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It is "real" news in so far as there are lots of people whose behavior might be affected.
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Would those "lots of people" have even known about it had Fox not chosen to report on it?
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gnome wrote:Would those "lots of people" have even known about it had Fox not chosen to report on it?
I have no idea, but I suspect that Fox was following the lead of there already being a lot of buzz about it in certain communities.

Fox didn't actually give it credence did they?

Or did they?
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Abdul Alhazred wrote:Fox didn't actually give it credence did they?

Or did they?
Sure they did. Look at the article, it's not very long.

The fact that they published an article about it at all also arguably lends some credence, but I'm not even talking about that. Sure, they added a throwaway line that "NASA repeatedly has said Planet X is a hoax" but most of the article just repeats the claims without any judgment or attempt to apply critical thinking to the claims. The one critic who is quoted seems to be a rapture believer, who is only skeptical about using numerology to predict the date of the rapture.
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He misspelled "raptor" :p
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Burning moorland near Stalybridge, England, June 26, 2018. Photo: Anthony Devlin.
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How many Trilobites were killed during the capture of that image?

You probably don't even know.
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The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Yea. You betcha. We'll see how that works out for Pat. :lmao:
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What again?

He does that every year.
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More a vision of Hell…
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Imagine that: The Burning Tire Apocalypse.

Thank Gawd that Humans cannot do anything to this planet because Gawd made it.



Wait.








WTF?
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Asteroid 2015 TB145 returns in 2018:

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