Favorite line from the nytimes article about the same issue:

"He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, 'the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.'"

Friend sent a bunch of us the story from the BBC.
Here was my immediate response:

http://flickr.com/photos/murphyj/2220816104/

Thought it was a fitting tribute, even if the 'has a posse' meme has been done to death. Okay, maybe I was a little drunk last night.