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This is the official sticky to talk about the latest things that are happening in the news.

I will start it.
Has anyone heard of the atom smasher?
I heard about it two years ago, they said it would be released in 2012.
Instead its today.
Oh
It is possible the machine could generate extremely small black holes. Some fear these mini-black holes could merge and become one big black hole that would swallow up the earth and perhaps our solar system.

Read more.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/technology/content/20080910/2360382.asp

Although, Steven Hawking says this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2710348/Stephen-Hawking-Large-Hadron-Collider-vital-for-humanity.html

Agh, the black hole thing was a perfect example of the scientific illiterate media spreading bull**** over the place.