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The picture he posted is so obviously and visibly a slice of chorizo that it really is no more than a good joke, nothing smug about it. IMHO, it does demonstra
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
The picture he posted is so obviously and visibly a slice of chorizo that it really is no more than a good joke, nothing smug about it.
IMHO, it does demonstrate his point very well if some people took his statement that it was Proxima Centauri at face value simply because he is an expert.
- Ensorceled 4y agoIt is not "obviously and visibly a slice of chorizo" to me ... google pictures of venus and it's not clear that this photo is in any way clearly a fake to a lay person.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoA lay person will know chorizo much better than celestial bodies, at least in Europe. Of course there will always be someone to say they don't know what chorizo looks like but that's life... Otherwise we cannot do anything. Anyway, it's odd that people would argue on this instead of just laughing it off as "well played", but people argue over everything these days...
- bee_rider 4y agoIt must just be a cultural difference, as in the US all our meats are reduced to a fine pink homogenized sludge before being made into anything. Those lumps of fat or whatever -- unacceptable, and what is that a pepper seed? Too spicy! (Just kidding. Well, mostly kidding).
- mytailorisrich 4y agoPerhaps. As an anecdotal data point, I showed the tweet with the picture to my wife (who has zero astronomy knowledge) without telling her anything and her immediate first reaction was "it looks like chorizo!".
- imtringued 4y agoThere is a huge difference between distinguishing fake artist rendition Venus from real Venus pictures and distinguishing a slice of sausage vs a celestial body. In the former the fake Venus is supposed to look like Venus. In the latter the sausage looks like nothing you can find in space.