large hadron collider - continued

If you have been following some of my posts, you may be familiar with my portents of doom concerning the Large Hadron Collider. Of course, I don't really believe that a cataclysmic event will occur once all of the experiments are fully underway, BUT according to a recent article in the New York Times, the collider is presently riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections and thus far, it has yet to collide any particles at all. Could it be that this is the reason we are all still here? I'm just saying . . .