Excerpt from natureworldnews.com
You probably heard about it. After all, satirical content site Daily
Buzz Live earned itself a whopping two million Facebook shares and
11,000 tweets with this latest trending fake news. An article claimed
that on the first Sunday of the new year, a bizarre planetary alignment
phenomenon would make us weightless for a short time. Here’s what
inspired it, and why such a thing is utterly impossible.
The article, which debuted Dec. 15,
claimed that early risers on Jan. 4 would have a brief window of time
to experience weightlessness. It even included a fake screen cap of a
“tweet” from NASA, complete with the foreboding-but-trendy hashtag
“#beready.”
“Don’t get too excited. If you think you’ll be able to float around
your house, you’re wrong. But, if you jump in the air at 9:47 AM PST, on
January 4, 2015, it should take you about 3 seconds to land back on
your feet instead of the usual 0.2 seconds,” the article read. “So, mark
this date on your calendar and share it with your friends! Zero gravity
day is just around the corner!”
The article claimed that according to NASA and famous astronomer Sir
Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, Pluto was due to pass directly behind
Jupiter, in relation to Earth on Jan. 4. The heavenly bodies’ combined
gravity would then temporarily counter Earth’s gravitational pull, and
objects actively fighting against it (i.e. jumping) could experience
brief freedom.
That may sound slightly scientific, but be assured that Jupiter and Pluto are very very far apart at the moment. Avid astrologers
and astronomers will be able to tell you that Jupiter is sitting in the
midst of Leo the Lion (from an Earth-side perspective) at the moment,
while Pluto is half-a-zodiac away, shrouded by Capricorn. And while
Jupiter may be massive, it’s is still too far away to ever influence
Earth with its gravity. The closest thing the gas giant affects is
asteroids and comets coming from the Kuiper Belt – the origin of the
Rosetta spacecraft’s quarry 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Why We Didn't Float Away: A Look at the Planetary Alignment Hoax
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