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French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
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#32They think we're total idiots.
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#33I worked with a guy that said the moon landing was fake. The only evidence he could provide was the number of images of space that claim to be real but end up being doctored or fake, every time I called him out on his bs I was wrong and the image was fake. Thanks Scientists!
If it makes you feel any better, it's essentially impossible to convince a moon landing hoax believer they are wrong.
I think you are right. There is no desire to learn the truth.
Since the early 1950s NASA had completely public video feeds for just about everything they did. News organizations around the world had access to the feeds, as well as the freedom to send their own cameras and recording equipment. Newsrooms all over the world have footage in their archives of the same launches, from different angles. And their own copies of NASA footage too. How do you fake all that?
If I remember correctly, during the Mercury program one of the splashdowns was so off the mark that it took the Navy a few hours to recover the capsule. The major US news orgs didn't want to deal with it so they broadcast old footage of an on-target recovery but got caught because other orgs showed the real thing.
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#34This isn't even a story of fake news or how the masses are idiots since the tweet took off because people thought it was funny (just read the comments).
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#35> 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).
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#36In an age of disinformation, I think we likely need a lot less confusion--not people trying to provoke more of it.
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#37It's amazing how little coverage this story gets, and no coverage at all from mainstream media. They don't seem to cover any story that would bring their credibility into question. https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/05/french-physicist-forced-to-ap... Even the headline of the article I linked above is misleading: "Scientist tried to pass off piece of chorizo as a distant star" -- Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Eart…
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#38Journey to the Meat Planet with Carl Sagan:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA
Truly a wonder of nature.
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#39There are many jokes that experts made thinking they should be "obvious" but subsequently entered canon knowledge in their fields.
"Cello scrotum" comes to mind.
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#40TikTok level humor now entering HN.
Just so long as it's not a sped up video of him dancing while gesturing at smug text overlays.