Flat-Earthers Think The Solar Eclipse Proved Them Right

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Tom Hale - IFL Science


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As your news feed slowly starts to die down with news about this week’s solar eclipse, hundreds of scientists around the world are sifting through their freshly collected data and discoveries. And so is the globe’s flat-Earth community. Queue the X-Files theme tune.

Before the eclipse, flat-Earthers were hopeful the phenomenon would poke holes in the heliocentric consensus, unmask the truth, dispose of the charade, and we could all happily live on our disc(world). Now the day has come and passed, how do they feel?

You might think that literally seeing the Moon eclipse the Sun would be enough to convince someone that the Earth orbits the Sun and that the Moon revolves around the Earth. However, many appear more confident and engaged than ever before.

Rapper B.o.B took to Twitter to broadcast some skepticism about the total solar eclipse. He sarcastically tweeted: “It's so amazingly beautiful how the moon isn't visible before and after a total solar eclipse #SolarEclipse17 #FknScienceBro… so when the moon finally scoots over, will i be able to see it ???”

When asked what is causing the solar eclipse if it wasn’t the moon, he just replied “Rahu”, referencing the mythological figures Rahu and Ketu used by the ancient Vedic culture to explain astronomical events.

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Some flat-Earthers have taken to YouTube to pick at the incredible images that NASA proudly, and quite rightly, showed off following the eclipse. Some saw these NASA images as CGI fakes, a common rebuttal from modern believers of the “geocentric model”.

One YouTube video, titled “FAKE ECLIPSE,” claims the Moon-shaped object blocking the Sun was not the Moon. They “reversed the light” on photo-editing software to highlight some supposed oddities within the image. This revealed that shade/color of the Moon in the images was the same as the space behind the Sun, ie. black. This, they argue, suggests the solar eclipse had something to do with the Sun itself, not any celestial body in front of the Sun.

“Folks, nothing caused the Sun eclipses today, but the Sun, as far as we can tell,” the video says.


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Whether you watched the solar eclipse on screen or in person, you may have noticed a lot of people commenting on how strange the lighting and shadows appeared during the time it was reaching totality. In reality, this is likely because we never see the world around us in this unique type of lighting. However, to flat-Earthers, this was proof of something fishy. They don't expand on what exactly is suspicious, but it is something very fishy indeed, apparently.

Better luck next time for the total solar eclipse on July 2, 2019, I guess.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Fionn Hargreaves - The Sun


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Conspiracy theorists who believe the earth is flat have been trying to explain the eclipse, with
some claiming it is merely a projection in the sky

While some think their theory successfully explains the solar eclipse, others have taken to social media trying to persuade people the natural phenomenon is a hoax made up by institutes such as NASA.

Many proclaimed the eclipse was simply a hologram projected into the sky to fool people into believing in a globe.

One Twitter user wrote: "If eclipses are real, why do you need special glasses to see them.

"Throw away your NASA CGI Glasses. Expose the lies."

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A flat earther wrote on Twitter: wrote: "Today's eclipse was a government-made light projected into the
atmosphere of the flat earth plane, these roundheads need to accept the truth"

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The theory, which is considered a pseudoscience was roundly mocked on social media

Another wrote: "Today's eclipse was a government-made light projected into the atmosphere of the flat earth plane, these roundheads need to accept the truth."

One concerned wife wrote on a Facebook page: "Is it safe to look at the solar eclipse when you believe in a flat earth? My husband is a flat earther and is going to look at the eclipse in a little over an hour. Is this safe?"

Another replied: "Its perfectly safe. The whole thing is a NASA hologram."

A Twitter user wrote: "Remember, NASA doesn't want you to look at the eclipse because it proves Flat Earth. Stand with me and other #FlatEarthers and stare directly."

Looking directly at a solar eclipse is dangerous and could burn the retina, causing short-term blindness or permanent damage to the eye.

Eclipse glasses can block almost all the harmful rays during the natural phenomenon.

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Others who were curious about the strange theory flocked to the Flat Earth Society's Twitter page to bombard the group with questions.

According to the society, which was founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, an eclipse can happen even if the world is flat.

They claim to believe the world is flat due to "evidence-based inquiry" on Earth.

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In a rather bemused tweet, they said: "We're getting *so many* questions about the eclipse. Apparently round earthers are really struggling with this one."

The idea that the world is flat was the dominant theory from ancient times until the Rennaissance, when Magellan successfully sailed around the world.

Since the 16th century, flat earth theory has been in decline and is considered a pseudoscience.

[Hal-9000]

"...follow the path of evidence-based inquiry instead"

:lol: how come lightning doesn't strike these clowns when they type crap like this?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Spoken by a typical roundhead :hand:

[Hal-9000]

caught that too :lol:

so what are they...flatheads? Or maybe just LOW-IQ-ers.