oh if you want an interesting thing to show how damned smart our ancestors were, go check up the: ANTIKYTHERA DEVICE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

advanced analog computation device made aorund the time of Julius Ceasar.
For ages, the scientific world ignored it, deliberately, as it would blow the arse out of their arrogance, lol. Plenty were intrigued by it, but, to voice that opinion...they'd be ridiculed,

By this I mean, that alas, the Scientific HUMAN world of the day, was so bloody hide-bound and stupid :/
Think I'm kidding, see "Continental Drift Theory", and how that was ridiculed etc at the time :(

Scientific Method = great.
People = often bloody stupid, regardless of what area ;)
We're getting better, slowly.

LHC = fantastic work, and vital for our progression, however, there is a risk...

Why are we building the LHC?
Because we have never had such a powerful device before, to test our theories and learn from entirely new  events.

Since we do NOT know the results, we cannot be certain of the safety, to say it's 100% safe is NOT science, tha'ts belief!
To say the risk is "probably very small based on current knowledge and previosu tests", is correct: we've had no catastrophies with such devices before.

Well...not as far as we KNOW...as it's theoreticlal possible there has been many catastrophies that have collapsed/wiped out Universes, and we are in the "one" that has survived.
I'm not kidding.

Zen or  Astrophysics/quantum physics...you takes your Universe and plays with yer probabilities and points of view ... ;)

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