{"id":848,"date":"2008-09-10T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/2008-9-10-happy-end-of-the-planet-day-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:26","slug":"2008-9-10-happy-end-of-the-planet-day-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/2008-9-10-happy-end-of-the-planet-day-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy End Of The Planet Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Pals,<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_Hadron_Collider\" target=\"_blank\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a> is scheduled to go online very early tomorrow, our time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/06\/LHC_quadrupole_magnets.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/06\/LHC_quadrupole_magnets.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fermilab bits of the Large Hadron Collider...\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m not all that worried about the potential for the creation of micro black holes considering that I&#8217;m incredibly dense myself. I can take whatever the Swiss can dish out. What I am concerned about is <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-a-strangelet.htm\" target=\"_blank\">strangelets<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyorchards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyorchards.com\/Images\/Product\/i1610.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cotlets!\" \/><\/a><br \/>I had no idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: According to Britain&#8217;s Sun newspaper, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article1668971.ece\" target=\"_blank\">world has not ended<\/a>. I think you can understand that this is a great relief to many people. Particularly those with appointments scheduled for today. So please, everyone, do carry on. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE II: Nothing to <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsus\/Maps\/US2\/33.35.-118.-116.php\" target=\"_blank\">worry about<\/a>, Bob. Everything&#8217;s gonna be fine, they say. No <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsus\/Quakes\/ci10348029.php\" target=\"_blank\">chance<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsus\/Quakes\/ci10348033.php\" target=\"_blank\">any trouble<\/a>, they insist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pals, The Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to go online very early tomorrow, our time. I&#8217;m not all that worried about the potential for the creation of micro black holes considering that I&#8217;m incredibly dense myself. I can take whatever the Swiss can dish out. What I am concerned about is strangelets. I had no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/2008-9-10-happy-end-of-the-planet-day-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy End Of The Planet Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-earth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}