A couple dumb Americans have files suit (in the US courts) against the makers of the Large Hadron Collider, stating that it is a doomsday device that should not be used. They are calling for a review of the safety of using the machine. Interestingly enough, the very people who are smart enough to assess whether the machine is safe, are the very people who designed and built it in the first place. It’s also a little bit outside of the jurisdiction of the United States court system, as the Collider is under the French and Swiss boarder. Those issues aside, the actual probability of creating a microscopic black hole is astronomically small. Even so, if one was created, it would evaporate away in moments, rather than swallow the planet. There are a couple of other extremely unlikely scenarios that these jackasses have come up with as well. What it comes down to is sacking up and allowing some experimentation. We could just as easily be wiped out by a meteor tomorrow. Worrying about death and doomsday scenarios only serves to make people forget about living.