This got me.
Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
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#32Meh 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).
The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.
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#33Please 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.
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.
I’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.
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#34oh my, I should really visit one day, I'm not even that far from CERN
They do some good tours. They are first come/first serve, so show up in the morning for the best chance to get a place.
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#35Right on time! "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" released today.
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#36This 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
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#37It took me a while to notice the first april, but
actually the image was too unbelievable. But if
such karts were possible, I bet the guys at CERN
would absolutely use it. And then post on youtube.
We know how things happen in "professional research".
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#38This got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
For me it was easier. While I forgot it was first april,
the image was too outrageous. Looked like AI-generated
slop.
They may have had more success with another image. AI slop made us lazy.
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#39CERN 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.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.
As somebody slightly better informed (physics degree, following popular science): It really isn't looking great for something that could be found at a small multiple of current energies, but not at current energies.