That’s right folks, number #9 on LiveScience’s, Top 10 Ways to Destroy the Earth, mentions our dear friends at Brookhaven National Lab and their Realistic Heavy Ion Collider, which I mentioned previously in my post “L.I. Danger…” LiveScience’s article is as follows:
Gobbled up by strangelets
You will need: a stable strangelet
Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange quarks. Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible.
A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero.
Earth’s final resting place: a huge glob of strange matter.
Again, the chances of this happening are practically nothing. But nothing is impossible…
While you’re browsing the LiveScience: Top 10 Ways to Destroy the Earth, be sure to read the user comments, makes the end of the world a bit more light hearted! 
June 5, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Heh, way to go, LI.
June 5, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I know. I feel a twinge of pride for my Island now.
June 5, 2008 at 10:57 pm
That scenario does not appear too plausible. But micro black holes and reasonable to fear danger, yes definitely.
We think we may create them, some believe they will:
A. Evaporate (other physicists think 50% chance or less)
B. Grow linearly, slowly (other physicists think not, they suggest exponential growth).
So… Large Hadron Collider might be a doomsday machine. CERN is working on a theory that would suggest that it will be safe. They say the report is completed and they have confidence that it proves safety beyond a reasonable doubt, but they are not quite ready to release it yet… soon…
Learn more at LHCFacts.org
(you just might help save a planet)
June 5, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Well the LI RHIC only has a Feasibility rating of 1/10. And I’m sure that is even exaggerated.
But thank you for your comment, I’ll definitely look over your site. Gotta say that experiments like this one (even ones with the slightest probability of going wrong) make me nervous. Not to mention a lot of information is always shady, for a good reason I understand but it is our planet to…