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

In article <EZQKj.17166$4O1.8763@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Thanatos wrote:
> 
> > In article <ANIM8Rfsk-3393CA.07433407042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > 
> >>In article <atropos-B67A93.06190307042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In article <kt7iv35j5m6hrfbmsd7874an3mo18shj8p@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>[Default] Thus spake "Eva" <eva1removethis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> >>>>>news:HcWdna6MotpGZ3LanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>
> >>>>><snip>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>-- Ken from Chicago (who notes a supercollider is basically a
giant 
> >>>>>>circle)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Basically.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>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.
> 
> 
>    Well, it all kinda depends on whether you are talking death row 
> inmates, or whether you are talking about people who you plan to release

> back into society at some point.
> 
>    It's really in society's best interest to not make people crazy and 
> then set them loose on us all.

Who said anything about setting them loose?

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