28 Mar '08 18:15>
apparently.
CERN is being sued by a couple of guys in federal courts over the potential for doomsday disasters a la half life. Their list of threats that CERN poses are planet gobbling mini-black-holes, strangelets and other such stuff.
How seriously do you think this should be taken?
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx
Excerpt I like:
"Saying something is absolutely impossible doesn't always come easy. Some scientists find it difficult to state categorically that such-and-such a theoretical catastrophe has no chance of happening, and Fermilab spokeswoman Judy Jackson told me that the doomsayers have "cynically distorted" that natural reluctance to rule out even the most outlandish theoretical possibilities."
CERN is being sued by a couple of guys in federal courts over the potential for doomsday disasters a la half life. Their list of threats that CERN poses are planet gobbling mini-black-holes, strangelets and other such stuff.
How seriously do you think this should be taken?
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx
Excerpt I like:
"Saying something is absolutely impossible doesn't always come easy. Some scientists find it difficult to state categorically that such-and-such a theoretical catastrophe has no chance of happening, and Fermilab spokeswoman Judy Jackson told me that the doomsayers have "cynically distorted" that natural reluctance to rule out even the most outlandish theoretical possibilities."