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GENEVA -- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) revved up last week, and produced an outcome few had imagined. The giant atom smasher operated without ending life on the planet. Instead, it created a series of virtual black holes that enveloped and destroyed the tenets of a once-active world of doomsday blogs.

The event obliterated the Large Hadron Collider countdown website, lhcountdown.com, within minutes of the collider’s startup, and quickly spread to other sites that did not move positions quickly enough. Those that did survive managed to hastily shift to a doomsday prophecy coinciding with the Mayan calendar or a date years from now when the LHC’s micro-sized black holes finally multiply enough to swallow all of Earth’s matter.

“I guess in retrospect we should have been prophesying this super-quick apocalypse of so much of our blogosphere,” said Bo Turner, webmaster of now-expired blog “Bo Knows Doomsday.” Turner, 36, who started his blog just over one year ago, wrote more than 300 entries to support the LHC’s capability for destroying mankind and all life as we know it. “I suppose you have to be happy about this. Now we can all continue going about our lives,” added Turner, an assistant manager at Old Navy.

Though many feel the blogosphere was dealt an irreparable hand last week, others remain optimistic that the blogosphere only underwent a natural change and will soon become populated with new theories.

“I think this is just a cycle the blogosphere must endure from time to time,” said blogging analyst Debbie Sewell. “Like any other natural phenomena, this will open the door for other forms of theories in the blog world.”

And there are already signs Sewell may be correct. In the past week, prevalence of predictions of a doomsday brought on by nanotechnology, the Quantum Zeno Effect, and experiments in time travel.

Added Sewell: “When some far-out prediction proves untrue, another fear-inducing theory will take its place. That’s just the circle of human paranoia manifested through unrestricted access to print media.”