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Space Hoax: 9 Ridiculous Things People Still Think Are True About Space

9 Totally Insane Hoaxes People Still Believe About Space
Michael Rundle
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Over the last week we've noticed one thing above everything else in our weekly traffic reports: a lot of you are still googling that whole 'Six days of darkness!' rubbish that NASA was forced to deny last week.

And it's not the only ridiculous space hoax that exists out there in the wastes of the internet.

In fact if there's one thing to know about space, it's that whatever you're reading it's probably wrong. That's how space works. It's wrong until it isn't, and then it's right until it's wrong again.

Also, some people are bonkers.

Here are our favourite (or most annoying) space hoaxes, with links to places where you can prove they aren't true.

Awful (But Resilient) Space Hoaxes
'The International Space Station Doesn't Exist'(01 of09)
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Some people think that! But it does.
'The Earth Will Experience Six Days Of Total Darkness!(02 of09)
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Some people think that! But it's a hoax. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
'We Didn't Land On The Moon'(03 of09)
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Some people still think this. We did, though. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
'Mars Is About To Be As Large In The Sky As The Moon!'(04 of09)
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This comes up all the time.It never will, though. (credit:MarkGregory007/Flickr)
'NASA Found [X] On Mars!'(05 of09)
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People come up with this stuff very often. They didn't find whatever spaceship/lizard/alien helmet it looks like though. Just rocks. Interesting rocks. But rocks.
'Human Space Travel Is Impossible!'(06 of09)
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This guy thinks this. It's not true, though. (credit:** RCB **/Flickr)
'A Solar Flare Is On Its Way To Destroy Earth!'(07 of09)
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This comes up a lot too, in the pages of the Express. It hasn't happened. Though technically it sort of could if by destroy the Earth you mean 'inconvenience the power grid'. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
'Space Aliens Built The Pyramids!'(08 of09)
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People think this is true. They are wrong. It was humans that built the pyramids, with stone and bricks, and rollers and boats, and horrific forms of slavery. (credit:Siddhi/Flickr)
'There Is A Plane On The Moon!'(09 of09)
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Specifically, flight MH370 which disappeared with hundreds of passengers aboard earlier this year. Thank one British tabloid for this story, but use your brain to realise that it isn't and cannot be true.
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