China Fakes Reports From Space

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China's state news agency published a despatch from the country's three latest astronauts describing their first night in space before they had even left Earth.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...from-space.html

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China's state news agency published a despatch from the country's three latest astronauts describing their first night in space before they had even left Earth.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...from-space.html

 

a classic oops.

 

of course its simply having the story all ready to go and just waiting for the go button - and accidently hitting it.

 

I recall something similar from an unnamed AFB doing an unnamed exercise using a code name that woke EVERYBODY up (was supposed to be an internal exercise but was accidently sent). We later filed that as the "inadvertant exercise of higher authority......!