First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930

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• tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The world is flat.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrRaJYvRzY0

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For satire to work, it has to be outlandish enough not to be an actual position of many people.

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    • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t think the flat Earth idea is nearly as widely believed as it appears. I think most of the proponents are just trolls.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    here we are, in the the astronomy community, that should attract rather smarter people, but most of you arel as lazy as average flat-earher and did not bother to even click the link before following in steps of the first downvoting clown. if that clown jumped off the cliff, i am afraid most of you would follow, because it is easier than to use your own brain.

    i made myself sad on new year.

    (for the extra lazy ones who don’t have time to listen to the lyrics of his social commentary, he put that blackboard there with keler’s 3rd law to give you hint he might not actually believe the earth is flat. but that would require using at least 10 of your brain cells. good luck next time when you complain about stupidity of the “other side”.

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    columbus saw the ocean
    he sailed far and wide
    just to get a cup of spices
    from the other side
    he knew he would die for sure
    if he should reach the edge
    but that's okay cause long before
    he'd starve to death instead
    
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    
    earth's an old blade spheroid
    revolving around the sun
    spinning on its axis 
    which is tilted just for fun
    that explains the seasons there 
    and the changing length of day
    but here's an inconvinient truth 
    you can't explain that way
    
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    
    trump won re-election
    he won it by a mile
    only to protect us
    from the socialist pedophiles
    but biden wants the mail and ballots
    counted and at what cost
    he is so out of touch
    he can't admit when he has lost
    
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    
    endless interverntions
    never-ending war
    all to please the oligarchs
    and economic wars
    but lower taxes on the rich
    and do it really quick
    my ship is coming in soon
    and i don't want to pay for it
    
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    the world is flat
    

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    • Soupbreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just in the interest of cheering you up a bit, I’d like to point out that many people simply refuse to click on YouTube links. Personally, I have no desire to engage with video content, especially when it’s shared with little to no context. It’s not out of laziness, but more out of a conviction that far too many people have outsourced their thinking to random vloggers, and believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      People aren’t lazy, we just all live in a social media landscape where, when someone posts a link with an intentionally provocative title, it’s rarely worth the effort to engage with it enough to find out if they’re being sarcastic or sincere.

      Sometimes this means that well-meaning people get downvoted. Oh well. Learn to read the room.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      and from the native speakers, i’d like an opinion - is he singing oblate spheroid at the beginning of 3rd paragraph? or is he singing old blade, which is what i hear, and is it some strange poetic phrase?

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    • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should’ve been a dead giveaway.

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Dumb.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      no need to introduce yourself

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    joje and sarcasm is unfortunately lost on dumbasses who can’t read more than 4 words of headline 🤷‍♂️

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My friend that’s a yt video, what the fuck are you on about?

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  • azimir@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Would you like some sulfur to go with your pseudoscience, fascism, and stupidity?

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      would you like to learn to read and understand words?

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  • SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Trump wants to protect us from those socialist pedophiles.

    That aged well.

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    • derry@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Like warm milk.

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I get that it’s satire, but that was an instant downvote the millisecond an acoustic guitar became visible.

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• keepthepace@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Awesome document! I never realized it was only so late, I guess there is a difference between balloons and “serious record-breaking ballons”!

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• TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  *Holds up ruler*

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