Warp wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. If it's very small we probably wouldn't even notice.

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