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Science & space fact checks
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FactCheck.orgScience & space
“There is an unlimited amount of oil" on Earth.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
Video shows “huge green coloured meteor” on July 7, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
“Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM killer rock on approach - Could end human civilisation.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
"Hemp has 25,000-35,000 known usages. That means it is going to be something that will replace plastics, and styrofoam and concrete."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactScience & space
CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
Giant human skeletons as large as 36 feet have been “unearthed and documented” in historical records.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
The International Space Station is in a pool, not in space.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactScience & space
“8 MINUTES AGO! The largest underwater volcano has SUDDENLY CRACKED OPEN the Earth!”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
CERN scientists admit they “accidentally” ended the world in 2012 while performing experiments into the Higgs boson particle.
Publisher’s rating: False
Joe's Fresh FactsScience & space
Spheres are flat.
Publisher’s rating: Only if they have been deflated.
PolitiFactScience & space
“NASA discovers THC on meteorite fragment.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactScience & space
"When two large whales do the nasty there’s sometimes this one bro who just sort of holds them up so they don’t float off."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactScience & space
When Bill Nye said “the Earth is a closed system,” he suggested space exploration is impossible.
Publisher’s rating: False
