I find this amusing

This is an interesting article on a very interesting story. These dudes in France/Switzerland are about to fire off the most powerful cannon the world has ever seen in order to smash together two particles so small we can't even see them with our most powerful optics in order to find out if something exists which we won't be able to see even if we do find out it exists. And on top of that, 5 minutes of data collecting will give them 50 years of data analysis, at least. Anyhow, that's all well and good, and I'm all about some dark matter (just read some of Augustine's thoughts on Creation and you'll find that he'd go absolutely crazy over this stuff, saying that it proved God), but the response from "skeptics" is what entertains me. The article notes "that some skeptics fear [the experiment] could create micro "black holes" and endanger the planet."
First off, if you think an experiment is going to destroy the frippin' world, does that classify you as a "skeptic," or an "objector on basis of desiring to exist?" I mean honestly, could we get a better description here?
Secondly, micro black holes. Black holes get bigger the more they suck in, and they suck in stars, planets, and galaxies. I'd say this isn't really "endangering the planet" so much as destroying the world. Anytime the world gets turned inside out because of an anti-matter hole somewhere in Europe, we've got problems.

I guess what I'm saying is, I think this cautionary science-talk is absolutely hysterical. And, in the end, it has to be rather nerve-wracking, being a pagan in the middle of all this. After all, we know we aren't going to destroy the planet. They can only hope.

Update: Wouldn't you hate to be this guy and lay part of that track backwards and blow the whole thing up? That whole thought makes me laugh very much. 9.8 billion (that's right, with a b) of the hardest-earned goes up in smoke because some random dude mislaid a 1 foot long magnet.