Mario Idraulico and Luigi Fratello overseeing this project? I hope the karts don't run into any stray kooparticles.
CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
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#72This got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
Small clue here too, maybe more subtle: > explained school director, Rosalina Pfirsich, looking up from her storybook Pfirsich in German means Peach, as in Princess Peach :D
You somehow identified the last possible, most obscure clue. Mario, Luigi, Rosalina, and Yoshi show up before that.
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#73CERN Research Facility, Geneva. Subject: Gordon Freeman, Male, Age 27
Gérard Hommelibre? Bonjour, and bienvenue to the Black Mesa - pardon, la Mesa Noire - Établissement de Recherche. Please keep your hands inside le tramway at all times, and do try not to provoquer une cascade de résonance. Merci.
Tired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between France and Switzerland.
Wired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between Quebec and Ontario.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gérard Hommelibre? Bonjour, and bienvenue to the Black Mesa - pardon, la Mesa Noire - Établissement de Recherche. Please keep your hands inside le tramway at all times, and do try not to provoquer une cascade de résonance. Merci.
Tired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between France and Switzerland. Wired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between Quebec and Ontario.
Wireless: Quartks crossing between France and Ontario
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#75I'd be cautious of residual Higgs Booson particles in the tunnels. They can cause unexpected phase shifts if encountered, which may expose the driver to unexpected hazards.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also served the purpose of finding out who the cynical Debbie Downers who have no hope are as well!
If your hope for the future is based on believing the most obviously-impossible technological claim in the world, you're way more cynical than I am.
Its not at all clear that room temperature superconductors are impossible, it's a materials problem. If someone was to find one that is probably how they would do it - testing materials for some other property and finding it accidentally.
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#77This got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
Someone was saying "can we just not with April fools" this year because everything is so grim and dire in the world... but I think this is such a perfect level we need. I could go for more whimsy like this.
This one was good. It was pretty low-stakes and not anything that would impact anyone. For a while there, companies like Google were announcing products that sounded like a good idea, but turned out were just them trolling everyone over things people had been requesting for a long time.
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#78Really enjoyed the "karts and equipment will reach underground areas via giant green pipes" caption on the LHC tunnel diagram.
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#79I'd be cautious of residual Higgs Booson particles in the tunnels. They can cause unexpected phase shifts if encountered, which may expose the driver to unexpected hazards.
The observer effect prevents Booson particles from traveling towards the observer
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#80Takes me back to the week we all thought room temperature super conductors might be a solved problem.
That served a useful purpose- it let you objectively identify how gullible everyone you know is.
There was more than enough skepticism and cautious optimism too. While it sounded too soon to be real, it wasn't unlike carbon nanotubes, graphene, or solid state batteries — previously unachievable material-tech getting validation in the lab, with a 20yr pipeline for global production. With even nuclear fusion being achieved in very specific / limited instances in the last decade, it's not inconceivable to hope that maybe RTSC are just around the corner.