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Mar 31, 2019 9:42 PM
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BADG3RTACT
Damned Round Earth Propaganda
tonybrio3000
Both wrong, earth is a cube and we're all borgs thinking we're still normal.
arkadun
Problem with internet is that while it let us share knowledge ajd information, it also let us share stupidity on a global scale
NVGoddesscottage
Fund public education
Kyuukichi
Also : "Vaccins DON'T cause autism!"
asmpsUnityDog
You have no idea how depressing this is.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
I'm still waiting for my own personal spider-goat and glowing spider-monkey.
C0mtraya
JapAnus
Desu I feel like more people thought the earth was flat back then. The internet just sensationalizes everything
NightfallEverdark
I hate Mike Pence as a person and a VP, but if he can get us to the moon and then to mars, I will support him
ClydeTheBelovedBandit
You mean "we artificially created photosynthesis, treated our second HIV patient and semitrucks as aerodynamic as sportscars"
ClydeTheBelovedBandit
Just because you CHOOSE to read dosent mean thats the way the world is.
TCGView
It feels like in one generation we've forgotten how the scientific method works. Or some have simply chosen to ignore it.
allenvasher3000
& vaccination is safe & it works
wiltsjunk
Didnt have to use my snow blower this year, first time that I can remember that happening
berserk
sounds good to me
lovehandlesmessiah
ZT369
The real earth
spacemope
I’m pretty sure that at least 99% of flat earthers are just trolls.
userfriendly19777
90s lunies spreading bad photo copies at bus stops and park benches. Today they have 300.000 subscribers on Youtube.
MinnesotaMathew
Just a few more years before we are watering crops with Brawndo...
nabacular
The internet has fostered the creation of custom echo chambers. And there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Blizzfanman
We also made one big ass underground ring to nuke atoms.
Vilgashem
You know, I don’t think I’ve personally encountered a flat-earthed, neither on or offline. I think it’s still a conversation due to mockery.
thesmelge
I lived in an area with a lot of them. Graffitti everywhere about it, local facebook groups full of it. Excess of thickos.
Callistan
There are a scattered few on Imgur. I also found some in the comments of a YouTube video about how gyrocompasses work. But that's it.
Doolahee
I think we have substantial evidence by now that the 90's were the best decade and that everything after is just increasingly shittier.
berserk
I prefer the seventies
HiddenSanity
Rose coloured glasses, Today has less people dying to war/starvation, more people are literate, etc etc. It's easier to spot problems, too.
KurtHamster
I don’t think scientists have EVER succeeded in explaining to the general public, what it is that they actually do...
Shanghaidoll
Science.
kilo38
Except for Willem Dafoe
stblackbird
For the first time in history everything is public and available. Look at what the general public does with the power, sports and celebtitie
KurtHamster
Don’t forget cats!
RulesOfImgur
Scientists today: we sent a robot the size of a car to mars, we made rockets reusable, we are going to live on mars
LifetimeLurker
Unless we will be locked in by space debris in 30 years and we'll be stuck here forever.
FrozenTime
Nonono, we have to take the negligible number of people who believe dumb bs and blow it out of proportion to make ourselves feel smarter.
GoliathSkittles
yeah but that's not as funny.
vicvalour
Which side of Mars, the heads or the tails?
thejinseng
We also shot an actual car towards outer space, so...
amglasgow
Narrator: We did not live on Mars.
KhajitHasWaresIfYouHaveTheCoin
Glossing over landing on a comet eh?
RulesOfImgur
140 characters is too little to explain what we have done recently. I just explained my favorites.
RulesOfImgur
But landing on a comment was impressive. We also finally reached interstellar space, New horizons pluto flyby, Cassini's goodbye, amd more
drzdeano
All things that happened in the 80s also
RulesOfImgur
No, space shuttle was a poor excuse for reusablility. Curiosity dwarfs any lander or rover on Mars.And the tech to live on Mars comes closer
drzdeano
Russian sent 5 ton orbiter in 70s. Space shuttle used reusable Rocket boosters, in the 80s. Ppl been saying we goin to Mars since 60s
RulesOfImgur
We didn't even land on the moon til 69. Space shuttle was too expensive to refurbish. And curiosity dwarfs any lander or rover on mars
isthiswhereiputmyusernameat
Scientists of the 90's: We have to prove that furbies are not controlled by satan... Again.
Callistan
True story: The NSA banned Furbies from their premises because they thought the demonic things would pick up and repeat classified info
TheClayKnight
I’m not saying they’re right, but I will say I can understand their concerns
DickMangoes
I'm still not convinced
Retsam19
The difference is that in the 90's we didn't have the perpetual outrage machine of social media. Flat Earthers existed, we just didn't care.
SpaceDriver7
There were less really stupid Americans because college was still affordable, but just barely.
sunyudai
Hah, you don't remember the nineties. Back then the propaganda outrage machine was called "Rush Limbaugh"
crank499
It’s worse now. Much worse.
xo101
What about hollow Mooners? Have they been around just as long?
Solkanarmy
I don't believe they exist now, I think all the posts are ironic, no-one could be that wilfully stupid
Rosfmmmhzdrozzley
Bazinga. I mean bingo
Valaar
They were more isolated, therefore less likely to spread nonsense around. I think they are convincing more and more uneducated people...
HitlersArtCritic
Now they globally unite. It's easier to make a following than before and harder to change minds of stubborn idiots.
Doumdidoum
You just don't remember the constant outrage of talk radio. It was as obnoxious.
Hackmastergeneral
Coast to Coast AM
TresusIbor
I remember it. My dad listened to that cunt Rush Limbaugh every damned day.
PeppermintButler82
Same...
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
what I don't get is what exacly they're trying to prove, imagine the earth is flat, okay, so what? who gains from that? What changes?
zyrxeese9000
If we were a mountain...we would have a problem with that
LullabyJones
This has never occurred to me before. Good point
Helix08
The point was to create distrust for authority figures in their field. convince people of a flat earth, climate change being fake is easy.
Helix08
Same with the antivax movement
Helix08
Fossil fuel makes corporations a lot of money.
SpaceDriver7
They're stupid. They also believe the world is just a little over 2000 yrs old and that the dinosaurs were put here by Satan. Religion dumbs
Drizztdourden69
All religious people believe the Earth is flat?
SpaceDriver7
You might want to know something about Edicts before you type responses.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
No no no, that'd make dinosaurs real, all dinosaur skeletons are actually fabricated by scientists and sculptors.
Prayers4Jebus
That's why I dont trust science... or sculptures.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
plaster-ing propaganda
Jarjarthejedi
The people who don't "buy into the conspiracy" that the earth is round gain a feeling of superiority over the "sheep" who believed.
Jarjarthejedi
It's the root of all of the dumb movements like flat earthers. A desire to feel superior to people without actually having to do anything.
BigTex1
The flat earth thing is actually a cover for the truth: At the end of WW2 the Nazis made a pact with the mole people and moved to the center
BigTex1
Of the earth so they could further refine their technology and try again. The only thing holding them back is the lizard people.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
Luckily the lizard people are slowly turning the moles autistic with toxins in their burgers, pretending it's from vaccines as a cover-up.
agentarcher
One thing that social media/internet excels at is making the voices of really stupid people much louder.
superflyeveryday
jds101
The best thing about the internet is that anyone can publish anything anytime... the worst thing about the internet is see above
kaitekarue
The problem is normal people are being exposed to more and louder stupid, making them stupid too. To quote MIB 1/2
kaitekarue
"A person is smart. People are dumb panicky animals."
TresusIbor
And you know it
kaitekarue
The worst are what i call Academia Dumb. The really smart academics who are just... so dumb. Like I know a professor of economics who 1/2
kaitekarue
Believes that the atomic bombs where never invented and it was a cover up for alien attacks. Like legitimately believes that.
DetectiveSloth
There's not more stupid people they just all have megaphones now.
JosephSelah
We're in era of disinformation. We're definitely dumber now
cwagrant
I mean, population has increased. There are more stupid people, but the megaphones have certainly not helped.
CardboardStomach
It's possible the increased exposure of stupidity could indoctrinate more people though.
supercalifragilisticexpealidocious15
DetectiveSloth
The increased exposure is more of a self control thing though I'd argue.
DayGloOrangeFrisbee
Id argue that self exposure could be increased with a lack of control
CaptainStevenRogers
Yeah, kids are able to use the internet at whatever age now as it's WIDELY more accessible. Kids learn off the internet before the school 1/
CaptainStevenRogers
system can hopefully teach the properly. Loud stupidity at an impressionable age is very dangerous.
dedkoala
The Internet is major in preventing kids from becoming indoctrinated, they can discover things for themselves rather than from the few 1/2
AwesomeSihv
idk, I’m seeing more idiot 30+ y/o people than idiot teens. Kids are learning to be less gullible at a young age, for the most part.
besn
So, it's not a LÖÖP either?
IamTheLardvark
That looks like it's the earth from that weird panda anime
RegisteredAirplaneDoctor
Careful, people might actually start to believe this
Thruen
Removed my upvote because this needs to stay at 911 upvotes
tehmarxman
There's an actual science theory that the universe is basically a lööp which helps explain why it may not be possible to reach the "edge"
Psionickitten
I worked with a flat earther. I countered his arguments by saying that it obviously can't be flat because of the positions of the stars 1/?
Psionickitten
in the sky, so it must obviously be a Möbius strip. This satisfies both the position of the stars and the fact that the "ground is flat."
ArtSmarse
That would make map projections a lot simpler.
BeatYaToIt
Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing china
RiverBear
LaDoleurExquise
Right?!? Hahahaha.
JustJoe2047
Damnit, now i have to go play Halo
PopeyeTheSailor
Dont tell the hollow earth people (not a joke)
EverydayIsLegDayBecauseImRunningFromMyProblems
I would seriously love to see some high quality art/renders of if earth or a planet was that shaped. Showing from the ground and the moon
EverydayIsLegDayBecauseImRunningFromMyProblems
Sort of like the renders of if the moon was closer to earth or if the earth had rings or several moon.s
JackalopeElope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsRslvU3m0
v Weather would be a wreck though.
EverydayIsLegDayBecauseImRunningFromMyProblems
Thats cool. And yes, everything wud be rekd. Tidal pull and I dont even know what else would be different.
TwoWordsDude
Well, a loop IS round
BozoThePie
a loop is topologically flat though
ImSorryFriend
your mom is topologically flat
physxisphun
I came here to comment this. Updoot for topological awareness!
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ComoSeIguana
I don't need this right now, as I'm eating tortellinis. WHAT UNIVERSE(S) AM I EATING!?!?!?!?
AnonKneeMoose
Andromeda Galaxy
ComoSeIguana
Powerman5000 comes into mind now...
doyouguysrememberpogs
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Is this real?? Fucking hell.. what happened to the Simpsons..
tiespiderman
Parody of the opioid crisis apparently
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Yeah... L. O. L....
h4mm3r01
That shape is called a torus. Not a loop! At least the flat earthers had their names right
namesused
Hmm, is that what a sphere looks like to a pan-dimensional being? My understanding is that they look like white mice to us.
8thPawn
:L Well flat isn't a shape either
trigonman3
neither is round
merelyadequategooglymoogly
*törus
namesused
tœrus
namesused
taurus
namesused
Mom, that last one is bull
KansasMoth
Tauros