In April 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 a.m. a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event would occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and reduce the Earth's gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 a.m. arrived, BBC2 received hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her 11 friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.
April Fool's - Don't let it happen to you! 😲
Originally posted by RamnedWas War of the Worlds originally an April Fool's story? Or just a regular radio program?
In April 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 a.m. a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event would occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and reduce the Earth's gravity. Moore told his ...[text shortened]... om their chairs and floated around the room.
April Fool's - Don't let it happen to you! 😲
There were lots of cases of people actually commiting suicide over War of the Worlds. It wasn't an April Fools it was just a standard play. The problem was if you missed the beginning of it, it just sounded like a normal radio station playinng classical music and then they cut to a news bulletin and it begins! If you listen to the whle thing and pretend that you didn't hear the intro you can kinda understand why people got worried haha