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Well, the mad scientists across the pond fired up the LHC while we were sleeping and lo and behold, it did not, in fact, create a black hole and destroy Earth in the process. No doubt legions of bunker-dwelling, tin hat-wearers are scratching tin right about now. But I for one am not surprised. Because there were cute techs working on the LHC for years to ensure that we would not be swallowed up in a swirling storm of ever-increasing nothingness.

Yes, once again, the Cute Girl saves the world. What is it about this most mysterious of creatures that, time and time again keeps us safe from the horrors of beasts such as particle physics and child rearing?

Is it the way her helmet sits, a bit too large, upon her tousled locks? Is it that casual yet genuine smile that, perhaps, turned the cold heart of an otherwise disinterested or bored he-tech just enough to not connect the red wire where the green wire should have been? Was it the way she posed, so elegantly, with her HP laptop upon her hip? Or was it the fact that she carries her gear around in a lovely, red case made in Fragile, Italy?

Whatever it was about this young lady, I’m sure she is the reason we’re still here, and not one of the many bespectacled he-techs wandering around the LHC. No. No doubt it was this young lass, who likely went for a quick ski between shifts on the Franco-Swiss border to relieve the stresses of having to save the world from the technological demons waiting inside that 17-mile blue tube of death.

We salute you, LHC cutie! And we owe you our lives.