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Thu, 11 Sep 2008

23:59 – LHC idiocy

14:59 PDT

In the news today (yes yes, I'm running behind, I'm on holiday you know) this fascinating report of a girl who killed herself because she was afraid the LHC would destroy the world.

Life would be so much easier for the scientists trying to do good work with the LHC if other fear-mongerers and religious fanatics would follow that example instead of trying to interfere with things they don't want to understand.

Not that I'm advocating a Hale-Bopp-style mass suicide event in any way though.

Leave science alone. Let CERN and friends get on with their task of trying to understand the universe.

[ category: /activism | 5 comments on this entry ]

What journalists heard at press conferences on the subject:
mumble mumble black hole mumble mumble

so they remembered the black hole and forgot about the tiny odds and all the rest.  Typical.

Posted by Elise at Fri Sep 12 12:08:14 2008
fascinating report

....

Posted by Friedrich at Fri Sep 12 17:40:06 2008
And they weren't even doing collisions yet; just sending proton beams around...

Posted by Dirk Feytons at Fri Sep 12 21:34:11 2008
I'm pretty sure when they start creating small black holes these will suck up earth.... LOL
I hope they start discovering some interesting things soon.... maybe solving earths energy problems.

Posted by PieterB at Sat Sep 13 10:55:33 2008
Do you know where you have the best chance of finding black holes? Inside the head of religious fanatics. It sucked up all of their brains.

Posted by Amedee at Mon Sep 22 00:02:41 2008

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