So do you know about the Large Hadron Collider? It’s an enormous atom-smasher that’s about to go live, 330 feet beneath parts of France and Switzerland. It may ultimately cost $10 billion.
There’s some concern that it’s going to make a black hole that will swallow the earth, or make some little killer bits called strangelets, and even if those things don’t happen then it’s going to shrivel up our balls or make all of the orange marmalade go bad or something. Such potentialities are slightly below strontium poisoning on my list of day-to-day concerns, so I’ll probably be the wise-ass who gets sucked into the black hole first.
Anyway, CNN.com has been using this blurb to describe it in a sidebar this afternoon:
Everyone sing along: “All our times have come…”
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What if you don’t HAVE balls? What then?
I knew it was exclusionary when I wrote it, but the image gave me a chuckle and I couldn’t mentally release it. Please write your own particle acceleration-induced tragedy, Mrs. Chili. 🙂
The same thing was suggested when the first atomic bomb was tested. A lot of fear that it would start a nuclear reaction that would consume the entire planet. Physicists deduced that this was unfounded, and obviosuly they were correct. This is the same thing again. Some lunatics think the sky is falling. It isn’t.
It’ll suck our ovaries out. And erase our permanent records from school.
Are these the same lunatics who look at a microscopic slice of our planet’s history and think that global warming will destroy us all ?
Except that the global warming group has the side benefit of “scaring people straight”. Is it based on sound science? According to things I’ve read from sources I tend to trust… probably not. Still, it’s not a bad thing that a few more people get on board with the idea that we should all be kinder to our planet. Planting a tree is a good thing! I see no side benefits to mass fears of getting sucked into a black hole, though.
Lea, I agree 100 percent. I’m into preserving open space, clean air, clean water, etc. I just don’t agree with the extreme measures many politicians are advocating like driving the cost of everything higher with their cap and trade tax. Global warming has taken on a life unto it’s own going way beyond any level of common sense.
What’s not getting nearly enough attention is that the prevention battle is already lost. India and China are in the midst of industrial revolutions that will ultimately dwarf ours. Good luck insisting that these 2.5 BILLION people tasting the first world for the first time adopt “environmentally sound” methods to get and stay there.
No matter what our illustrious and beloved Congress attempts to inflict upon us, worldwide petroleum demand is only going UP for the foreseeable future.
I remain undecided on the question of whether people have anything to do with global warming, if it is indeed occurring. I find persuasive logic on both sides. But it’s really not that interesting to me, given the above. The important question now is what does it cost to “solve” it? CAN it be solved? And if we do come up with something, or a set of somethings, is its cost likely to be greater than the cost of allowing whatever may or may not be happening to progress unchecked?
We may have been short-sighted and played a role in getting here. Let’s not continue said short-sightedness and torpedo our way of life attempting to alleviate it, when it won’t help anyway. The worldwide climatic health is a single parameter, and has no use for country boundaries. Some self-important dipshit looking down his nose from behind the wheel of a Prius in Nebraska is pissing into a hurricane compared to what’s going to happen over the next 30 to 50 years in the Eastern Hemisphere.
This reminds me of my teen days during 1961-1962, when there was the rumor of constellation of 8 planets and the world will extinct. Now I am in my sixtees and think that the particle accelerator test may not take place or even if it takes place, there should not be any scare.