No offence taken, Jon. My knowledge of the state of the union as far as the contemporary physics research infrastructure goes is scanty and casually acquired.
No problem at all, m'dear. I just panic when the words 'cosmic catastrophe' appear in an overview of something of this scale. As one does.
The wierd part is that something of this scale isn't regarded as sufficiently newsworthy to be absolutely ubiquitous common knowledge given the sheer magnitude of the gear.
I only found out about the existence of the place yesterday.
I'm not normally given to technophobia by the way. Maybe there's too much Robert Anton Wilson in my head instead of original thought.
..although I really hope we don't end up arc-welding ourselves to the Moon. It would make a rich footnote in some other culture's sci-fi film.
(alien Galactic History student) 'So what happened to them?'
(Galactic History Professor) ' Well, they accidently invented the first really effective Fusion Drive.'
' So, what went wrong?'
'They rammed Mars'
Love & Scones
(fingers crossed, eh?)
x
msw
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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: jonesalley@cox.net
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:18:56 -0500
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT. Large Hadron Collider- er, you WHAT?
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> ----Please don't take this wrong because it really isn't meant to be a shot, but if you're feeling uneasy, it means that you don't understand black holes. Microscopic black holes carry no threat to the Earth or to you.
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> I was just wondering if it was actually 'clever' or 'safe' to build a machine 30 miles long that is
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> create black holes.
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> in Switzerland, Earth.
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> Why do I have a REALLY uneasy feeling about this?
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