The Bible makes a claim that the moon makes it’s own light. That is where this comes from.
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If rocks did not reflect light, we would not be able to see them. It’s human physiology.
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What passage is that? I don’t remember any of the books of the Bible getting into cosmology that much.
Or is this some nonsense about a passage like “by the light of the moon” excluding the possibility of reflected light by some insane twisted logic?
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Just add that the moon visible shape is different across different latitudes and it is complete.
But, I have no idea how flat-earthers model the rest of the universe’s movements (it is probably hilarious).
Bullshit, there are flat-earthers all around the globe. /s
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Furthermore, how were movies of the Faked Apollo Landing made?
It’s not just flat, it’s a conveyor belt.
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My favorite response to flat Earther was astronaut Mark Kelly. He said, “listen, if the earth was flat, wouldn’t the edge be a really cool place?” Then they joked about building a house with your bedroom hanging off the edge, and all the cats that would be there just pushing stuff off the edge.
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You can’t get near the edge, because there’s weird mind-bendy stuff (waves hands) that causes you to lose your way, turn round and find your way back to the coast of Antarctica again. Scientific fact. Can’t argue with that.
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I think, once you are dedicated to the concept, your whole identity relies on it. This may explain Trumpers, antivaxxers, and a whole variety of loonies. It starts off being easy, but like any addiction, eventually it owns you.
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Huh. Thank you for filling me in. Has anyone told the astronauts about the mind-bendy stuff? They need to know!
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I’m keeping out of this just in case you’re Buzz Aldrin…
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I’m not the astronaut you’re looking for…
https://media.giphy.com/media/l2JJKs3I69qfaQleE/giphy.gif
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People who are merely stupid don’t question things at all. And if they have to, they’ll accept the first answer anyone gives them (which is still, almost all of the time, “the Earth is roughly spherical).
Flearthism isn’t about stupidity, it’s about ego. Flearthers don’t care if the Earth is flat. They just see that mainstream science is ultimately made up of people, and think they have as much right to be believed as those people. And they do sort of have a point – it’s not scientific to believe someone just because they work at MIT, or disbelieve them just because they work at Wendy’s.
To some extent, Flearthism is a person complaining that society has no use for their intellectual gifts. We should feel sympathy for that. But to some extent it’s also a person choosing to reject consensus reality rather than admit that they’re not the smartest person in it.
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I wonder whether the “rocks don’t reflect light” is some sort of confusion between specular and diffuse reflection. Because diffuse reflection is still reflection.
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On one hand you are probably right.
On the other: They act like idiots online and I think they really are idiots… I guess the joke’s on me?
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Some adhere to the celestial spheres theory, others assert that the sky is a giant display that can be programmed to show whatever is needed. The latter is convenient because nothing needs to make sense, it’s just a big TV.
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I don’t go down many rabbit holes, but flat eartherism tugs me everytime. Endlessly fascinating.
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I’m imagining a pebbly beach completely painted in vanta black.
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Buzz can explain it in the only way a flat-Earther can understand.
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Not just ignorant - stupid. Ignorant can be cured. Stupidity can’t.
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