While I'm no longer active in many commercial #SocialMedia platforms, as a #science communicator I still keep an eye on them to see how people (mis)understand #astronomy, and incorporate those lessons to my job.
Today Facebook crushed my soul with this abomination.
A while ago I wrote this article explaining how to spot fake #astrophotography images using science:
eso.org/public/blog/csi-astron…
That article has now been superseded by "this is fake because <waves hands angrily in despair>"
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •The replies to that post are a rollercoaster of emotions:
1. people who think it's real (I genuinely don't fault them, if you've never seen a real one you're not expected to know this is fake)
2. people who say it's fake but then use it to justify some "flat Earth/physics is fake" b.s.
3. people who correctly explain why this is fake
4. people mad at (3) because they incorrectly think that (3) are science deniers like (2)
Why are we in the darkest timeline.
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in reply to kris • • •@literally I think you confused the terminology there. A solar eclipse is when the sun gets eclipsed by the moon, so the moon is in front of the sun.
The text description is not the problem here.
@astro_jcm
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •@gunchleoc how embarrassing 😳😅 if i’d thought about it for another minute i would’ve put that together with my memory of how science works (probably… i hope lol)
note to self: don’t toot while high
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •“An amazing photo and not one easily duplicated.” yepppp
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •Before deleting, I only ever used facebook for meme groups.
I got tired of correcting physics, even in physics groups― some of which were sharing some psuedoscience spiritual dude. People were like "oh, so you do know!". Others, "you don't know anything!". Others still, "That's wrong. Explain it then!"
For Ads, I'd just report as harassment.
Staying just within the meme groups meant I seen no ads. But my data was still taken.
John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿
in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •Eph
in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •hey thank you for posting your article, it was a great read, and one of the (real!) photos is gonna be my inspiration for a daily art prompt today
Also, I share your "uuuuuuugh" at the folks enthusiastically and uncritically sharing these.
Jorge Candeias
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •Few weeks ago, a friend posted this pic on our WhatsApp group. Most of them have PhDs. Even after I pointed out that the image is fake, the reasons why it is fake and how to find out the actual locations of the planets in the night sky, they remained unconvinced.
There is an element of human psychology here where people simply like and share sensational stuff, science and logical thinking be damned.
Politicians and their enablers know how to exploit these tendencies, now with AI.
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in reply to Juan Carlos Muñoz • • •A couple of real images for comparison.
Ruthlessly stolen from Wikipedia, one of the still sane places on the internet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ec…
Solar eclipse - Wikipedia
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