# Should we be scared?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731 "2008-04-13T12:07:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-we-be-scared/46731/34 "2008-06-30T10:56:01Z")

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Those damn French and Swiss are up to something.

[http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html)

> But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?  
> Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?

Great quote material in this one:  
[http://blogs.smh.com.au/science/archives/2006/09/the\_experiment.html](http://blogs.smh.com.au/science/archives/2006/09/the_experiment.html)

> However, Cox also admitted there was a tiny, tiny risk the device could create conditions that would obliterate the planet and all human life.

Throw the switch. Even if they’re wrong it sounds like a better way to go than some of the other doomsday predictions. 🙂

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