Human Stupidity
Mar. 30th, 2008 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemOK, now, let's say you had a plumbing problem, who would you get to solve it, a plumber or an accountant? An accountant, of course!! And if your car needed a brake job, who would you get, a mechanic or a hairdresser? Why, a hairdresser. Heaven forfend that you would actually use someone trained in the subject to actually get involved in the situation.
Which explains why a couple of nutbars in Hawaii have decided that if you have a science question, rather than going to a scientist you should go to a judge. Basically, they claim that CERN's new giant particle accelerator, set to begin smashing protons together this summer, might produce a black hole or something even worse - ending not just the Earth's existence but potentially the rest of the universe as well.
One of these two nutbars back in 1999 sued unsuccessfully to stop another particle accelerator. This particle accelerator has been working since 2000 without incident.
Point of order, Your Honor: CERN is a European organization. Their new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in Geneva. Consulting any atlas you care to name will prove beyond doubt that Europe is not part of the Excited States of America, and therefore are far beyond the Hawaiian court's jurisdiction. What the appellants hope to accomplish by this (aside from making nuisances of themselves to the Hawaii court system) is uncertain at best.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Which explains why a couple of nutbars in Hawaii have decided that if you have a science question, rather than going to a scientist you should go to a judge. Basically, they claim that CERN's new giant particle accelerator, set to begin smashing protons together this summer, might produce a black hole or something even worse - ending not just the Earth's existence but potentially the rest of the universe as well.
One of these two nutbars back in 1999 sued unsuccessfully to stop another particle accelerator. This particle accelerator has been working since 2000 without incident.
Point of order, Your Honor: CERN is a European organization. Their new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in Geneva. Consulting any atlas you care to name will prove beyond doubt that Europe is not part of the Excited States of America, and therefore are far beyond the Hawaiian court's jurisdiction. What the appellants hope to accomplish by this (aside from making nuisances of themselves to the Hawaii court system) is uncertain at best.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
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Date: 2008-03-31 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-31 05:35 pm (UTC)Senator McCain: "A black hole in the centre of the Earth?!? Damned Democrats!!!"