I've been a fan of Mythbusters for a few years now, but since there's been a lot of publicity about the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) including some silly quotes about the possibility of it destroying the Earth by creating a black hole, the phrase "Warning: Science Content" has become annoying to me. I still like the show, but i think that phrase perpetuates a bad attitude. Science works and should be perceived as being cool. It's not perfect, but its' the best tool that we have. It's spawned GPS, lasers, MRIs, the Internet (BTW CERN where the LHC is located could also be considered the birthplace of the WWW as that is where Tim Berners-Lee was when he first detailed the idea), antibiotics, vaccines, computers, and those plasma ball things along with pretty much everything else that makes life better.
So i think it should be "Yay! Science!"
Oh, there are cosmic rays that hit the Earth with much more power than anything that the LHC can hope could generate and the Earth is still here.
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