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"Etienne Klein, a director at France's Atomic Energy Commission, posted a picture purportedly showing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun.
"This level of detail ... a new world is revealed every day", he enthused in the tweet, sent to more than 90,000 followers on Monday. However, Professor Klein has now admitted that the glowing celestial body shown was in fact nothing more than a slice of Spanish chorizo sausage."
You have to wonder WTH people are thinking! He later apologized calling it "a scientist's joke" but at least one Twitter user was not at all amused. "Coming from a scientific research director, it's quite inappropriate to share this type of thing", replied Twitter user @alexis200m." I wonder how this will affect his standing within the scientific community. Click the link and scroll down to see the picture he tweeted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/french-scientist-apologises-for-chorizo-star-joke/101305334
"This level of detail ... a new world is revealed every day", he enthused in the tweet, sent to more than 90,000 followers on Monday. However, Professor Klein has now admitted that the glowing celestial body shown was in fact nothing more than a slice of Spanish chorizo sausage."
You have to wonder WTH people are thinking! He later apologized calling it "a scientist's joke" but at least one Twitter user was not at all amused. "Coming from a scientific research director, it's quite inappropriate to share this type of thing", replied Twitter user @alexis200m." I wonder how this will affect his standing within the scientific community. Click the link and scroll down to see the picture he tweeted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/french-scientist-apologises-for-chorizo-star-joke/101305334