Posted on 08/05/2022 2:20:51 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo.
Étienne Klein, research director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission posted the photo last week, claiming it showed the closest star to the sun.
“This level of detail,” Klein wrote. “A new world is revealed day after day.” But a few days later, Klein revealed that the photo he tweeted was not the work of the world’s most powerful space telescope, as he had in fact tweeted a slice of chorizo sausage.
“According to contemporary cosmology, no object belonging to Spanish charcuterie exists anywhere but on Earth,” he said after apologising for tricking so many people.
(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...
Only the experts can properly interpret the mess we see
“Trust the science.”
I love chorizo and egg tacos. I just never knew they came from a galaxy far, far away.
And here I thought this was settled science.
Here's some useless trivia to give you an idea how big space is.
If you could shrink space down to where the sun was the size of a pea, Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, would be about the size of a peppercorn.
And there'd be 117 miles between them.
Its beautiful!
The more chorizo I eat, the more I anticipate having to deal with the heat of the sun.
Or at least from the Proxima Centauri system.
both were pretty funny
Lawdy.
So it was Dr. Klein’s own idea to play this little caper. This won’t add much to his professional credibility. He must have been hugely bored to do this, not that it’s not amusing.
Chorizo and eggs…one of food’s perfect combos.
I’m going to have to look that book up. I don’t know much about Graham Greene.
I did hear that he had an unusual type of marriage. His daughter wrote a book about it.
Least we didnt have to see the closeup of Uranus after Chorizo.
“I love chorizo and egg tacos.“
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Never had, but is sounds delicious. I’ll have to check them out.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agreed. The photo is of Spanish chorizo. I prefer the Mexican. Give me mine with extra salivary glands and lymph nodes, please!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeKKBD2tJ4-KSIynVJFvU6kiX79Rxt7909JA&usqp=CAU
Gross.
But seriously tasty!
Here’s some useless trivia to give you an idea how big space is.
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