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French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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Re: French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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> A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo.

> …

> Klein told French news outlet Le Point that his intention had been to educate people about fake news online

While I respect the position that people should always check sources, “person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field, then tut tuts when people outside their field believe the expert” feels a bit too smug to me.

Re: French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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> A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo. > … > Klein told French news outlet Le Point that his intention had been to educate people about fake news online While I respect the position that people should always check sources, “person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field, then tut…

He is French after all. /s (I'm half-French).

Re: French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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> A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo. > … > Klein told French news outlet Le Point that his intention had been to educate people about fake news online While I respect the position that people should always check sources, “person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field, then tut…

I read your comment before seeing the picture so I somewhat agreed with you initially, but this is not even subtle, it's a good joke...

Re: French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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This article presupposes that Proxima Centauri is not, in fact, made of chorizo. Whereas we have long known that the moon is made of cheese. I think Klein is floating a test balloon to gauge the public's willingness to consume the 'celestial charcuterie' theory of the heavens.

Re: French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

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Cmon we've been joking with exactly this picture for years now on the internet. The other really popular joke one is the pancake that, specially in B&W, looks like a moon! https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/pancake-that-resemb...

Or that high res image of jupiter https://www.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/dn3wej/new...
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