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Originally Posted by Locke
Oh yeah, the black hole generator. Thats either going to be a failure of epic proportions or an incredible success that ends in a catastrophe of epic proportions.
Either way we're pretty screwed!
Why did they think this would be a good thing to build?  |
Meh ... it's just a bunch of environmental extremist types who are shrieking about this. I figure the scientists who built it (it's called a Large Hadron Collider) might know a little more about what they're doing than a bunch of professional alarmists. They're not actually trying to generate a black hole (just collide a few particles of something or other at near speed of light velocities), but a few environmental alarmists think that a black hole might be the unintended outcome. What I don't get is why the knit-your-own-underwear crowd is so worked up about this ... a black hole sounds like a good way to clean up the 'hood to me. Presto ... no more worries about pollution, global warming, species extinction, etc. Rain forest decimation? What rain forest?
On the other hand, Norway has built a doomsday bunker inside some mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops. It seems to me the bunker was just sealed at the end of February this year and contained something like 5 million seeds. I'm sure they're just hedging their bets. I hope they don't forget pot seeds though ... just in case ya know. For medicinal purposes.
Whatever ... I don't take anything for granted and this is still a good excuse for a beer fest.