This got me.
Thought it was real, busted out laughing when I read the project leads name. It still didn't click.
replySmall clue here too, maybe more subtle:
reply> explained school director, Rosalina Pfirsich, looking up from her storybook
Pfirsich in German means Peach, as in Princess Peach :D
We need followup post exactly 365 days later describing first karting accident inside CERN
replyExactly
replyCERN Research Facility, Geneva. Subject: Gordon Freeman, Male, Age 27
replyRight on time! "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" released today.
replyHappy April Fools Day!
replyAs Alumni, the tables outside R1 are prime for getting ideas, with some help from fermented barley, especially after work during Summertime.
replyI always look forward to CERN's April fools jokes!
replyI can't believe people are still doing this
replyThis is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
reply-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
How dare people have fun.
replyoh my, I should really visit one day, I'm not even that far from CERN
replyThey do some good tours. They are first come/first serve, so show up in the morning for the best chance to get a place.
replyI really miss Think Geek :-(
replyI still had a Timmy the Monkey sticker on the lid of my kitchen bin up until a couple of years ago.
replyWhen they later actually sold the t-shirt they had previously presented as an April Fools joke? That was pretty cool.
replyPlease 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.
replyEach 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.
replyI’m ignorant. It’s a meme about their optics being terrible after steam ran out for 90s science optimism.
reply> Each kart is turbo-boosted by 64 superconducting engines,” explains project leader Mario Idraulico
replyI guess we can now call you Mario 'Kart' Idraulico.
Oh wait.
Thank you CERN, that was a smart one.
Since I didn't get the name reference either, here is a link for those who want a hint:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico
replyNice, I didn't get it.
replyI just realized "Kyouryuu" is Japanese for dinosaur.
And Pfirsich is of course Peach.
high temperature super conductors my beloved
replyMeh joke considering this was paid on public money.
replySame as choosing to spend xxx,xxx USD to have .cern when using subdomains would have worked too (and caused less validation / compatibility issues).
As a tax payer in one of the member states, I approve of this joke.
replyThey 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.
replyMoney well spent if you ask me.
The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.
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replyIs 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
replyNo 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
replyThere is a Luigi on the team as well. How it can't be true?
replyAnd Yoshi. And Pfirsich, which is Peach in German
replyFratello. Must be a bro.
replyCTRL+F "safety and health"
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