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[trinityvixen]

Someone explain to me why the particle collider thing is evoking so much doomsday talk? They're just turning it on. They're not even smashing things together yet. I can't wait until they do. Yay Big Bang!

Personally, I am hoping for the thing to impossibly create a black hole in the middle of the Earth. I love a good apocalypse and you can't go wrong with the apocalypse of being sucked into a black hole. Yee-haw!

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing... If everyone's so worried, I wonder if anyone has tried to stop them yet?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Why would they try to stop them? The idiots most concerned want nothing more than to bring about the Rapture and have us all be judged already. They're sort of counting on it because they'll lose people if it doesn't happen soon, and if it doesn't happen soon they won't be able to enjoy the suffering of us heathens.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

They've totally tried to stop them. There were lawsuits in the US and in Europe. There have even been death threats against some CERN scientists in the last week. It's just the latest case of some fringe freaks garnering enough attention to cause problems for scientists.

But in this case it's mostly not religious nuts; it's fringe science nuts. These people read a book or two and think they know better than the Nobel laureates working on the project. The guy who filed the case in the US used to be a "nuclear safety officer". Yes, that's Homer Simpson's job. But just like the religious nuts, they're crackpots who shouldn't be listened to by anyone.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Apparently some folks tried to sue and were not successful.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

When they fired up the last experiment at CERN, somebody stuck two beer bottles in the beam line. They didn't catch it until they did the initial testing.