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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

This just got me thinking how cool it would be to have a game where you come across one of these in disrepair and have to reverse engineer your way to making it work. You’d have a massive complex and lots of nooks and crannies to hide puzzles in. Make it look old and abandoned with overgrowth and I’m even more sold.

[–] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Have u played Abiotic Factor? Cause that's kinda the vibe

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

This kills me because the concept looks great, but I’m never really into survival. Hate kill screens in immersive games.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Just added an edit for a game I found tonight.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

I'm now a firm believer in this theory.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It was the weasel that went into the collider. We've always been in the same timeline. It's the weasel that's now confused and very angry.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 19 hours ago

alternatively the weasel is now in a good timeline

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 0 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately I have more belief in humans fucking shit up than I do in accidental weasel hadron colliding.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Also, this says it was in 2016. We were already super fucked by then. I'd be more inclined to believe that we live in a giant simulation that got fucked by the millennium bug.

Not that things were great in 2000, but the point is that 2016 is way too late. It's like looking at water that's just starting to boil, and then being surprised when it becomes a rolling boil.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Turning it on was the mistake. It was activated in 2015.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first "fired high energy" when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC's research program.

I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn't believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it's going, I am now utterly adrift. I don't even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

I'm not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 11 hours ago

Bud, i just gotta point out that all that shit is US centric af.

[–] wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 0 points 10 hours ago

I think when harambe was murdered is when most people noticed that we're fucked

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

In this universe yes but in the weasels timeline weasel based time manipulation is quite common.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I read, “weasel hardon collision”.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago

I would rent that movie for at least once.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, this is the better timeline. We were shifted into the really bad timeline after the cascade failure occurred right after the first test.

The weasel actually saved billions of lives.

[–] fedditter@feddit.org 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 hours ago

The right weasel at the right time can make all the difference in the world

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That weasel’s name?

Harambe.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The way to return to the correct timeline is simple: Take the dicks out.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 0 points 18 hours ago

How long should I keep it for? It’s cold over here!

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If we all do it at the same tim

[–] errer@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago

…it’ll shift Earth’s orbit outward, counteracting global warming!

[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 0 points 16 hours ago

I was going to say Gef.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

For what it's worth — and keeping fully in mind this is a meme and therefore not serious — Starfield (crappy Xbox/PC game from the people who made Skyrim) did this. A particle accelerator experiment (albeit involving an alien artefact) caused reality to split apart. So I'm gonna say, it's possible!

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Better reason then what Terminator 3 did in that hallway.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 0 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Also, in the parallel universe in which David Bowie and Prince didn’t die, they play at Hillary Clinton’s inauguration

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

you couldn't have dreamed a little harder and said "Bernie Sanders"?She's the US equivalent of Keir Starmer

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago

Based off the name I'm going to assume it's an STD.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Fuck Hillary and the DNC.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 15 hours ago

Its all kinds of weaselly, innit?

[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 0 points 15 hours ago

So the weasel is why we live in the Biff timeline

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago

Though, for each of those possible timlines to have ever existed, they would have to be played out with humans that have a consciousness. Maybe, we're that consciousness.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Weasel: There was no other other.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Weasel fried itself on a transformer outside the facility, it didn't jump inside the collider ffs

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago

Maybe it jumped in to the collider, changed the timeline, got out, then got fried making its escape?

Also, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but you are definitely part of the Time Bending Illuminati trying to control my thoughts!! Well, tough, I'm wearing my foil hat, HA.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke, but I mean... there were signs way before 2016 that things were heading in a weird direction.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's pretty funny. Even funnier if there are people out there who actually believe in this magical thinking nonsense.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Are there people who earnestly believe it? I just see it as a little bit of fun escapism.

But you're probably right. I say the same shit about astrology, so I should be consistent. Normalizing magical thinking is really bad, even if it seems benign.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Was this before or after Harambe's death?

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 hours ago

A few months before. Theory checks out.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago

This is the Inverse Steinsgate worldline where everything bad happens. Covid and climate change are worldline convergence.

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