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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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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
the instruction afterward.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:48PM
That they do. Feminism (and I don't mean these “TERFs,” whatever untrue Scotsmen transfeminists have invented) is an anti-technology hate group with a monotheistic religion (despite its ostensible roots in paganism), so it would not surprise me one bit if many feminists were also flat-Earthers.
Also, where is our flat-Earth AC? This is her big chance!