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xkcd #3257: Beam Pipe

Title text:

'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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Source: https://xkcd.com/3257/

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (3 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.

!!

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

And think what that would do to the snow sports industry.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

Oh no, they'd have to move the wef to monaco

God, it would be funny to see people protesting based on this.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Today’s satire is tomorrow’s debate topic.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I wish i could push back on that by saying no one would be dumb enough to make that argument non satirically, but...