[syshum]

Something being picked up by the "mainstream press" does not mean it is not satire.

There are all kinds of satire and hoaxes that have been reported by the mainstream press as truth and reality...

[nsxwolf]

Yes, my point was that especially in 2001, it would have been easy to not have the technical acumen to realize the story was satire, and to write a serious news story about it.