So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! Hadron Collider Turns on Tomorrow
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 09. 9.08
38 Second dramatization of the end of the world, scheduled for sometime Wednesday
We noted in a previous post that some people are worried that when they turn on the Large Hadron Collider it will create a black hole that will turn the earth into a "shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter” although we are doing a pretty good job of doing that anyways without any help from the collider.
CERN says it ain't gonna happen, and provides a old-school rap explanation (it's hilarious) of what they hope to find, below the fold. But just in case, thanks everyone, it's been a slice.
More on CERN
Turn off the Large Hadron Collider to Save the World
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