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

29 Comments
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 79 pts · 54d
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
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
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
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
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
Would it actually?
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 53d
I mean.... Yes? https://www.askamathematician.com/2011/06/q-if-you-stood-in-the-beam-of-the-lhc-what-would-happen/
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
Imagine backing up and shoving that in your butt.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 54d
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
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.