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Originally Posted by Neverfly
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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
Let me put it in terms you can understand: do you think it would be a good idea to buy a lottery ticket for $1,000,000 USD for a 99.99% chance to win $1,000,001 USD?
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If so, boy, do I have a deal for you!
That is nowhere NEAR an adequate analogy.
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And why not?
cjameshuff--I've got to give him credit--is the one booster who understands my point. That's why he goes to the extreme lengths of saying we will go extinct if we do
not light off the LHC, whereas if we do, our immortality will practically guaranteed! And if I thought that were really the case, then I
would have to agree that lighting off the LHC is a good idea.