Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> The trouble is, most people don't realise that when a scientist says 
> something is unlikely, they could easily be talking about a 1 in 1e30 
> chance or less. Basic honesty and innate pedantry forbids them from 
> saying outright that something is impossible because they don't honestly 
> know for absolute certainty. Of course, the slightest chance that a 
> pico-blackhole with less mass than a proton could appear and start to 
> eat the earth, however slowly or briefly, can very easily be used by the 
> press to sell at least 1e30 papers...

  I think that it's a lot more likely that a black hole travelling at
almost c towards us will collide with the Earth in the next 10 years
than a micro-blackhole created by humans eating the Earth.

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                                                          - Warp

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