Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:17:35 -0400, Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <HcWdna6MotpGZ3LanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> > Last Friday, Wagner and another critic of the LHC's safety measures,
>> > Luis Sancho, filed a lawsuit in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. The
suit
>> > calls on the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National
Science
>> > Foundation and CERN to ease up on their LHC preparations for several
>> > months while the collider's safety was re*****sed.

>What jurisdiction does a U.S. federal court have over a scientific 
>project in Switzerland?

That would depend on the specific contractual arrangements made between
the US government and the project's management.  But seeing as how the
US government sent something like half a billion dollars to Switzerland
to help build the thing, I kind of suspect they got something in writing
giving the US some control over how it is used.


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