Posted on 03/28/2008 4:40:13 AM PDT by chessplayer
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
Well, they better hurry up because the other day in the grocery check out line one of the rags proclaimed the end of the world would be in May.
Luddites-R us
We'll just have to wait and cross that bridge when we come to it.
might create globe-gobbling black holes
No kidding. Any black hole they could create there would dissipate in a fraction of a second.
I have always thought that this might happen with this machine. But then some thought the “A” Bomb would continue its energy release through out the world. So like those I am most likely wrong.
Yup, Hawking radiation would kill any tiny blackhole we’d accidently produce. I’d love to see a new “strain” of matter, like it’d be a disease or act like Ice-9. The funniest articles are about science, when the author obviously has no clue what s/he is talking about. =)
“What didn’t happen”
“We’ve heard plenty about the test called Trinity, but few people know that what what was most important about the explosion was not what happened, but what didn’t happen.”
“The chain reaction did not get out of control. The atmosphere and oceans did not ignite. The world did not end in a planet-enveloping blaze of light. A few dozen physicists bet everything — all life on the planet! — on their ability to calculate in advance the result of an experiment that had never been tried before.”
“Even Hitler blanched at the stakes.”
“Enrico Fermi, one of the most brilliant of the atomic scientists, offered to take bets on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or the entire world. His macabre humor was not appreciated.”
“When the bomb exploded, the confidence of at least one physicist was briefly tested.”
http://www.sciencemusings.com/musingsarchive/2005_10_16_musings.html
If they've never been seen before, how do they know it would destroy the planet? I mean, maybe it'll instead make us all sing Kumbaya for 56782 consecutive days then step out for slurpies?
The History Channel did a show reporting it is almost a certainty that the world will end on December 21, 2012.
Ah yes, Ice 9. That bastard Felix Hoenikker planted the seed that will eventually kill us all
There are no pictures of the people who brought this lawsuit because they’re afraid the cameras will steal their souls.
My favorite quote from Jurassic Park;
Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
Just for clarification
Mark
“Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years”
“It’s going to be a big deal and everybody’s going to know about it,” said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. “We’re talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways—in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=d8r4h0q00&show_article=1
According to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments, in “Inside the Third Reich”, Hitler rejected out-of-hand the ideas of the top two atomic scientists whom Speer had brought in to brief Hitler — because they were Jewish. The irony is overwhelming.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
My favorite quotes from JP (interestingly enough, all by Ian Malcom)
"I'm always on the lookout for the next former Mrs Malcom."
"Out of work, don't you mean extinct?"
"That's one big pile of s**t!"
Mark
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