Ave-Maria: Salvation? A New Science-Fiction Short

 I wrote and directed my own sci-fi short film titled Ave-Maria: Salvation? Although this is a work of fiction, it is however based on alleged actual events that took place at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, involving contact with an extra-terrestrial entity who gave scientists dire predictions regarding the future of our planet, the infamous Me Tel U 2008 predictions, many which have already come to pass:

July 4, 2019: Planet Earth is on the brink of complete economic and societal collapse brought on by the ravages of runaway climate change. In a last ditch effort to save the planet,  astrophysicist Pasquale Goldstein and his colleagues at the CERN facility in Switzerland have initiated contact with ALIEN ENTITY A (Ave-Maria), an extra-terrestrial being from an unknown solar system approximately two million light years from Earth.

The entity has shared information with the scientists, claiming to have a device that could save Earth from destruction, if they can successfully transport the instrument via a wormhole created by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. With the threat of a global thermonuclear war looming as the remaining populace battle for the few available resources the planet still offers, it is a race against time to bring salvation to humanity...

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Picture Perfect: First Image Ever Posted to the WWW Celebrates 20th Anniversary

The very first photograph ever uploaded to a newly-invented marvel known as the Internet is celebrating its 20th Anniversary!

No, the photo isn't of dancing hamsters or LOLcats, nor is it of a geek singing "Numa Numa", but rather a photograph of a surprisingly comely quartet of female scientists from the Large Hadron Collider project in Switzerland known by the acronym CERN.

Yes, those super-intelligent people responsible for discovering the much-anticipated "God Particle" AKA Higgs Boson are also responsible for the very first image to be uploaded online for the entire world to see and enjoy.

The photograph was uploaded by CERN IT technician Silvano de Gennaro and is a mock-up of an album cover featuring the faux all-girl band called Les Horribles Cernettes.

"My colleague asked me for a few scanned photos of the CERN Girls to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented called the World Wide Web," Gennaro explains. “I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them…how was I to know that I was passing a historical milestone as the… first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser?”

20 years later, the photograph still endures, giving all of the millions of people tagged in those "Epic Fail" photographs a good reason to cringe knowing their humiliation will live on...in perpetuity!