• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    That is so meh… The entire thing started with some scientist made the mistake of not using dumb normal people terms when speaking with a journalist and instead used scientific terms. So there’s a theretical possibility it may destroy the earth. There is also a theretical possibility that the atoms of a pencil may randomly align with the atoms of the table it’s resting on and fall through it to the floor below.

    It will never happen of course but there is a theoretical chance it will happen just as there is a theoretical chance the the collider will destroy the earth.

    • Nepenthe
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      11 year ago

      That second one happens all the time to me, though. I’ve stopped counting the things that have presumably phased through the floor. Most infuriating, only one out of a pair of knitting needles I have scoured that entire room for four times. It’s gone. Finito. It’s shaken off this mortal coil and returned to Sarah Hauschka.