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Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More
NY Times ^
| March 29, 2008
| DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 03/30/2008 8:29:16 PM PDT by neverdem
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Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
Part of a detector to study results of proton collisions by a particle accelerator that a federal lawsuit filed in Hawaii seeks to stop.
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:29:17 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I think they should be required to post a bond of 10% of the value of the universe for their case to go forward...
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:40:21 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(This is an Obama-nation!)
To: neverdem
... might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth and maybe the universe. It's worth the risk if we can finally get flying cars! And fuel them with food waste and old beer (nothing beats having your own fusion reactor).
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:42:45 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: neverdem
I can’t believe they built this thing in HAWAII! What were they thinking? Shouldn’t it be somewhere where they can get cheap land? Like, I dunno, a desert somewhere?
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:49:34 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: neverdem
If they don't I will!
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:49:40 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Have you seen my tagline? It was last seen here. <-----)
To: mamelukesabre
I think it is in Switzerland. Geneva is also so home to the Nobel prize. Maybe it would collapse one city.
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03/30/2008 8:52:37 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Have you seen my tagline? It was last seen here. <-----)
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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posted on
03/30/2008 8:56:18 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: neverdem
I don’t see what the author, Dennis, is worried about. After all, Algore promised a couple of years ago that the Earth could not survive beyond 2016 because the U.S. had not signed on to the Kyoto freight train.
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:01:54 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: Onelifetogive
Mr. Wagner, who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii, studied physics and did cosmic ray research at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a doctorate in law from what is now known as the University of Northern California in Sacramento. He subsequently worked as a radiation safety officer for the Veterans Administration. Mr. Sancho, who describes himself as an author and researcher on time theory, lives in Spain, probably in Barcelona, Mr. Wagner said.
I rest my case.
To: neverdem
This is actually a very interesting issue.
If you have never read about it, any black hole, no matter how small, in the earth’s gravity field will oscillate back & forth though the earth, gaining mass will each passage, eventually eating up all of it.
Generating one would mean the end of all life.
While I doubt it will happen, it is a sobering thought.
To: neverdem
If they don't I will!
destroy earth that is.
Just because a little mistake was made in my first post has no bearing on if mistakes will be made in the future my me or those guys with the neat new toy.
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:10:34 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Have you seen my tagline? It was last seen here. <-----)
To: neverdem
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:14:27 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: ThomasThomas
Geneva is also so home to the Nobel prizeStockholm Sweeden is the home of the Nobel Prizes other than the Peace Prize. Oslo, Norway is home of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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posted on
03/30/2008 9:21:52 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(All of this has happened before, and will happen again!)
To: mamelukesabre
I cant believe they built this thing in HAWAII! CERN is not in Hawaii, it's not even in the US, but rather in France and Switzerland (That's where Geneva is located).. (It crosses under the border).
For that reason, a court in Hawaii, local, state or federal, has no jurisdiction over it.
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posted on
03/30/2008 11:33:38 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: CurlyDave
If you have never read about it, any black hole, no matter how small, in the earths gravity field will oscillate back & forth though the earth, gaining mass will each passage, eventually eating up all of it. Not if the black hole has an electric charge. Then you can suspend it with an electrostatic field, and it can't eat anything. However, small black holes *evaporate* rather quickly... like a quick chemical reaction produces a rather nasty bang and other side effects, so would a constrained black hole evaporation. But if it gets "loose" then it will "eat".
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posted on
03/30/2008 11:36:38 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Geneva is also so home to the Nobel prize
Stockholm Sweden is the home of the Nobel Prizes other than the Peace Prize. Oslo, Norway is home of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
You're both right! Stockholm is where the prizes originated, and are awarded (except Peace = Oslo); and Geneva (numbered accounts) is home to the much of the proceeds! <|;-')
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posted on
03/30/2008 11:41:15 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Marching Morons are coming...and now they are double-timing!)
To: El Gato
Assuming that’s true then I think I agree with the critics. A small chance of destroying earth vs. more knowledge of theoretical physics. Hmmm. Not a very hard choice in my estimation. These types of experiments, if needed (doubtful) should be done in far space at some point in the future.
To: neverdem
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:21:23 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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Thanks neverdem.
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:21:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: neverdem
The accelerator is in Switzerland, they are in the U.S. This is all about publicity for them, but they have no standing so the suit will get tossed.
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:25:47 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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