Sunday 28 December 2014

This year's dumbest astrophysics hoax fooled over a million Facebook users

This year's dumbest astrophysics hoax fooled over a million Facebook users


Over the past few weeks, there's a good chance that someone on your Facebook News Feed has shared a story about a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment happening on January 4, 2015. The interplanetary gravitational pull of the galactic event will, seemingly miraculously, counteract Earth's gravity for a short period of time, rendering everyone on the planet briefly weightless. This story was picked up by a few small viral sites like...

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