Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The "we're all gonna die" headlines of the day

'Big Bang' machine could destroy the planet, says lawsuit

the European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern, starting up the Large Hadron Collider...
Although Cern scientists have already ruled out the possibility in a safety review, Mr Wagner and Mr Sancho say there is at least a small chance of total annihilation of the planet and maybe the universe.

They claim Cern has under-played the chances that the collider could produce a tiny black hole or a particle called a "killer strangelet" that would turn the Earth into a shrunken lump of "strange matter"....

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