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Originally Posted by MisterSadistro
Is it just me or do actual experiments like this end up getting thwarted when they go bad by Spiderman ? The last I remember, experiments like this and Spiderman were only in the comics/movies so when eggheads are saying it might possibly end life as we know it/ turn the earth into goo and seriously MEAN end all life as we know it/ turn the earth into goo when we don't really have Spiderman seems, well, FREAKIN' INSANE !
I never thought I would agree with fascism and support killing off scientists for our own good until I read this thread. Suspecting the outcome of an experiment and saying something like "we don't know yet until we do it" is ridiculous. If I thought lighting an M-80 in my hand would blow my fingers off because I suspected it, but wouldn't actually know until I did it seems like a decent example of Natural Selection (tm), because I'd be pretty damn stupid to do that when that was the likely conclusion. The difference is these guys are lighting M-80s in everyone's hands. They couldn't have used their time, knowledge and money to work on something a little more worthwhile like making plant life survive in deserts, curing cancer or shutting Rosie O'Donnell up after she is no longer on tv ? We're stuck here now so work on those problems.
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I think they are continuing on basically because everything that has been said to date is hypothetical at best, and the doomsday scenarios are so infintesimally unlikely that they are not considered actual concerns. Reading through the cracked.com lists also mentions that there is a theory that by observing dark matter, you begin its decay, which would begin an unstoppable chainreaction of matter simply destroying itself, and that we did in fact observe some in a far off nebula a few years back, so we may have already triggered the end ofall existance simply by looking at the stuff. And if not us, some aliens might have done it. We cant bury our heads in the sand simply because we fear what the quest for knowledge might bring.
I think the end of the world is probably about as likely as an egg sudddenly appearing in the head of every living thing on earth, instantaneaously killing everyone and everything. According to Douglas Adams, in an inifinite universe, its possible; Its just not very likely.
Also, i get a kick out of the "why couldnt these scientists do something more useful with their genius brains like cure aids or cancer?"
Honestly, I dont think the physicists have the experience necesarry :)
Edit: And who says the LHC wont bring about the existance of spiderman? Ever think of that?
I wonder if Peter Parker would actually look like Toby McGuire....