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

In article <mqrc04d4dvabt7tj44l3sbeg48g36h7b26@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> [Default] Thus spake Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >In article <atropos-57E433.20522607042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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]
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> >> > > > 
> >> > > > >"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message 
> >> > > > >news:HcWdna6MotpGZ3LanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > > > ><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.
> >
> >There may be a TV movie in this about how, after the apocalypse, only 
> >the criminals from the maximum security prison are left . . .
> 
> Mythbusters already took care of the cockroaches myth.  I'm all for
> them putting a couple of hundred convicts in some little chambers and
> exposing them to high doses of gamma.

Wouldn't that just result in the bunch of criminals turning into 
Incredible Hulks?