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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 13 2017, @10:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-does-that-even-happen dept.

Mic has an article on the upcoming Solar Eclipse across the USA, focusing on one particular group of observers: Flat Earthers, who believe that the sun and moon rotate around each other above the Earth's surface.

...astronomers (both professional and amateur) aren't the only groups excited for this once-in-a-lifetime event. Another, more controversial community believes the upcoming eclipse could provide overwhelming evidence to support their cause. These people are flat Earthers, and they believe the solar eclipse will prove once and for all the Earth is not a sphere.

The article describes some of the proposed arguments from the newly resurgent, and apparently quite serious, flat earth community.


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  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday August 13 2017, @11:51AM

    by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday August 13 2017, @11:51AM (#553194)

    That would mean they would open for reason and objective evidence. For these people it means: if the evidence does not fit my system (hypothesis), then the evidence must be wrong, the system cannot be wrong.

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