First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)

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Sciencey things just don't have the excitement they used to have.  Looking at data and doing statistical analyses just isn't the same as:




Trinity test (first atomic bomb test).






Both of the above are from Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon.



Your little toy doesn't seem to have the same destructive capabilities of things in the past.  How many people have been killed with the LHC?  If it could vaporize a city, then you would have something!

That is probably why we Americans changed our minds about our own little toy, as what is the point if there is not a lot of fire and explosions going on?  Advancing knowledge, you say?  Pfffffft.  When you figure out how to use that knowledge to blow something up, then give us a call.

How about this, LHC so dwarves the trinity test that if the trinity atomic bomb were to detonate in the center of accelerator donut,  the entire donut would be well outside of danger zone.

LHC is so vast that it would take SATURN 5 Rockets a full minute, and 600 tons of fuel, or a quarter of its entire fuel load, to climb a distance equal to the diameter of the LHC.

If you put LHC in Washington state it would completely encircle Mt. St. Helens. 

LHC is a god damned megamachine of a dimension so gargantuan you can not only see it from space, but even from low earth orbit it would look almost as big as your palm held at the end of your extended arm.

Of course SSC would have been much more impressive still, but c'est la vie.