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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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Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse
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(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 13 2017, @03:08PM
No, the earth is perfectly flat. It's just that the sphere we are living on is not the real earth. You can clearly see that from the fact that it isn't flat, while the real earth is.
No, the earth is just 6000 years old. This planet we currently live on is older, though.
SCNR ;-)
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