Subj : Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
To   : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen
From : Elvis Gump
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 20:45:39

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

in article VdEXe.5198$6e1.2657@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com, Gerald Meazell at
gmeazell@swbell.net wrote on 9/19/05 2:22 PM:

> Elvis Gump wrote:

>> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!

> Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week.  Look Out!  Here
> comes V'Ger!
> 
> That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space
> that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of
> memories in about 25 minutes.
> 
> --
> Gerald

What I really liked about and was slightly disturbed about this was that
Yahoo News (how ironic huh?) is picking up Weekly World News stories like
this one and putting them on the web. At first glace because it's Yahoo News
might not immediately register the small "WWN" thing as the source of the
story, rather expecting the stuff that Yahoo picks up to be either Reuters
or some other source that got say snookered by an Onion article.

But now Yahoo is living up to its name by just printing crazy shit from WWN
and making it look like the rest of the real news. And things like this with
junk science details that might mostly go over the heads of the general
public probably makes these things scary to the general public.

If some real dire imminent disaster from space were discovered I wonder if
we could get anyone to take it seriously?

After having seen just the Katrina devastation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
first hand even understanding a threat, knowing that it's coming and trying
to prepare for it doesn't necessarily make us prepared as we've seen nonstop
for three weeks on TV.
-- 
"Nuclear war would really set back cable."
 -- Ted Turner

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