No 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). They used to have hilarious Engrish translations of the French names, such as "eat man" for "croque monsieur" -a kind of sandwich-.

No Mountain Dew because he took it all!

This 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

This 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.

Damn. I keep falling for it.

I 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)

No, the story is someone _claimed_ to be a time traveller.

To 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.

I giggled at that quote for ten minutes.

The internet is nearly useless every April 1st. It'd be annoying if it wasn't so damn entertaining.

The porn sites I frequent only showed all clad models today. It was not entertaining, I agree.

So true. April 1 should be a national "stay off the internet and go outdoors" day.

That 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.

I am so disappointed that this isn't real.

Doctor Who, HG Wells' The Time Machine, Back to the Future, 12 Monkeys.

Did I miss any references?

I'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.

This 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...

I think I need to hand my geek card in - I only caught the Doctor Who one.

Hey that's better than me. I didn't get any of them.

Would you concede your geek card to me, please?

In other news.. Canada buys half of Hawaii http://finance.sympatico.ca/news/ContentPosting?newsitemid=b...

This 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#Propos...

FTA:"...the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone"

Break me off a piece of that future history!

Did he have an IBM 5100 with him?

Anyone else who immediately thought "John Titor!"? :)

I really wanted this to be true. Just for a second.

Reading 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.

That 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.