Earth is at risk of being turned into a lump of strange matter by a killer strangelet!

This looks like a job for Supercarit.

Walter Wagner, who runs a botanical garden on Hawaii's Big Island, and Luis Sancho of Spain

Oh, well if a gardener and Lou Sancho say it...

this was on slashdot a week ago. you're fired

I'm all for it of course. better a bang than the inevitable whimper

You can't activate a particle accelerator anywhere on this planet without a few nitwits worrying that you'll generate a black hole and "destroy the earth." Boo hoo...

i have some blankets, some canned goods, a flashlight and some spare batteries put to one side for just such an occasion as this. we'll be able to ride it out i expect.

there's also a couple of Russians who claim activating the LHC could create a wormhole in time big enough for a person from the future to travel through, making 2008 year zero for time travelers

anyway everything they want to prove with the LHC is old hat already, let's get on with the gravity waves and see about getting rid of all this dark matter/superstring bullsquid malarkey foofaraugh

as long as they bring a few million dollars of future inflationary pocket change, we can avert this pesky recession as well.

i was scratching my head for a bit about this large hardon collider

i for one welcome our futureself brothers in this grand american experiment

also, they could just tell us who wins the democratic primary and we could stop fucking around

john, this is not american. this isn't even british. it's the Goddamn Swiss.

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 annihilation of the planet and perhaps the universe.

Still, never mind.

well then we can steal their evil futurenazi gold, right?

Mr Quixagner and Mr Sancho Panza

Is anyone else following the "Joanna vs. the LHC" storyline over at Overcompensating?

I like that the plane is a chicken.

Namely, a rooster.

this should go forward

best case we learn some shit

worst case we all dead in kickass cosmic freakout

seems like a win-win

that's what I say to myself everytime I decide to go out and have a drink

It's a strange matter, this strange matter.

I was going to make a hadron collider joke but Jim beat me to it.

So I sez "Supercollider? I barely knew her!"

This looks like a job for Supercarit.

-- Ned Raggett

I agree, but this is too important a job to leave to just one superhero. I think we also need Yngwie Malmsteen. And Yahoo Serious.

And Steve Albini. Actually the more I think about it, the more I think only Steve Albini has the studio chops to save us.

anyway everything they want to prove with the LHC is old hat already, let's get on with the gravity waves and see about getting rid of all this dark matter/superstring bullsquid malarkey foofaraugh

Who cares about gravity waves when we can have femtosecond terrawatt laser beams.

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