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Concern Over Creating Black Holes
Maria Williams writes to tell us about worry surrounding the impending startup of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It. While the tiny black holes should evaporate quickly — throwing off so-called Hawking radiation that can be detected — CERN software developer Ran Livneh reminds us that "Any physicist will tell you that there is no way to prove that generated black holes will decay." The LHC site assures us there's nothing to worry about. The flap is reminiscent of the time the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went live. The worry then was that "negative strangelets" could gobble up the world.
Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It.
I was worried that my poor highschool and early college grades, plus lack of practical experience in government would go against me. It's comforting there are people like that out there are people of the land, the common clay of the mankind, you know... morons.
Meanwhile, the warming of the earth in 50 years time, at the rate we're going is going to displace hundreds of millions, cause unimaginable famine and natural disaster, bring countless birds and animals which can't suddenly adapt to extinction and bring to an end life as we have known it. This might just be the solution to the Greenhouse problem...
if this thing starts a blackhole which ends up killing us all, I'm going to be really angry!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And that one exception is the very quote you made concerning a civil war. If you really think about it, there is a civil war happening, but it's not a physical war, it's a mental war. It's the mindset of people that's changing and fighting against what is considered the norm. It's spreading, like all war does. Soon enough, it's going to hit close enough to home to cause a physical war. It will lead up to that, I'm sure of it. Personally, we need another Aristocratic genocide happening on the planet, right here in this country, because when you get down to the real base of all the corporate and government control, it's the families that own and run it all. All those rich and upper-middle class people out there that are calling the shots. I don't mean all of them. I mean those that are blatantly abusing their power to shape things. Not all rich or upper-middle or middle class, or anyone in any group, needs to die. But there are ALWAYS exceptions. These are just the most blatantly obvious.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
And yes, I'd like my karma points.