Man-Made Black Holes Looming? 300
camusflage writes: "The New York Times has a story that some physicists think it might be possible to make black holes at the under construction Large Hadron Collider at CERN, slated to come online in 2006. Trying to allay concerns about a man-made black hole blipping us out of existence, they say "The same calculations ... predict that around 100 such black holes a year are `organically' and apparently safely produced in the earth's atmosphere in cosmic ray collisions." As long as we can keep critters from building nests in the singularity, we should be okay."
Indecent Exposure (Score:3, Funny)
Ouch. Black hole puns. There's no excuse.
Viper Out
But why ? (Score:5, Funny)
Cool, but why? (Score:3, Funny)
Your own little black hole instead of a trash can.
Placing your black hole between you and your mother in law to suck in the boring conversation.
No more standing in line in shops or outside disco's.
A good excuse when your boss comes complaining about all the budget you are eating: "It wasn't me, it was the company black hole!"
This does not inspire confidence.. (Score:4, Funny)
From the article: We've been trying for a century, and we still don't fully understand black holes," said Dr. Andrew Strominger. And then he goes on to conclude that we need to make some.
If they're going to do something which at least sounds dangerous, I would really like it if they could say, "Nothing can possibly go wrong", not, "Our understanding is incomplete."
Obvious Experiment (Score:5, Funny)
Place two matching socks in a washer machine. turn the washer machine on, wait for it to finish. Remove the single sock. Voila. Black holes.
Now place that single sock into the drier. Turn it on, wait for it to finish. Remove one entirely different sock, which you have never owned. Kazow. Alternate Dimensions.
The field of pairingsocks physics solved the Black Hole question years before the cosmologists or those silly particle physicists. This article is old news.
Re:This does not inspire confidence.. (Score:3, Funny)
If watching movies gain any insight, these two comments are logically equal. Each time someone says "Don't worry, everything's under control", you bet it's time to panic and flee the scene as fast as you can.
- Steeltoe
hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This does not inspire confidence.. (Score:4, Funny)
Waste management (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Indecent Exposure (Score:5, Funny)
I hope they remember the basic rules... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool, but why? (Score:2, Funny)
The only problem is that you'd hear news stories about people who produced too much trash and caused their "trash hole" to grow in size so much that it swallowed their whole house.
Of course, it would be a much better story for students who didn't do their homework. "Our black hole ate it."
Joke, sorry (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Indecent Exposure (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry! That's just how my demented brain processed it
Mike
Re:This does not inspire confidence.. (Score:4, Funny)