CERN levels up with new superconducting karts(home.cern)
140 points by fnands 4 hours ago | 31 comments
- Akuehne 11 minutes agoThis got me. Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
- PunchyHamster 1 hour agoWe need followup post exactly 365 days later describing first karting accident inside CERN[-]
- tom-blk 1 hour agoExactly
- cern 1 hour agoCERN Research Facility, Geneva. Subject: Gordon Freeman, Male, Age 27
- gnarlouse 3 hours agoHappy April Fools Day![-]
- thomasgeelens 1 hour agooh my, I should really visit one day, I'm not even that far from CERN
- groundzeros2015 20 minutes agoPlease 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 18 minutes agoEach 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 9 minutes agoI’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.
- 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.
[-]- coldsmoke 35 minutes agoSince I didn't get the name reference either, here is a link for those who want a hint: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico[-]
- fnands 14 minutes agoNice, I didn't get it.
I just realized "Kyouryuu" is Japanese for dinosaur.
And Pfirsich is of course Peach.
- koolala 2 hours agohigh temperature super conductors my beloved
- rvnx 2 hours agoMeh 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 9 minutes agoThe Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.
- fnands 1 hour agoThey 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.
- steve1977 1 hour agoAs a tax payer in one of the member states, I approve of this joke.
- aaron695 3 hours ago[dead]
- voidUpdate 3 hours agoIs 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 3 hours agoNo 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[-]
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3 hours agoCTRL+F "safety and health"