The physicist and philosopher
Etienne Klein
made a joke that shook the internet: After posting a photo of a salami on social media, he passed it off as a sausage. The news immediately went around the world, forcing the physicist to apologize for saying the photo of a sausage was derived from images found through a telescope.
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The joke of scientist Etienne Klein on Twitter
More specifically on
Twitter The photo of the sausage was featured with an introduction calling it “a photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, 4.2 light years away from us”.
The telescope that would take the photo has also been identified by the French physicist
James Webba jewel of technology created thanks to an international collaboration between the American Space Agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Too many things didn’t match: the light, the elements used in that red sphere that was so unusual. And so, some social media users started to express doubts. Other slightly more observant users have noticed the resemblance to the
chorizoa typical sausage from the Iberian Peninsula, made from beef and pork and seasoned with paprika.
All of this forced the researcher to apologize to his 89,200 Twitter followers.