Even more terrible news, folks: CERN, the group responsible for the Large Hadron Collider, have only received one crowbar. In a message to Joystiq, "Large Hadron Rap" creator alpinekat (who also happens to work with CERN on the project) told us, "To my knowledge, there has been only one crowbar sent to CERN. I tried to track down that man, but he's impossible to find."
"That man" she is referring to is the Gordon Freeman, of Half-Life infamy, we saw in the picture above. The Large Hadron Collider is currently halted until Spring 2009 due to a "magnet failure" ... or was it? With a supposed malfunction and a missing Gordon Freeman, we need not worry: at least he's got a crowbar.
It's scary just how much this guy looks like Freeman, though. I wonder if he knows it or will fess up to who he is. He's gotten pretty famous on the internet, right? Enough to where some of his friends or co-workers would mention something?
On a side note, is it the least bit worrisome that this guy who is in a press photo standing next to this thing that is going to recreate the big bang ... can't be found? Not from a "man disapeared" point of view, but you'd expect that the people who CERN lets down there are well documented and very easy to track down ... in case ... you know .. .they open up a XEN portal or anything.
I'm almost as worried about the guy on the left. He sure looks like Clarence the Angel from It's a Wonderful Life, and as we all know, he's a bit clumsy.
Every time an atom collides, an angel gets his wings...
It has been delayed until 2009, yes, maybe now we will have time to perfect the Gravity gun, which according to my bad understanding of physics, will counter the black hole and save the world.
While the crowbar isn't in the picture (and it's not meant to be implied as such in the post -- we'd be actually scared if that many pieces fell into place), what we're referring to is a crowbar that actually *was* sent to CERN (see the reddit comment above).
