Two guys are suing to keep mad scientists from firing up the Large Hadron Collider, that giant particle accelerator at CERN, this summer, because, as you probably already know, there's a possibility it could open up a black hole and destroy the universe. 

According to the New York Times

Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.”

Gives new meaning to "strange days," doesn't it? 

I gotta say, personally, I love the idea.  Either option would be a vast improvement over the current state of affairs.  I mean, I just got this message from a freecycler in the neighborhood:

I feel ecoguilty for offering these, but I don't know what's worse:  throwing them away or freecycling, so I'm going with freecycle. 6 bulbs: three white, 60 watt; three clear, lower wattage, but I don't know what... Brand new, but replaced with CFLs

A black hole would eliminate such seemingly irresolvable dilemmas, and nip that pesky ecoguilt right in the bud.

Not only that: it would end all this bickering among the Democrats!  Maybe Hillary could do the ribbon cutting.

Want an end to the War in Iraq?  Bingo!

I say, let 'er rip! 

It's a good deal.  I mean, if all it takes is 14 years and $8 billion to build a machine that will destroy the universe, what a bargain!  Not as cheap as freecycling it, but almost.  

But then I have selfish reasons for wanting the project to go ahead.  It would eliminate the need for me to go out on any more dates, which would definitely be a relief after my last couple.