tomate 🍅Mar 3
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Show threadRoger BW 😷
@jascha Scientists probably don't want you to listen to flat earth no-vaccines guy, but that's because someone did the debunking 50 years ago back when that seemed worth doing.
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Show threadAnatomicalNormalcy🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇰Mar 3
@RogerBW @jascha
Scientists don't want to bother debunking Flat Earth because someone already did that with a stick thousands of years ago
Show threadgsecMar 3

@anatomical_normalcy @RogerBW @jascha you don't need to debunk flat earth. It's perfectly fine, you'll just have to deal with a horrible geometry and a lot of additional assumptions to compensate for your shitty model 🧚

Aaand: as a local approximation it's killer :)

Show threadUnion WhoreMar 4
@gsc @anatomical_normalcy @RogerBW @jascha When I was at uni I joked about forming the locally flat earth society 
Show threadAvaMar 5

@unionwhore @gsc @anatomical_normalcy @RogerBW @jascha

Presumably as opposed to the Globally Flat Earth Society

...wait

Show threadLeelooMar 3

@RogerBW @jascha
50 years ago?

Maybe for vaccines.

We¹ knew the Earth is round 600 BC, and had calculated the circumference by 300 BC.

¹) The people who lived in Greece back then, of course none of us had been born yet.

Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 3
@leeloo @jascha Yeah, but it had to be debunked all over again in the 1970s.
Show threadSavannologyMar 3
@leeloo @RogerBW @jascha Only Greeks?
Show threadLeelooMar 3

@scogings @RogerBW @jascha
The man who is known to have done the calculation back then was Greek.

He may not have been the only one or the first.