Day of reckoning for the Large Hadron Collider...

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If getting clean water was a priority for those starvin marvins then they'd be getting together and building aqueducts, like the romans did 2000 years ago, without the benefit of any modern convenience, using only what materials were at hand.

They seem to be able to get together to machete the next village ok, and theres no shortage of cash for their AK-47s...

How many multi-million dollar US and French fighter jets are in Ethiopia's arsenal? I bet it's more than enough to buy several water treatment plants and a damn fine agricultural program...

Build aqueducts with what, sand? And who's going to look after the orphans, bearing in mind most of the adults are dead and it's kids looking after kids. Who'll cook what little food they have while they're building these massive constructions out of sand? Who'll nurse the sick and poor?

And last I heard, 1 billion people don't live in Ethiopia. I'm talking about masses of countries across the world.

Back to the subject at hand:
Successful test for Europe's Big Bang collider

You mean ... we're not dead yet?

*Gunshots*

Now you all are.

I'm hiding under my bed just in case ....

Oh well. I guess we survived

The stupid media-prank that the "world was going to end on the 10th", made light of a serious issue. Walter probability factor!
Or uncertainty principle; whichever you subscribe to.
There is a possibility of stable micro-black holes, which could consume the earth. I know; improbable. But - the arrogance of these people!! ! To gamble the only known inhabited world, even if chaos-chance scale is relatively small, is obscene. Where's my vote? Why do they have the right to involve me in an experiment that may still - in coming months - prove deadly?

This is an experiment that should be done extra orbitally! Granted; it would cost thirteen times as much - an insignificant fraction of these combined nations' military budgets!

Abstract knowledge is a wonderful thing; but the device has several key flaws that corner-cutting budget controls won't help... We're not in the clear yet! Within the next two months we should see what theories hold salt... I disagree with Hawkings radiation theory - to base all safety precautions on an untested, proof-less and highly theoretical concept is ludicrous!
Danger to a town or nation is one thing; risking the only known sentient life?
My colleagues in Europe ought to be ashamed of their arrogance in assuming everything.

Rationally speaking since it is unethical to kill even 1 person in the name of research then since there are 6.721 billion people on earth then if the odds were say a 1 in 6.721 billion chance of killing 6.71 billion people (and I don't know if anybody is claiming the chance of a black hole can be shown to be anywhere near that slim) it cannot rationally be allowed in law (IE you can't go around killing people) because this is effectively the same level of risk as a 1 in 1 chance of killing 1 person.

Do you think if I gunned down the entire research team I could get off a murder charge by pointing out that in every case there was a greater than 1 in 6.721 billion chance that they would've survived a gunshot to the head?

Christ's sake people. 1) The LHC won't be producing black holes, assuming the truth of the Standard Model which is the most accepted model for this sort of stuff. 2) If it did, they'd evaporate rapidly 3) If they didn't evaporate, these sorts of black holes would exist in cosmic rays that are already bombarding earth and other celestial objects. All this stuff about "the earth is going to be destroyed" is based off of work that hasn't stood up to peer review at all. There is no good science behind the doomsday predictions. PERIOD.