dead.
So, what exactly is going on? The answer takes you to the heart of quantum physics: the chunk of science that deals with the tiny particles that make up everything in the Universe. Quantum theory predicts that the Universe is filled with so-called vacuum energy -- which is the average energy of all those zillions of particles that pop into and out of existence everywhere around us each moment. As the Universe expanded, the vacuum energy dropped down to the lowest possible level. Well, in theory, that is.
There is, however, a small possibility that the theory is wrong. The Universe may be still `hung up' in an unstable energetic state. If so, a fierce jolt of energy in just the right place may be exactly what it takes to tip the balance. It would be like putting a needle into a balloon. Within a fraction of a second, a HUGE blast of energy will set free, as the quantum vacuum plunges into a lower energetic state.
The destructive energy that is unleashed will be quite different from everything we know. Literally every atom in our part of the cosmos will spew out energy. You can't even BEGIN to imagine the bizarre consequences this would have. For one thing, ordinary matter will become unstable and cease to exist.
So what would spark off the collapse? Well: particle accelerators, for example. In a particle accelerator, science smashes all kinds of tiny particles into each other to learn more about matter and the Universe. Now that's neat -- but according to critics, there's a real possibility such collisions may yield enough energy to push the Universe off balance. `The Universe can be blown to smithereens', as one of them (Paul Dixon) cosily put it in 1998.
If you find all this hard to understand, don't worry. Even specialized physicists don't fully understand how the quantum vacuum works. So their line of reasoning is simple: everywhere in the Universe, all kinds of atoms, molecules and particles slam into each other constantly. So if the quantum vacuum indeed were unstable, it would have had plenty of opportunity to collapse already. Simply put: the Universe cannot be a barrel of gunpowder, since nature constantly throws all kinds of burning fuses into it.
Phew, that indeed seems reassuring. On the other hand: as some physicists have pointed out, there is also a possibility nature simply hasn't found the right fuse yet. And here on Earth, we're experimenting with all kinds of new fuses -- for example, we're doing and planning particle accelerator experiments with rare elements such as gold and with elements that are so unstable they don't exist in `real' nature.
What's more, accidents happen. And the bigger the science, the bigger the accidents. So please, dear physicists. If you read this, please be a little careful.

Now THAT's sexy! The Technological Singularity (we become virtual super-beings) and Strangelets (matter turns 'strange' on the quark - not the milk product! - level) are either.

But we're WAY off-topic now, or?

[The Duke]

Very Interesting indeed , if stranglets are quarks that destroy matter(anti matter) , then I would guess Familiarets would be that quark sized object that matter consists of .....lol

[Stephi_B]

Originally Posted by The Duke

Very Interesting indeed , if stranglets are quarks that destroy matter(anti matter) , then I would guess Familiarets would be that quark sized object that matter consists of .....lol

Familiarlets, that's good! You're now working on a major in theoretical physics?! Noticed your location designation, like that!, but say are you sure Holland isn't in a parallel universe? (Some Germans have such a theory... - not me of course!, with Flamish ancestors & family-name, love for puddings after Dutch receipt and all )

But I just wanna add something to your strangelet/familiarlet theory. Whereas it's correct that a certain amount of anti-matter would destroy the same amount of matter (or a certain amount of matter would destroy the same amount of anti-matter, if you see it from anti-matter perspective), as soon as you'd have more 'strange' matter than 'familiar' one, in the extremest case all familiarlets might () turn 'strange', then you have again some sort of matter, only it's anti-matter now! That stuff might look a bit strange though and behave weirdly ...

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so wait a minute. what you’re saying is..

[Tunesmith]

Polish man wakes up to new world after 19 years in coma


Published: Friday June 1, 2007


A Pole who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power, a television station announced Friday.

Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said.

In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda.

"She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said.

Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He is now making the acquaintance of 11 grandchildren.

Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma.

"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot. Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead," said Getruda.

Poland's communist regime was still clinging onto power when Grzebski had his accident, only losing its grip the following year, in 1989.

On the brash neon-lit streets of new European Union member Poland, the period seems a distant memory.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.


http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Polish_..._06012007.html