Scientist to Build Lab in South Dakota to Study Dark Matter

Scientists are building the worlds deepest laboratory in South Dakota specifically for the study of dark matter. Dark Matter is theorized as unseen matter which makes up the mass in the universe. As many theories there are floating out there about the mysteries of dark matter, no one truly knows for certain what it is.

When we look to the skies at night and see all the bright stars and the many galaxies out there, we see a full universe. But science concludes that what we see is only a tiny percent of the total mass of the universe. What we don't see is what they call dark matter.

What ever the definition happens to be, it's apparently become important enough for some scientist to get federal approval and funding to build a lab six Empire State Buildings deep into the ground to run their experiments on dark matter. That I believe is the scariest thing of all to me. If have to put a lab that deep into the ground to run any type of experiment, why in the world would they be given approval to do such a thing.

Science is a remarkable tool we all need to explain the mysteries of life and the universe. But if there's something out there that science can't explain, and could possibly be a threat to all life on this planet, then should we be allowing such curiosities in the name of science?

One of these days, these curious scientists are going to open Pandora's Box in their irresponsible need to serve their curiosity. What are we going to do then? Certainly there has to be someone living in South Dakota that's upset over this. Anything that has to be built eight to nine thousand feet underground should give people the indication that it's dangerous. This lab, the super Collider in Europe - just how much is too much? These experiments into the scientific beyond doesn't do anything to truly mankind. They don't solve world hunger, create better medicines, find cures to terminal diseases, beat back the threat of global warming, or bring us closer as a species.

I can't help but think back to Dirty Harry, when he held his gun on the bank robber and gave his famous '44 magnum speech' where he proclaimed he might have one bullet left in his gun or not, then asked the man if he felt lucky. That was a very powerful scene for me because it shows all our strengths and frailties in one defining moment. When Harry walked away, the robber called out to him, "I got to know".

Harry put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. It was empty, but the robber's unwillingness to let sleeping dogs lie, put his life at risk for the sake of his own curiosity. What I do with my life is my own affair. But should I be allowed to venture into an area of science that not only puts my life in danger, but could potentially place other lives at risk. Science isn't exact, and no one can judge the affects it can have on a civilization. After all, no one know just how devastating the atom bomb truly was until they dropped the damned thing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Why don't we ask the Japanese just how cool scientific curiosity really is.