The last post was too morbid, so I thought I'd cheer you all up with this cute little item about how extremely dense but tiny particles may have smashed through the Earth. A group of scientists thing that a strangelet a tenth the width of a human hair, traveling at Mach 40, slammed into Antarctica and came out off the coast of Sri Lanka 26 seconds later, and that another one went into the Pacific and out through Antarctica 19 seconds later. Now just imagine getting hit by one of these! Okay, that's not too likely, but this guy did get his printer smashed up by a meteor!
Meanwhile, it seems that some people have theorized that strangelets may suck up other matter continuously, such that if one gets captured by the Earth's gravity (or if we make one in a lab), it could gobble up the whole planet. Sweet!
Oh wait, did I say this post was supposed to be less morbid by the last one? Damn. Well, if a strangelet gobbles you up along with the rest of the planet, at least you won't be alone! :D