| I liked this clip from one article on the LHC, since they claim they will be attempting to create mini "big-bangs" and mini black holes:
* They estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low.
* The risk is calculated at about 10 to the minus 40 - a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000 chance.
I mean really, with how little they know about the big-bang and black holes, dark energy, dark matter, extra dimensions, and in a nutshell pretty much everything they are trying to learn about with this thing, how the fuck can they even estimate something like that? They can have an idea that there's not much risk, but to come up with a number like that when they really don't know what will happen when they turn this thing on? Seems pretty arbitrary to me. |