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Earth Is Safe: No Black Holes Spun Out of Atom Smasher, Yet
Live Science ^
| April 30, 2014 09:52am ET
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 05/01/2014 7:37:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, has not yet created any black holes as some have feared, researchers say.
Even if this atom smasher does create black holes, there is no danger of those black holes destroying Earth, added scientists of the new study published online March 5 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: atomsmasher; blackholes; playinggod; science; stringtheory
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:37:16 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
tell that to the passengers of Malaysia Flight 370...
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:39:58 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: BenLurkin; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Does the energy used by this thing cause global warming and increased electricity consumption?
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:41:12 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: latina4dubya
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:41:28 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Are!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:46:02 AM PDT
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MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: a fool in paradise
probably but it also sucks down taxdollars like Michael Moore sucks down triple cheeseburgers - so it benefits politicians
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:49:05 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: BenLurkin
The Ultimate Black Hole is Government Spending and IT WILL SWALLOW US WHOLE!!!!
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:50:08 AM PDT
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GraceG
To: GraceG
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:50:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
They don’t realize that we’ve been thrown into the evil “mirror, mirror” universe where the U.S. spies on it’s own citizens and the Russians espouse Christian values.
They played with forces they didn’t understand and now everything is backwards.
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05/01/2014 7:52:46 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
They don’t realize that we’ve been thrown into the evil “mirror, mirror” universe where the U.S. spies on it’s own citizens and the Russians espouse Christian values.
They played with forces they didn’t understand and now everything is backwards.
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:52:46 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:53:39 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: latina4dubya
tell that to the passengers of Malaysia Flight 370...
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posted on
05/01/2014 7:54:27 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: DannyTN
I guess the goatee effect was only in Star Trek but the rest I could buy.
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05/01/2014 7:55:25 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: BenLurkin
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05/01/2014 7:56:52 AM PDT
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Shady
(We will not comply. We are Free, We Are AMERICANS!)
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/01/2014 8:03:02 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: MeshugeMikey
Earth is not safe until the Black Hole is out of the White House...!
To: BenLurkin
I think they would lie with no problem. Perhaps their brainstorm could account for recent massive tsunamis.
To: GraceG
Exactly. We have our own giant black hole that will swallow America — the federal government’s unwillingness and inabilitiy to control government spending.
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05/01/2014 8:15:26 AM PDT
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Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: BenLurkin
Hate to tell you, but the dryer didn’t eat the socks...
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05/01/2014 8:22:32 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: BenLurkin
No black holes, but they’re running around like their heads’ are on fire, chasing down all those purple dragons!
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05/01/2014 8:24:16 AM PDT
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PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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