I'd been to Switzerland before, but only for a day and a bank card was eaten stranding me and a friend there with 10 dollars. That sucked. I wrote this whole disaster email about it, but that was like 6 years ago. At any rate, it was very cool being there with money this time.
The U.N. building from outside.
I apologize for the profanity, but being on the lawn of the United Nations, I couldn't pass this one up. It's not so much that someone graffitied this that's funny; it's more that this had obviously been there for weeks possibly, (dirt had accumulated on the back of the sign fairly heavily since this was painted) and nobody bothered to cover it up. Again, for the aftershock, this is on the side lawn of the U.N. building.
Geneva's big landmark. It's a waterspout. A big waterspout.
I went to CERN laboritories and took the 3 hour tour! Coolest tour I ever went on. It's the biggest machine in the world; a 27 kilometer long underground particle accelerator . This is the most advanced basic research going on in the world today. Exciting!
Map of the particle accelerator; it crosses the border from Switzerland to France because, like, science is all international and doesn't respect borders. How rebel is that?
Diagrammish map of the particle accelerator.
Going in.
Science is so messy! Seriously, I couldn't believe how much stuff was just laying all over the place.
Science is so messy! Seriously, I couldn't believe how much stuff was just laying all over the place.
The old guy giving us the peace out has a complicated name that I'll never remember, but he'd been working at CERN for 30 years, and talked alot of scientific gibbery-hoo that I also will never remember. But it was way cool gibbery-hoo. Check out the A Proton Source on the left. Wild!
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