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.
