One of the best April Fools jokes ever.

[WLJ]

#1 Auspicious Alignments

On the first morning in April 1976, BBC Radio 2 astronomer Patrick Moore announced the approach of a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event. At 9:47 a.m., Moore said, the planet Pluto the would pass directly behind Jupiter, and at that moment their gravitational alignment would counteract and thus lessen the pull of Earth's gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of this planetary alignment, they would experience a strange floating sensation. At 9:48, callers flooded the lines of BBC 2 with stories of their brief buoyant experiences.

Last year's flurry of worry about the March 19, 2011 "Supermoon," which people feared would set off earthquakes and other cataclysmic events, showed the public hasn't come very far in its understanding of astronomical influences since the 1976 prank.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/ ... z1qnG2UqUd

[Ulwembu]

Someone had put a fake sea mine in a pond today in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands... Ball with spikes on it. Area sealed off, bomb squad was called and everything. When they pulled it out it was half a ball filled with insulation foam. They were not amused and are now going to try to find out who did it so they can send him/them the bill...

[jackalo626]

Wild.

[ChopperDoc]

Someone had put a fake sea mine in a pond today in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands... Ball with spikes on it. Area sealed off, bomb squad was called and everything. When they pulled it out it was half a ball filled with insulation foam. They were not amused and are now going to try to find out who did it so they can send him/them the bill...

F-'em if they can't take a joke!