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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Archae

(46,340 posts) Fri Dec 1, 2017, 02:08 PM Dec 2017

A couple of the screwy things people believe...

First one sounds oh-so-familiar...

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A couple of the screwy things people believe... (Original Post) Archae Dec 2017 OP

True, but not useful right now. nt greyl Dec 2017 #1

Well, in all fairness, the Flat-Earthers are correct. The Earth is indeed a disc. DetlefK Dec 2017 #2

Not to mention everyone who lives south of the equator and claims to see the Southern celestial pole muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #3

Proud member... uriel1972 Dec 2017 #4

greyl

(22,990 posts)

1. True, but not useful right now. nt

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 02:38 AM

Dec 2017

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

2. Well, in all fairness, the Flat-Earthers are correct. The Earth is indeed a disc.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Dec 6, 2017, 07:02 AM

Dec 2017

And every single astronomer that has ever existed, every single government, every single weather-agency and every single air-travel company is in on this.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,348 posts)

3. Not to mention everyone who lives south of the equator and claims to see the Southern celestial pole

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 7, 2017, 06:48 PM

Dec 2017

pointed to by the Southern Cross, around which the southern hemisphere stars revolve. That's about 800 million people alive just today. Plus anyone who has visited and noticed the night sky, too. Plus everyone who has ever claimed to talk to people in different time zones with descriptions of where the sun is.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

4. Proud member...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 10, 2017, 01:40 PM

Dec 2017

of the Globist Conspiracy checking in...

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