Anyone been April Fooled today??

Liz · #1 01-04-2010, 09:33 AM

I just was!! After receiving an alert from another Astronomy Forum re a big event at the LHC facility ..... raced onto Google to see how it happened, but nothing ... kept trying for ages, then the penny dropped

erick (Eric) · #2 01-04-2010, 09:50 AM

Nope - spotted a few attempts, however.

asterisk (Geoff) · #3 01-04-2010, 09:50 AM

Yep - received the same email as well. I had listened to the news while shaving earlier and thought I had missed this event - quick Google and then I also remembered the date.

Liz · #4 01-04-2010, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by asterisk

Yep - received the same email as well. I had listened to the news while shaving earlier and thought I had missed this event - quick Google and then I also remembered the date.

phew ... good to hear Geoff, I wasnt the only one

Louwai (Bryan) · #5 01-04-2010, 11:11 AM

I was a fool for coming to work

!!!!!!! I need a holiday

rider · #6 01-04-2010, 11:17 AM

Cant wait for today's APOD, - always a good laugh every year.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #7 01-04-2010, 11:24 AM

I just spent the first hour this chasing down the LHC issue, Now I believe the penny dropped too.

Ric · #8 01-04-2010, 12:02 PM

It's been very quiet around here this morning.

To be quite honest I think we all forgot about April fools around here.

Terry B · #9 01-04-2010, 12:10 PM

I thought thiswas but it is actually serious.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/societ...0325-qzc3.html

Screwdriverone (Chris) · #10 01-04-2010, 01:18 PM

I, and many other listeners, as well as most of the Triple M Radio Grill Team (Mark Geyer, Stuart MacGill and Gus Worland) got sucked in by the SpoonMan on his rave segment this morning;

He basically went on a rant about how the new "safety cameras" which take speed and red light photos now have been switched over to Green to RED with NO orange light, so they can use the red light and speed camera combo to ping and fine more drivers.

It sounded like any other story and he really got stuck into the government, the RTA, The premier etc, and then they took some calls from IRATE drivers saying about how many accidents it would cause, how much it stunk of revenue raising etc, until one caller said it was a VERY big coincidence that the RTA happened to do this on April 1.

Oh MAN, I was in the process of dialling up Triple M myself to have a go on the air and complain long and hard.........

Got me goooooooood!

Cheers

Chris

outbr34k (Sarah) · #11 01-04-2010, 02:19 PM

oh no! I slept in and almost MISSED APRIL FOOLS!? my spleen hurts, but Im thinking its just an april fools joke. He has quite a sense of humour, which Im personally very proud of since I grew him myself.

Edit: I thought today was the 31st...and just now I have come to realise that there arent that many days in march. Wait scratch that...I just dont know how to sing that song properly O.O this is what humanity has come down it! University educated youth who dont know how many days there are in a month. I weep for the future of mankind, brought down in part by my own hands...

erick (Eric) · #12 01-04-2010, 02:57 PM

Errr... Are you fully awake yet Sarah?

AstralTraveller (David) · #13 01-04-2010, 03:34 PM

Well .... I've spent most of the day dealing with personnel and our leave booking system and it is definately a bad joke! The Enterprise Agreement says one thing, personnel another and the computer won't accept either.

Liz · #14 01-04-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mswhin63

I just spent the first hour this chasing down the LHC issue, Now I believe the penny dropped too.

JD2439975 (Justin) · #15 01-04-2010, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by rider

Cant wait for today's APOD, - always a good laugh every year.

That's one small step for man, one hell of a drive for the filter man.

astroron (Ron) · #16 01-04-2010, 05:29 PM

It took a while on that other site for the Penny to drop

Kevnool (Kev) · #17 01-04-2010, 05:46 PM

Theres the APOD with the water fountain.
Cheers Kev.

Liz · #18 01-04-2010, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevnool

Theres the APOD with the water fountain.
Cheers Kev.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

C'mon Kev 3 more

TrevorW · #19 01-04-2010, 08:33 PM

Someone posted one on another site about the LHC exploding which caught a couple and an email floated around today about submarine races

space oddity · #20 01-04-2010, 10:20 PM

The LHC story was a little too obvious as a prank, but it is good to see that April Fool's day is not completely dead, despite the demise of AFD over the years due to Political Correctness.