{"id":2823,"date":"2009-06-13T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2009-06-13T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:23:53","slug":"t-or-f-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2823","title":{"rendered":"T or F?  F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the important rule of true-or-false questions:  if <em>any part<\/em> of the statement is untrue, then the statement is false.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/scienceandtechnology\/science\/space\/5511619\/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html\">14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, false.  There&#8217;s no way the meteorite was traveling 30,000 mph when it hit him, nor did it hit him and then form the crater.  This doesn&#8217;t mean the chunk isn&#8217;t a meteorite, nor that he wasn&#8217;t struck by it \u2014 elements of the story are certainly plausible, and there&#8217;s no reason to suspect that anybody is fabricating the event.  I suspect it&#8217;s a case of a reporter doing a minimum of background fact-checking and seeing that meteors travel that fast in space and just ran with it \u2014 no feel for the number being reasonable (supersonic, and many times faster than a bullet) or reconciling the relatively minor injury with this and the creation of a crater.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fairly thorough discussion of the details over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/06\/12\/a-boy-claims-he-was-hit-by-a-meteorite\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the important rule of true-or-false questions: if any part of the statement is untrue, then the statement is false. 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}