November 08, 2024
Earth’s moon is shrinking but at an incredibly slow rate. Over the past several hundred million years, it has lost about 150 feet in diameter.
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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 Was Sci-Fi Passed Off as News
On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun published the first of six articles that would become known as the Great Moon Hoax. This first installment—which would fool readers nationwide—began as follows: “We will state at once, that by means of a telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new
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