Lawsuit of the Day
By Funniest lawsuit I’ve heard about in a while:
But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the National Environmental Policy Act.
In short: the search for a higgs bozon might swallow the earth. and – oh yeah – they forgot their EIS. Almost the best part? They filed suit in Hawaii. Because CERN is definitely going to show up to court there.