Creators of Potential Doomsday Device Sued

[Kara]

So it seems like somebody has made a device that could DEST0Y TEH WORLDZ OMG.

Actually, it seems like a perfect sci-fi movie scenario. Guys create giant machine to explore the secrets of the universe, a few scientists outside the "scientific mainstream" raise "unfounded" arguments that there's a slim chance it could destroy all creation, and everyone scoffs at the idea. Then they start the machine......

[Andara Bledin]

I rather suspect that people create devices that "could" destroy the world all the time. It's just this particular one is very large, and very obvious.

^-.-^

[edible_hat]

Surely they can only win the lawsuit if the device does actually destroy the world... and then how are they going to collect?

[lordlundar]

It's official, this is stupid.

[Gawdzillers]

I'm actually a little bit scared by this thing.

[Boozy]

Physics geeks have been looking forward to the Large Hadron Collider experiments for years. I'm psyched that they have this thing almost finished.

If something "goes wrong", the most likely victim will be the LHC itself. There isn't any real danger to the world.

Scientists' biggest fear is that the LHC experiments won't reveal anything. But if it does, it could literally unlock the secrets of the universe. Very exciting.

[Chazzie]

The Wright in me says that this case would be an awesome one to take on for a lawyer.

That aside, what about all those nukes that are being kept 'just in case'?

[Toujin]

I think the critics have watched *way* too many sci-fi films, and are relying too much on what-iffing to make their case.

It's not like the apparatus was built by a bunch of amateurs who got the directions online, and the scientists working on it are bumbling idiots who dropped out of highschool. The guys doing these experiments know very much what they're doing, and they aren't going let something like this happen.