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Perinquus wrote:I know a lot of reporters and newspeople are scientifically illiterate, but come on!

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This is from CNN, by the way.

LMAO!! That's funny!

Stormbringer wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

Stormbringer wrote: Don't forget Hammer, Totoenkopft, and Awacs.

Donner und blitzen, that guy had more aliases than Manji had inches in his rifles!

And I'm sure I'm forgeting some of the aliases.

I believe Long Wang was also a Demios sock puppet. I wonder why the hell he tried doing such a thing.

Anyway, that's quite a funny error.

Also, the media makes two types of errors: The mistakes they'd realize after seeing them, and the errors that they wouldn't notice (Such as "Iraqis go to the polls to decide if Saddam gets re-elected")

Burak Gazan wrote:They also had the shuttle travelling at "Mock 18" just before the accident....I guess this was a typo too
And FOX news had the shuttle at an altitude of "200,000 miles".....

Probably just a case of newsies typing too fast to proofread

"Captain, I'm setting a course for Earth... MOCK 18!"

"Hold on people, we're breaking the Pissing-Ourselves-Whilst-laughing-At-Scooter barrier..."

*Plink*