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TOP 12 SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS THAT COULD END THE WORLD
By A. Paco Lipps
 
1.    IDIOCRACY – This is my top choice for what will bring mankind to its knees. Doctors are experimenting with childbirth to such a degree that it has become an abomination. That moronic octomom woman in California who already had too many children had eight more in one shot! Psychologically crippled and mentally retarded they allowed her to do this and keep the babies? Somebody needs to put a cork in her self centered selfish ass and the idiot doctor too.
Consider for a moment that most of the educated people in the world are having fewer children so they can provide a more prosperous and fulfilling childhood. Makes sense, more money, more time, more love to give to your children. Individual attention improves everything. Now consider that all the human sheep and uneducated people of the world are having lots of children. It’s a numbers game. Eventually all the stupid people will greatly outnumber the smart people.  Someday they will turn on what they don’t understand. History is full of this. The barbarians at the gate may come true once again. Science would be lost along with our ability to cope with serious problems that affect us all. With the technologies and problems we leave behind it would be even more catastrophic than in ancient times. Possibly even apocalyptic. Society would fall apart. This is not my vision but that of a movie I watched by the same name “Idiocracy” which was sort of funny but had a great premise.
2.    NANO TECHNOLOGY – As I understand this we are creating microscopic robots to repair bone, tissue, organs and to regulate our bodies and/or cure disease. Sounds great until they tested it on cows. After a few months the robots began to do what they liked and not what they were instructed to do. This is like the movie “The Terminator” only on an invisible level so we would not even know it was happening. Not to mention the political implications of control not only of our minds but our bodies as well. What if they become airborne?  What if they figure out how to procreate?  I wonder if they personalities like WALL-E. Creepy!
3. RECREATING THE BIG BANG – In Europe this was #1 on the hit parade of an apocalyptic ends. Environmental leaders, newspapers and TV were all over it. They started it once but it broke. They started it again this week.
CERN, Switzerland (CNN) -- Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
CNN_Article The Large Hadron Collider -- a $9 billion particle accelerator designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe -- was switched on at 0732 GMT to cheers and applause from experts gathered to witness the event.
 The Large Hadron Collider or LHC is an attempt to learn the secrets of the creation of the universe by recreating the big bang in mini fashion. The LHC may or may not end up spewing out dark matter, mini black holes or other exotica. No one knows. The controversy is that a black hole might form sucking all matter on earth into oblivion. Scientist think, maybe, they can contain the big bang. Having lived with the black hole of emotion, my mother, the black holes of stupidity, a couple of my friends, and the black hole of debt, the government, I feel I am somewhat of an expert on the matter. No pun intended. Chances are nothing will happen. Surprise, surprise it started and nothing happened. Maybe it did and we now exist in another dimension and I don’t know it. Humm…..
     4. THE QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT - Surprisingly, there is an echo of this thought in quantum mechanics. The echo is so close to the original paradox that it is known as the Quantum Zeno’s Effect or sometimes “Paradox” depending on the writer. The subject is discussed in many arXiv articles.
In quantum mechanics, when one measures a system, the formalism requires that the system collapse to the result of the measurement. If one examines this carefully, one finds that if one measures a system at a sufficiently high rate, the effect of the repeated measurements is to prevent the quantum system from changing. In effect, if one examines the position of the arrow too frequently, the arrow cannot move. It’s worthwhile looking at the simple mathematics that causes this effect.
Do you understand any of this? I think it says if you observe anything on a constant basis it will not change or move, rot or decay. How this relates to the end of the world is beyond me. Maybe it’s all those satellites watching the earth and preventing us from evolving. Maybe it’s the NSA watching all the citizens of America and that will stop time. What a paradox!!
     5. STRANGE MATTER – WTF! It’s a hypothetical material made up of quarks. Which is one of the many building blocks of reality? These materials, which they haven’t actually seen, are so small it is beyond our comprehension. When it comes in contact with actual matter, matter disappears or turns to dark matter. Let me explain how they discovered dark matter, or not, this way. If you have crumb from your coffee cake floating in your coffee and you spin it with a stirrer, what happens? The coffee cake moves independently from each other and no discernable pattern can be observed. But in the universe everything is moving together as if observing the writing on a CD if you spin it on your finger. WTF! Scientist thinks most of the universe and reality is made of dark matter. If it were to enter our universe or touch our matter, puff were gone. This would be instantaneous. Really people don’t you have better things to worry about. Get a girlfriend or at least a dog or just shut the fuck up!
6.    TIME TRAVEL – Physicist think this is not possible but have not ruled it out. What if we are the time travelers? Say in the future they know the planet or time is about to end and they want to travel back to a friendlier time. Talk about illegal immigration. What are we going to do with all of them? Maybe this happens again and again. That’s probably where they got that wheel in Tibet that they keep spinning to pray or the concept of a wheel inside a wheel. It’s a problem for them too. If they come back and wipe out the primates to make room for themselves, they won’t exist in the future. What a quandary. Or is it a Paradox? Maybe an oxymoron? Hurts my head. I’m going to move on. Another time around the wheel.
7. GENE TECHNOLOGY - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (October 25, 1996) — An international consortium of genome laboratories from North America, Europe, and Japan has created a unified gene map that establishes the location of more than 16,000 human genes. The unified gene map represents the first edition of the quintessential goal of the Human Genome Project—a catalog of all the genes that make up a human being—and provides the location of one in five of all human genes.
"This gene map and its future editions will provide geneticists the biological equivalent of a chemists' periodic table—a systematic and universal frame of reference that will speed the discovery of genes underlying inherited human diseases," says Dr. Eric Lander, a member of this consortium and director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. "With such a map, searching for a disease gene should no longer take years of painstaking effort. Instead, geneticists will be able to simply scan the human genome for an inventory of all the genes, or candidates, in a suspected region and identify the culprit."
 This was the start of making gene manipulation a reality. Soon it will be possible to identify and turn on and off genes that cause disease, aging, intelligence, looks or any other deficit or attribute you want. You’ll be able to custom order your children. Great makings of a Twilight Zone episode. There are so many way to screw this up where do I start? Disease, cure all disease and overpopulate the world. Not enough food, not enough water, not enough space. Aging, who get it and who don’t same result as disease. Intelligence, well we all saw the Star Trek movie “The Wrath of Khan” with Ricardo Montalban. The smart will get bored of the stupid and exterminate them. The Gods must be crazy or is it us?
8. CLONING - The disadvantages of cloning  is that it will create a loss of individuality, creativity as well the freedom of being oneself. If a human clone of a man is made at the time when the man exists it will create lots of problems. There will be a lot of similarities among the clones which are supposed to be nearly identical. An identity crisis will surely occur. No clone or actual human being will have any individuality anymore. As the clones approach a majority the remaining non cloned humans will all have to be psychologist or psychiatrist to deal with growing clone degeneration into split personalities, schizophrenia. A general malaise will set in. Nothing will get done and society will spiral down the toilet. While some of the clones will feel alone and depressed at least the schizophrenics will have company, themselves. There is a bright side perhaps the clones will commit suicide for the good of the race. Nah, not if they are as narcissistic and self centered as we are. That’s right they are we..., I am them..., they are me..., we are us... ah who cares lets have a latte so I can tell you my problems.
9. NUCLEAR REACTOR MELTDOWN - This is when a nuclear reactor burns to the earth’s core. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, almost happened so this one is not so funny. But it didn’t melt to the earth’s core as predicted. It only left an uninhabitable zone in Russia for the next 25,000 years. Not too bad.
10. PETTY POLITICS – A think tank and research group are engaged in a scientific study of the effects of petty politics on the functions of government. The results of this study are very disturbing. They say that because of the petty arguing and the blame game engaged by our politician the government of the U.S.A. will come to a grinding halt by 2012. President Obama has been accused of being a minor neighborhood activist, socialist, communist, lackey of the left, in the pocket of Wall Street, a terrorist, the antichrist, a liar, a Muslim, a nigger that will give everything to the poor, not black enough, not white enough, not an American citizen, an Arab, an Indonesian, in the pocket of the international banking conspiracy and on a on. All of these accusations have been made after only two months in office. He made a pick for the winner of college basketball and was accused of neglecting the economy. What sane man would want that job? I remember when Ronald Reagan was elected I was not too happy but I waited for a year to see what he did before I started bitching. Now I am old Liberal who now is a moderate leaning to the left but not by much. I think I represent most people in this country but that is for you to judge. The WHINING has exponentially increased since then and is now at epic proportions. The Republicans who laugh and jeered at the Democrats, and rightfully so, when they were in power have taken whining to a new level. Watch the news or listen to Rush and all you here is wah, wah, wah. The study says this will expand in scope until Washington is incapable of anything but squabbling. It took a study to see this? I think were already there. The result of all this will be global warming, more pollution, more war, breakdown of our responses to crisis’s, more war, and the collapse of America. We are the last vestige of sanity in the world and I don’t believe I just said that. We are great and I love America but we are definitely nuts. But not to worry we have Opra and that funny morning show The View, with all those women bickering. Or is that Congress? We’ll probably nuke ourselves out of disgust. The End.
11. SIMIAN LANGUAGE – We all saw the chimp on the news that ripped that woman’s face and hands off. Tough to hear about let alone look at. I also remember an experiment to teach gorillas and chimps sign language which the scientist had great success with. They seem to have a capacity to learn language which puts most religions in a precarious position. They seem to think that language is what separates us from the animals. Well guess what? Animals given the right circumstances can learn language too. Dolphins and certain species of whales have complex communication skills. Human are just language snobs. With that out of the way it clears a path for the “Planet of the Apes” scenario. We teach the chimps, the chimps teach the apes and here we go. They become second class citizens and eventual revolt. The revolt is kicked off by Chiquita Banana discovering the banana peels are an excellent source of alternative energy. They discard the bananas and dump them for the peels. The banana being the source of life for the simians has been turned into their religion and they find this an abomination. Their God appears to there leader in vision, after he eats some mushrooms due to the lack of any bananas, and istructs him to destroy the infidels. They rise up and destroy all the Homo sapiens on the planet. Quit a slip on our part. Should of simian it coming. Wow is that bad or what?
 
12. VOYAGER - The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 25th year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the Sun than Pluto is and approaching the boundary region -- the heliopause -- where the Sun's dominance of the environment ends and interstellar space begins. Voyager 1, more than twice as distant as Pluto, is farther from Earth than any other human-made object and speeding outward at more than 17 kilometers per second (38,000 miles per hour). Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network.
 The two 1-ton spacecraft returned more knowledge-changing data than any mission before or since: stunning photographs that consistently revealed our solar system to be much more diverse, complex, and beautiful than anyone ever imagined, and a veritable bounty of scientific information to go along with them. On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet. Selected for NASA by Carl Sagan and others, and produced by science writer Timothy Ferris, the disks are essentially a “greatest hits” package portraying the biodiversity of Earth and the diversity of human cultures.
From the Golden Gate to the Great Wall, Beethoven to Chuck Berry, from mountain breezes to crashing surf, a dog’s howl and a baby’s cry, the disks may someday serve as “letters of introduction” to a passing extraterrestrial civilization that may stop and inspect the robots and become inquisitive about their place of origin.
 www.planetary.org.
One day it reaches another civilization that had no idea we were here and they are carnivores and we look tasty. They have an advanced technology that allows them to travel in space at will to wherever they please. They never came to our part of the universe as we reside in what they consider the Ghetto. But now that we have sent them an invitation they are thinking brunch. They come as friends with a book called “How to Serve Man” that solves all our food problems, energy problems, stops all war and cures all disease. There is no need for us to fight and peace reins supreme. Oh, I’m sorry, that was “Twilight Zone” episode. Kudos’ Rod. Guess I’m done.