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Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.
Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.
2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.
Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.
And I have full confidence we'll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.