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Edited by Krishnas Prophet:
12/13/2017 8:22:47 AM
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25% of Americans Are Smart Enough to Know That The Earth Does NOT Go Around The Sun
It is statistics such as these:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/what-americans-dont-know-about-science/283864/
That give me hope for our future generations. The scientific ignorance of the past 300 years is not so strong as the mainstream media would like us to think. As this simple survey shows, a sobering number of people still know how to use their minds when confronted with a chance to regurgitate science "facts".
I usually talk about science in a way that makes it seem like it is a permanent evil that our generation will never live to overcome. But through the intellectual integrity of movements like Flat Earth Theory, it is just barely possible that we could see the end of the scientific delusion in our lifetime. People aren't the mindless sheep we often take them for. And while studies like this display these facts as a wake up call to mainstream educators (one that should frighten those who base their power on the illusion of scientific dogma), it is cause for hope for those who see through the facade of scientific armchair sophistry and parlor room illusions.
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Then explain this https://instagram.com/p/Bc-aB2zlTwE/
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Of course Earth doesn't go around the sun, it goes asquare!
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[i]Guess who's back...Back again...[/i]
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Yay flatbread is back
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1 ReplyIsn't that also the percentage of Americans who can't point out the US on a map? [spoiler]Probably have my statistic wrong, but it's something like that I believe[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyEdited by OldboyVicious: 12/14/2017 8:18:43 PMThere is a false equivocation in your statistic. Just because 25% of Americans don't know that the earth rotates around the sun, does not mean that they have come to the conclusion that it doesn't. Of that 25%, there will be a percentage of Americans who never learned that the earth rotates around the sun. There will be a percentage that did learn it and forgot it. As well as a percentage of those who tried to learn it but did not understand. So instead of saying that 25% of Americans are smart enough to know the earth is not revolving around the sun, you must take into account that the Americans who make up that 25% are divided into several sub-groups of those who failed to learn that fact, failed to retain thay knowledge, are incapable of comprehending that knowledge, and a portion of that 25% probably actively made a decision to believe that the earth does not revolve around the sun for whatever various reasons, with a portion of [i]that[/i] number being those who believe in flat earth theory.
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Well RIP Murcia then...
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Notice how it says "on a recent survey" they made that shit up. You are actually and idiot. Wow.
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Actually, you’re wrong. Our universe is a vex simulation.
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Oh my God. Krishna is the sun and he goes around the Earth. It all makes sense now!
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1 ReplyEdited by Fat Body: 12/14/2017 1:22:41 AMMarx debunked flat earth theory YEARS AGO. God damn read a book written by Marx and you'll see why it's debunked. Not by anybody else though just Marx.
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A year later and these threads still blow up... Some things never change, I guess.
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It's always a joy to read your post and the interactions that take place within them. While I do not believe in a flat earth your post are interesting and through the interactions between you and others I have become more open minded.
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1 ReplyAre you one of my stupid-ass,religious neighbors?
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5 RepliesReligion has put science behind about 500 years. Only in the last 100 years have we become a more secularist society giving humans beings a chance to expand their horizons.
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This is all a lie made by the lizard people running our government.
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[quote]0.0001% Of Americans are dumb[/quote] fixed
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Edited by BenjyX55: 12/13/2017 9:29:47 PMTechnically, any two celestial bodies revolve around each other. However, in our solar system, Jupiter is the only non-solar body whose mass is great enough that the focus of the Sun's orbit around it is significantly distanced from the Sun's center of mass. For all others, the sun may as well be a fixed in space for all the gravitational influence they exert onto it.
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How do the spherical sun and moon stay in the air and circle around if gravity doesn't exist?
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7 RepliesWhile the observational agreement with general relativity is quite the feat of modern science, I will say that geocentric models propose some pretty interesting mathematics. Like, some very smart people throughout history came up with some very clever mathematics in order to reconcile for things that don’t make much sense in the geocentric model, like apparent retrograde motion, and the phases of Venus. It’s funny to me, because Kepler’s geometric argument involves far simpler mathematics than that of the epicycles and such of a geocentric model. Despite its simplicity, scientists had overlooked it for many years due to the basic assumption being made. What’s even more amazing is that you can literally get to Kepler’s mathematics from a geocentric model’s mathematics so long as you rid yourself of the dependence of an Earth-centric orbit. So instead of resolving the simpler formalism, scientists pushed on with an overly complex model because of their stubbornness. That’s what I think is going on in modern Physics right now actually. We’re so god damn in love with how great the path integral is (and it is pretty -blam!-ing great) that we abide by this almost unrealistic model that meets expectations but leaves questions open that need not be open. -blam!- String Theory and Ed Witten.
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So in this...argument of yours, what causes the significant differences in temperatures between the various planets, even in our solar system? And why, when looked at, do we observe both curvature and the absence of a sun around them?
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Still think that the picture of the earth in the spoiler looks like a pie.
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1 ReplyWell thanks for ruining my day with this. I'm sure in the next few decades we will be back to burring people at the stake who can swim, no need to rush things tho...
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Ha you actually believe in the sun
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So, why does the world being flat matter? How much does it really effect our lives why should I care about the shape of the earth?
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And all those who are shitting right now, 34% will get shit on their fingers when they wipe.
