..and don't forget the Yeti(life) on Mars pic the news channels were publishing those months back.
Gotta love the Spin doctors.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Subatomic
I find it amusing how it takes something like this before science reaches the mainstream media. It's not so much the groundbreaking science of the LHC, but rather the prospect of a WMD type fate (which is ridiculous) that the media is interested in.
I thought another good example of this was when the first story about the ISS to appear in mainstream media for a long time was about the toilet breaking down...I think space science is still a novelty to most people.
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