xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

Title text:

'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3257/

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29 Comments

renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 79 pts · 54d (10 replies)

Never mind that their thumb is now an anti-thumb.

wieson@feddit.org · 45 pts · 54d

The only person that can count to -1

Zorque@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 54d

One two three four, would you like to play thumbonuclear war?

Ulvain@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 54d (6 replies)

You have to be careful with that logic, or born again right wing christian groups will go nuts. Lemme explain.

If

Christ is everywhere

Then

Christ is in the large Hadron collider.

And if

[stuff] inside the collider becomes anti-[stuff]

Then:

--> The LHC creates the Antichrist.

!!

BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 54d (2 replies)

Then The Antichrist and Christ touches and is turned into energy, and levels half of Switzerland.

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 54d

And think what that would do to the snow sports industry.

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 54d

Oh no, they'd have to move the wef to monaco

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 54d

God, it would be funny to see people protesting based on this.

renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 2 pts · 53d (1 reply)

Today’s satire is tomorrow’s debate topic.

Ulvain@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 52d

I wish i could push back on that by saying no one would be dumb enough to make that argument non satirically, but...

000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 53d

Never shall they twiddle

bright@piefed.social · 47 pts · 54d (5 replies)

This kills the thumb

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 54d

The mind is willing, but the flesh is bruised

Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 54d

But is powerful as hell for that brief moment!

Eheran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d (2 replies)

Would it actually?

Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 53d (1 reply)
Eheran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d

Reads more like a clear no? Even with an actual person who experienced it?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 24 pts · 54d (4 replies)

Imagine backing up and shoving that in your butt.

neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 54d (1 reply)

It would literally give you ass cancer.

JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 54d

Oh no, you wouldn't even have time to get cancer. That shit'll just straight up kill your cells then and there.

topherclay@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d

The hose scientists are like "hmm the particles stopped flowing, there must be a kink."

Telemachus93@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 54d

Let's make anti-shit!

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 11 pts · 54d

Oh, like covering the end of the hose, lol

I could be wrong but I don't think those particles are largely effected by that type of pressure.

1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d

I use a sprayer (pictured) to water my tomatoes. Maybe the scientists could adapt something like that for their collider? BTW what happens when you put the collider on the "mist" setting?

Gork@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 54d (1 reply)

Behold... The Extra-Large Hadron Collider!

zwerg@feddit.org · 1 pts · 54d

Hell, let's go American sizes... XXXL Hadron Collider!

nexguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d

I loved drinking from the beam pipe as a kid

uhmbah@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 52d

Oh man, LMAO

Best post and thread I've seen in a long time!

And just when I needed it.

Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d

Is that like the water jet from the swimming pool? Can I masturbate with it, too, or will it melt my nads into a gooey paste? I'm gunna try either way, I just wanna know what to expect.