{"id":2165,"date":"2008-12-16T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T08:01:12","slug":"large-earth-collider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/16\/large-earth-collider\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Earth Collider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh noes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/scientists-warn-large-earth-collider-may-destroy-e-2625\">Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BATAVIA, IL&#8211;In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider&#8211;a $117 billion electromagnetic particle accelerator built to study astronomical phenomena by colliding Earth into various heavenly bodies&#8211;could potentially destroy Earth when it sends the planet careening headlong into Mars, Jupiter, or even the sun.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPhysicists at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, who underwrote the VLEC&#8217;s construction with donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, agree that there are &#8220;some troubling variables&#8221; whenever attempting to launch Earth through the vacuum of space into a massive body of solid matter. Yet, they insist, the academic benefits of a planetary collision outweigh any risk of annihilating the Earth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn, and I&#8217;d just drawn up plans for the Incredibly Large Sun Collider (we can get ahold of the sun, so the joke goes, by traveling there at night.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh noes: Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth: BATAVIA, IL&#8211;In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider&#8211;a $117 billion electromagnetic particle accelerator built to study astronomical phenomena by colliding Earth into various heavenly bodies&#8211;could potentially destroy Earth when it sends &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/16\/large-earth-collider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large Earth Collider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}