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The headlines sound thrilling. One might say they bait a click.
"ANONYMOUS SAYS NASA HAS EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE. DOES IT?" — Newsweek
"The world's biggest hacking group thinks NASA is about to announce alien life." — The Independent
Maybe you know of Anonymous as a band of socially enlightened hackers: liberators of knowledge from elites who want to hide it from the public. You certainly know what NASA is. So you click. And what you get, if you follow the articles to the amateur YouTube channel that is their source, is video of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask — "Anonymous Global," he calls himself — reading out old quotes from NASA spokespeople in a spooky, synthesized voice.
The man in the anarchist mask quotes a NASA science director's testimony from a congressional hearing in April, all totally public: "We are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
That quote — taken out of context and adorned with Anonymous Global's wild conspiracy theorizing — became the basis for millions of views and countless news articles, forcing the science director in question and NASA officials to explicitly deny the claims of a shoddily produced YouTube video this week. "There's no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life," a NASA spokesman wrote to The Washington Post, in case you were still in doubt.
Also at Space.com, MassLive, the The San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Guardian (editorial).
Update: (in response to a June 29th episode of The Alex Jones Show) NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @05:13AM (2 children)
People just have to think and follow up on known facts, and how they are known. Not something people do it seems. I'll guess it's good to whack the credibility of some crap videos to put a good dent into the whole rubbish part of the online video segment.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Saturday July 01 2017, @08:04AM (1 child)
There's a group on youtube called Secureteam10 or something like that and their videos are nothing but street lights or space junk. The sad reality is that the people that subscribe to their crap channel also vote. They also waste oxygen and create CO2 but that's another thread.
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @08:06AM
The worst is the electricity they consume and the industrial waste the manufacture of their computers add to the environmental cost. And yeah the have a mental environment cost too..