"A lithograph published in the New York Sun newspaper in 1835 showing life on the Moon. Credit: Wikipedia"
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LOTS of madeup science fiction from the early 1800s is STILL believed today.............
"A lithograph published in the New York Sun newspaper in 1835 showing life on the Moon. Credit: Wikipedia"
from the article
Interesting post...somewhat amusing.
I’m wondering if that’s where Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism got his idea of Pilgrim type people living on the moon.
Must have been a Scientology pub...............
Plenty of gullible people in the world, both then and today who believe in lots of foolish stuff...
FLASH:
Life on moon extinct due to global warming.
Hmmmm. Looks like moonbats have been around since well before the ‘60s.
The reincarnation of The New York Sun not so many years ago (now only available on the web) produced a very different newspaper than the one that printed the moon hoax of 1835.
Suckers. Everyone knows that stuff is all on Mars.
But, did Herschel discover the birth certificate there?
Hmmmm.
Just like Global Warming.
He meant it to be a joke, but soon found out that it was very profitable. He figured a way to scam the public through “carbon credits” where he had a product that he never had to deliver that didn’t exist.
The descriptions were allegedly reprinted from the nonexistent Edinburgh Journal of Climate Science, and only several decades after the articles were published did questions arise about the truth of these tales. The newspaper did not issue a retraction back then, and now, even over 32 years later has not issued a full retraction of it, either.
It is said that Gore was initially amused by the hoax, noting that his own real observations could never be as exciting. But he became annoyed later when he had to answer questions from people who believed the hoax was a scam.
***New York Sun newspaper ****
I read about this back in the 1960s from a popular mechanical or scientific magazine. I still have the article.
Wonder if this is where Joseph Smith got his idea of men on the moon!
The Spook(prisoner in the dungeon) digs his way out. When he sticks his head out of the hole, he is on the moon and sees the American flag with astronaut footprints all around it.
He then crawls back into his cell, calls the jailer and asks for the definition of “affluent society”.
The face on the moon?
I’m surprised they haven’t made a movie out of this, have it flop, “reboot” it a few years later and have that one flop and then reboot it again......
180 years from now there will be articles on the great global warming hoax of the early 2000’s.