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A Lunar Eclipse that Flat-Earthers have never seen. (Original Post) KelleyKramer Oct 2019 OP
is the moon flat too in their world? pansypoo53219 Oct 2019 #1
I Know a Flat Earther RobinA Oct 2019 #4
The stupidity baffles me PJMcK Oct 2019 #2
There are no flat earthers Cartoonist Oct 2019 #3
Pastafarians are at least in on the joke. Aristus Oct 2019 #5
Do you actually meet them? Cartoonist Oct 2019 #6
Every once in a while. Aristus Oct 2019 #7
Come into the light, Aristus.......... SCantiGOP Oct 2019 #9
I offered that prayer the last time I joined my mother, brother, and sister for dinner. Aristus Oct 2019 #10
I know a couple of flat earthers. It is absolutely a real thing for them. SKKY Oct 2019 #8

RobinA

(9,893 posts)
4. I Know a Flat Earther
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:50 PM
Oct 2019

and I don't know if the moon is flat, but I do know it emits its own light. That was a jaw dropper for me, as if the whole thing isn't jaw dropping enough. The sun is actually quite close to earth. I can't really discuss it with her because it's this whole involved theory with a lot of components that our mandatory indoctrination (school, in flat earth speak) didn't tell us about, so it's like trying to argue in a foreign language. It goes along with guns, Trump, God, and hatred of government.

PJMcK

(22,035 posts)
2. The stupidity baffles me
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 08:14 AM
Oct 2019

When we gaze out into space, we see that, in general, astral bodies form into spherical globes because the force of their gravity works evenly around the body. The larger the object, the more likely this globe-like structure will occur.

In the observable Universe, we haven't seen a structure like a flat Earth. Why would our planet be the other one like that?

Stupid people annoy me.

Aristus

(66,345 posts)
5. Pastafarians are at least in on the joke.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:01 PM
Oct 2019

I don't know any personally, but they seem like fun people. With flat-earthers, I just start looking for a window to throw them out of.

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
9. Come into the light, Aristus..........
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:41 PM
Oct 2019

Pastafarian Prayer
Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R’amen.

Aristus

(66,345 posts)
10. I offered that prayer the last time I joined my mother, brother, and sister for dinner.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 02:05 PM
Oct 2019

They busted out laughing...

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