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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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Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
-- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Monday August 14 2017, @05:39PM
Ooh this is fun, let me try!
American water is driven through the pipes by pumps spinning in the proper direction. This imparts angular momentum to the water which is retained at the atomic level throughout its lifecycle until it finally evaporates.
People who live in the poor, ignorant, backwards countries naturally spin their pumps backwards, causing the water to drain backwards.
I mean it should be obvious if you just open your mind a crack.