15 Petabytes will destroy the planet!

By Joe Cruz on February 19, 2008 8:13 AM | | Comments (2)

It was really strange to come across this blog post (Storage Magazine).  Serendipitous, really; I just discovered it this morning!

For the first time in many decades someone has built a machine that exceeds all our powers of prediction, and although they estimate the possibility of accidentally destroying the planet as extremely low... [from STOP CERN mySpace page]

ZOMG! The Swiss are going to destroy the planet...by creating a black hole!

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Scott McNulty Author Profile Page said on February 19, 2008 9:36 AM:

Something tells me this might be a slight over reaction, though I am not a trained physicist.

Joe Cruz Author Profile Page said on February 19, 2008 9:48 AM:

I'm fairly certain that it is, but it's still pretty awesome just to entertain the possibility. Well, awesome until we all get crushed in a singularity's event horizon.

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