'A storm in a teacup' fear over experiment

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Some scientists, on the other hand, went to the European Court for Human Rights to try to stop the collider being turned on. They fear it may create a black hole – which would certainly violate our rights by sucking the planet into... well we don't really know. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Cern says: "The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule." Which is not all that reassuring. But he adds: "Even if we do, it can't swallow up the Earth." It would be too small, and disappear in moments. In any case, they will only send the hadrons in one direction this week. The collisions start in October. Until then, at least, we're not all doomed.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

Some scientists, on the other hand, went to the European Court for Human Rights to try to stop the collider being turned on. They fear it may create a black hole – which would certainly violate our rights by sucking the planet into... well we don't really know. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Cern says: "The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule." Which is not all that reassuring. But he adds: "Even if we do, it can't swallow up the Earth." It would be too small, and disappear in moments. In any case, they will only send the hadrons in one direction this week. The collisions start in October. Until then, at least, we're not all doomed.

Once again, human arrogance that man is capable of generating sufficient energy to impact the entire world. Bet all these guys are on the Anthroprogenic global-warming, weather collapse bandwagon too.

[toppick08 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Lenny

Once again, human arrogance that man is capable of generating sufficient energy to impact the entire world. Bet all these guys are on the Anthroprogenic global-warming, weather collapse bandwagon too.

Yep, we even changed the Sabbath Day to Sunday.......

[frozenrain]

Scientists receive death threats over Big Bang experiment from critics who fear end of the world | Mail Online



So there is a lot of panic being created by this....

[Sweet 16]

It's amazing to me that Algore and his goonies missed this one. I'm stunned that they seem more concerned with what might happen one million years from now than with the earth-swallowing, black-hole producing cyclotron that's going to destroy the universe the DAY AFTER TOMORROW!! I'm starting to believe that his motive might be more about money than with "saving the planet". Ya think?

[dn0121]

One of the thought is that this thing can be used to create "Free Energy" so the greenies would be happy.

[Lugnut]

Originally Posted by Envirowonk

Strangelets: Smashing protons together at high enough energies could create new combinations of quarks, the particles that protons are made of. A nasty combination known as a stable, negatively charged strangelet could theoretically turn everything it touches into strangelets as well.

Sounds like "Ice 9". Google "Kurt Vonnegut for a description you illiterate heathens!

[nomoney]

Originally Posted by Lugnut

Sounds like "Ice 9". Google "Kurt Vonnegut for a description you illiterate heathens!

[4d2008 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by nomoney

lmao

[migtig]

Well, it has been covered by National Geographic, the History Channel and in Popular Science magazine. However, in general, in the US, there is limited coverage of anything scientific until after the fact, usually because the media 1) doesn't understand it and can't explain it well and 2) because they've been "burned" in the past for some of their less than scientific reporting.

Also, at play is there is even less coverage of anything that occurs in another country, other than maybe a sentence or two under world news. It's not a story unless it involves us directly or causes a lot of death and mayhem. It's just not considered "news" otherwise.