Pyramids of our time

A famous scientist characterized the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, "the pyramid of our time." It is an apt description. Five thousand years ago, the Egyptians erected magnificent structures of such grandeur that they drained the GDP of entire countries for centuries. So elaborate were the plans of a few to build the pathway to afterlife, they deployed most of the manpower of the entire country to do so. They did this on unlikely assumptions, unable to understand the futility of it...