"14 days of night"-apparently

big_dav_2001 (Davin) · #1 27-09-2015, 11:53 PM

While trawling through the interwebs, I stumbled across this article... Written with lots of 'big, scientific sounding words', I'm not sure if it's meant to be a satire article, or if the nut job who wrote it actually thinks the sun will go out for a fortnight...

Either way, it's the kind of pseudoscientific crap which is laughable to anyone with a basic science knowledge, but would be disturbing to the unsuspecting, gullible reader. Unfortunately this kind of so-called journalism is becoming way too common, have a read and have a good laugh..

Davin

raymo · #2 28-09-2015, 12:07 AM

Hi Davin, What the heck were you trolling through to come across this
rubbish?
raymo

blink138 (Pat) · #3 28-09-2015, 12:25 AM

ha ha did you read some of the comments?
pat

Suzy · #4 28-09-2015, 12:53 AM

Pat, I've just read all the comments

My favourite one is: "If it happens I will be impressed". So will I !

Hi Davin

, a lot of this kind of nonsense is filled with "NASA says" stuff.
I feel sorry for people who don't know any better and get scared by it. The first comment for instance. Poor guy!

So all this will happen because of October's close conjunction (one degree) between Jupiter and Venus

? Forgetting that June 2015's conjunction between the two was only 0.5 degrees

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I wonder if these people really believe what they are writing or they do it to cause trouble

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The website is called: Times of Education - India's leading online media & Magazine.
???? oh boy

pixelsaurus (Mike) · #5 28-09-2015, 04:37 AM

Is there a link? or am I the only one in the dark? Belay that, I see it is tucked away. Hard to see with the sun in my eyes.

N1 (Mirko) · #6 28-09-2015, 05:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suzy

I feel sorry for people who don't know any better and get scared by it. The first comment for instance. Poor guy!

I'm not sure if I feel sorry for him. There is no excuse for not checking NASA's own website before getting all upset, given that "Nasa Confirms...". So the conspiracy thing does not even apply here. Oh well, maybe I don't understand how today's Internet works

The thing that I'm scared of is much more profound: that the Sun's surface temperature will apparently reach approx minus 3,000K!

big_dav_2001 (Davin) · #7 28-09-2015, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raymo

Hi Davin, What the heck were you trolling through to come across this
rubbish?
raymo

It actually popped up on Facebook. After I read an official JPL article about the upcoming NASA Mars press conference, it showed up as a 'related article'

Davin

lazjen (Chris) · #8 28-09-2015, 07:52 AM

Talk about click bait...

I wandered into this thread hoping someone was planning to switch the lights off for 14 days. Hopes dashed.

Shiraz (Ray) · #9 28-09-2015, 08:44 AM

or try this one from the same source https://newswatch33.com/science/nasa...ijuana-planet/

LewisM · #10 28-09-2015, 09:45 AM

So, is it actually a planet of cannabidiol or progesterone?

rrussell1962 · #11 28-09-2015, 10:01 AM

14 days of night - and doubtless 14 nights of cloud cover.

julianh72 (Julian) · #12 28-09-2015, 12:02 PM

I'm guessing newswatch33.com is something like the old trashy tabloids ("News of The World", "National Enquirer" etc) done digitally. (Take a look at the other headlines on their "front page" - just click on the NewsWatch33 logo at the top left corner of the page. Yes, they're even running the "Mars will be as big as the Moon" story!)

I used to love these newspapers for the sheer audacity of their front-page stories, like "B-29 Bomber Found On Moon", followed a couple of weeks later by the even more astounding "World War II Bomber Found On Moon Vanishes"!

MattT · #13 28-09-2015, 12:08 PM

Must be the trend right now. Just as bad as the fools on youtube that reckoned the Earth was going to be hit by a huge asteroid on 24/9/15...still waiting

Suzy · #14 28-09-2015, 03:56 PM

Matt, not just the asteroid.....
Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina was supposed to take us out too

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deanm (Dean) · #15 28-09-2015, 05:09 PM

Today's lunar eclipse is over.

Did anyone else notice that the earth is still here, all of the incoming asteroids just missed us and the tin foil hat brigade will go silent until the next 'event' prompts their feverish 'predictions' about The End of Days....!

Dean

AussieTrooper (Ben) · #16 29-09-2015, 11:13 AM

It actually is night right now. With all those glowing chemtrails, you just can't tell.

MattT · #17 04-10-2015, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suzy

Matt, not just the asteroid.....
Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina was supposed to take us out too

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Did I miss that one too?

Just shows that you have to be at the right place at the right time

MattT · #18 04-10-2015, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deanm

Today's lunar eclipse is over.

Did anyone else notice that the earth is still here, all of the incoming asteroids just missed us and the tin foil hat brigade will go silent until the next 'event' prompts their feverish 'predictions' about The End of Days....!

Dean

So true…now its all about 2016….:roll eyes:…….. EXCEPT….

Just in case anyone wants a heads up….there will be a global economic collapse in 2015….ummmmm

el_draco (Rom) · #19 09-10-2015, 08:55 AM

Ummmm, To many Papadumbs and not enough curry me thinks....

Paul Haese · #20 09-10-2015, 09:16 AM

Ah stoners.

I find it humorous that some people actually would believe this BS. Is science not taught in schools anymore?

Love the way they have an image of the Sun taken by SOHO and saying it will turn blue.

How do these idiots manage to live?