Large Hadron Collider Collides Soon

Sept. 10th, less than two weeks to go before this bad boy does its first full run.

There's been much talk about how this might conceivably create Earth-sucking extra-dimensional micro-black holes, large Chernobyl type explosions, the experiment going awry because of interference from time traveling future particles, and whatnot. The consensus is none of this will occur, but the fact that any of this stuff is even entering into remotely serious scientific discussion really gives some perspective on how far and how fast we've hurtling along.

At any rate, I'm keeping a crowbar handy in case on Sept. 11, we all wake up to a Combine invasion signaled by a goddamn resonance cascade.