Larry

Yeah, I’m up too late. Damn Internet.

Larry

Of course, when they actually fire that puppy up for real, might we see the page change during our last picoseconds of mortal existence?

Also, what’re you still doing up? I thought you were gainfully employed!

You’re right, we shouldn’t be too trusting of the eggheads; Trust but verify??

Fortunately the free market has harnessed the power of the Internet to make this possible, nay, easy…

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

Larry

Based, I’m guessing, on their extensive experience with black holes?

And since evidently they know precisely what’ll happen, why bother with expensive experimentation?

I don’t particularly cherish any belief that the LHC will end the world, nor much anxiety. There are things I’m much more concerned will end the world (prominent among them being that either the Democratic or Republican nominee will win the Presidential election, meaning more war and less rational thought.)

That said, laypeople, myself included, don’t have any idea what can actually happen, and are perhaps not well advised to believe government-employed scientists bully them into believing nothing can go wrong. If the CERN scientists thought there was a fifty percent chance of destroying the world, and that if it didn’t they’d all have it made, most of ‘em’d flip the switch without hesitation.

It’s happened before (although not necessarily at those odds - so far as we know.) Here in NM, in fact. And some top-level scientists within 100 miles of where you’re sitting have much more alarming ideas.

Ah, well. Despite things going generally well for me, perhaps I’m in a curmudgeonly frame of mind tonight.

http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=4874

Thanks for setting my mind at ease.

Also, that’s cool about you missing my reading for lunch with Carrie. I’d miss me for lunch with Carrie too.

There was no coercion of any kind.

Was I not on my way to lunch with Carrie at the time, I’d have run up to it too.

Sorry about the bioengineering panel cross-up - as well as apologies to Steve Gould should he happen by. Steve was fascinating on the panel, and, uh, sat right by me. You’d've been a fine addition, though.

See? I really did need a nap.