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New research finds that young planets are flattened structures rather than spherical (phys.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cue the flat-earthers who are going to jump on this while completely ignoring all other aspects including the gravity required to make this happen, and somehow claim this is scientific proof that they were right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think flat earthers are getting their ideas from mainstream scientific websites.