The stereotypical scientist usually has nothing to do with the prankster. Étienne Klein decided to break this picture. An outstanding physicist and director of the French Commission for Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy published on Twitter a photo that turned out to be a joke on a global scale.
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It’s been a long time since nobody has screwed Internet users as hard as a French physicist. The scientist posted on Twitter a photo of a red object, which he introduced as Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, more than 4 light years away. Étienne Klein paid attention primarily to the “level of detail” provided by the Webb telescope with which the photograph he published was to be taken.
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The image of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, more than 4 light years away, was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail … – wrote Klein on Twitter.
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The scientist started the discussion with his entry. In their comments, Internet users exchanged comments about the published photo. It soon turned out that it was just an innocent joke of Klein, who decided to make a joke of Twitter users. The French admitted in one of the following tweets that the photo he posted shows a slice of Spanish cold cuts.
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According to modern cosmology, Spanish sausage does not exist anywhere else than on Earth, the scientist wrote.
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The scholar rehabilitated himself
Internet users criticized the scientist for his sense of humor. Klein said, however, that he wanted to mobilize Internet users to pay more attention to the authenticity of content published on social media. In addition, the scientist, as a compensation, also published an authentic photo of the galaxy.
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