8 Times Flat-Earthers Tried to Challenge Science (and Failed) in 2017

Space.com ^ | 12/21/17 | Stephanie Pappas

[MNDude]

no global warming?

[merkava]

The flat earthers are the global warming religious.

[WayneS]

I always thought the “Flat Earth Society” was a satirical, tongue-in-cheek, fun-loving, organization. I had no idea people took it seriously.

[WayneS]

Can’t have global warming without the globe...

[Springman]

Me too, guess some people have no common sense. Well it is fun to watch them.

[dp0622]

It is.

[Calvin Locke]

I saw some show segment on The History Channel about a Flat-Earth Society, probably in the 1920s. Kalifornia, of course.

They "proved" it by using a level on a set of boards that they kept alternatively extending on a beach.

The endeavor lasted about 500 yards or so, from what I remember, and then the combination of intellects that rivaled Einstein, Columbus, and Newton, declared the Earth to be flat, and went home.

I think that the group dissolved after that.

[a fool in paradise]

With celebrities involved it’s got to be about keeping names in print

[tumblindice]

[stylin19a]

Cris Columbus actually had 4 ships. We don’t know the name of the 4th. It sailed over the edge.

[cgbg]

It is fun to watch the crazies until they seize control of the universities and try to ram their craziness down our throats as “science”. :-(

[Simon Green]

Me am not enjoying reading about Bizarros.

Alan Moore actually made Bizarro creepy and tragic in his story, "Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"

[rrrod]

Everyone knows the earth is flat....

[eclecticEel]

It certainly was, the original flat-earth website was an obvious in-joke.

[Dutch Boy]

When you can get people to believe things that are demonstrability false you can make them believe anything.

[Steely Tom]

Flat earthers are people who aren't intellectually able to handle scientific subjects, but envy the confidence and competence of people who are.

Unable to compete with them and frustrated as a result, they try to remove the sting of inadequacy by convincing themselves they can undercut the foundations of scientific discipline by forcing their intellectual betters to admit that something obvious and universally accepted "cannot be proved."

In fact, all they're really doing is demonstrating that they can't understand a simple and obvious fact that can be directly observed only by inference. In other words, their arguments only serve to demonstrate how dull they are.

Yet another manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect, something we've become all too familiar with during the eight Obama years.

[jmacusa]

All due respect, ok? But your average feral black cum celebrity is not the brightest star in the constellation. Jus’ sayin’....

[Deaf Smith]

"Lucy you know the world must be flat, 'cause when people leave town they never come back"...Lyrics-Small Town Saturday Night.

Howl at the Moon, shoot out the light. Small town Saturday night.

[xrmusn]

“Lucy you know the world must be flat, ‘cause when people leave town they never come back”...Lyrics-Small Town Saturday Night.
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We know the earth isn’t flat

IF IT WERE

Cats would have pushed everything off the edge!!!!