Из истории научно-технической первоапрельской шутки

Science and technology provide fertile topics for funny April fools pranks. Jokers have realized this already in the last century and more than once stirred readers of serious Newspapers and magazines fraudulent reports of sensational discoveries and inventions...

In 1960 April fool issue of the magazine "Neue Berliner illustrierte" (GDR) there was a sensational message that was held x-ray screening of the famous Muslim Shrine "the Black stone", held in Mecca, the Kaaba Shrine. On the radiograph (she was given in the magazine) are clearly seen lying inside the stone skeleton of a humanoid and next to him some strange metal devices.

As you know, "the Black stone" - a meteorite that fell once to the Ground. The study proved, they wrote in the journal that the meteorite buried remains representative of another civilization. For readers who took the message seriously, in the next issue published a retraction.

The theme of "aliens" were made also in an article published in 1974 in the April issue of serious scientific magazine "Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau" (Germany).

The article proves that the prehistoric mural from the caves of Nerja in Spain, known as "Dolphin of Nerja" depicted is not a Dolphin, and the smallest detail of the ciliate-shoes, visible only in the modern electron microscope. For comparison, the frescoes and micrograph of shoes. Undoubtedly, the authors wrote, the area was visited by intelligent beings from outer space, and drawing - the trace of their stay on Earth. The article is decorated by all the rules adopted for the publication of scientific work.

The joke has misled even some biologists.

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