Oh, I though you were leaving.

Dang, no edit button!

It amazes me that for all the new technology and the advances in aciences and society in general that there will always be a small group still wearing the animal fur standing around the fire pointing and maing wierd sounds.

We can't provide health care, we can't feed everyone or provide shelter and safety but we can tax people and use valuable time to figure out the "big bang theroy" when all you have to do is watch the TV program.

You would think they would have summat better to do ... 

( So it's official then ... The end of the internet, as well ?  )

http://mdesmond.com/end-of-the-internet/ 

Despite the low probability of something that drastic happening as a result of a mishap,there is always the very real possibility when the reason you are performing such an experiment is that you dont KNOW what will happen...thats why they are doing it.

Someday experiments like this will be carried out in space or on the moon where Earth would be in no danger.Even if a blackhole was formed and swallowed up the moon,we would still have tides and the earths orbit,tilt and spin would be unaffected...we would just have a blackhole of equal mass to the moon orbiting the Earth.

No more moonlit nights tho.

OK - that was funny!!!

Just a blackhole of equal mass to the moon... JUST?!  Wouldn't that have some negative effects?

No...things would just go on as always...just really dark nights. The blackhole would replace the moons mass and continue to orbit in its place.

Now if the moon were to just disappear or be ripped out of orbit suddenly(not having a replacement mass to retain our systems balance)...things could get ugly.

You nerd! 

Oh hell there's nothing to worry about....Just do what they used to teach us in school a long time ago.....get a wooden desk...crawl underneath and put your head between your legs and you'll be fine...Oh...and dont forget to duct tape and plastic sheet your house first!  

Actually I think you missed a few longs!

 Love the nerd quotes.

Actually, they'll find the LHC is an epic waste of money. 

This is true...I was oversimplifying Newtonian physics for the benefit of those of us educated in the American educational system...hehehe.

What I should have done was put a whole lot of 'IFs' in there.In the spirit of the article...IF scientist somehow created a small STABLE blackhole(artificial and 'tuned' somehow) and it managed to gobble up the moon...its effect on the Earth would probably be negligable...so long as it inherited the moons rotation.(so those nasty spumes of radiation at the poles wouldnt be pointed at the Earth)(after a while that might build up to a dangerous level along the Earths path)

Its event horizon would be too small to gobble up the Earth(a blackhole of the moons mass would be teeny tiny)and it would get any closer for the same reason the moon dosnt fall into the Earth now...they are essentially orbiting around each other at a point in space(somewhere near the Earth)fast enough that they simultaneously are pulling at each other and attempting to fly apart...its balanced.(tho I suspect all orbits are decaying orbits due to entropy and the slow acretion of mass over eons...eventually attraction would overcome velocity)  

I think I read somewhere that even something as massive as our sun wasnt even large enough to form a neutron star.(if it could it would end up about 10 miles in diameter I think)So I dont know what the minimum mass is for a blackhole is...not sure if the entire mass of the solar system would be enough...I doubt it would be. [e digicons](\(\[/e]   

Heres something I never quite understood about blackhole theory...they form an acretion disc just outside the event horizon...made up presumably of things that where moving too quickly(or too far away) to get sucked in so the settle into an orbit around the hole.Anything crossing the event horizon is doomed,even light.Yet they always show those jets of radiation spewing out from the poles...I can only guess that it is accumulated energy drawn in by the hole but never crossing the event horizon.Possibly built up to impossible levels and self 'ignited' before it can be drawn in all the way.

However it happens...it would make for one hell of a pseudo-science,star trek technobabble doomsday weapon.