The descent into the New Dark Age will not always follow a direct line. From time to time there will be exceptions when modern society manages to do somthing enormously positive. Today just such an exception has occurred. Whilst a bit anticlimactic (particles rushed around only in one direction, so...no collisions), the Large Hardon Collider went live today.
Thankfully the protests of the ignorant who feared the formation of a blackhole that would swallow the earth were ignored.
The best educated discussion I can find on it is at the ironically Bad Astronomy Blog.
Now, if we could just pull off something this incredible in the US....
