LHC Question/observation

Hypothetical just for fun

If one were to imagine a world complete as it is now, however without any humans at all...how would one go about making something that most closely resembles what we know as human; using only what creatures are already here?

Pig and monkey is my answer. Anyone else venture one for fun?
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The facts:

That was the promise on the TV series Animalia...

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The book on which the series was based is a picture book with each spread depicting an elaborate illustration in which every animal and object begins with a particular letter of the alphabet. As there was no coherent narrative or central characters, these were developed with the concept of a fantasy world where animals of all kinds intermingled and interacted becoming the central theme.

As the series was to be broadcast internationally, the alphabetical theme central to the book was dropped, as it was based on the English language alphabet, and would make no sense if the program was redubbed into another language.

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I rather doubt in natural conditions, a black hole, at least a natural one, would seldom (most likely never) originate directly ON a planetary body.
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Actually, the energies created in the LHC are still a whole scale of magnitude less than those naturally occuring in cosmic rays. The fact is, our entire galaxy is one huge particle accelerator and Earth is in the firing line. Every second the upper atmosphere is hit by millions of cosmic rays....many travelling about as close to the speed of light as one can get.

In addition to generating what is called a 'muon cascade'....it's entirely possible that cosmic rays could also generate mini black holes.

However, such black holes are extremely short lived..billionths of a second. And even if they were not......a black hole does not just instantly suck everything in but can actually only consume stuff at a rate proportional to it's size. For a mini black hole ( whose gravity is actually far outweighed by the electromagnetic fields of any nearby particles ) this is incredibly slow....we're talking billions of years to consume the earth.

Bear in mind that mini really does mean miniscule. If the entire Earth was collapsed to a black hole.....that black hole would have a diameter of about 1 centimeter. So scale that down for black holes created by just two atomic particles colliding....and one is talking about something so small that even an atomic nucleus is huge by comparison.
 
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