NY Times--More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice. None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.
In my insomnia I ran across this little gem. Black hole. End of Earth. Clashing protons. Intriguing. Even better that there's a lawsuit about it. But hey, somebody has to fight to make sure new technology doesn't suck me into a black abyss without my consent.
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