greatest april's fool day prank ever...

[Mike70]

in 1976 a british astronomer, patrick caldwell-moore, told the public on the bbc that on 1 apr 1976, pluto was going to pass directly behind jupiter causing a combination of their gravity which would have a noticeable reducing effect on earth's gravity. he went on to say that if they jumped into the air at 9:47am they would feel like they were floating.

soon after 9:47am passed the bbc began to recieve hundreds of calls from people claiming to have felt the supposed effect. including some people who claimed they actually floated about the room.:lol:

got ya. it was all an april fools hoax. no such thing could possibly ever be caused by any planetary alignment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian-Plutonian_gravitational_effect

[capncnut]

Patrick Moore has his own astronomy programme on the BBC once a month, The Sky At Night. Best damn programme the Beeb has ever made.

[Neil]

in 1976 a british astronomer, patrick caldwell-moore, told the public on the bbc that on 1 apr 1976, pluto was going to pass directly behind jupiter causing a combination of their gravity which would have a noticeable reducing effect on earth's gravity. he went on to say that if they jumped into the air at 9:47am they would feel like they were floating.

soon after 9:47am passed the bbc began to recieve hundreds of calls from people claiming to have felt the supposed effect. including some people who claimed they actually floated about the room.:lol:

got ya. it was all an april fools hoax. no such thing could possibly ever be caused by any planetary alignment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian-Plutonian_gravitational_effect

Classic! Anyone seen this BBC one?

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[Chic Freak]

My nan remembers another April Fool's prank the BBC pulled by putting a story about the "failing spaghetti crop" on the news.

The story suggested that pasta grows on trees and is harvested on Italian farms, but there had been some sort of problem with the harvest that year that would result in a spaghetti shortage. Apparently they showed footage of people collecting strands of spaghetti from trees and loads of people were fooled, as pasta was still considered a fairly exotic food back then and many people didn't really know where it came from.

[Mike70]

Classic! Anyone seen this BBC one?

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:lol: no, man i hadn't seen that. thanks for one hell of a laugh.