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The Theory of Gravity is a Hoax

by Devlin_Donnelly on 11/4/12, 11:26 PM with 10 comments

  • by autonoms on 11/4/12, 11:50 PM

    This is hilarious. This is one of those "in the right place at the right time" things. Vandalism like that usually only is up for a few minutes, apparently the same few minutes when DuckDuckGo was crawling that page. Amazing.
  • by chrismorgan on 11/5/12, 12:30 AM

    And here is the pertinent revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gravity&oldid...

    It survived for almost three and a half hours.

    I like the note at the end of the revision page: "This version of the page has been revised. Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains factual inaccuracies, vandalism, or material not compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License."

  • by Devlin_Donnelly on 11/4/12, 11:38 PM

    So I just discovered this while I was doing some research for a paper I'm writing on gravity. Anyone know why duckduckgo shows this rather than an excerpt from the article it links to for the first link?