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This year's dumbest astrophysics hoax fooled over a million Facebook users
Over the past few weeks, there's a good chance that someone on your Facebook News Feed has shared a story about a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment happening on January 4, 2015. The interplanetary gravitational pull of the galactic event will, seemingly miraculously, counteract Earth's gravity for a short period of time, rendering everyone on the planet briefly weightless. This story was picked up by a few small viral sites like...
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My niece posted this to FB and I didn't have the heart to tell her it was a hoax.