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Originally posted by hlesterjerome
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thing that would fall through the ground and into the core of the Earth, whereupon the natural rotation of the planet would have this very heavy whatchamacallit tearing apart the insides of our planet.
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Naw, wouldn't work.
When the molten "heavy stuff" got deep enough it would hit the water table. Said water table would quickly turn to steam, which would shoot the highly radioactive "heavy stuff" up into the atmosphere.
Just as bad though.
Originally posted by neformore
I read a few years back about scientists trying to create "stangelets" or "strange matter" in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in New York.
It struck me at the time that this was a particularly daft thing to do, and if you Wiki or Google Stranglets you'll see why.
Its also struck me on more than one occasion that whilst nuclear fusion might be the answer to all our energy needs, an uncontrolled reaction could prove to be just a wee bit nasty.
The cleverer we get, the more dangerous we get
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (opening next year) is looking to create Black Holes and Strangelets. There are some people who think this could be dangerous.
Link:
www.risk-evaluation-forum.org...
I read an article about the LHC and some scientist there said "The black hole we create hopefully will only last a few millionths of a second before it evaporates". The part of that quote that shook me was the use of the word "Hopefully".
I'm not a physicist, so I don't know what the probabilities are of global destruction, but there are at least some "smart people" who think the probabilty is not "zero"
[edit on 7-6-2007 by Soylent Green Is People]
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
David 2012 --
You got me thinking...How far from the Earth can a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) be and still incinerate every living thing on the planet? 100 lightyears? 500? 1000? maybe 5000? Does anybody know the answer?
Can a GRB can be relatively far from us, even on a galactic scale, and still kill us all? Are there any astro-physicists out there?
It is now believed that many galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers, and that whether such galaxies are active galaxies is a question of whether mass is being fed into these black holes. The simplest ideas for the origin of such supermassive black holes are that they are conglomerations of many star-size black holes that were formed during the history of a galaxy, or perhaps that galaxies formed around large black holes that then grew by accreting matter.
Originally posted by KarillaMy question is: if one of these super-massive black holes lies at the centre of the milky way, and it is emitting a very focused, very strong radio jet that we haven't seen yet, AND we aligned with this jet when we align with the galactic centre... what could the outcome possibly be?
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
David 2012 --
You got me thinking...How far from the Earth can a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) be and still incinerate every[...]
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
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^^mrwupy --
In the famous Drake Equation for estimating the number of intelligent civilizations (N) with the ability to communicate with us across space:
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