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The LHC Is Back Online 123

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 28, 2010 @10:10PM from the exercising-the-formula-one-around-town dept.

medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.

Submission + - Fermi Paradox Could Predict Humankind's Future

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @10:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Fermi paradox says that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, at least one of them should have colonized the entire galaxy by now. But since there is no evidence of this, humankind must be the only intelligent life in the galaxy. The Space Review has an article on how the Fermi paradox can be applied to human civilization. It says that, like the extraterrestrials, humans have three choices: colonize the galaxy, remain on Earth, or become extinct.

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