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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, Informative) by VortexCortex on Monday August 14 2017, @09:22PM
Apparently you've been misinformed about this. The truth is that even modern science agrees that the Coriolis Effect does not make drains spin in different directions.
Have a snopes link:
http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp [snopes.com]
If what you believed about drains was bogus, then how much of everything else you believe and repeat is bullshit? Question Everything.
I'm not a Flat Earther, but at least they question what they hear.