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Fears over factoids
Aug 3, 2007
Recent TV programmes have
claimed that the Earth could be
destroyed by black holes
created in particle accelerators
and that helium-3 from the Moon
could be used for fusion energy.
Frank Close warns that these
"factoids" must be stamped out
before they become accepted
as facts
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