Except, with my penchant for absurdly expensive toys, the CERN particle accelerator would appear to be something worth saving up for. 27km of circular tunnel generating enough kinetic energy to reduce an aircraft carrier to the mass of a 20c piece (was looking for something to do with my left overs) is my kind of entertainment. They have a great vocabulary as well. Lots of 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' and they are going to make 'mini black holes' - you know, the budget version you buy when you haven't quite got the readies to get a real one. Apparently this thing is so f***ing powerful that some wowsers think it shouldn't be turned on as it might be able to destroy the planet. The CERN spokesman cheerily brushes this off as being vey unlikely only having a probability of 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - but it could happen. Cool.
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