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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.

Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

And I have full confidence we'll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.