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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Then there was the day Elon Musk found a group that was even stupider than the people he normally hangs out with:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Achivement unlocked: Dumber than Musk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's always amusing to me which observations these people won't ignore while they ignore other observations. Like how do they draw the line?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Behold, the real reason why Elon launched a car into space.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

someone who believes in a flat earth is also more likely to believe in the geocentric order of planets rather than the heliocentric one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If not geocentric, then egocentric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Americentric

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I highly doubt they know what either of those mean, actually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

But they heard the word once and it sounds sciency, so they keep repeating it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

heliocentricism → the Sun is the center of the universe and all revolves around it

geocentrism → the Earth is the center of the universe and all revolves around it, including the sun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

heliocentricism → the Sun is the center of the ~~universe~~ solar system and all revolves around it

That's what you meant to write...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Ha! You think flat earthers believe we aren't the center of the universe?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This actually explains why our planet is the only one with life. The aliens keep slipping off theirs!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How did the photographer get all the planets to pose like this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How did AI get the planets to hold still for so long?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's just a parody of the planets. They're all Al dressed up in different costumes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wheres the turtle holding the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The other planets and moons are flat too, bro. They just face us all the time. It's convenient like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Earth is the only flat planet AND the only one to have both liquid water and life. Checkmate, round-earth whackadoodles. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you obviously can't have oceans on a round planet. The water would just flow away into space.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Europa gets a pass because of all the ice holding it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ice can be round of course, we know that from ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Nonononononono! You got it wrong! The "sun" is just a giant heat lamp the government has been running ever since the beginning of time! The heat lamp moves while we stay stationary! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I thought Earth was Neapolitan style, but it was Chicago deep dish the whole time! If only I'd have known earlier!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is such a misconstrued scale meant to be derisive against flat earthers. The accurate representation is a circle with cloud shrouded ice damns along the edge of the planet.

It's still dumb but should be accurate to what they believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And the sun should be a little ball above the Earth. Exactly how high and how big is not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You also shouldn't ask how it manages to light only half of an otherwise flat earth I suppose.

Best explanation I saw involved light curving. At which point you're just working with a spherical earth in a weird coordinate system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Explanations for lunar and solar eclipses get silly too. Mercury and Venus passing in front of the sun is just ignored as it wouldn't fit between the Earth and the sun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Imagine believing science enough to agree with scientists that Pluto isn't a planet, but not enough to believe Earth is round.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Pluto is where the conspiracy gets really crazy, which is why astronomers are trying to cover up it's existence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We can argue about this all day but we should probably find something better to do in the short time we have left before we crash into the sun according to this diagram

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

500my isn't enough to build a space society?