xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

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'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

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'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

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[–] 79 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Never mind that their thumb is now an anti-thumb.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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.

    !!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Then The Antichrist and Christ touches and is turned into energy, and levels half of Switzerland.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Imagine backing up and shoving that in your butt.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Behold... The Extra-Large Hadron Collider!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Oh man, LMAO

    Best post and thread I've seen in a long time!

    And just when I needed it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I loved drinking from the beam pipe as a kid

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