This thing has been creeping me out quite a bit for the past few days. I'm not sure why - I'm not exactly the type to pay attention to Doomsday prophecies and wear tinfoil hats or anything. I suspect because several of my friends are physicists and I've seen what they're like... I wouldn't trust them with the safety of my dogs, let alone the whole planet.
Apparently the actual collisions won't start until about October, though. So we still have a few weeks left.