ViceZilla’s Views

Has the cost of living bankrupted you wallet? Tired of listening to Hillary’s explanation of her Bosnia story? Does the mere mention of ‘Iraq’ cause shooting pains behind your temples? According to two men that have filed a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii, our troubles and worries might soon mean nothing anymore.

According to the lawsuit, a giant particle accelerator outside Geneva will start smashing protons together this summer, and could possibly produce a ‘black hole’ which could swallow up not only the Earth, but the entire universe!

Scientists claim that this would be very unlikely, but just to make sure, they have done some checking just to make sure! Whew, I’m happy to hear that scientists have done some checking on something that may or may not even be possible to be ‘man-made’ let alone something that could swallow the Earth!

The scientists contend that the chances are slim that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, or even a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”

Black holes, strangelets, strange matter, this is all pretty overwhelming to soak in before my first cup of coffee for the day! Oh well, seeing as the planet seems to be filled with all sorts of “strange matter” already, and there might be a slim chance we could all be sucked into a black hole, I might as well throw caution to the wind and defy my doctor’s orders and cook up the two pounds of bacon I’ve been saving for a special occasion and enjoy it while I can!

Read more here, enjoy your morning coffee, and don’t worry be happy!

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