http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090408/sc_space/friendlydeathstarlasertorecreatesunspower This is fascinating stuff. But I swear, one of these days we're going to blow our planet apart with one of these experiments. Heating something up to 180 million degrees F? Huh??
I like this video. It's shows what might happen to the Earth if that Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN gets out of control. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RlctI1oUxIM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RlctI1oUxIM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>