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August 24, 2008

Gail Collins: Digging Ourselves a Black Hole

By Sheila Samples

The idea that humankind has gone to extraordinary effort and expense to construct a black-hole-making machine shouldn’t be all that startling. This is the same humankind that went out of its way to invent nuclear warheads, S.U.V.’s and deep-fried Twinkies-on-a-stick. There is nothing we enjoy more than sealing our own doom in the most creative ways possible.

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The idea that humankind has gone to extraordinary effort and expense to construct a black-hole-making machine shouldn’t be all that startling. This is the same humankind that went out of its way to invent nuclear warheads, S.U.V.’s and deep-fried Twinkies-on-a-stick. There is nothing we enjoy more than sealing our own doom in the most creative ways possible.

Authors Website: http://sheilastuff.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.


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