Comments on: Cool or fool? Which of these news stories are fake?

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:12:06 +0000

1. Real. I believe they also let them comment on Youtube videos.
2. Fake
3. Real and awesome
4. Maybe
5. Stupid
6. Stupid and cheesy
7. Fake but kind of entertaining

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Dave, I think it was about 5 gazillion gigglewatts. :)

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:49:45 +0000

#7: Great scott! That’s just too heavy for me. Wonder how many jules, errr gigawatts it took?

By: Chrispium

Chrispium — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:07 +0000

2, 6 and 7 are fakes. The rest are true stories, though they might be not implemented (The smaller people one).

By: John Morgenthaler

John Morgenthaler — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:37:38 +0000

1. Real
2. Fake
3. Fake
4. Real
5. Fake
6. Fake
7. Fake

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:38:43 +0000

I’d say:

5 & 7 are most likely–at this point in time–fake
The others seem plausible.

If they can deliver the Internet via Drones, why not Tacos!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:53:19 +0000

1. Real
2. Fake (we’re overtasked already)
3. Real (but not yet).
4. Real
5. Fake though not an impossible solution. Have to change from a 10 foot basketball rim though.
6. Fake (insufficient resources have been applied to true innovation by the corporate socialist power elite).
7. Fake
6.

By: gaoptimize

gaoptimize — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:22:57 +0000

5 and 7. Little people and time travel.

By: Louie

Louie — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:06:40 +0000

Number 6 and number seven are made up. 6 by google and 7 by you all.

By: Ru1138

Ru1138 — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:29:20 +0000

The last one is a prank. I know this because it’s a rehash of an earlier April Fool’s science story.

By: Jonathan Benefiel

Jonathan Benefiel — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:29:25 +0000

the little people story

By: Cryonica

Cryonica — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:52:38 +0000

April 1!!!

By: {i}Pan~

{i}Pan~ — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:08:19 +0000

1) Real
2) Fake
3) Pretty sure fake, but not out of the question
4) Real
5) Fake
6) Don’t know
7) Shhhhhhh…..

By: Jeff Dorazio

Jeff Dorazio — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0000

I tend to believe the driverless car story, although i would have expected it to have happened in Nevada…i suspect the “drone delivery” to be a tall tale. All of a sudden i am craving a 7-layer bean burrito…mmm…burritos…

By: Razor

Razor — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:42:49 +0000

oohh… and google.

Though the making people smaller Idea I first heard years ago by Marvin Minsky. I couldn’t tell if he was joking.

By: Razor

Razor — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:39:31 +0000

Ahhh, Sony. You little scamps.

By: Jaap van Till

Jaap van Till — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:32:52 +0000

Today is April 1 “Fools day” right