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  1. Apr 3rd, 2008, 02:39 PM #1
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    Unhappy Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03...anist_lawsuit/

    A lawsuit has been filed in Hawaii in an attempt to hold up the start of operations by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) atom-smasher on the French-Swiss border.

    A colourful American botanist, teacher, former biologist and sometime physicist says (in outline) that the LHC may rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum and so destroy the Earth. He wants the US government to act now and delay the LHC's startup while a new safety review is carried out.

    Walter L Wagner and his fellow Hawaiian Luis Sancho, according to a report on MSNBC, filed suit in the Hawaii federal court last Friday. The men are worried about one of several planet-busting physicists' nightmares being unleashed in the LHC's bowels deep beneath the Franco-Swiss countryside. (According to Wagner's website, as of publication, the LHC is located "near Generva, Switzerland".)
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    Re: Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe

    It's surely one of the most endearing things about the USA; that they feel that going in front of a judge in some shack of a courthouse in small-town America gives them the right to legislate on matters that happen thousands of miles away and are completely out of their jurisdiction.
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    Re: Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe

    Endearing eh? Is that the word that springs to mind? Maybe I just spell it differently.
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    Re: Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe

    I predict he be able to delay the project until 12/21/2012.
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