Once again I am mastering the Sunday audio to CD . . . which means that it’s time for a LINK DUMP !

Today’s edition is very exciting as the world may end !  Oh yes ! 

     You may have heard about the new super collider (the Large Hadron Collider) that is a 17 mile loop spanning across the border of a couple of countries.  People have been worried about this thing for years.  What I find interesting is the conflicting information that’s out there about it.  One of the main worries about the Collider is that, as a result of some of the exparaments, very tiny black holes will appear.  We’re talking about very VERY tiny black holes that evaporate in less then a second.  However, since we have not exparamentally produced these black holes before . . . some people are worried that they wont evaporate but will continue to grow . . . which would obviousley be bad for the planet as a whole.

      Most scientists agree that the chances of this happenning are very VERY tiny.  But what I find interesting is how many of the people involved with the project dont even mention the fact that it WILL, in fact, make very small balck holes.  I supose they dont feel it worth mentioning to the public in general becaue they will think ‘black hole, oh no . . . we’re going to die !’.  And while several studies have been conducted to see if this thing is safe . . . they were conducted by the people building it.  However, an independent panel of scientiests studied it a coule of years later and found it to be safe.  They cited the fact that such high energy collisions happen in Earths upper atmosphere with Cosmic Rays and have not produced ill effects (such as Earth eating black holes).

         Anywho, here is the link to some articles about it . . .
HERE is the Daily Tech article
HERE is a Wiki Pedia article about it, and HERE is a safety concern page about it

In other, less Earth ending news . . .
- Blu-ray has 5 years left as a formatt . . . HERE
- I’m not even sure the point of this article, other then to say the Shuttle program is old technology that is wearing out . . . HERE
- More Red Ring of Death info comes out . . . HERE
- This is a cool Ultra Short Throw projector . . . meaning you can hang it at the top of a wall and it projects down that same wall . . . A blog article HERE and the tech article HERE
- I want this picture canvas that Pete Cullen has on his wall . . . HERE
- A nice review of the Blu-ray of Transformers . . . HERE
- Some gamers not happy with Spore, DRM and Gameplay lack luster . . . HERE