Apparently there was news the other day about a woman who claimed to swim across the Atlantic Ocean in 25 days (while escorted by boat). Think about that for a second, then think about this:
Michael Phelps swimming his fastest would take about 20 days to cover that distance. And that's his fastest pace, sustained for three weeks, without ever stopping. Impossible.
Her longest time in the water was 8 hours, shortest was 21 minutes. Easy to see that there's no way she swam the Atlantic. Now, Yahoo! says:
Many media outlets (including Yahoo!) jumped on the story that seemed almost too good to be true.
…while later saying:
Yet, somehow, the AP ran the story even though a few seconds of thought and a pocket calculator was enough to disprove it.
Now thing about that for a few seconds. Yahoo! is claiming the AP should not have run the story since it was so easily disproved… yet Yahoo! ran the story.
[via Daringfireball]
