Scientists with a sense of humor. Now if we can just get the decidedly un-fun religious fundamentalists to lighten up.

Unfortunately the viewers of this video now gone viral aren't going to see it as a prank.

CERN is numbered up there among conspiracy theorists.

If these were visiting scientists playing a prank, they will be dealt with one would hope. It also begs the question, with all of CERN's supposed security detail, why would something like this be allowed at all, even if it were in jest?

If security is that lax, an actual sacrifice ritual could have taken place, and there was no apparent security detail to take notice. That is unfortunately, going to fuel the conspiracy theorists, not diminish their appetite for more.

Amyjo Wrote:
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> Unfortunately the viewers of this video now gone
> viral aren't going to see it as a prank.

Outraged & gullible nutters on Youtube?
say it aint so!!!

> CERN is numbered up there among conspiracy
> theorists.

true, which is what makes it even funnier

> If these were visiting scientists playing a prank,
> they will be dealt with one would hope.

They deserve a hard smack on the wrists for upsetting gullible people on youtube

> It also
> begs the question, with all of CERN's supposed
> security detail, why would something like this be
> allowed at all, even if it were in jest?


Probably it wasn't allowed - it just wasnt noticed at the time. This is in a campus area It's not one of the accelerator tunnels

> If security is that lax, an actual sacrifice
> ritual could have taken place,

Oh Puh_lease!! This is Geneva, not backwoodsville, Alabama

> and there was no
> apparent security detail to take notice.

please see above

> That is
> unfortunately, going to fuel the conspiracy
> theorists.

Yeah, but that doesnt take much does it.

Kudos to the people who did this..... the only way this could have been better/funnier would be to have involved the Bilderberg group and had george dubya doing the sacrifice

You and me may find it funny, and others.

But then I think of all the sick bastards who will take this to a new level of low.

As for what the organization CERN thinks about it, it says the stunt could undermine the actual science that goes on there.

It will now be news for years to come, with a Snopes disclaimer to ward off conspiracy theories.

Kids will be kids. When one of my now scientist children was in college, they dressed up as ghosts for Halloween, running through a cemetery at night. The neighbors or the cops did not find it amusing.

I was thankful they got off with a warning and sent home to sober up. And that they didn't run into a real grave robber lol, or apparation. :)

>
> If security is that lax, an actual sacrifice
> ritual could have taken place, and there was no
> apparent security detail to take notice.

Wait, are you saying that the only thing keeping them from actual human sacrifice is proper security? Like, if their aren't gourds around they will start sacrificing people? That's a little crazy.

But people take offense at everything so keep up the crazy.



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Probably done by people intelligent enough to find out where security would be during the single minute that they needed to pull it off. Looks like a young people's prank to me. I think it's funny that they accuse . . . . SCIENTISTS ..... oooooooohhh.

The reason for that is that typically it's only scientists who are allowed entrance to CERN for indefinite times.

These people were able to get past security, and therefore had to be authenticated as scientists according to the news sources. Other than that, CERN is not releasing their identities (maybe for their own safety?!)

;-)

Amyjo Wrote:
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> The reason for that is that typically it's only
> scientists who are allowed entrance to CERN for
> indefinite times.

That's not the case at all. Thousands of people who aren't scientists work there, doing maintenance, cleaning, groundskeeping, and more. They all have access.

> These people were able to get past security, and
> therefore had to be authenticated as scientists
> according to the news sources.

Once again, not the case. The "news sources" don't know who the ones are who staged it. They might be scientists, they might not. But as I said above, thousands of "not scientists" work there.

Then you haven't been paying attention to the news.

Cern itself says "who the employees" were responsible without identifying them by names, other than they are "scientists and researchers" at the Institute.

"CERN has declared that the video is fake, and claims that the ritual was simply researchers and scientists coming to work at the facility 'taking their sense of humour too far.'"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/chilling-satanic-human-sacrifice-video-8655022

Perhaps you should read CERN's statement, instead of press reports that don't quote it. Here's their statement, which does NOT say "simply scientists and researchers:"

"These scenes were filmed on our premises but without official permission or knowledge. Cern does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work.

Cern welcomes every year thousands of scientific users from all over the world and sometimes some of them let their humour go too far. This is what happened on this occasion."

How about you not tell me I'm not paying attention, when you haven't even bothered to read the actual source, ok?

The reports that have been shared were by reporters interviewing the officials of CERN. That is their official statement to reporters.

So are you calling the reporters liars?

Amyjo Wrote:
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> The reports that have been shared were by
> reporters interviewing the officials of CERN. That
> is their official statement to reporters.
>
> So are you calling the reporters liars?

I quoted their official statement.
The reporters YOU seemed to like didn't use the official statement -- they embellished. And almost none of them interviewed anyone, they simply read the official statement.

Try paying attention.

Are you declaring that newspaper reporters are the gold standard for objectivity?

first I find out there may be gullible people on youtube and now I hear that newspaper reporters may not always tell the truth.
my worldview has turned upside down!!

Okay has ificouldhietokolob lost a debate on here yet?



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hahahahaha! If he ever disagrees with me on something, he will! That's the beauty of being in charge of your own opinions.

opinions are like assholes.
everyone has one.

......and if you are lucky, you can find someone to share yours with

Now that's funny.

goodlyexmormon Wrote:
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> Okay has ificouldhietokolob lost a debate on here
> yet.

Yep. :)

From the mouth of CERN for doubting hitokolob,

"A report from the Guardian and Agence France Presse cites a CERN spokeswoman as confirming that the video was shot on CERN grounds, but “without official permission or knowledge.” She blamed the ill-judged spoof on scientific visitors who “let their humour go too far.”.... (Earth to Kolob: note the "scientific visitors" part, not custodial or kitchen staff!) :)

Quentin King, a CERN researcher who is a member of CERN’s “Open Your Eyes” filmmaking club, said the video was nothing to do with them. “We’ve made short films, mostly fiction, but never this kind of ‘faux reality’ thing,” he wrote in an email. He added, “Students do this kind of thing—but it’s regrettable from CERN’s point of view, since there are always lots of crazy conspiracy theories out there and this kind of video could be taken seriously.”

(motherboard dot vice dot com/read/some-jokers-filmed-a-fake-human-sacrifice-at-cern)



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Amyjo Wrote:
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> From the mouth of CERN for doubting hitokolob,
>
> "A report from the Guardian and Agence France
> Presse cites a CERN spokeswoman as confirming that
> the video was shot on CERN grounds, but “without
> official permission or knowledge.” She blamed
> the ill-judged spoof on scientific visitors who
> “let their humour go too far.”.... (Earth to
> Kolob: note the "scientific visitors" part, not
> custodial or kitchen staff!) :)

Notice the part in quotes and the part NOT in quotes.
...ill-judged spoof on scientific visitors...
Not in quotes. Not from the CERN spokesperson.

Pay attention.

From past experience and an understanding of the personality types at places like CERN, I would bet money that the pranksters are summer interns. Probably undergrad or grad students who are working at CERN between semesters.

I'm also confident that everyone there (including higher level management) thought the whole episode was hilarious, until the media started making inquiries. After that, it caused them a lot of extra work and embarrassment, so they've gone with the public "sense of humor taken to far" story, while the rank and file scientists are rolling their eyes at the whole episode.

I for one welcome our reptilian overlords who have installed their minions at "CERN" for the purpose of transmitting microthought-beams through their vast intergalactic network.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to get back to listening to the rock in my hat. "The Spike Jones Show" is on at 11--I love that guy!

^^^ this

In b 4 CERN prankster scientists open a pan-dimensional portal as a "joke"

brb ~ bowing to our new demonic intergalactic overlords

CERN scientist geeks sure have strange ways of meeting chicks....

Chicken N. Backpacks Wrote:
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> CERN scientist geeks sure have strange ways of
> meeting chicks....

And apparently, they don't know what to do with 'em when they do!

ificouldhietokolob Wrote:
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> Chicken N. Backpacks Wrote:
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> -----
> > CERN scientist geeks sure have strange ways of
> > meeting chicks....
>
> And apparently, they don't know what to do with
> 'em when they do!

Hilarious!

Ah, scientists....ever too literal for the own pleasure. Slaying wrongly, and with the wrong sword.

Would that more would-be scientists were schooled by Mistress Quickly:

MISTRESS QUICKLY: Alas the day. Take heed of him: he stabbed me in mine own house, and that most beastly. He cares not what mischief he doth, if his weapon be out. He will foin like any devil. He will spare neither man, woman, nor child.

FANG: If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.

MISTRESS QUICKLY: No, nor I neither. I'll be at your elbow.

FANG: If I but fist him once, if he come but within my vice —

MISTRESS QUICKLY: I am undone with his going. I warrant he is an infinitive thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him sure: good Master Snare, let him not 'scape. He comes continuantly to Pie-corner —savingyour manhoods — to buy a saddle, and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber's-head in Lombard Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. I pra'ye, since my exion is entered and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing, unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.

Human, sword-swaggering pie-eating, Humanities guy...

They're searching for the elusive Higgs Bosom.

On a more (perhaps) serious note:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2E_HP97Rzc

If you skip the commentary by a much younger Alex Jones and go straight to the video of the mock human sacrifice at the Bohemian Grove gatherings, I gotta say, it's a bit of a fucked-up way to spend your time in forest. And it is extremely weird that our dear leaders participate in such weirdness.

Human, eyes wide shut

So CERN is going with the story that it's "fake" and a "prank"
pulled by renegade scientists in their spare time.

That's just what they'd WANT you to believe if they were using
human sacrifice to insure the success of their experiments.

Finding the Higgs boson--was that all science or did they have
secret supernatural help? Is the "dark side" the reason they
are taking on "dark matter" next?

wink, wink!