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To: d:oug who wrote (13425)	11/12/2000 6:54:10 AM
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Z-Alert... bat-winged turnip creatures, living on the moon. SI: StockTalk: Market Trends and Strategies : Zeev's Turnips This thread is to explore where no man has gone before. The mixture of turnip/manure pile that resides in Zeev's backyard. Did you know there were "bat-winged, human-like creatures" living on the moon? Well, the New York Sun believed it. The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 had everyone looking up. ... a series of articles, allegedly reprinted from the nonexistent Edinburgh Journal of Science, relating to the discovery of life on the moon by Sir John Herschel, eminent British astronomer, who some time before had gone to the Cape of Good Hope to try out a new type of powerful telescope. The first installment of the moon hoax appeared in the August 25, 1835 edition of the New York Sun on page two, under the heading "Celestial Discoveries." ... with the master revelation of all: the discovery of furry, winged men resembling bats. ... later stories told of the Temple of the Moon, constructed of sapphire, with a roof of yellow resembling gold. ... readers of the Sun were awaiting more astounding details, but the Sun told them the telescope had, unfortunately, been left facing the east and the Sun's rays, concentrated through the lenses, burned a hole "15 feet in circumference" entirely through the reflecting chamber, putting the observatory out of commission. Rival editors were frantic; many of them pretended to have access to the original articles and began reprinting the Sun's series... [a.k.a. Florida's usa prez results] Some authorities think that a French scientist, Nicollet, in this country at the time, wrote them. Before Locke's confession a committee of scientists from Yale University hastened to New York to inspect the original articles... Edgar Allan Poe explained that he stopped work on the second part of The Strange Adventures of Hans Pfaall because he had felt he had been outdone. ... a Springfield, Massachusetts, missionary society resolved to send missionaries to the moon to convert and civilize the bat men. ... the Sun of September 16, 1835, admitted the hoax. When the hoax was exposed people were generally amused. It did not seem to lessen interest in the Sun, which never lost its increased circulation.