“A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country’s government to halt experiments at the world’s largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth’s destruction.
The country’s highest court said that the woman — whom it didn’t identify — had failed to demonstrate any connection between experiments at the CERN collider outside Geneva and the apocalypse.
The Federal Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman’s appeal because she was “unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about.”
“The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers,” the court ruled.
CERN scientists are looking to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to mimic the conditions that followed the Big Bang and help explain the origins of the universe.
Housed inside a 27-kilometre (16.8-mile) tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border, the collider was started with great fanfare in September 2008, only to break down after nine days for the next 14 months.
It was shut down again in December, this time to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels which began last month.”
Read more at The Telegraph
For “woman” read “nutter”.
Meanwhile .. people living in the province Zeeland in the Netherlands are getting iodine tablets .. (in case a nuclear disaster in the reactor overthere will happen (not that that is very likely ofcourse, they say).
That will trigger a few minds of people there I guess. They didn’t distribute products for other disasters yet here in the Netherlands. Hm .. The policy is clear, but erm .. like I said .. it might trigger a few minds here and there ..
But look at it – it looks like a giant metal spider, it MUST be dangerous! GIANT METAL SPIDER!
OMG OMG OMG we’re all gonna die 0.0
…again -.-
it still feels ridiculous that so much money was spent for something irrelevant while we drown in our own shit
“overwhelming scientific opinion” doesn’t cut it.
There are real risks, very VERY small risks, that things could go catastrophically wrong. Yes yes, I know, scientific advancement and all that, but I for one will not benefit in any way whatsoever if an argument between 2 groups of theoretical physicists is resolved or not, so why should I be forced to take the risk?
Who here reading this is going to benefit in any way whatsoever if the Higg’s particle is ‘proven’ to exist or it remains ‘theoretical’? The answer: absolutely no-one. Who here reading this is at risk if unforeseen circumstances wreak havoc? Everyone.
Seems selfish to me. I guess I’d change my opinion if the results had some sort of tangible benefit for everyday people. Then there is the cost of the collider itself..
im scared of death and im only 12. come on! i shouldnt be scared…. ;(