Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:43:26 -0700, Batroc Z. Leaper
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> wrote:

>In article <99b290d4-1c6d-4dad-a60f-787b8d437715
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>, MASCULIST@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Masculist) says...
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>> "Critics think the collider could also spawn a black hole that will
>> swallow Earth.
>
>This is just idiot junk science.  Ultra high energy cosmic rays far more 
>energetic than anything any human collider can produce have been hitting 
>the earth for billions of years.  We're still here.  

IIRC, there was also an accelerator at Brookhaven which was also
supposed to destroy the world by creating "strangelets." And we're
still here.
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