We live in an amazing time. Ships travel through the galaxy, nanoparticles help humanity find cures for all diseases, and British scientists every day delight us with new discoveries. In this flow of information it is quite easy to get lost, and at some point the boundary between fiction and reality practically ceases to exist. However, it sometimes happens that the level of inadequacy of what is happening begins to openly go off scale. It happened this time.
It all started with the fact that our editorial board drew attention to the fact that the news of January 30, 2013 began to gain incredible popularity. A small note “Can I charge my smartphone in the microwave?” Gained more than 7000 views per day.
Usually such a sharp jump suggests that some popular resource has put a link to this page. This happens quite often. But not at this time. The reason for such a wild popularity of this article was yesterday's joke, which spread around all the popular public VKontakte, as well as other social networks.
After a little analysis, we saw that Google and Yandex search engines were to blame for the increased attention to the January publication.
We are sure that this situation causes nothing but a smile to our readers, just like ours. But let's think for a second what could make people believe in outright nonsense and start looking for the truth or not? Perhaps one of you remembers a recent joke that after upgrading the iPhone to iOS 7, it becomes waterproof? Funny Yes, but obviously not for everyone. After this joke, the phone repair services were overwhelmed with a flooded iPhone.
Hi-News.ru, like many of our Russian and foreign colleagues, is doing everything possible to educate and inform about the latest and most interesting in the world of science and technology. However, in this unequal fight with ignorance and stupidity, the forces are not equal. Help us in this fight and share the most interesting and useful that you find on the Internet, with your friends on social networks. One never knows when another joke on the social network "VKontakte": "Did you know that by adopting arsenic, you become immortal" for someone to stop being a joke. Forever and ever.
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