But If I Win, How Do I Collect?

[dancingshaman]

Chemo. Fatigue. Broke. Blah, blah, blah. Although I had a fairly nice weekend away from the house, which I think I need more often.

I just wanted to pop up, say hi, and send this on to my brainiac friends out there...

The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game.

The rules are simple. Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs:

• A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.
• A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.
• A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).
• Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).
• A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
• Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn't count).
• A petabyte of data is generated.
• Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.
• The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).
• The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
• Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.
• Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.
• An intern confuses muons with gluons.
• The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.
• Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
• Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).
• Someone says "Big Bang."
• Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like "Pow!" and "Zap!" when it happens; feel free to construct your own).
• Someone says, "What's a hadron?"
• Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).
• Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.
• Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.
• The world ends (drink whatever you have left).
• Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we'll all pretty much have to take their word for it).
• Someone uses the term "beam pipe" in a pickup line.