Monday, February 17, 2014

Greased pigs and strangelets?

This morning, we caught German magazine Der Spiegel Online linking to the International Business Times web site in an article about strangelets and their danger to the world according to a couple of lawyers.

Since it comes from the IBTimes, as they are known for short, hm, we are on the fence on that one.

Nevertheless, it is fun news to read about two lawyers trying to save the world via a lawsuit against a particle accelerator.  This sentiment is obviously shared by Der Spiegel, why else would they report on it.

At the K-Landnews, the prevailing opinion on the danger of strangelets destroying the planet is the same as it was years ago on the black hole scare at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Humans are subjecting the planet and all life on it to incredible stress and damages day in day out.

Should we inadvertently destroy the whole planet by other means than our daily efforts, the universe would probably not even notice.

Heck, some of the exploding stars we marvel at in the night sky might very well be failed science experiments on distant planets instead of suns that have run out of fuel and finish their natural life cycle in a big explosion.

Prove us wrong.

How did greased pigs get into the post?

We simply wanted to mention greased pigs and lawyers in the same post.

[Update 7/2015] The Large Hadron Collider has been running for some time now, and the planet is still hurtling through space. So much for the lawyers.

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