• @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

      HOOO BOY,
      that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

      • @w00tabaga@lemm.ee
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        512 years ago

        I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.

        Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world

      • @Sodis@feddit.de
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        32 years ago

        I like how they take into account special relativity by saying, that earth will never reach the speed of light because of it. But then they forget, that this will lead to less acceleration as earth gets faster and faster (and heavier and heavier).

    • @AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol
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      272 years ago

      Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.

    • Dr. Coomer
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      232 years ago

      Why did we ever put lead in gasoline? Now I have to live in this reality.

        • Dr. Coomer
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          52 years ago

          But why lead? The creator even knew it was toxic and still allowed it to be used.

          • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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            102 years ago

            Because the alternative was adding ethanol, which wasn’t patentable. The creator even got lead poisoning while developing it… then held a press conference where he washed his bare hands in it claiming he could do that safely everyday.

            • Dr. Coomer
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              But what doesn’t make sense to me is how he not only suffered lead poison multiple times in his life, but he even did extensive study on the effects of lead gas on the planet, mainly in how far it traveled and its levels in areas. INCLUDING THE ARCTIC.

              • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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                Now that you mention the Arctic… he’s also the guy who invented Freon, as in CFC, the stuff that depleted the ozone layer and caused a hole in it over the Arctic.

                If you’re ever looking for a candidate for Lizard people, he’s a good one. 🤣

                But otherwise, the simple explanation is: $$

                • Dr. Coomer
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                  12 years ago

                  I don’t know. Yes it was about money, but something just doesn’t sit right about it with me.

                  • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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                    12 years ago

                    In what sense?

                    I think the craziest part was the press conference, after he fully knew the thing was dangerous but was willing to lie and poison himself further just to sell more of it. It sounds like money, and tunnel vision… who knows if maybe caused by the poisoning itself.

    • @Redredme@lemmy.world
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      So the world is flat so we can’t fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

      But the sun, moon, stars and planets don’t fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

      It’s great to read, as is most fantasy.

      • @Heggico@lemmy.world
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        62 years ago

        They consider them “luminaries” whatever those are supposed to be. Not actual objects. Cause that makes sense.

    • Lev_Astov
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      152 years ago

      I’m trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is… magnets???

          • @III@lemmy.world
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            22 years ago

            Magnets have small amounts of gravity in them, duh. They come from the ground which has lots of gravity in it. I didn’t even graduate elementary school and even I know this. \s

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        Basically, there is no flat earth model. Every time they present one, there’s an easily observable fact that blows it apart. This from the people who constantly bleat “believe your eyes!”

    • @malloc@lemmy.world
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      92 years ago

      shouldn’t have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my “personal” ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, “oWnEd tHe LiBs” content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, “silver nitrate”, and trump hat bs.

        • @odium@programming.dev
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          Most of the time, I would rather have the company requesting the ad keep the money rather than Google. This is one of the rare instances where I would rather have Google and Facebook get the money.

        • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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          22 years ago

          There are folks that dedicate a good amount of effort into wasting these ads, I hear you can even automate that.

    • @MechanicalJester@lemm.ee
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      72 years ago

      Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?

      • Zagorath
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        Wouldn’t you sort of expect that in a spotlight-style moon?

        I say sort of, because what you’d actually expect, at least if I’m picturing it correctly, is that the moon would be rotated by about 130°. To be fully upside down you’d want to be off the coast of South America. And even then it’d be a rotation of 180°, which is not the same as a reflection.

        diagram

    • @alertsleeper@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      they really think the sun is this small star (not big or bright enough to light the entire Earth), and that spins over Earth. Amazing.

    • PatFusty
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      32 years ago

      Dont you love it when you use a light bulb outside and it instantly becomes day time from all the light you are projecting. Good times.

    • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      It would be trivially easy to disprove it if it were worth the money to load them onto a plane and circumnavigate the globe in multiple directions, showing that there is no “wall of ice” and you always end up back where you started eventually. But it’s not, so they can continue to be idiots.

      • @smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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        52 years ago

        One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.

        Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or “refraction”. Images from space? CGI.

        At one point a flat earther launched himself into “space” with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.

    • ThenThreeMore
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      12 years ago

      How do they think eclipses work? I couldn’t see any mention of that on the page.