CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

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137 points | by fnands 3 hours ago

12 comments

  • Akuehne 5 minutes ago
    This got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
  • PunchyHamster 1 hour ago
    We need followup post exactly 365 days later describing first karting accident inside CERN
  • cern 55 minutes ago
    CERN Research Facility, Geneva. Subject: Gordon Freeman, Male, Age 27
  • gnarlouse 3 hours ago
    Happy April Fools Day!
    • pjmlp 2 hours ago
      As Alumni, the tables outside R1 are prime for getting ideas, with some help from fermented barley, especially after work during Summertime.
    • fnands 2 hours ago
      I always look forward to CERN's April fools jokes!
    • lloydatkinson 1 hour ago
      I can't believe people are still doing this
      • hidroto 24 minutes ago
        This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

        -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

      • junon 43 minutes ago
        How dare people have fun.
  • groundzeros2015 14 minutes ago
    Please bro. Just one more particle collider. This one will solve science. The last one wasn’t big enough. Please keep it in desirable real estate though.
    • taneq 12 minutes ago
      Each bigger one has in fact solved more of physics, after being built precisely because there was a good theoretical case for a higher energy collider being helpful.
      • groundzeros2015 3 minutes ago
        I’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible and steam running out for early 90s science optimism.
  • rbanffy 1 hour ago
    I really miss Think Geek :-(
    • taneq 11 minutes ago
      I still had a Timmy the Monkey sticker on the lid of my kitchen bin up until a couple of years ago.
    • jansan 1 hour ago
      When they later actually sold the t-shirt they had previously presented as an April Fools joke? That was pretty cool.
  • Noe2097 3 hours ago
    > Each kart is turbo-boosted by 64 superconducting engines,” explains project leader Mario Idraulico

    I guess we can now call you Mario 'Kart' Idraulico.

    Oh wait.

    Thank you CERN, that was a smart one.

  • thomasgeelens 1 hour ago
    oh my, I should really visit one day, I'm not even that far from CERN
  • koolala 2 hours ago
    high temperature super conductors my beloved
  • rvnx 2 hours ago
    Meh joke considering this was paid on public money.

    Same as choosing to spend xxx,xxx USD to have .cern when using subdomains would have worked too (and caused less validation / compatibility issues).

    • kryptiskt 3 minutes ago
      The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.
    • steve1977 1 hour ago
      As a tax payer in one of the member states, I approve of this joke.
    • fnands 1 hour ago
      They got the intern to write a funny post. Probably took them an hour and it drums up a bit of good press for the Hi-Lumi LHC.

      Money well spent if you ask me.

  • aaron695 2 hours ago
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  • voidUpdate 3 hours ago
    Is this an april fools joke? The title image looks so over-the-top that I really can't tell if it's a joke or not
    • kakacik 2 hours ago
      No of course not, they have Mario guys running around in karts doing maintenance of hyper complex system with wrenches. No physics can resist Mario's wrench, thats how we move humanity forward
      • gostsamo 2 hours ago
        There is a Luigi on the team as well. How it can't be true?
        • hawkjo 44 minutes ago
          And Yoshi. And Pfirsich, which is Peach in German
        • edwcross 1 hour ago
          Fratello. Must be a bro.
    • tgsovlerkhgsel 2 hours ago
      CTRL+F "safety and health"