Paulie Walnuts and Big Pussy must have been busy.
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âthere was an overwhelming science that the Earth was flat,â
Actually, there wasnât. For hundreds of yearsâperhaps longerâbefore Columbus, people knew that the Earth was not flat. That was easily deduced by the way in which ships sunk below the horizon. At sea, it can be seen easily that large objectsâshipsâdo not just get smaller until they cannot be seen. The masts of a ship come into view (or fade from view) last, and more and more of the ship is visible (or disappears) as it gets closer or farther away. From this, it was pretty much universally deduced that the world was round, although there was little or no idea about how large the Earth is.
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The Darwin Awards people have tracking this for some time now.
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SoâŚthis guy is a financier that knows much more than the scientists because heâs âsmartâ and a Trump supporter? Got it.
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Trump is part of the New Spherical World Order. Câmon patriots, fire up those hoverrounds and get to resistinâ!
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What the hell is he reading? Nothing. Thatâs what.
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With the help of the zero, that they got from those heathen Hindus.
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Just once Iâd like an interviewer to say âAre you stupid, or do you think Iâm stupid?â
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The great pyramids of Egypt were built by the Chinese to fool AmericansâŚRussia would never do such a thing.
Fool . They were built by Moses to store grain Donât you know anything?
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âChris, there was an overwhelming science that the Earth was flat,â
Scaramucci responded. âAnd there was an overwhelming science that we
were the center of the world.â
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First off it was an opinion of some that Earth was flat but it was not âscienceâ that said so. Any idiot could look up at the Moon and see it was a globe. In ancient times the Greeks knew if a person went south the constellations of stars moved higher in the sky and that could only happen on a curved surface. Aristotle wrote i âThe Historiesâ that the earth had 2 icy regions, two temperate regions and a tropical region and he said this can only happen on a sphere. An ancient Egyptian used a stick in the ground to measure shadows cast by the sun and worked out the circumference of the earth to a 10% error.
Climate is not the same as day to day weather. The image below illustrates the change seen at Lake Powell over a 14 year period and shows a drying trend of rain fall in the Rockies. But facts just get in the way of somebody who thinks theyâre smart.
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GOP Base: âThe Earth is flat!â
Sentient Life: âYouâre loony!â
Corporate Media: âEarth â flat or round? Views differ.â
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Oh boy .
The new "Dark Ages " is upon us.
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The Greeks had the spherical earth idea worked out around 600-500 BC. The Egyptians did it 1500 years before that. At the time of Columbus it was the Churchâs opinion based on nothing that we were on a flat earth.
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And so it goes in Trumplandia
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Thank you irasdad.
That is it in a nutshell
Put the blame on the shoulders of those who allow the bullshit to propigate.
And lord knows it has found a fertile breeding ground in the MSM
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And now we have the Church of Trump and its many opinions like Putin: Good, Hillary/Obama: Bad.
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Really, these people are ridiculous. Certainly, any theory that has the support of a consensus of scientists could be wrong. But does anyone want to bet on the vanishingly small chance that climate change doesnât exist and that it isnât accelerated by human activity?
A better analogyâthe medical consensus in that smoking causes cancer. Would Scaramucci want to repeal all of the restrictions on smokingâno sale of tobacco products to minors, etc.âbecause itâs just possible that doctors and scientists have this wrong?
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Amazing pivot. He compares ignorant conclusions based on nothing to todayâs data and analytical based scientific methods as if these methods are both unreliable and untrustworthy of belief.
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Right, the skepticism Columbus faced wasnât because he thought the Earth was round, but that he thought it was smaller than commonly accepted at the time. And he was wrong about the size, he just got lucky and stumbled onto the Caribean, much to the inhabitants misfortune.
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