You may have noticed it too.
Sometimes news arrives very much like very big soap bubbles: iridescent on the outside
and empty inside.
News with no real foundation, built to be clicked.
After all, there is a tendency now to glorify everything as if everything were new and extraordinary.
It used to be the nine-column headlines that sold newspapers on the streets.
Today digital relies on invention or exaggerated emphasis.
Suddenly any one thing goes viral, everyone starts talking about it, and then it also
becomes necessary for popularizers to make it understandable beyond its actual importance.
As in the case we are exposing to you, which also has the merit of presenting an alternative
view of certain features of the Solar System.
What are we talking about?
Well... the fact that someone has flaunted as if it were news
that from a certain
point of view, Mercury is the closest planet
to Earth, and not Venus!
Come… let's
try
to figure
it out!