<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0b16451-cd64-431b-9177-0a1f0c62d3b6/93D7CB0F-0391-40EA-A315-4924CDF67BE4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/">Its official: We're not going to be blown up, smothered in stranglets, sucked into a black hole or turned into ooze by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To put any concerns to rest, CERN</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/">has concluded in <EM>another</EM> approved safety report that the LHC is harmless and will not hurt us, our planet or the Universe</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/">commissioned to investigate whether any of the theoretical particles created in the LHC collision chamber could pose a threat, not only to the cows and sheep in the Swiss countryside, but to the <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/">Earth</A> and the Cosmos</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/"><P>Listed is the <A href="http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/LSAG-Report.pdf">safety reports</A> perceived LHC threats (<EM>with likelihood of occurrence</EM> in parentheses):</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/"><STRONG>Microscopic black holes</STRONG> (<EM>not very likely</EM>): Although it would be pretty cool if micro-black holes were generated</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/"><STRONG>Strangelets</STRONG> (<EM>practically impossible</EM>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/"><STRONG>Vacuum bubbles</STRONG> (<EM>practically impossible</EM>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/"><STRONG>Magnetic monopoles</STRONG> (<EM>practically impossible</EM>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/">now, you can have a ring-side seat</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/21/newsflash-the-lhc-wont-punch-a-hole-in-the-earth-after-all/">array of webcams</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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