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Spielberg
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Like Orson Welles before him, Steven Spielberg now joins history's ranks of great hoaxes. Spielberg employed the help of fellow filmmaker George Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic Studio to make it look plaubsible that a small, robotic "rover vehicle" had been landed on Mars to fool millions of Americans for the 4th of July celebration like the Halloween event Wells stunned his radio listeners with in1939 by his famous broadcast of "War of the Worlds". While millions were enthralled by Spielberg's little "rover" stunt thousands of people had panicked as the Mercury Theatre Players dramatized the Martian story - making it believable that an alien ship at Grovers Mill was an invasion of Earth. Instead Americans enjoying the fourth of July holiday logged onto the Internet in record numbers – effectively shutting down the NASA computer backbone system which provides much of the infrastructure for the Net. |
| Photo credit: "Steven Spielberg having a bad hair day " by Glenn Rice of New Tool Co. The photo above is really Steven Spielberg and was taken while he was working on the set for his newest film, Amistad, earlier this year. How he got to Mars was a mystery to me until I realized this is all a hoax. | |
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