Argh, I'm always one post late.
Check out more on Exit Mundi, it's a great site.
Copy of the site's text on the Chaos Cloud:
Chaos Cloud!
What is ten million miles wide, is made of burning acid, has a black hole for a heart -- and is hurtling towards us at near light speed?
It is the 'chaos cloud', my friends. This infamous bulb of misery is due to arrive on June 1st, 2014. And it merciless dissolves everything it encounters: comets, planets, even entire stars. Well, or so they say.
If you have never heard of the chaos cloud, don't worry. Neither had we. That was, until the object popped up on Yahoo news -- in the subdirectory 'entertainment', of all places. According to the news clipping, the cloud was discovered on April 6th by NASA-scientists working with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Upon discovery, NASA decided to keep it a secret. Or so at least claims one dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist.
Of course, the news is fake. It's a joke. It originally appeared in the magazine Weekly World News, a magazine full of pranks and fake news. There, it is listed among headlines like 'Scientists find women's asking-for-directions gene' and 'Nuclear rocket fired at UFO'.
To be sure, we ran a few checks. Lo and behold: there is no astrophysicist by the name of Albert Sherwinski. What's more, we should see the cloud with the naked eye by now (and we don't). And oh, a minor detail: in space, burning acid clouds revolving around black holes simply don't exist.
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