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| Higgs boson and the Lexx Images courtesy of The Pic Bug  . According to Dr. Longbore, simply the act of discovering the mass of the Higgs boson particle will shrink the earth to the size of a pea, and 790 instructs him how to build a rocket ship that will help him escape the earth before he himself destroys it running this experiment. Tensions are mounting around the Higgs boson particle. Test runs will begin in August, and although it will be some time before the Large Hadron Collider buried beneath the Swiss/French border will be fully up and running, lawsuits are in full gear trying to get it shut down. This is an old argument. This plan to find the Higgs boson has been around a few years, and there are plenty of blogs and message boards 'remembering' that finding this particle was what did destroy the earth in a show called Lexx, although to be fair, 790 had Lexx blow up the earth before Kai hauled the collider into the Lyekka asteroid to blow her up. | | |
| Good lord, people, you all are bouncing off the walls like you're all excited or something. Watching someone break into my private blog was like shooting fish in a barrel. You all must be BORED. You all must want some LEXX. 
Coming soon... 
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| Lexx Isn't Dead Hey, guys.  Thought I'd pop in, it's been awhile. I am seeing a big surge in worldwide traffic over the last week, not the usual crowd. I've watched traffic trends on this site since '04, and it's a little unusual to see a surge this time of year, much less from so many different countries. I expect surges over summer and winter breaks, around convention times, etc, but 'spring break' time is usually my really low period (except for the year I first hooked up a back door link list to some major Lexx wav stats, no longer available). Just wanna say, I'm outa the loop lately, I have no idea if Lexx is contracted to air anywhere, and as far as I know, it was never recontracted for dvd or other media reprints. So I'm a little curious, what the heck is going on for me to be seeing as big a variety as Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Portugal, France, China, Thailand, and Korea, along with the usual Great Britain, Australia, Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, and Germany. These aren't haphazard hits, like the United Arab Emirate searching for 'weapon of mass destruction' (which automatically puts Lexx in the list since the Lexx *is* the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes... ). I'm willing to bet that Lexx is one of the most bootlegged out of print short-lived scifi series ever produced. It is probably the most illegally shared and downloaded series ever to come out of the North American continent. Why do I say that? Because I've seen Lexx advertised on Ebay with Japanese subtitles. I've seen Lexx 'merchandise' and 'original' props on Ebay that have been hotly debated in fan forums over the years, since major collectors snapped up the originals a long time ago. Fans are so crazy trying to find Lexx that they'll scour the internet and have stuff shipped all over the world. Lexx is an underground cult the defies all borders, as evidenced in part by my site traffic, and site traffic on other Lexx sites around the world, some of whom have shared their *impressive* stats with me in the past. So why aren't we seeing Lexx on the shelves of Best Buy???, you ask. Why can we not walk into any media store in America and find Lexx? Why, after such a big promo and several years on the Scifi Channel and some claiming it was a bigger hit in Europe than Star Trek, are we not seeing LEXX??????? The lack of merchandising has nothing to do with the popularity of the show in the United States. Or seeming lack thereof. If you will recall, Farscape 'died' about the same time as Lexx, and it was 8 years running and left a screaming audience. Why has Stargate flourished, complete with spinoff, while other scifi series have come and gone like dust in the wind? If you ~really, really, *really*~ want a little taste of the business that goes on behind television programming, sales, contracting, and all that stuff, and if you think you have the grit to make it all the way through this transcript, you will barely begin to understand what happened. We have a produced in Canada a series from Halifax that we are very proud of. It's called "Lexx". It is produced by Paul Donovan and the Salter Street ... www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2000/tb0221.htm - 547k - That is a quote from line 350. There are over 2200 lines. If you can make it to the end without your brain turning to mush, you will be able to see how Lexx could wind up batched up with a bunch of other properties during a corporate buyout. Those properties are sitting in inventory. Some people might call them 'shelved', but it's more like equity being tied up in legal paperwork. If you made it through that transcript, you can see that there are much higher priorities going on in Canadian programming than whether they can make a few more dollars off one series called Lexx. Does this make Lexx worthless? Not in the least. It just means it isn't priority at the moment. I know this site is checked on periodically by other people who also care about stats and feedback and internet interest in Lexx. I'm sorry I myself haven't been more active this year, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening 'out there'. What I'm seeing is that for some reason, the world lit up like a Christmas tree this week looking for Lexx. I have one tracker available to the general public, but it picks up only about half the hits I actually get, since some people come through trying to be anonymous and the others seem to go unreported through Site Meter, for whatever contracting reasons. My private tracker picks those up, and also recognizes other IPs my public tracker doesn't pick up. If I were to average out the actual hits I've gotten over the last 4 years (this site will be 4 years old on the 29th, woot!), I'm probably over 60,000 total page views now. Why am I going to all the trouble to say this? Because Lexx fans are out there, and *Lexx* *isn't* *dead*. A day is coming when I will be able to walk into Best Buy and find Lexx. I believe it. I don't care who thinks I'm crazy to believe it. I've seen it happen with other shows. It will happen with Lexx. By the way, I'm still very tired, but I'm working on another character post, coming soon, I hope.  | | |
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I haven't stuck my head up out of my hole for awhile, but ran into this one and really liked it, from http://www.xanga.com/ruleroffire You'll have to go there to see more.
n5k is now fully bilingual with his Bulgarian Lexx site, with big plans to go multi-lingual with German and Russian. If you are bored and looking for a new angle on Lexx to click around on, he's certainly got an interesting site that is easy to navigate.
 You can also find a very extensive Lexx site all in Russian at http://www.lexxlight.ru/ by Helen and Trulyalyana. I understand it's very thorough and has been around for a long time, and is linked up to a number of other Lexx and scifi fansites.
I'm still waiting for someone to install Lexx fansites in Spanish and Chinese.  From what I've seen on my footprints tracker over the years, everything I've ever posted has been copied in triplicate (yes, I can see when you email my stuff to yourselves), so who knows, maybe soon...? I seem to be getting a lot of referral hits from the Lexx Domain, Angel Bacchae's Lexx screen grabs, Ellen (Giggerota) Dubin's Official Website, and several webrings, from all over the world, including Poland, the Netherlands, Australia, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia. Also, a big wave goes out to Korea, Brazil, Slovenia, China, Switzerland, Canada, and Turkey coming through search engines, and to whoever in Spain came through Jerry's Art Of Caricature site and read every shred of Lexx on my fansite. Also everyone all over the States who stopped by. All this from the last 9 days in my xanga footprints. I haven't checked my trackers in several months because I've been ill, so this was a very pleasant surprise. Anyway, hope you all have a really cool new year, and it's awesome to hear from so many people. Thanx.
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| Like to write? Compete? Have fun? A Lexx competition for UK residents is going on at Sci-fi_aholics, open until December 31st with three prize levels. The judges are moderators and members of the Scifi aholics message board.  A global competition will be announced after Christmas. | | |
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This was all covered in the scifi show Lexx. Earth is a type 13 planet which will shrink to the size of a pea from Higgs Boson research.
http://8128.org/_a009.php
This page containing 5 one-page explanations of the Higgs boson reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite television shows, LEXX:
790: "This is a classic type 13 planet, which typically destroys itself at this stage of its development."
Xev: "How?"
790: "Sometimes through war, often through environmental catastrophe. But more commonly, a type 13 planet is inadvertently collapsed into a pea-sized object by scientists attempting to determine the mass of the Higgs boson particle."