• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    4 months ago

    To be fair, if someone believes in a flat earth, they probably also believe in an infinite atmosphere….

    • crawancon@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Ah yes, bullshit assymetry principle.

      Humans can’t possibly refute and explain away the position of all the absolute stupid shit that other humans spew out of their mouths like unadulterated garbage.

      the problem seems to be…

      we can’t seem to fix stupid.

      or it’s just too profitable of a system to let die.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        The problem is that stupid is an individual attribute. Natural selection doesn’t seem to care about it in the short term.

        • shiftymccool
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          We, unfortunately, aren’t subject to natural selection anymore. We have been left to our own stupidity

    • Rakonat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 months ago

      Good luck explaining infinite atmosphere would mean infinite gravity and we’d be crushed into a black hole.

      But yeah, sure. Earth is the flat object in the observable universe and NASA totally has the power and budget to make possible test you can do to prove otherwise wrong.