What was this year's fake April Discover article?

Well, either they didn’t do one, or it fooled my ass. What was the April Fool’s article this year in Discover?

i was just going to make some lame comment about how it’s still march.
but i won’t.


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Me too, Revtim - I spent more time trying to spot the fake article than I did actually reading the damn thing.

Popular Science had a fake - maybe Discover passed this year. Or maybe we’re both really dense.


Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who hasn’t found it…

Don’t magazines come out a month before the month the issue is?

The may issue should be out in April.

sigh This is March - so we all have the April issue. Is it already April where you live?

Well, I don’t feel so dumb anymore, since David B. says he hasn’t spotted it either!


Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.

Every previous year, I have forgotten that Discover has April Fool’s selections, but I eventually came across the planted article and said “Hey this can’t be right–oh, this must be the April Fools article. Very amusing.”

But this year that didn’t happened, and, reviewing the April, 2000 issue once more, I’m pretty sure there isn’t any April Fools entires this time.

My understanding as to why you have the April issue and it is still March is that magazines are dated as of the date they go off newsstand sale.

In other words, the April issue will get to newsstands sometime in mid-March and will be on sale until the May issue comes out in mid-April. That way, if you pick up an issue in early April, it will be the April issue and you won’t think you are buying a “stale” magazine.

Maybe the Census is this years thing as its set for April 1st.

Coosa-I was responding to Mega. No need to be snarky.

Page 38.

Days of Blunder.

not quite the same, i know… but that’s all i can see.


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From the last sentence of the article “Days of Blunder” (p. 38, as Kilgore Trout pointed out):

That message is, of course, “Happy April Fools Day.” The article is about various mistakes made in the history of space, rather than a flat-out fake article. Phooey.


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That would be the history of space exploration, not the history of space itself. Big, big difference there.

Yup, there it is. < sigh > I was looking for one of their little blurbs, like usual. I only skimmed that article and didn’t catch the last sentence. Ah well.

Nice catch there, Ruffian–your detective skills rival that of the master. (Either Sherlock Holmes or Cecil Adams–take your pick).

But I’ve got to believe this weak “joke” is a sign that Discover has run out of good ideas, and has moved on middling ones.

me being the master, of course.


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