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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: 2) by bart on Monday August 14 2017, @12:21PM (1 child)
An engineer that is unable to understand the overwhelming evidence that supports a somewhat blobby ellipsoid shape of our planet does not have the understanding to add knowledge to this subject!
It is pure arrogance to think that because you find that there is an observation that doesn't seem to fit a hugely successful model (in this case of the thing we live on), that you with apparently little actual knowledge have earned the right to be even taken seriously on this matter.
Fortunately, no-one does, except similar idiots in their internet echo chamber.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @09:07PM
Ah the old "You can't raise any uncomfortable questions because you're not an expert!" rubbish.
If that were true then Marie Curie should have been ignored.
Any theory that is unquestionable is not science but religion.