We’re All Saved! Maybe..
in the late afternoon on Sunday, the 22nd of June 2008 by Chad
Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The new report, like earlier safety studies, rules out the possibility of global danger.
That’s good news you know. I’m sure with all the other doomsday scenarios that the media just can’t stop propagating, losing just this one won’t hurt media sales that much.
Critics of the collider are pursuing a federal lawsuit challenging the safety claims - and they’re likely to continue the doomsday debate even in the wake of this report.
Now, the problem I have with the federal lawsuit: You cannot sue for damages until you have… damages. So this lawsuit should be put on hold until we’re sucked into the alternate universe where black is white, up is down, and the media is responsible and non-biased.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
One commentator (M.B. Dion of society du jour) asked “So is ATLAS just an intellectual version of something Evel Knievel may have attempted in the lab?”
If asked to jump the Snake River Canyon with Evel Kneivel, an assurance from Evel of “nothing to worry about, perfectly safe” would probably be only moderately assuring to me…
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