Apocalypse Watch

The Large Hadron Collider has officially set in motion the test that will recreate the conditions that existed just a few moments after the Big Bang.

Either that, or the folks at CERN have just set the planet in motion on a path towards total annihilation.

Either way, we'll learn more about our universe. Either it's birth, or what it's like to be sucked into a black hole. It's a win-win for science.

Read a BBC article about the LHC HERE.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die... at least according to this wingnut

Pencil it in your calendars, folks, the doomsday cometh tomorrow, June 12th.

On a totally different note, happy 98th birthday to Jacques Cousteau!

Other things that have been killed off...

The Panamanian golden frog population was wiped out in 2006 by a fungal infection. But not before the BBC shot footage for a series called Life in Cold Blood. The video shows the frog's unique communication technique using semaphore or waving rather than the typical croaking.