Scientists should be allowed to have a vote for the biggest fraud in science each year and whoever wins it gets killed by being shot in the face by a light speed particle in the Large Hadron Collider.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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Could you actually kill someone with a single particle even if it had the relativistic mass and energy of the Oh-My-God particle?
A Russian physicist got a proton beam to the head and is still alive (with some damage) despite getting like 300 times the lethal dose of radiation. It was localized to his skull rather than full-body, admittedly, and that'll reduce things but one would think your brain wouldn't be able to handle that. That was at 70GeV, the LHC is up to 6.8TeV (~100x the energy), and the particle you mentioned was 320EeV (~50 million x the energy), so who knows?
On another note, I'm like 90% sure that the LHC is shooting a particle beam made up of shitloads of particles, so you're not really going to be able to just shoot a single proton or whatever at somebody.
Perhaps we should go the other way. Instead of spreading the impact out to the entire body, concentrate it into a bullet sized beam through some vital part (the posting lobe?)
It's already pretty concentrated. From what I can tell, particle beams are a few millimeters in diameter at most; the LHC is apparently 16 microns at the point of collision. It's more that the amount of actual power being dumped into the skull is extremely small. The unit eV stands for "electron volt" and is equal to the energy gained by a single electron being accelerated by 1 volt, which is about 1.6x10^-19^ Joules. Add on that an electron has very little mass, and you're not exactly going to have much stopping power.
I am willing to compromise on the s9ingle particle bit of this idea. Let's put them in the beam path for a minute while shaking them vigorously using some of those car building robot arms.
Ah, I thought it was being spread out over the entire skull
Per the wikipedia article on the guy who got hit:
On 13 July 1978, he was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. He reportedly saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns" but did not feel any pain.[1] The beam passed through the back of his head, the occipital and temporal lobes of his brain, the left middle ear, and out through the left-hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens (2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts).
having a hard time thinking of a person I hate more than this guy
For real. Trump is terrible and Charlie Kirk was a menace, but I feel more directly threatened by RFK Jr. and his policies than the others.
Bro, is that a fucking Zyn in his lip?
Yes?
I’m full jokerfied rn when I saw that zyn
On the bright side, maybe this will finally be the straw to make Keffals lose all faith in actually-existing capitalism
Quite sure they are just intentionally planning to kill as many as possible of us. Culling off a bit so to speak
Please provide better context for tweet. Quick headlines like this can lead to vaccine hesitancy.
This isn’t as dire as it sounds. It’s still not great. But what’s changed is restriction of the MMRV as one option for children’s first dose to protect against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, typically given between 12-18 months.
The remaining option is one that is still regularly offered. It’s the MMR vaccine and then separately the varicella vaccine, both typically given between 12-18 months. This delivery is otherwise known as MMR+V
The second dose of vaccine against these diseases is still offered at age 4 in the MMRV or the MMR+V.
There’s legitimate medical reasons why parents might choose or doctors might advise to give their children separate vaccines rather than one combined vaccine. There is a very small risk to 12-18-month-olds of fever related seizure with the MMRV vaccine.
Restricting access to the MMRV while not changing the overall vaccine schedule for these diseases signals that this is largely the members of ACIP saving face. They’ve fundamentally changed nothing other than the ease of access to a combined vaccine. This change will affect marginalized and minority parents the most though, who will have to schedule an additional vaccine visits to their provider for the MMR and varicella separately, unless their provider is okay with both of these vaccines administered at once. Regardless, the change will only create confusion for parents and distrust in the public health community.