Events

Hot investment during financial turmoil

3 years ago

in Business, Events, Funny

A little bit of “funny” we can all use these days:

If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago you would have $44.34 left.

With Wachovia, you would have had $54.74 left of the original $1,000.

With Lehman, you would have had $0.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago…drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund, you would have $214.00 cash.

By the way, bothe the US and EU financial markets will continue to fluctuate – it’s a great time to make some hard investments (gold, land, women). Or you an go for the 401- keg strategy and drink yourself silly.

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The end of the world 2

3 years ago

in Events, Gadgets, History

Two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii, think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth – and maybe the universe. (via Herald Tribune)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. (via Wikipedia)

According to the CERN press release, they announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on September 10th. You can follow the progress via live webcast here.

What does GOD think about this? I asked him myself. Here’s the short conversation.