“Be sure to stay up late on August 27th so you can see the two moons,” my Aunt Elaine said last weekend.
“Umm, I think that might be scientifically impossible, Auntie.”
The “Two Moons” Hoax
No, there aren’t two moons, but there are claims that Mars will be so big that it looks like there are two moons in the night sky this Friday. I did some investigating before committing to dragging myself out of bed at midnight. Turns out it’s all a hoax—and an email hoax at that! But why then are people believing it?
Apparently the origin of the hoax can be traced by to August 27, 2003, when Mars appeared unusually big because it was only 35 million miles away. Now for the seventh year in a row people are staying up late to see if we have “two moons” in the sky.
Another Moon-Related Hoax
There have been plenty of hoaxes in American history. In fact, it is widely believed by conspiracy theorists that the landing on the moon in 1969 was a hoax. That the whole thing was filmed on a Hollywood movie studio and we all bought into it as Neil Armstrong told us about taking his “one giant leap for mankind.” Could we really have tricked?
To learn more about this theory and other American hoaxes, check out The Skeptic’s Guide to Conspiracies by Monte Cook. And don’t bother staying up tonight…
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