It's the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine.
PS 2.6bn and counting. Compared to the BIG FAT ZERO we contribute to
ESA, we Brits contribute 34million pa. Peanuts.
PPS No poetry, but CERN (the LHC's builder), through Brit Genius Tim
Berners-Lee did invent the WWW. Which is a helluva return on 34
million peanuts PA.
PPPS Maybe you could become the LHC Poet in Residence? I plan to
become it's Artist In Residence.
PPPPS. If you step in front of the beam, apparently you lose all
coporeal mass and come back as a big blue man. Or cat in VB's case.
PPPPPS No, that's just your filthy mind.
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Patrick McManus
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> So this could be the end of poetryetc and eat up our anthology? down a
> blasted black hole -or at least lose the whole of Switzerland in September
> ??
> Although I built one of these in my shed some years ago but fortunately did
> not switch it on
> How much did it cost to build??does it have a resident poet?is it cat
> friendly says VB
> P bit alarmed
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 03 August 2008 09:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: large hadron collider
>
> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html
>
> beauty as an engineering project.
>
> There is a small chance that when this goes live, it could create a
> small black hole which will swallow the earth. Only a small chance.
>
> Roger
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
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"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
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