On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 01:43:33PM -0700, Kathleen Faulconer wrote:
> A very poor retelling of a story retold to me, a la Urban Legend:
> Apparently it is all over some of the colleges that we are going to be gone by
> November, due to scientists on the east coast in a hidden lab (closet under the

> stairs?) doing experiments with a "atom smashing machine" (Washu?) According to

> what I have heard (and it is not scientific!) apparently they are doing
> something with something (pretty vague, huh?) to "see what happens" and have
> come up with something matter they can't identify (The Mass?).  If they have
> succeeded in making a black hole, it will cause (or has?) earthquakes and
> weather disturbances, on a large scale, before we all are sucked into it.

Hmm, sounds like "Earth" by David Brin.

-- 
Andy <turner@mikomi.org>
And the moral of this message is...
     Old Mother Hubbard lived in a shoe,
     She had so many children,
     She didn't know what to do.
     So she moved to Atlanta.