Rather than a handful of men working in close confines about 90m underground, at a site like Tower there are some of the largest earth movers inthe UK digging a hole 180m on the surface.
In an extreme case of the newsworthiness bias at work, news outlets ran stories about how the new cyclotron in Switzerland might just create a black hole that would instantly swallow up theearth.
Monster drills would cut a hole a yard or so in diameter down 2.5 miles into the Earth's crust, past the deepest groundwater into granite rock formations that have sat undisturbed for billions of years.