Colliding Large Hadrons since 2009

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A few people around the world seem to be concerned about CERN's Large Hadron Collider producing black holes while it's busy colliding large hadrons or whatever the heck it's doing.

These 'micro black holes' could theoretically stay near enough to the Earth to start consuming other matter, and then a chain reaction destroys the entire Earth.

CERN has said something like, "It won't produce black holes, and if it does, they'll evaporate via Hawking radiation before they can do any damage anyway."

Somebody else said, "Well we haven't actually observed Hawking radiation, this is all theoretical, what if they don't evaporate?"

The last I remember, we haven't even technically observed black holes at all, since they're .. black, and so is most of space. We've observed things that could be black holes, or could not be, and we're guessing some of them are, but it's hard to say for certain since they don't really give off light.

What I'm wondering is, "Who is going to be there to even care if we do accidentally destroy the Earth with a micro black hole?"

I mean, it would suck, yeah, but it's not like you can sue anybody.