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Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future
- sean12345 17y agoIn other news.. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-com...
- faramarz 17y agoIn other news.. Canada buys half of Hawaii http://finance.sympatico.ca/news/ContentPosting?newsitemid=bfb638d2-3b51-4806-9fca-d74f1723dcf3&feedname=foolish&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False http://finance.sympatico.ca/news/ContentPosting?newsitemid=b...
- a-priori 17y agoThis is a joke, obviously, but there have been a couple occasions where Canada has seriously looked into making the Turks and Caicos islands a province. So, it's not far off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands#Proposed_union_with_Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands#Propos...
- milkshakes 17y agoThis is the best april fools joke I've seen so far. The most believable one, that is. The best one would have to be reddit's admin free for all
- rokhayakebe 17y agoDamn. I keep falling for it.
- fbu 17y agoI felt for it until I did a google search to see: one single news item. Maybe that kind of reflex will be useful when some botnet makes an attack on the nytimes or the wsj. (who knows, to mess with the stock exchanges or something, just throwing ideas here)
- whatwhatwhat 17y agotime travel is the most believable aprial fools joke you have read? zz....
- heyitsnick 17y agoNo, the story is someone _claimed_ to be a time traveller.
- mortenjorck 17y agoThis one made me do a triple take. First I thought it had to be some crazy guy (holding in my heart, of course, that 1x10^-20 chance that it was a real time traveler). Then I remembered the day and realized this must have been the guy's idea of an April Fool's joke. Then I remembered I was reading something on the Internet on this day, and that the story itself had to be a prank. Well played, CNet.
- dgquintas 17y agoNo Mountain Dew at CERN's vending machines. But they do sell Perrier in cans the same size and shape as coke (33cl). After all, CERN is half over France too... And in general, the most popular vending machines are coffee ones, much a more popular beverage than sodas. On the other hand, Restaurant 1 is open from 6am until 11pm for all your caffeinated needs, with freshly grinded coffee -the machine grinds in a JIT-fashion ;)- EDIT: you can even check the menu of Restaurant 2 online (http://resto2.web.cern.ch/resto2/cgi-bin/dsr?menu http://resto2.web.cern.ch/resto2/cgi-bin/dsr?menu). They used to have hilarious Engrish translations of the French names, such as "eat man" for "croque monsieur" -a kind of sandwich-.
- jxcole 17y agoNo Mountain Dew because he took it all!
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoDoctor Who, HG Wells' The Time Machine, Back to the Future, 12 Monkeys. Did I miss any references?
- ElliotH 17y agoI think I need to hand my geek card in - I only caught the Doctor Who one.
- shard 17y agoI'd throw in Terminator for traveling back in time to prevent destruction of the world, and using garbage to fuel his blender shaped power unit reminds me of Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future III.
- raganwald 17y agoThis had a bit of a K-Pax feeling, even though K-Pax is not about time travel. And there's The Time Traveller's Wife if you want a less nerdy time travel story...
- bitwize 17y agoDid he have an IBM 5100 with him?
- matth 17y agoThe internet is nearly useless every April 1st. It'd be annoying if it wasn't so damn entertaining.
- davidcuddeback 17y agoSo true. April 1 should be a national "stay off the internet and go outdoors" day.
- rick_2047 17y agoI second that, people need the fresh air
- nooneelse 17y agoThat would be a nice sort of holiday. Discussion sites could auto-reply to any comments made on that day with their choice of "go outside" reminders, "get a life" insults, or helpful links to local outdoor or otherwise just non-internet activities.
- gscott 17y agoThe porn sites I frequent only showed all clad models today. It was not entertaining, I agree.
- westbywest 17y agoTo quote the traveler: "The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening." It's an odd dystopia the future is preparing for us.
- ff0066mote 17y agoI giggled at that quote for ten minutes.
- docgnome 17y agoI am so disappointed that this isn't real.
- hackermom 17y agoAnyone else who immediately thought "John Titor!"? :)
- sabat 17y agoI really wanted this to be true. Just for a second.
- dagobart 17y agoReading a comment like this one for the second time in this very thread, it too much reminds me about those folks who really wanted Pandora to be real. So, hmm. Maybe scientists should start heading for some technology that converts really really hard wishes to reality.
- Mark_B 17y agoFTA:"...the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone" Break me off a piece of that future history!
- mkramlich 17y agoThat man is clearly not from the future. I, on the other hand, am from the future. And in that future, I am the only man. Since it was not me that was arrested at the LHC, it follows logically that he was not from the future. I, however, will soon be taking a long and much needed vacation back to the future, and when I return from vacation, back to the present time, I will make it a point to appear back at the LHC, a few seconds before that other man appears, and I will trip that man as he walks by. And then I will take his wallet.