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Man-Made Black Holes Looming?

Posted by michael on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

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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  1. But why ? by popeyethesailor · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know Black holes suck..

  2. Obvious Experiment by krazo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everybody already knows black holes spontaneously appear. Here's an experiment to prove it.

    Place two matching socks in a washer machine. turn the washer machine on, wait for it to finish. Remove the single sock. Voila. Black holes.

    Now place that single sock into the drier. Turn it on, wait for it to finish. Remove one entirely different sock, which you have never owned. Kazow. Alternate Dimensions.

    The field of pairingsocks physics solved the Black Hole question years before the cosmologists or those silly particle physicists. This article is old news.

  3. hmmm by Tharsis · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ultimate Darwin Award

  4. Re:Indecent Exposure by Edgewize · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry about posting a pun. When the story is about black holes, there's no escaping it.

  5. I hope they remember the basic rules... by IronChef · · Score: 5, Funny

    They better not try to put their pet black hole in a bag of holding.