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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:39PM (#553315)

    Ok given that, wouldn't that result in a very long night-time while the Sun was underneath the Earth?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday August 13 2017, @07:02PM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 13 2017, @07:02PM (#553328) Journal

    wouldn't that result in a very long night-time while the Sun was underneath the Earth?

    They believe the sun can't go underneath the earth because the Earth extends infinitely in all directions; the "known earth" has the north pole at its center, and Antarctica as a big icy ring around the parts we know and have mapped. Then just snowy, icy nothing forever in all directions.

    I swear, I am not making this up.

    Their model has the pinpoint-spotlight sun just moving around pointing at different parts of the Earth to make it day where it's shining and night where it isn't.

    They also mention that, sure, you can see satellites in the sky, but they are all fake, placed there to "fool us."

    • (Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday August 14 2017, @05:41AM

      by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 14 2017, @05:41AM (#553503) Journal

      I swear, I am not making this up.

      I totally believe you, it would be difficult to make up this sort of shit on the fly without really having to think about how it is fricken possible without contradicting other statements - not to mention contradicting common sense heh.

      There's so much in flat-earth that just doesn't even pass a half-assed logical thought that it is scary that people are still in that sort of mental state to believe this.