Re: What a let down. . .

In message <ukb251hrm9hgi5u0r8hlke4v2shmlihfm8@xxxxxxx>, D. Scott Ferrin <sferrin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:49:03 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
<jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I did. I stand by my assessment. The proper "at first" reaction to *any*
big piece of space news on April 1 is not "Finally" until you figure out
it's a joke. It's "That's bull***" until you corroborate it by other
sources. Same thing for *any* piece of space news, big or small, posted on
Space Daily on any day of the year. When the two conditions are combined,
multiply the proper level of skepticism.



I figured out it was BS before I got halfway through the article.
That and I'd made the mistake of thinking the site was a bit more
professional than to go for an April Fool's joke.  Top it off with the
fact that the so-called "joke" is something they really ought to do. .
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But isn't that plausibility the whole basis of a good April Fool?
And you need a professional site. http://www.nature.com can get away with it (though their one wasn't all that plausible :-) but if one appeared on http://www.enterprisemission.com/ you wouldn't be able to tell ("Face on Mars is Natural Feature", perhaps ?)
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