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Notice that the edges get darker first. On a globe wouldn't the light be all the way across the horizon?
Posted on 04/07/2018 5:12:31 AM PDT by C19fan
A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in the country who refuse to accept the scientific facts of the world’s shape. YouGov, a British market research firm, polled 8,215 adults in the United States to find out if they ever believed in the “flat Earth” movement. Only 66 percent of young millennials answered that they “always believe the world is round.” Science teachers across the U.S. will be shaking their heads after learning that nine percent of young adults answered that they have “always believed” the planet was flat.
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Millennials obviously don’t take polls seriously.
Tide Pods.
One of my guys would argue that it is not "round".
I agree with them. I “feel” that it is an ever so slightly oblate spheroid. Just my own humble “feeling”.
They shouldn't. Much less should they believe the headlines. As the article says: "nine percent of young adults answered that they have “always believed” the planet was flat."
Of those 9% what fraction answered this way as a joke. Given that 1 in 10 are sociopaths anyway, a large fraction of those must be a joke.
Then there are those who figure any question like this is a trick question and that the "obvious answer" is wrong. Actually it is wrong. The earth is not round as in a sphere, but slightly flattened on the poles and bulging out at the equator.
Then there are the incredibly ignorant and if it is 4 or 5% well, that's life and you don't fix that in America or England. Socialists might get a "better" result only because socialists never question what their socialist government tells them.
a British market research firm
What are the Brits up our grill?
This is just proof of that fact.
What is it about these Tide Pods? I see that all over the place but nobody gives the meaning of it.
Technically the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
Maybe there is hope after all.
Being told thruout their entire edukation that the erf is experiencing glowBull climate change when it isn’t, at least subconsciously they know this is crap. Why shouldn’t that crap extend to the shape of the erf?
These kids eat Tide Pods and snort condoms so it comes as no shock to me that they believe the earth is flat.
The comments on NASA’S Instagram include many flat-erfers.
Being questioned by a pollster with a British accent?
LOL!!
Thank God for that!
Yup, and they all think it’s “turtles all the way down”.
Perfect fodder for Facebook.
Well... now the popular dare is to eat TIDE PODS, which are a mix of detergents formed into small gel-like balls which can easily be thrown into the washing machine.
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