Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

• ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d assume trolling

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  • IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, there’s actual people like that. The guy I mentioned in my comment came into work one day, claiming that the moon makes its own light. I once asked him if he had heard of the Stargate series. He paused, looked me dead in the eye, and said, super seriously, “yes and Stargates are real.”

    There are people that honestly believe this shit. The only thing is now they have the internet to convince each other that it’s all real.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The nature of reality is such that you can believe a very silly thing and have it impact your life in no meaningful way. People have been wrong about the nature of the universe for millennia and continued to get by. The oddball who believes in native moonlight and stargates isn’t going to benefit tangibly for being correct or suffer tangibly for his misbelief. In many cases - thanks to the proliferation of internet subcommunity echo-chambers - they may actually suffer (socially) for reconciling their beliefs with reality if they can’t bring their friends along for the ride.

      But, again, when they have extremely limited influence over their surroundings (this guy is not, presumably, running an astronomy lab or charged with funding improvements to municipal mass transit) their zany beliefs don’t really matter.

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    • rented@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Stargates are real.

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Found him!

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      • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s the Fargate! “F”! It’s different from that movie, which I have never seen, so how would I copy it?

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok but hear me out. I get laughed at for this, but I do think the moon is pretty hollow. The Apollo astronauts are on record saying it rang like a bell when they landed on it.

      I dont think its that crazy that the moon is very cavernous and hollow compared to earth. Now, aliens dont live inside it I dont think, but thats another theory haha!

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      • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        it wasn’t a “landing” they crashed their lander into the moon to measure seismic data. They basically did an orbital strike with a bus. It vibrated for a long time because there isn’t much to dampen the vibration when most of the surface is hard rock with no moisture.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. I know people like this irl.

  Not the exact belief, but insane nonetheless. Usually they get all their news from fb and xitter. And theyre always smarter than scientists despite not finishing hs or college (not that one needs to do those things to be smart, but just saying as a rule…)

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  • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I stand by my previous statement. They are either trolling you or complete idiots.

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