Follow-Up: Why The Large Hadon Collider Might Kill Us All

This probably won't happen. But it could. Maybe. Probably not, though.

During the Manhattan Project, there was a substantial number of scientists that thought splitting an atom would create a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere and extinguish life on Earth. They were wrong, but it is good to have a few haters around to at least make you consider the possibility that pressing "that" button might be a really, really bad idea.