With just a few short weeks remaining until scientists cause the end of the universe turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva and kill us all begin answering some of the biggest physics questions around, it took the brains of social news site Reddit.com to realise that the LHC was lacking one vital piece of safety equipment; a crowbar.

On Tuesday, Reddit user Mad_Gouki pointed out that CERN’s anti-mass spectrometer could cause a resonance cascade. Which as we all know, could lead to a rather nasty head-crab infestation of Earth.

Thinking for the good of mankind, Alexis writes on the Reddit All? blog:

Upon learning that the Cern lab would be recreating the ill-fated Black Mesa project, Mad_Gouki thought it’d be prudent to send them a red crowbar for the pending alien invasion. Chris knows a few fellow physicists working at the lab, so we’ll do our best to get this in the right hands. Let’s hope they have someone there named Gordon Freeman who knows what to do with it…

Now we just need to make sure that there is plenty of ammo and grenades lying around and we’re sorted. Thank you Reddit, you have saved us all.

Tags: CERN, digg wouldn't do this, gordon freeman, half-life, reddit, wwgfd

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4 Comments » greeneggsnsam on August 5, 2008 10:08 am You’d never get this from Digg. Jonathan Zungre on August 5, 2008 12:39 pm thank the Lord someone thought to send them a crowbar. now we just need to send them a a sunglasses and red tank top wearing alien killer with the voice that sounds like gravel in a blender. Gibbo on August 6, 2008 8:12 am Now hopefully the sender of the crowbar remembered to mention to carrier of the crowbar might start seeing an aging man in a business suit alot. noiz on September 10, 2008 12:46 am And here’s the man to use it http://hem.bredband.net/noiz/lhcgf.jpg RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.