Space
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Why We Didn't Float Away: A Look at the Planetary Alignment Hoax
You probably heard about it. After all, satirical content site Daily Buzz Live earned itself a whopping two million Facebook shares and 11,000 tweets with this latest trending fake news. An article claimed that on the first Sunday of the new year, a bizarre planetary alignment phenomenon would make us weightless for a short time. Here's what inspired it, and why such a thing is utterly impossible.
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