Actually the worst case scenario of the Large Hadron Collider that gets turned on tomorrow is not "the Earth is swallowed by a man-made black hole" but "Scientists prove the long-suspected Higgs boson exists and don't find anything smaller/cooler/new" which would kinda suck for a $10 billion series of toobs.
Still, the Brits put the chance of us dying from this thing at one in 50 million or so. My theory is that with 6.6 billion people on Earth, there's 1,320 people on this planet who really should not be allowed to touch the LHC.
Having said that, there's probably a staff of 1,320 scientists at the LHC core project or something. One of them is invariably named Dr. Gordon Freeman.
I hope the LHC has plenty of crowbars for tomorrow. I'm going to bed.
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Close this window Jump to comment formNo, the black hole consumed the earth.
But life in the black hole isn't really different from life outside it, so we didn't notice anything.
September 10, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Only Al Gore is President.
September 10, 2008 at 1:49 PM