I only woke up to comms after coming here. But anybody reading this headline knows it's fake. It's like the author said "who are we trying to fool, anyway? I'll just throw this out there and just pretend that I'm pretending it's real."
"Asteroid the size of 100 Barbie dolls to pass Earth on Thursday - NASA"
https://m.jpost.com/science/space/article-752364
I don't live in Jerusalem and I've never seen a physical copy of the Jerusalem Post, but I've read enough to know they have serious articles and that they aren't the Babylon Bee or the Weekly World News. I expect some sex trafficking allegations to come out on Thursday.
It will be awhile before the Guardian or NYT gets this flippant, but in the meantime we are seeing the MSM's shell beginning to crack.
Barbie is trending. So it's ... plausible.
But that's this author's shtick. If you click on the "asteroid" tag at the bottom of the article, you'll see a bunch of real doozies - narwhals, big macs, etc. They went from "real science" to "wacky weatherman of space" long ago. But why would any news organization publish any of it?
Case in point. This author has another article: "New Jersey Pork Roll asteroid" hit in May this year ... right before Chris Christie announced his candidacy. As predicted by the article, it didn't (ahem) rock anybody's world. It could be that the author was signalling an upcoming happening in NJ, ... but maybe pork rolls were just trending that week.
As in that article, it could be a real asteroid that is not going to hit the earth (which is newsworthy ... how?), or it could be broadcasting a message about sex dolls, telling the sciencey spook diaspora to be prepared. The photo shows a suggestive "asteroid path" as well. The future will tell us.
In related? news...
How to watch this week's Congressional UFO hearing Members of Congress will 'explore firsthand accounts of unidentified anomalous phenomena.'
https://www.engadget.com/how-to-watch-this-weeks-congressional-ufo-hearing-164546251.html