OH SHIT! Well, better begin all the mating before the combine puts a suppression field over us and get your heavy duty biker helmets ready for when the headcrabs are loose.

Shouldn’t we be glad that Gordon Freeman is there protecting us from black-hole headcrabs?  But where’s his crowbar?

Nah, That’s David Baddiel.

I’ve told people at work about the Earth ending tomorrow- When I explain they all look at me oddly, I’m wondering if when I explain science I do it in Spanish.

One guy who has been following it (the BBC are doing a radio special, and there are pages on the web site) said apparently they could get the particals up to light speed, IF the torus was the size of the galaxy.

Ass probe shields.  You should probably patent that.

Are you kidding? I’ve already developed a prototype.

And the purpose of the can of cola, Les?  Uh, never mind, I don’t really want to know…

But the CERN facility is already facing a second lawsuit filed by environmentalists in Hawaii who are seeking a court order that would force the US government to intervene and delay the start up of the collider. That case is due to be heard on Tuesday.

How. Invade Europe too?

In case you haven’t noticed, LH, the invasion of Europe is well underway, spearheaded by McDonald’s, MTV, and Disneyland.  Sorry to break the bad news, but you’ve already capitulated, whether you know it or not.

Actually, I can’t really shake my unease about this one*. I know the psychological mechanisms that cause my anxiety: The larger the potential damage, the less does the actual likelihood plays into our perception of the danger. We are also much more likely to be unafraid of matters where we feel like we have control over things than not.

That’s why people are unafraid of driving to work in the morning, but afraid of dying from a nuclear plant melting down.

Still, I’ll be happy if they fiddle with it for a few months, and I can finally convince myself 100% that nothing has happened/will happen. Though the Wikipedia article did help too…

“Fiddle” as in “use it”.