lol
Posted on 03/17/2005 12:59:33 PM PST by flashbunny
"This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second"
'So this fireball last about 115 days??!!'
Huh??
How'd you get 'days' out of 'billionths of a second'??
Potential for a really cool military weapon?
I was going to say, "this kind of stuff happens all the time in my dryer!" Damn, you beat me to it.
I want to see if I can make one of these show up in my neighbors' house. It would be fun to watch when the police broke in trying to find them.
I have no idea, but it's kinda cool.
...W H O A .
Well it says a billion billionths, which is one second, and then there are 10 million of them.
McGyver I presume. :)
Only on paper. Of course, the reporter was using that 'new math' stuff.
Must be that new fuzzy math, I catch my 10yr old using it from time to time.
Reporter: "Ok, boss, so it wasn't technically correct. It's not like the article was about anything technical."
Why are we making more black ho's? Aren't there already enough black ho's in the world? And why isn't anyone working to create some more white ho's?
What? Oh!
Nevermind!
/LatillaFilter
There is actually a book about this...can't remember the name. The CERN scientists created a tiny opening into another universe. An alien collective organism noticed this and sent a nanomachine through the hole. The nanomachine used the concrete in the walls of the building to construct an army (millions of flies with instantly fatal bites, etc.) with which to kill everyone on earth and establish a colony of its own kind. It would take only a couple of days to kill everything on earth.
Two scientists found out about this through communication with a benign alien. They were able to form a time-like loop back to the past, and had to work on preventing the construction of CERN to prevent the future from happening (basically to stabilize the time loop in the variant that they desired).
One of the ways they did this was by weakening the US. They actually lobbied George Bush to leave Saddam Hussein in power and raise taxes in order to limit the strength of the United States and to limit it's ability to convince others to fund super-collider projects.
In the first reality, Bush had done all the right things and the world had emerged a better place...at least until everyone was killed by the alien nano-machines.
FYI: If my memory serves me correctly Grant money for similar experiments was withheld a few years ago and the experiments were ordered to be stopped immediately while a panel of physicists examined the proposed experiments.
The reason why? What if a group of scientists working in particle acceleration lab created a BLACK HOLE that was above some level of stabilty (ie. large enough that it didn't immediately dissolve because of Hawking Radiation)?
Would it "run away" and devour the Earth? In other words, one minute I'm tying this message and the next mi.......................
The human race disappears without any warning. Poof!
Regards,
GtG
PS 115.74074 days
The way it's writtein, it seems to work out to 10 million seconds:
10 million billion/billionths
or is it
10/a million billion billionths
or
10,000,000/a billion billionths
Unngghh!
And ScubaTeddy's driving records
and
SKERRY's VietNam records
and
Boxerface's psychiatric records
and
. . .
Thought I felta tug in that direction, now I know why.
I just thought they were using the '10 million, billion' as a 'divisor'.
Sorta like, 1 div 2 div 2 div 2 and so on!
or maybe 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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