Or “LHC”. Heard of it? No? Then get out of that cave you’ve been living in and check out these pictures. If you have, then you’re either:
a) indifferent,
b) excited, or
c) filled with dread.
If you’re (c), then this video might well describe your feelings about the LHC:
However, if you’re (b) or even (a), then you might find this video both informative and entertaining:
I found the video courtesy of comments on this article at slashdot.org. Many of the other comments are hilarious too. I’ll bet you never knew that nerds could be so funny.
Some examples:
by Xenex on Saturday August 02, @09:51AM
“This thing is going to kill us all.”
by Gromius on Saturday August 02, @10:06AM
Look I’ve never understood what the LHC is going to kill us all thing. I’m a physicist working on the CMS experiment so perhaps I can explain what we are going to do more clearly. All we plan to do is take two proton beams or ‘streams’ and then cross them. Why is everybody so worried?
Don’t cross the streams
by v1 on Saturday August 02, @10:27AM
Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Or how about this reaction to the photographs?
by neostorm on Saturday August 02, @10:05AM
What is the condition called where you become sexually aroused by technology?
Well… that’s what I’ve got.
These images set the mind on fire!
by pitchpipe on Saturday August 02, @10:09AM
Technop0rn!
by pitchpipe on Saturday August 02, @10:17AM
Oops, that’s the stuff that gets you there. What I meant to say was C!@L!$
by srjh on Saturday August 02, @10:23AM
Let me guess… it’s giving you a hadron?
Tome of the Unknown Blogger 
Definitely an A on this one. Too many doomsday predicti….oh, shit!!!!
By: silverstar98121 on August 3, 2008
at 12:27 pm
Dread is my emotion but I am an apocalyptic kind of girl.
By: anniegirl1138 on August 4, 2008
at 9:49 am
i was thrilled to be flipping through the pics while listening to REM tell me the end is near! No dread for this geek chick! Beauty in them thar explorations… inner space holds as many answers as outer space, and sometimes you gotta bust up a few particles to see what up, homey!
love the comments, too “gave you a ‘hadron'”? brilliant!
By: daisyfae on August 4, 2008
at 7:53 pm
Come on apocalypse. I’ve had my eyes on some plump neighbors that would do very nicely with canned baby potatos and carrots.
By: Uncle Keith on August 4, 2008
at 9:18 pm
Funny how uncle keith’s icon worked out to be the “hungry, worried monster”. perfect!
By: daisyfae on August 7, 2008
at 8:06 pm