CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

Posted by fnands 15 hours ago

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts(home.cern)

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WhitneyLand 7 hours ago|

Call me a killjoy I hate April fools jokes.

fnands 4 hours ago|

Alright then: killjoy

nekusar 7 hours ago||

They missed a perfect spot to mention something about "Gordon".

(Half-Life joke)

shevy-java 11 hours ago||

It 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".

aaron695 15 hours ago||

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groundzeros2015 12 hours 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 hours 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 12 hours ago||

I’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.

ahartmetz 11 hours ago||

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.

voidUpdate 15 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 15 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 15 hours ago||

There is a Luigi on the team as well. How it can't be true?

hawkjo 13 hours ago|||

And Yoshi. And Pfirsich, which is Peach in German

edwcross 14 hours ago|||

Fratello. Must be a bro.

tgsovlerkhgsel 15 hours ago||

CTRL+F "safety and health"

rvnx 14 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).

fnands 13 hours 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.

steve1977 13 hours ago|||

As a tax payer in one of the member states, I approve of this joke.

kryptiskt 12 hours ago|||

The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.

mrguyorama 7 hours ago||

This page cost taxpayers like 100 Euros maybe. How much money do you think scientists actually make? How much money and effort do you think it takes to post a blog article with a couple paragraphs of text and an image?