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Re:Anti-matter
November 18, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 6 days ago
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"This is why we have no real evidence of alien races. They probably all get to the same stage of development and then some crazed scientist destroys the planet."
Ha ha, you might be right. Seriously, we really should "back up" the Earth before doing these experiments, e.g., making a sustainable colony an another planet. Scientists are always in such a rush to advance, it's going to come back and bite us.
And 100 billion anti-particles sounds to a layperson like myself to be enough to make a pretty terrific bang if they all went off in a short period of time, at least enough to take out the lab itself. Maybe, being anti-electrons, they weren't massive enough to be as dangerous as anti-protons or anti-neutrons.