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Thank you for the info

But the Factual Gamer never sleeps on the job. I already knew that, and had it in my list of news for the week (if it's not only for April Fools' day).

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way to keep the actual "april fools" delivery fresh.

He was announcing that it was an alternative to an April Fools joke.
"..I'm just not that big a fan of the practical joke. That's why..."

Generally you don't announce an April Fools joke at the start.

If this was posted a few days ago, I would have believed it was an April Fools joke.

Also, I bet the dad found the vulnerability, but that story wouldn't make the local news

I have a degree in physics. I'm guessing that English is maybe a 2nd language for you? Your explanation of mass and weight is a little confusing. With regards to our astronaut on the moon, it's the difference in weight that matters. He should be able to (approximately) lift six times the weight he could on earth.
(Sidebar: It's often been said that Olympics on the moon would be fantastic because a man who could high-jump 7 feet high on earth would be able to high-jump 42 feet high (7x6) on the moon. In fact, he would only be able to jump about half that. Do you know why? I'll leave that with you as a challenge.)

Insofar as faked moon landings, I'm 90 % sure we went to the moon. However, bear in mind that Americans didn't know their own government was spying extensively on them til last year. It's the old joke... "Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't watching you..."

Alternative 3 is an interesting study of conspiracy dynamics. I first heard of it 30 years ago. It started as an April Fools joke in Britain on a science news TV show. It was brilliant in it's conception...

Short version:
1. Global warming will lead to total collapse of earth's eco-systems in two centuries or less.
2. Global governments are co-operating to move the cream of earth's leaders, scientists, etc to bases that have been established for decades on the far side of the moon and on Mars. (Alternative 3. Alternative 1 was huge underground bunkers, Alternative 2 was huge geo-synchronous cities... both were deemed too impractical to carry out.)
3. Mars is actually very liveable. We landed there in the 60s, established bases, using flying saucer technology developed here on earth by scientists.
4. The general population is being kept ignorant of the impending disaster, our advanced technology, the true state of Mars, etc. Governments worldwide are co-operating at the highest levels to perpetuate the myth that our progress in space is a slow, laborious process. (Which explains why the Soviet Union did not expose the Apollo programs as fake...) They don't want to cause a panic while they advance their agenda.
5. They have even developed psychic assassins capable of killing with their minds via spontaneous human combustion.

Due to TV schedule changes it was shown at a later date convincing the general public there that it was the real deal. (You can actually see the original show on YouTube... you'll even recognize some of the 'real scientists' etc as British character actors if you're old enough.)

It's a long convoluted story but thanks to a couple of follow up books and the Internet which gave it new life it has now 'morphed' into this vast conspiracy that involves alien / government co-operation at the highest levels à la X-Files. (The original conspiracy did not involve aliens...)

Adding to the fun and mystery is that some real world events -- too complicated to explain here -- later played right into details of the conspiracy.

I always thought it would make for a brilliant Hollywood movie -- the original version, not the 'updated' version.

I *almost* thought this was a bad April Fools joke.

Interesting someone's actually made one, that was my favourite April fools day jokes from a few years back:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/shrinter.shtml

As one of the worlds most jaded, bitter critics of source-material-rape and book-to-film-shit-translations, I have not been this disappointed since I was vaginally spat out into this fucked reality.

This is a fucking multimillion dollar, month-late April-fools day joke. I could honestly, physically kill people for this.

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april fools!

disappointing! I went to YT to verify this was an April Fools Day video... unfortunately not.