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DOOMSDAY FEARS SPARK LAWSUIT
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx ^

Posted on 03/28/2008 4:40:13 AM PDT by chessplayer

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1 posted on 03/28/2008 4:40:14 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Well, they better hurry up because the other day in the grocery check out line one of the rags proclaimed the end of the world would be in May.


2 posted on 03/28/2008 4:43:41 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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To: chessplayer

Luddites-R us


3 posted on 03/28/2008 4:44:33 AM PDT by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns.)
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...the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

We'll just have to wait and cross that bridge when we come to it.

4 posted on 03/28/2008 4:52:01 AM PDT by Rudder (Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
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might create globe-gobbling black holes


Wow—that would really suck!


5 posted on 03/28/2008 4:56:15 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: chessplayer
Black holes, eh?


6 posted on 03/28/2008 4:58:27 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: shuckmaster

No kidding. Any black hole they could create there would dissipate in a fraction of a second.


7 posted on 03/28/2008 5:00:29 AM PDT by AntiKev ("The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." - Carl Sagan)
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To: chessplayer

I have always thought that this might happen with this machine. But then some thought the “A” Bomb would continue its energy release through out the world. So like those I am most likely wrong.


8 posted on 03/28/2008 5:01:19 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
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To: AntiKev; All

Yup, Hawking radiation would kill any tiny blackhole we’d accidently produce. I’d love to see a new “strain” of matter, like it’d be a disease or act like Ice-9. The funniest articles are about science, when the author obviously has no clue what s/he is talking about. =)


9 posted on 03/28/2008 5:07:45 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Who the hell do I vote for now?))
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To: shuckmaster

“What didn’t happen”

“We’ve heard plenty about the test called Trinity, but few people know that what what was most important about the explosion was not what happened, but what didn’t happen.”

“The chain reaction did not get out of control. The atmosphere and oceans did not ignite. The world did not end in a planet-enveloping blaze of light. A few dozen physicists bet everything — all life on the planet! — on their ability to calculate in advance the result of an experiment that had never been tried before.”

“Even Hitler blanched at the stakes.”

“Enrico Fermi, one of the most brilliant of the atomic scientists, offered to take bets on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or the entire world. His macabre humor was not appreciated.”

“When the bomb exploded, the confidence of at least one physicist was briefly tested.”
http://www.sciencemusings.com/musingsarchive/2005_10_16_musings.html


10 posted on 03/28/2008 5:08:03 AM PDT by chessplayer
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never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

If they've never been seen before, how do they know it would destroy the planet? I mean, maybe it'll instead make us all sing Kumbaya for 56782 consecutive days then step out for slurpies?

11 posted on 03/28/2008 5:09:32 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: mtbopfuyn

The History Channel did a show reporting it is almost a certainty that the world will end on December 21, 2012.


12 posted on 03/28/2008 5:13:02 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: EarthBound
or act like Ice-9

Ah yes, Ice 9. That bastard Felix Hoenikker planted the seed that will eventually kill us all

13 posted on 03/28/2008 5:14:06 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy.)
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To: chessplayer

There are no pictures of the people who brought this lawsuit because they’re afraid the cameras will steal their souls.


14 posted on 03/28/2008 5:20:05 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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15 posted on 03/28/2008 5:25:45 AM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: YOUGOTIT

My favorite quote from Jurassic Park;

Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”


16 posted on 03/28/2008 5:33:29 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
The full statement in the law suit was, "The experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet, and that would be bad for the spotted owls and the children."

Just for clarification

Mark

17 posted on 03/28/2008 5:35:51 AM PDT by MarkL
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“Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years”

“It’s going to be a big deal and everybody’s going to know about it,” said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. “We’re talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways—in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=d8r4h0q00&show_article=1


18 posted on 03/28/2008 5:37:28 AM PDT by chessplayer
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According to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments, in “Inside the Third Reich”, Hitler rejected out-of-hand the ideas of the top two atomic scientists whom Speer had brought in to brief Hitler — because they were Jewish. The irony is overwhelming.


19 posted on 03/28/2008 5:39:14 AM PDT by Nabber
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To: chessplayer
My favorite quote from Jurassic Park;

Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

My favorite quotes from JP (interestingly enough, all by Ian Malcom)

"I'm always on the lookout for the next former Mrs Malcom."

"Out of work, don't you mean extinct?"

"That's one big pile of s**t!"

Mark

20 posted on 03/28/2008 5:39:28 AM PDT by MarkL
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