The Large Hadron Collider was switched on this weekend and...

After the initial test this weekend, the LHC will start up for real on September 10th. At that time, a full-power beam will travel around the accelerator’s 17 mile course and reach 99.99 percent of the speed of light, according to Wired.

So we have ..what, about a month before the world ends?

Great! I'm about out of money, anyway.

Didn't you say the same thing when the crossbow was invented?

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Holy Crap, 99.99% the speed of light?! Why that's a large amount of kilometers a second.

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