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The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us

Posted by timothy on from the until-the-end-of-days dept.

narcberry writes "The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: 'Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration — where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars — no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat? Wrong. Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the 'conspiracy' that the Earth is round.'"

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  1. Scientific community? by Aardpig · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, that's obviously not the right thing to call them...

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    1. Re:Scientific community? by pxlmusic · · Score: 5, Insightful

      what's more fcuked up is that these idiots are breeding.

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    2. Re:Scientific community? by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Someone tells these humorless Americans that humor can take many faces. What flat-earthers are doing is quite admirable in fact : they take the challenge of defending a view that is contradicted by almost every fact of normal life and try to create a coherent if convulated theory about it.

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    3. Re:Scientific community? by nasor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I actually went to their web page, and it seemed pretty clear that it was a tongue-in-cheek joke. Although I'm sure they're all having a BIG laugh at how worked up everyone is getting over the whole thing.

    4. Re:Scientific community? by StormReaver · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Someone tells these humorless Americans that humor can take many faces."

      When the crackpots (such as the creationists) invade your school systems, you'll lose your sense of humor, too.

    5. Re:Scientific community? by ale_ryu · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We should do to them exactly what they did to our guys 500 years ago, burn them, hang them, etc., at least we have proof we're right :P

      Now, seriously speaking, it's obvious these guys are trolling, and they've put a lot of effort in it. Considering most of the slashdot community actually got angry at them I'd say they have succeded. Yep, these guys are successful trolls :P

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  2. I still have my BIG doubts... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do we know it's not a club of pranksters who want to fool the world into believing flat-earthers still exist?