Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Gunpowder, phosphorus, kevlar, super glue.....

Discover.com has a neat article entitled "20 things you didn't know about lab accidents". My favourite bits were the closers:

19 The world has scores of superpowerful particle accelerators. Last year, a fireball created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, New York, had the characteristics of a black hole. Physicists are reasonably sure that no such black holes could escape and consume Earth.

20 Reasonably.


Ahhh.......... so that's where all our socks are going......

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