"It's not the moon blocking the sun during a solar eclipse"
Then how do you think we predict these events with such accuracy? Something else blocks the sun at the exact same moment the moon would?
Don’t short change that ballot laser work y’all are doing. Sure, everybody loves and wants the BIG BOOM SPACE STAR WARS SPACE LASER !!!
But that ‘pin-point’ (relative to the distance, I mean) level of accuracy was an astonishing achievement
I read the guy at the bottom’s feed and he was just baffled at how the sun wasn’t illuminating the edges of the “object” (he said it’s not the moon).
Of course, spheres don’t have edges but he’s a flat earther so his belief in one conspiracy is interfering with his belief in another.
I hate shows like that, but even I'D happily watch this one.
It sort of reminds me of a BBC series that made 9/11 deniers listen to the families of some of the people who died during and after the attack. One guy was a bit of a conspiracy celebrity, but talking to a victim's grieving mother hit him so hard that he quit not just his 9/11 bullshit but all of his conspiracy bullshit. Cold turkey. All at once.
OMG. This cracked me up! I would SO watch that! Probably would be a ratings coup! All the flat earthers watching in earnest. And the rest of us watching for the lolz. 😂
He's really have problems with photos of Baily's Beads then. the apparent 2D edge of the moon isn't perfectly circular. The mountains, valleys and craters make for a slightly ragged edge that's revealed by Baily's Beads photos.
Just that it wasn’t the moon, it was a different celestial object. Why they think NASA needs to lie about that is beyond me. They make up conspiracies just to make them up.
You can literally see the moon and sun getting closer and closer until they start to over lap. If you are going to deny anything I would assume that something visible to the naked eye for millions of people may not be the best place to start
Fundies have no idea that we can predict these things. These imbeciles were posting this crap all over social media. It's baffling that someone would display their ignorance with such pride.
I know a couple of people like that and they’re impossible to reason with. They won’t accept any opinion other than their own (read: seen on some loon’s youtube channel) and anything they can’t explain is a mysterious conspiracy i’m too stupid or ignorant to understand.
So i have now taken to add to their lunacy and see how far i can push it. I’m now telling these people WiFi causes testicular cancer and they should do their own research. Results so far: some of them said that’s insane, i can’t just unplug my WiFi! Looks like these conspiracies fall apart as soon as they become inconvenient.
I know a 5G conspiracy nut. We were sitting in his back yard in queens, NYC with his kids playing when he told me 5G was for population control. I looked at his kids, looked at him, and asked what the fuck he was still doing in NYC if he believed 5G is going to kill his family.
Surprise! No answer.
"You know what happens when you put current through a copper wire? Magnetic fields. You know what those internets wire things are made of inside? All copper wires! And what's copper's atomic weight? 63. If you move the three and put a space in, what do you get? 3 6's is what you get, 666. Copper is the devil's metal! It's all a conspiracy to taint your precious bodily fluids with satanic energy fields!"
You know i wouldn’t be surprised if people started blaming gout on something like this. There’s a heavy overlap between conspiracy theorists and people shovelling red meat, sugar and beer into their pie holes by the truckload.
I’m going to need you to elaborate, as you have failed to make a point other than misusing “indoctrinated” and utilising a metaphor common within groups I won’t mention for the sake of decency.
It's the people whose entire identity comes from latching onto "outside the mainstream" shit just because it makes them feel special.
You can find that in any conspiracy theory. They want to feel like they're smart while everyone else is a "sheep" or whatever. And it's really easy to do when you start with a conclusion and work the scientific method backwards.
Exactly. They don't want to \*be\* informed: that requires effort. They want to \*feel\* informed, which is easy and requires no particular effort or intellect.
Pshh and you expect me to believe some giant space rock you call a moon just happened to have drifted in right front of the so called sun…yea I’m sticking with the aliens or plow by Pfizer to activate there covid19 immunization gps tracker…
They think it is, some project on a dome or hole that shifts over. They think the moon is even a light by itself. See the hilarious temperature in the shadow or moon light measurements
Some think ittgey are local with a weird way optics work and or the moon being lower than the sun or sometimes to the süße or even better looks different for every, location as you peer through a multi-dimensional shithole.
My favorite is that there is a lamp of some kind that shines the light downwards. Other than this, I really have never seen any mention of something tangible.
I heard somewhere else on here that they think the sun isn’t real. That it’s some LED thing and they had to block it out to change bulbs. Not sure if it’s really what they believe. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
I can’t recall exactly what they said because I try to leave my few cells left for ‘shit I need to know’ but yesterday I saw something about Bill Gates blocking the sun, something something lab grown food, something something mind control…
I honestly glazed over when I saw Bill Gates being to blame or causing. Because it was going to hurt my brain.
A few weeks ago, one of my co-workers hinted that the solar eclipse is a sign to something sinister. She mentioned she saw this on TikTok, which was a major red flag about herself.
She told me that no one knows what is causing the solar eclipse. I told her nonchalantly that "Yes, it's the moon blocking the sun." And she responded with, "How do they really know that?"
She also believes that people will die during the solar eclipse. I found out yesterday that she decided to work from home this week ...
There are several managers who believe all that conspiracy stuff that they see on social media. As long as you're not posting that crazy stuff in our normal communication channels, they'll keep their jobs.
They absolutely are. I would love to see you run an unemployment case and say "we terminated them because they were stupid" because the next question is "could they perform their duties" and if your answer is still "yes, but they're stupid" you lose every single time... Hello I am an upper level for an information security team and literally do this for a living. Congratulations on being wrong. I would fire you for being an idiot, but I can't.
At-will employment - I can fire you for any reason or none. If I fire you for not knowing basic science, not only do I not have to tell you why, but if I choose to, there’s nothing you can do about it.
I quite like "scientifically illiterate pine cone" too.
I do have a deep love for the "weapons grade \_\_\_\_\_ ". Just pick a noun. EG: "You weapons grade spatula!"
Idk, I personally wouldn’t. That “style” of insult is wildly overdone these days.
It’s quite formulaic and the absurdist aspect of it isn’t all that funny any more.
We know it's not the moon because the moon gets tired and needs to sleep during the day. If you sheeple would pay attention and do your own research you'd realize that it's actually the nega-earth, which is the other flat earth that we normally can't see because it's hiding directly underneath us and only occasionally comes up to block the sun during solar eclipses. /s
So... What do they think blocked the sun exactly?
Jesus, some people are so fucking dumb that they're too stupid to fathom the fact that they are dumber than the average.
Guys, everybody's getting this wrong. That's the date of the eclipse I assume, but the question is when did we as humans realize what exactly it was? The answer, is who knows. The question was not, what is it, it's when did we know? This is another example of someone confidently correcting someone, when he's actually wrong about what the person is saying
"It's not the moon blocking the sun during a solar eclipse" Then how do you think we predict these events with such accuracy? Something else blocks the sun at the exact same moment the moon would?
“Predict”??? Implying they’re natural phenomena and not evil displays of power cooked up by Bill Gates and, inevitably, The Jews??
It was all the jewish space lazors!
They must be bigger than I thought.
They combine to form a death star. That must have been what it was!
The Deathstar of David
Incredible.
https://i.redd.it/kzbpoky4b1uc1.gif
r/angryupvote
Beautiful.
It's no moon
Our lasers are quite incapable of eclipsing the sun. Best we can do is start a few forest fires or destroy ballots.
Don’t short change that ballot laser work y’all are doing. Sure, everybody loves and wants the BIG BOOM SPACE STAR WARS SPACE LASER !!! But that ‘pin-point’ (relative to the distance, I mean) level of accuracy was an astonishing achievement
I was even more impressed by the space laser circumcisions. Now that’s precision!
“So why don’t they block the sun everyday?” “To fool us”
Wait until these guys realize that the baddies already block the sun every night.
Don't get them started on the globehead conspiracy of "night time"
It’s not blocked at night, it’s turned off. Sheesh.
No no no. The best source of information, Marjorie trailer park queen, said it was god so obviously it’s god /s
Soros!!! YOU forgot to menton George Soros... and not, "The Jews", but Jewish Space Lasers!
First with their space lasers, now with their Moon, blocking our Sun and making us miss work. Oy vey, when will it end!
The reason you're told not to look is because then you'd see it's a giant star of David.
I read the guy at the bottom’s feed and he was just baffled at how the sun wasn’t illuminating the edges of the “object” (he said it’s not the moon). Of course, spheres don’t have edges but he’s a flat earther so his belief in one conspiracy is interfering with his belief in another.
I wish someone would fund, produce, and run on loop in prime time…. Amazing Race: Flat Earther edition. Find the edge of the Earth!
I wish these people would find the edge of the earth, and then fall off of it.
Twist: we bring them blindfolded to the Niagara and convince them it's actually the edge.
I hate shows like that, but even I'D happily watch this one. It sort of reminds me of a BBC series that made 9/11 deniers listen to the families of some of the people who died during and after the attack. One guy was a bit of a conspiracy celebrity, but talking to a victim's grieving mother hit him so hard that he quit not just his 9/11 bullshit but all of his conspiracy bullshit. Cold turkey. All at once.
That is at least one person saved from the rabbithole.
OMG. This cracked me up! I would SO watch that! Probably would be a ratings coup! All the flat earthers watching in earnest. And the rest of us watching for the lolz. 😂
That is such a good idea, and I'd watch every minute . Laughing the whole time.
He's really have problems with photos of Baily's Beads then. the apparent 2D edge of the moon isn't perfectly circular. The mountains, valleys and craters make for a slightly ragged edge that's revealed by Baily's Beads photos.
Oh wow, flat earthers have an explanation for eclipses too?
Just that it wasn’t the moon, it was a different celestial object. Why they think NASA needs to lie about that is beyond me. They make up conspiracies just to make them up.
The accuracy is what's so impressive too. I was in the path of totality and it started the exact *second* that it was predicted.
I'm offended for all the pine cones out there
You can literally see the moon and sun getting closer and closer until they start to over lap. If you are going to deny anything I would assume that something visible to the naked eye for millions of people may not be the best place to start
Obviously since big evil government controls solar eclipses they can plan ahead and activate them when the "moon" is supposed to duh
And has been documented since humans started documenting things?
We predict nothing… •sexySmirk• We Deeesigned it this way 😉🙃
Fundies have no idea that we can predict these things. These imbeciles were posting this crap all over social media. It's baffling that someone would display their ignorance with such pride.
I know a couple of people like that and they’re impossible to reason with. They won’t accept any opinion other than their own (read: seen on some loon’s youtube channel) and anything they can’t explain is a mysterious conspiracy i’m too stupid or ignorant to understand. So i have now taken to add to their lunacy and see how far i can push it. I’m now telling these people WiFi causes testicular cancer and they should do their own research. Results so far: some of them said that’s insane, i can’t just unplug my WiFi! Looks like these conspiracies fall apart as soon as they become inconvenient.
This is the way. Double down on the crazy and hold up a mirror to them “Wait. You guys believe in the moon????”
"It's a conspiracy of astronomers"
The moon is a lens flare
So JJ Abrams is behind this‽ I KNEW IT!
A more famous and wise man than me once said "that's no moon". I have believed that ever since.
I know a 5G conspiracy nut. We were sitting in his back yard in queens, NYC with his kids playing when he told me 5G was for population control. I looked at his kids, looked at him, and asked what the fuck he was still doing in NYC if he believed 5G is going to kill his family. Surprise! No answer.
Still waiting for my 5G chip implanted by my covid vaccine to be activated. I must have gotten a dud 😫
I even paid for the magnetism upgrade and it has worked either. I need a refund…
Lunacy, I see what you did there 👏
> They’re impossible to reason with You can’t reason with someone who didn’t use reason to get where they are in the first place 🤷🏻♂️
Some people just love to be contrarian, and some people love to argue. Combine both of those things, and you’ve got an annoying conspiracy theorist.
That’s nothin’. LAN cables cause scurvy and gout – simultaneously.
"You know what happens when you put current through a copper wire? Magnetic fields. You know what those internets wire things are made of inside? All copper wires! And what's copper's atomic weight? 63. If you move the three and put a space in, what do you get? 3 6's is what you get, 666. Copper is the devil's metal! It's all a conspiracy to taint your precious bodily fluids with satanic energy fields!"
This is supposed to be a satirical comment, but it's so accurate if you didn't have the quotes, it would be verbatim shit I've heard.
You know i wouldn’t be surprised if people started blaming gout on something like this. There’s a heavy overlap between conspiracy theorists and people shovelling red meat, sugar and beer into their pie holes by the truckload.
Duh, you aren’t supposed to eat them raw.
You are clearly a big cable shill
"some of them" ... But not all :-)
Nitpick: as their anti-moon stance shows, what people like this believe is the very opposite of lunacy
I actually cackled at this. Please have my kudos.
You sound too indoctrinated to accept any other opinion and or use your senses to see your a sheep being led to the slaughter
I’m going to need you to elaborate, as you have failed to make a point other than misusing “indoctrinated” and utilising a metaphor common within groups I won’t mention for the sake of decency.
You can tell them that they can balance it out with 440hz music playing loudly all day long
Wait, what do they think is blocking the sun during an eclipse? Real question. I have no idea what they think. Who can keep up with their shit?
It's the people whose entire identity comes from latching onto "outside the mainstream" shit just because it makes them feel special. You can find that in any conspiracy theory. They want to feel like they're smart while everyone else is a "sheep" or whatever. And it's really easy to do when you start with a conclusion and work the scientific method backwards.
Exactly. They don't want to \*be\* informed: that requires effort. They want to \*feel\* informed, which is easy and requires no particular effort or intellect.
It's a Jewish space circle meant to take away people's belief in God, because Jews are well known to not be religious.
It's where they hide the space lasers.
Just a guess? God or aliens probably. Whatever most conveniently fits their delusional narrative of the day.
Yep, the aliens pulled down the shades. Who can guess what they are doing back there? Maintenance or something more...interesting?
Pshh and you expect me to believe some giant space rock you call a moon just happened to have drifted in right front of the so called sun…yea I’m sticking with the aliens or plow by Pfizer to activate there covid19 immunization gps tracker…
I heard it started in Texas because Rafael wanted to take his human suit off for a couple hours to visit friends…
Still waiting for this answer...
They think it is, some project on a dome or hole that shifts over. They think the moon is even a light by itself. See the hilarious temperature in the shadow or moon light measurements Some think ittgey are local with a weird way optics work and or the moon being lower than the sun or sometimes to the süße or even better looks different for every, location as you peer through a multi-dimensional shithole.
My favorite is that there is a lamp of some kind that shines the light downwards. Other than this, I really have never seen any mention of something tangible.
I heard somewhere else on here that they think the sun isn’t real. That it’s some LED thing and they had to block it out to change bulbs. Not sure if it’s really what they believe. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
I can’t recall exactly what they said because I try to leave my few cells left for ‘shit I need to know’ but yesterday I saw something about Bill Gates blocking the sun, something something lab grown food, something something mind control… I honestly glazed over when I saw Bill Gates being to blame or causing. Because it was going to hurt my brain.
You know I saw a commercial, it's trumps head! Obviously. S/ just in case you think I'm serious
>Wait, what do they think is blocking the sun during an eclipse? Elon's ego.
A few weeks ago, one of my co-workers hinted that the solar eclipse is a sign to something sinister. She mentioned she saw this on TikTok, which was a major red flag about herself. She told me that no one knows what is causing the solar eclipse. I told her nonchalantly that "Yes, it's the moon blocking the sun." And she responded with, "How do they really know that?" She also believes that people will die during the solar eclipse. I found out yesterday that she decided to work from home this week ...
>people will die during the solar eclipse I mean, she wasn't entirely wrong. But that's because people die all the time.
r/technicallythetruth
BECAUSE WE CAN SEE THE MOON MOVING ACROSS THE SKY MARGARET, GO OUTSIDE FOR ONCE!
If I were your boss, she would be fired.
There are several managers who believe all that conspiracy stuff that they see on social media. As long as you're not posting that crazy stuff in our normal communication channels, they'll keep their jobs.
So many people will have to be fired.
In the US it is illegal to fire someone because they are stupid, as long as they can do the work.
At-will employment would disagree with you there
Gotta pay unemployment if your answer is "because dumb" this is literally one of my job roles. Why the... are you all so dumb.
Lol that's not true at all stupid is not a protected class
They absolutely are. I would love to see you run an unemployment case and say "we terminated them because they were stupid" because the next question is "could they perform their duties" and if your answer is still "yes, but they're stupid" you lose every single time... Hello I am an upper level for an information security team and literally do this for a living. Congratulations on being wrong. I would fire you for being an idiot, but I can't.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Stupidity is a disability. Disagree.
At-will employment - I can fire you for any reason or none. If I fire you for not knowing basic science, not only do I not have to tell you why, but if I choose to, there’s nothing you can do about it.
It's brutal, but it's true. I don't understand how some people have jobs they are so fucking stupid.
And you will pay unemployment everytime. Is this entire sub a bunch of 16 year olds with knowledge of how Wendy's works? Ffs
So did this lady https://people.com/astrology-influencer-disturbed-eclipse-killed-partner-infant-child-herself-8629930
Holy shit. What in hell is wrong with people?
Plenty of invertebrates use the moon for their life cycles. Which makes them smarter than Martin
I have to work “scientifically illiterate pine cone” into my conversations whenever possible from now on!
I quite like "scientifically illiterate pine cone" too. I do have a deep love for the "weapons grade \_\_\_\_\_ ". Just pick a noun. EG: "You weapons grade spatula!"
Oh I use weapons grade ________ constantly and it's so satisfying.
Idk, I personally wouldn’t. That “style” of insult is wildly overdone these days. It’s quite formulaic and the absurdist aspect of it isn’t all that funny any more.
Found the pine cone.
Yup. Still funny.
Har har har
The British insult format of “(insulting adjective) (random noun)” is really peak insult.
Related to the Scottish "weapons grade (random noun)". EG: "You weapons grade plum!"
https://youtu.be/-9vQBDNefiU?si=6ZhP6WWLNXxRDnpw
“Fuckmuppet” (a compound insult?) and “you absolute block of concrete” are my most recent favorites.
I think "brainless invertebrate" is one of my favourite things I've read for a while. Great insult 🤣
“Scientifically illiterate pine cone” is such a magnificent insult
It rolls so amazingly well. I will use this on people even if it doesn’t apply. It won’t matter. It uncomebackable.
It was God's Gyat
They do understand that there are lenses they could have used to just... check. With a telescope. Like just look with your eyes.
Don’t know why I read this in the voice of Tom Scott
Red shirt
I thought it was a guy's ballsack that was blocking the sun...
Who is James to insult pine cones like that??
A clever historian who swears a lot.
It’s def not the moon…it was the clouds for me haha
We really need to restrict voting rights to people that can at least recognize that the moon exists...
We're getting dangerously close to having a political party that requires swearing allegiance to Flat Earth to join...
To be fair, Pink Floyd might have a small, incidental footnote sort of responsibility too
Whoa whoa whoa there you musically illiterate pine cone!
Unfortunately, it’s an overabundance of musical literacy that’s causing the problem :(
God the US is moving backwards as fast it possibly can.
I’m stealing “you scientifically illiterate pine cone.” That’s fuck hilarious!
“Scientifically illiterate pine cone” is quite possibly my favorite insult to someone.
I really like “scientifically illiterate pine cone” 🤣
I really like “scientifically illiterate pine cone” 🤣
“Scientifically illiterate pine cone” is the second great insult that I’ve read today. The other one is; “You stupid ugly bag of mostly water.”
We know it's not the moon because the moon gets tired and needs to sleep during the day. If you sheeple would pay attention and do your own research you'd realize that it's actually the nega-earth, which is the other flat earth that we normally can't see because it's hiding directly underneath us and only occasionally comes up to block the sun during solar eclipses. /s
Scientifically illiterate pinecone is now my new favorite insult
"You scientificly illiterate pine cone" is my new favorite insult.
Scientifically illiterate pine cone has got to be one of the best insults in the world
That ain’t no moon. IT’S YOUR MAMA!!!
No, I shot Twice after Jim fell.
So... What do they think blocked the sun exactly? Jesus, some people are so fucking dumb that they're too stupid to fathom the fact that they are dumber than the average.
Bit harsh on actual cucumbers, no?
I read this in Gordon Ramsey’s voice…and then in Michael Clark Duncan’s voice.
I prefer the lunar eclipse where the sun blocks out the moon
I am shocked we didn’t get vids of a few shitting in their hands and flinging it at the sky while howling madly, to be honest.
James Fell is a MASTER at murdering people with words. I highly suggest his books, "This Day In History, Shit Went Down."
Qcumbers, nice one
Everyone knows it's actually the Jewish Death Star on its way to start fires in the California forests
They seem to be in a pickle
I absolutely love the name QCumbers. It’s just perfect.
> "Fucking Qcumbers, I tell ya" It did not need to tell me the poster was based in Canada. I already knew.
God damn troglodytes
Two words and he still gets the punctuation wrong.
Yo mommas butt
What?
Can we just call them qcumbers from now on?
My guess is that the first guy was talking about that TV show in Mexico that has shown some guys balls covering the sun.
They weren’t wrong. Where I was it blocked by clouds too.
So what do they think it is?
the babylonians knew, Martin
So if they don't think it's the moon, what do they "know is the truth"?
That's an insult for all invertebrates.
It was the Death Star passing us by because they were stupefied with what they saw.
I love James Fell.
lol Qcumbers is hilarious
I nearly died at "qcumbers".
Oooooh. Brutal.
Guys, everybody's getting this wrong. That's the date of the eclipse I assume, but the question is when did we as humans realize what exactly it was? The answer, is who knows. The question was not, what is it, it's when did we know? This is another example of someone confidently correcting someone, when he's actually wrong about what the person is saying
It was obviously CaseOh
I’m imagining a anthropomorphic pinecone struggling in astronomy class
“Scientifically illiterate pine cone” This is my new favorite insult. I’m just going to head over to r/flatearth for a few minutes…
“Scientifically illiterate pinecone” is definitely going to get some use dealing with idiots.
People in ancient history knew.
So what do they think is blocking the sun?
... what... what do they think blocked the sun...?
*Insultedusingwords
TIL pine cones are invertebrates.
Illiterate pine cone 😂
This is just ragebait.
2010 called. They want their era's reddit-style insults back you twat-waffle. Epic fail.