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

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:17:22 UTC, Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-891703.20422407042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <atropos-57E433.20522607042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article <ANIM8Rfsk-3393CA.07433407042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > In article <atropos-B67A93.06190307042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > In article <kt7iv35j5m6hrfbmsd7874an3mo18shj8p@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >  Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > [Default] Thus spake "Eva" <eva1removethis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > >"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > ><snip>
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> > > > > > >> -- Ken from Chicago (who notes a supercollider is basically
a 
> > > > > > >> giant 
> > > > > > >> circle)
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> > > > > > >Basically.
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> > > > > > >Eva
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Had the US not screwed the pooch many years ago, we would
already 
> > > > > > have
> > > > > > done this in the US.  There are several dozen deep holes in
the Texas
> > > > > > prarie near Hillsboro that were dug for the Superconducting
Super
> > > > > > Collider.
> > > > > 
> > > > > There aren't just holes. They actually built most of the
circular 
> > > > > tunnel 
> > > > > ring. When the project was canceled, I always thought they
should have 
> > > > > used the existing tunnel as a prison. It could have housed
hundreds of 
> > > > > thousands of inmates.
> > > > 
> > > > Single file.  :)
> > > 
> > > Heh. No, I figured they could just line the tunnel ring with cells,
one 
> > > after the other, and put the cafeteria/exercise yard, etc. in the 
> > > middle. With a cir***ference of 64 miles and allowing about 10 feet
per 
> > > cell, that would make it a 33,792-bed prison (double it if you stick

> > > bunk beds in each one and make it two to a cell). And there's the
added 
> > > benefit of riot control: if they get out of hand, you can just start

> > > filling the whole thing in with dirt.
> > > 
> > > Of course I'm sure the libs would howl hysterically and incessantly 
> > > about how "cruel" it would be to house people underground and
whatnot.
> > 
> > There may be a TV movie in this about how, after the apocalypse, only 
> > the criminals from the maximum security prison are left . . .
> 
> Maybe Sci-Fi could do it. Give it a budget of $39.95 and sign Bruce 
> Boxleitner or Michael Par and they've got a Saturday night movie ready 
> to go.

You forgot Bruce Campbell and Stephen Baldwin!