Am I mistaken, or is the Director General of CERN in Japan on the day that the most significant CERN experiment in ages is taking place in Geneva? Could that be the other side of the planet, by any chance?
The biggie is the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider filled with protons stripped from Hydrogen and ramped up to a 'back to the future' style voltage of 3.5 Trillion electron volts (TeV).
Quite powerful.
Then the ikkle protons buzz around and get excited until they are deflected to collide creating all manner of new and otherworldly sparks.
1000 million times hotter than the sun. In a tiny space.
My guess is that the beings from distant planets will spot this sign of galactic level science and decide to point their telescopes and time-travel devices our way.
Earth. Mostly Harmless. As the hitch-hikers guide says.
Nanoo-Nanoo.
