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

In article <nqq4v39esmofobb15e2p8t1791gahdp0vq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:17:35 -0400, Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >In article <HcWdna6MotpGZ3LanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> > 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.

And if the Swiss say, "Yeah, well "some control" doesn't mean an 
American judge gets to shut the whole thing down with the stroke of a 
penb because some crank files a lawsuit in America. You go ahead and 
have your court case but don't think we're going to let your judges tell 
us what we can and can't do in Switzerland"... then what?

It's not like the judge can force the Swiss to comply with any of his 
orders.