I can't get anything done today

Because I can't stop reading/watching videos on youtube about the Large Hadron Collider! The more I read about it, the more excited I am. yay physics! I don't understand any of it, but it's still pretty cool, and the videos make it sound easy. I've been finding background on the LHC, how the accelerator works, and even how the massive ATLAS detector works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XotvwgnaY (nice accents ;-))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNpucos9wc (really cool, you should totally check that out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzcATqu5NtY&NR=1 (whaa?? wow)

That last one has some pretty weird fantasia music going on, but it's still really cool. I've also picked up on some info about what great things could come of this experiment.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/09/lhc-top-5-best-and-worst-things-that.html

And then I found a play-by-play of the 'first beam' on September 10th.

http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/pins_and_needles.php (it works!!)

And as goes with something really awesomely brilliant and breakthrough in science, so go the crackpots. I'll be honest with you. I haven't found many real crackpot just looking today. I've heard about them, and I do recall watching one a month or more ago, but I didn't keep track of it, and now I can't find it. The internet is so overwhelmed with people making fun of the crackpots, that I just can't find the true crackpots today (this makes me really happy), but I'll keep looking. If you didn't know already, there's a few interesting experiments planned for the LHC, and with some of these comes the possibility of creating microscopic black holes, and once crackpots hear about this, they freak out a little bit. Some people are afraid that these blackholes are going to pull the earth in and end existence as we know it ... wow. Do you think a physicist would even attempt an experiment like that if they thought they might even have the remote possibility of pulling the whole earth into a tiny blackhole?? Of course, it's not like they would have any ramifications if this did occur ...

Many people have been rebutting the crackpots.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/09/why-world-wont-end-on-september-10.html

Or just making fun of them

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/large-paranoia.html (end of the world playlist!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7607548.stm (even the news agencies are doing it)
http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=2914 (in case of imminent world destruction, break glass)

And some people point out the negative ramifications of this outlash of crackpot crazies who don't know what they are talking about!!

http://depletedcranium.com/?p=810 (MIT dude gets death threats for his experiment!)
http://scienceblogs.com/sunclipse/2008/09/doomsday_fears_claim_a_life.php (a girl in India died!!)

Idiots still make me angry. Just tell me when you get tired of reading about dumbasses on my blog, and I'll try to write about something else that bothers me ... like when people don't push in their chairs. Weird thing to have, right? Anyway, next I'll start watching some CERN propaganda.

http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welcome.html

That site has a page about the safety of the LHC stating that these hypothetical black holes are no more dangerous than cosmic rays which have been hitting the earth since ... well, as long as any of us can remember ... oh the homework you crackpots need to do ...

Update: I forgot the best one http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ Though I'm sure most of you have seen this one already.