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This Just In From CNN.

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Huh? Bossy read and reread this CNN headline in an attempt to understand even one part of it. She was afraid to click on the story for fear that her brain would singe, but she figured: since her toast was already singeing, who would notice? Shall we begin?

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  2. I dated a guy a lifetime ago that worked on the one they were going to build south of Dallas like this. A black hole that close would not be good. Thanks for the update Bossy!

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  4. I’ve been reading about this tunnel too.

    Why does everything have to come with a doomsday possibility??? A black hole that could suck everything up around it…including the earth?? Great~ just what we need!!

    In the meantime, bring on the wine, cheese and croissants!

    Bossy really helped put this all into perspective~ so insightful you are!

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  7. Hey Domestic Extraordinaire…I used to live near that site in South Dallas…talk about putting your house up for sale REAL FAST. Black hole= time to move!
    Thanks for enlightening us Bossy…I think in the meantime we need to stockpile croissants (and champagne!).

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  8. I saw this on the news yesterday, in the Tavern where I work. I loved that the last line of the newsclip was, “if it goes awry, it may suck up the entire Earth.” So, um, be prepared?

    (And I would *SO* bemoan the loss of champagne MUCH more than the loss of croissants.)

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  14. The good news is that, if a black hole did happen, no one would notice, because we’d be dead pretty much instantly.

    The better news is that a black hole is not going to happen.

    (Easiest prediction ever — I will never be proved wrong!)

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  15. According to The Prof (my husband), the earth won’t be sucked up it. Still, it does make me a little uneasy that there is a possibility that I will be without French cheese, Swiss chocolate, and croissants.

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  21. I read a big article about this in The New Yorker a while back so I kind of have a good idea about what this is for and how they built it and all the really cool-ass stuff they can test and do and yadda yadda yadda. I just remember the part about that before the switch it on they have to make sure there isn’t even the remotest scrap of loose metal lying around because the magnetic forces at play are so powerful that one tiny loose nail could completely rip through the machinery and they’d have to start from scratch and rebuild it.

    Science: reinforcing the importance of good house-cleaning.

    And while there is an extremely remote possibility that running the Collider could create some kind of black hole effect, there is also the possibility that if you smoke cigarettes, you’ll die of cancer, which is why nobody smokes. Right?

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  22. It’s “Angels & Demons.” I think this is all just a publicity stunt for the upcoming release of the “DaVinci Code” prequel. 🙂

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  24. I know…. The Today Show was all “scientists will best the CERN machine thingy and it will either be the best thing ever or blow up the world”. Awesome.

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  30. Meanwhile, Stephen Hawking allegedly has a bet on that they won’t actually find anything.

    Cheerful fellow.

    Shade and Sweetwater,
    K (who will cross that black hole when she comes to it)

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  31. The detached Bossy head being held up by 2 hands scares me more than the experiments at CERN.
    What have they done to you Bossy??!!

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  32. I kept wondering why this sounded familiar to me. I knew I hadn’t followed it on the news because it’s, you know, boring and if it ain’t on The Soup I don’t know about it; but then I remembered – Angels & Demons.

    I’m with Amity. It’s all a big publicity stunt for the new movie release.

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  37. Is it really necessary to know what actually happened with the big bang? I mean seriously. Couldn’t they have put that money to better use? Like working on a cure for cancer or something?

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  38. I wonder if they think this particle collider and possible resulting black hole will solve our environmental problems. Ozone? Worry no more, the black hole will suck it into another realm.

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  40. Gah! No more croissants? Or cheese?

    Hmmm. Perhaps there could be a bright side to this. Maybe we could send Sarah Palin there for a first taste of foreign policy experience…”Just walk down this corridor…we’ll be along with the croissants in a moment, dear.” Although that might be even MORE dangerous. Does anyone know what happens when two black holes collide?

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  45. I’m so glad I have you to decode the deep inter-workings of our world’s news stories. Geez, it makes finding out stuff so much easier. Now I’m off to eat croissants and ski.

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  46. …Am I the only one here that thinks in those little photos up there that you look like a much younger ‘Baba Wawa'(Barbara Walters)? Very intellectual Miss Bossy…

    …And no mo’ croissants? Nooooooo!!!!! (*softlyweeping*)…

    …Funny post. Only as you can do it Miss Bossy… ;o)

    …Collider-free blessings… :o)

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  48. Well, apparently we’re all on the other side of the black hole now, in that alternate universe where everything’s made of chocolate, Swiss of course.

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  50. I was perplexed when I heard about this on the radio. I am often perplexed by most of what I hear on the radio, but this one really made me pause.

    If they are recreating conditions that created the physical universe, doesn’t that mean another one might be created?

    Where will we put it? And will this new universe have internet? Actually, I thought the new universe WAS the internet.

    Pass me some champagne. I’d like to polish off the lone functioning brain cell I have left and put it out of its misery.

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