2009

“So. You hear they’re about to start the first full-power testing of the Large Hadron Collider?”

“The what?”

“That huge project underneath Geneva. S’been all over the news.”

“Oh, that thing.”

“Yeah, that – “

“Wait, that thing!”

“…Yeah, it – “

“Oh my freaking gosh, Kyle, do you know what this means? I figured it was just like a diversion for scientists to put their minds to, not an actual experiment!”

“For eleven billion bucks and twenty years? Yeah, a diversion.”

“Kyle, we’re gonna die! Do you know how positively lethal this thing is? It’s terrifying; it’s gonna be Armageddon!”

“This is about the big bang, not Armageddon.”

“Black holes, Kyle, black holes!”

“Stephen Hawking said that’s nearly impossible. One in fifty million chance, they say.”

“People win the lottery on those chances! Oh my freakin – we are screwed, Kyle we are so screwed.”