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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Lunar Eclipse flat-Earthers have never seen. [View all]NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)8. But if someone is anti-science
(and yes, those people exist, and in droves) they can't make the connection between gravity and the roundness of the Earth. They see, with their own eyes, the flatness of the fruited plains and their "common sense" tells them that the earth is flat, otherwise they'd roll right off of it.
To study the anti-science people in their natural habitat, observe the Religious Right.
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Actually, I think rocket guy just wants to fly his rocket and is milking the Flat-Earthers for $$$.
Girard442
Nov 2017
#28
The flat-Earthers lack the intellectual capacity to understand that photo, Mr. Tyson. nt
procon
Nov 2017
#3
The problem with our society is that every opinion is treated as equally informed.
Oneironaut
Nov 2017
#23