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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bangNow here is my issue. Stephen Hawkings, brilliant mind and perv tell scientists that this machine won't destroy our planet. Here is a guy who has been confined to a wheelchair for his entire life and been the butt of people's bad jokes, and we are supposed to trust him? How do we know he isn't out to kill us all with a black hole weapon?
Craziness aside, this project is sketchy. We just don't know what could happen. If anything this is comparable to Doc Oc in Spiderman 2. On the other hand this could get us further in the universe.....
God I love and hate science. SO much to learn and so much to destroy us if we screw up....