Right, so I'm generally more of an action figures, comic books, video games, Linux computing, philosophy, and law geek... with a dash of other academia thrown in for good measure. But man, these photos of the large hadron collider have me totally geeking out. It reminds me of the time I toured the Grand Coulee Dam--it's like walking into an engineer's version of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And best of all, it exists solely for scientific research. Sometimes it's just awesome to be a human. When we aren't fighting, we build the coolest stuff. Via Slashdot.