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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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Post by dalbasal »

bad416f1f5a2 wrote: post #4

> 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…

IDK if it's that smug. It was just a prank/troll. Possibly, it got a bit more circulation than expected or was less obvious than expected. It feels kind of like a "ha! on your toes" style that translates poorly from personal into online media.

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Post by dangerface »

I 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!

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

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Post by anonymousiam »

It'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 Earth besides the sun. So yeah, it's a "distant star", but it's also the closest one to us outside of our solar system.

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Post by jstanley »

Perceval wrote: post #9

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.

> This article presupposes that Proxima Centauri is not, in fact, made of chorizo.

I don't think it does.

It can both be true that Proxima Centauri is made of Chorizo and that the French Scientist tweeted a picture of some Chorizo that was not Proxima Centauri.

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

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Post by nsxwolf »

dangerface wrote: post #14

I 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.

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Post by jnovek »

anonymousiam wrote: post #15

It'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…

I’m pretty sure Vice is the mainstream media. It’s worth billions of dollars, smaller but comparable to CNN.

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Post by rakoo »

bad416f1f5a2 wrote: post #4

> 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…

Etienne Klein said in the second tweet that it was fake: https://nitter.rako.space/EtienneKlein/status/15537792036524...

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

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Post by dylan604 »

franciscop wrote: post #3

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...

"This asset has almost never been seen. Make the first move."

Hmm, exactly this picture and the website's stats don't quite line up! ;P

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