This is a serious proposition: NASA should consider taking Mark Sargent up to the International Space station sometime. If they can take other non-Astronaut types up there as part of some public relations/goodwill program, then trying to make idiots smarter would be a good enough reason for me.
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Wait you actually watched the video? Sober?
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I still maintain that anyone who genuinely thinks that gravity somehow isn’t factual test it out for themselves; pick a tall building, go up to the roof and take a long walk…
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On the other hand, there’s real science to do here. I’m wondering if there are any common life experience or psychological tendencies in this crowd, the Moon hoaxers, the cryptids, the alien abductees, that might give us a glimpse into how this last election happened.
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The pride they take in their willful ignorance is both astonishing and horrifying. Every time I see something about flat earthers I wonder how many of them are just trolls because how the f%#$ can someone really believe something so stupid in this day and age. I mean you could tie a GoPro to a weather balloon (as has been done on youtube many times) and the balloon will get high enough you can actually see the curve of the earth.
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Finally, it’s all coming together! The moon landing, the flat Earth, the Bowling Green Massacre. Tell the people!
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I’m at work…I was bored. It is only like 3 min long.
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What are the odds he will try to open the door just to prove there isn’t really vacuum outside? Taking non-experts into space is one thing, taking a total loon is another.
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No way. I’m not a blithering idiot; I should get to go into space before one of these folk.
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Well if you have a hyper-dense material like scratch to play with, maybe it is extremely malleable and you can shift it around like putty. But if we are accelerating at 9.8m/s/s a rather shallow google search says in about a year you would be traveling at light speed. Cool! We’re on a starship!
This is getting more and more like a Larry Niven novel all the time!
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I don’t think that would make idiots smarter; it would give a singular idiot massively more attention than he deserves, and enable him to spread his idiocy further than ever before. Can you imagine the fantastical logical contortions he would concoct to explain how a multi-million dollar expedition for him personally was all an elaborate fake? It would spawn thousands of insincere imitators aspiring to get their own piece of the pie.
No, the solution is to stop listening to stupid people and pretending that their stupidity is newsworthy. And the solution there, in turn, is to shut down this obnoxious 24-hour news cycle and the endless quest for attention-grabbing headlines.
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All the videos I’ve seen from weather balloons have so much lens distortion that you can’t see the curve the of the earth. Engaging a flat earther this was will only encourage them to cherry pick the frames where the earth seems to be bowl shaped rather than globe shaped.
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I suspect that’s why he waded in… it was kind of fun and edumacational, if you ask me. I mean, it’s better than the wave of sexist and racist trolls we got on other threads.
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This is from the website of one of the presenters. I bet she has zero problem staying in character.
“Topics: flat earth, the creator, NASA, the ISS, satellites, asteroids, meteors, lack of curvature, maps, 9/11, false flags, hoax events, the NWO, the oil scam, free energy, the banking scam, the occult, sacred geometry, gematria, secret societies, illuminati, urine therapy, fasting, veganism, earthing, vaccines, chemtrails, GMO’s, sun gazing, mainstream media propaganda, AIDS, HIV, hallucinogenics, hemp, cannabis, colloidal silver, baking soda, coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, borax, ormus, curing cancer and other diseases naturally, not voting, opting out of mainstream society as much as possible, sprinkled with friendship, kindness, love and my three cats.”
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Definitely a more amusing kind of trolley.
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And an opportunity for our more sciencly-inclined members to show off their smarts!
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Okay, this probably won’t be a very popular perspective, but my God, these idiots VOTE. I say, we ask everyone a few questions at the polling stations…oh…such as…
- Is the earth flat?
- How old is the earth?
- Do you believe your government is trying to poison its citizens with chemtrails?
- Is Alex Jones a reliable news source?
- Is Donald Trump a good President?
Anything less than 100% correct and you get dismissed from voting. And if you have to ask what the right answers are, you also get dismissed.
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You make a good point; they may be delusional, but at least they are not as annoying as the hate-mongering trollies.
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Yep. Although I don’t doubt that there might be some overlap at times… it just seems like these trolls are single issue trolls and have no interest in the other stuff.
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