This is something I joked about here a while back, but I never figured that some would take such a nonexistent threat seriously. (Okay, I did — but I never thought they’d take their unfounded fears to such ridiculous lengths.)
The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet. [more]
I’ll bet my entire life-savings that we’ll all still be here afer the LHC is switched on. Any takers?
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Who exactly is suing them, Chicken Little?
Your’re a smart guy. The cool thing about your bet is that you would probably win, but if you lost you wouldn’t have to pay up… because we’d all be turned into “one big lump of exotic matter”.
Whatever that means…lol
Great post!
Shhhhhh! Oh, darn — now the cat’s well and truly out of the bag. Even Chicken Little (love that, btw!) won’t take my bet now 😉
*sighs despondently*
Glad you liked it!
Some people are – just thick!
Sorry if I wrecked it for ya…but you have inspired me to check out the scientists at CERN for my own blog.
Making “strangelets” and “magnetic monopoles”? “Throwing atomic nuclei out of whack”?
Those guys sure know how to party!
They most certainly are, Will. As thick as one big lump of exotic matter 😉
I’ll let you off, jimsmuse 😉 I don’t get anyone dumb enough to take me up on it visiting my blog anyway. An idiot free zone (though I do have my moments 😉 )
Yup, quite a party… and one I’m happy not to be invited to!
This is so indescribably ridiculous.
Part of my thinks that the whole thing is stupid, but then another part of me thinks that maybe i should have heard about this sooner… i mean, if they DID finish the project and then they created a black hole which then destroyed the earth, I’d be a little miffed that i wasn’t warned about it first. A lucky escape, i think.
Admit it, you’d only be miffed because you’d have missed your chance to cover it for the Yorkshire Evening Post, right? 😉
oh! How did you guess? Am i that transparent?? 🙂
I merely projected how I would be, were I the hard-boiled, scoop-seeking journo 😉
Reminds me of the astrologer that tried to sue NASA for colliding a probe with that comet! Mystical thinkers sure know how to drum up fear and theoretical apocalyptic endings. What about those elusive stranglenut particles?
Stranglenut particles sound truly terrifying!