Apparently we're still alive

Scientists Launch Particle Collider

Science rode a beam of subatomic particles and a river of champagne into the future on Wednesday.

After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside Geneva, succeeded in turning on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating the elemental particles and forces of nature.

At 4:27 a.m., Eastern time, the protons made their first circuit around a 17-mile-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss French border, and then made a return journey.

World not ended.......yet. They've only fired test protons and have not started the actual experiments where they smash the dangerous particles together with the science and the PHD's and the pinhole black holes that suck us all into nothingness. So there's still hope a danger that science will kill us all. Late fall is out potential doomsday, as they rev the voltage up to 5 trillion and start fuckin' some shit up, to use a scientific term. Also in the article is a nice little recap of how the even bigger collider the US was going to build 15 years ago got shut down and severely hurt the American particle physics field.

So if you spent all your money, told some people to fuck off that you shouldn't, or generally conducted yourself as if Thursday was never going to happen............you're going to need to do some apologizing. But the apology probably only needs to last you through the fall.