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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 Monday August 14 2017, @06:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @06:02AM (#553514)

    Agreed. There is a huge difference between a 9/11 'conspiracy' or cover up and something like a moon landing or a non-flat earth being faked. Theoretically 9/11 may have been a CIA/GOV operation where only half a dozen people know the truth and need to keep quiet, while everyone else just sees the result. Whereas with these other things, the 'conspiracy theorists' are denying overwhelming evidence that is contrary to their belief, and vast numbers of people would need to be continually and intentionally faking things. With 9/11 there isn't sufficient evidence either way about the motivations of the dead people involved. We know the outcome, but the 'consipiracy theory' on that one is about the motivations that caused it.