{"id":3670,"date":"2009-10-09T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T00:23:13","slug":"cern-physicist-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/10\/09\/cern-physicist-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicist Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist at CERN <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/10\/world\/europe\/10cern.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">has been arrested<\/a> for suspicions of ties to Al Qaeda.  Don&#8217;t worry I already checked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com\/\">www.hasthelhcdestoryedtheearth.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com\/\">www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com<\/a> and both assured me that, so far, Al Qaeda has not managed to generate black holes that would consume the planet.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut what a great opportunity to muse along with a New York Times article..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;His work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism,&#8221; said the statement from the center, whose formal name is the European Organization for Nuclear Research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like, what NYTimes?  That gigantic black hole generating machine at the LHC?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;None of our research has potential for military application, and all our results are published openly in the public domain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes, nothing published in public domain has ever had military application.  Um.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist at CERN has been arrested for suspicions of ties to Al Qaeda. Don&#8217;t worry I already checked www.hasthelhcdestoryedtheearth.com and www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com and both assured me that, so far, Al Qaeda has not managed to generate black holes that would consume the planet.<\/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":[53,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}