Man-Made Black Holes Looming?

camusflage writes: "The New York Times has a story that some physicists think it might be possible to make black holes at the under construction Large Hadron Collider at CERN, slated to come online in 2006. Trying to allay concerns about a man-made black hole blipping us out of existence, they say "The same calculations ... predict that around 100 such black holes a year are `organically' and apparently safely produced in the earth's atmosphere in cosmic ray collisions." As long as we can keep critters from building nests in the singularity, we should be okay."

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I got a good use for em

[Dolly_Llama]

May I suggest the first black hole should be placed right on those responsible for yesterday's attck?

I know everyone needs a hobby...

[Jin Wicked]

but wouldn't this energy be better spent trying to solve existing problems instead of opening up a whole new can of worms?

People are dying of disease, the world is going to run out of fossil fuels, the earth is warming up and animals are dying out, and some scientists are jacking off trying to make a black hole in a lab. Blah. :P