1/3 of college age people are not sure the Earth is round!

Posted by Zero 6 years, 1 month ago to News
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It started as a joke in the 18th century - now it has swept over a whole generation incapable of independent thought.

This will get worse - a lot worse - before it gets better.
Thank gawd I'm nearing the end.


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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 1 month ago
    If they don't know what gender someone is ....
    Does it even matter what else is between the ears. When they can't define what is between their legs? These same dolts will gladly give up their rights and demand we do the same for the greater good. Way to many useful Idiots.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 1 month ago
    When my first born son was three years old, I suggested we step outdoors and see if the Easter Bunny left him any eggs. He opened his beautiful blue eyes very wide and replied, 'Bunnies don't lay eggs!' It was all downhill after that!.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I was thinking about that too. As well as the rest of the planets. As well as the sun that earth rotates around. (Or does it? /s)
    We need to teach young adults more basic science and less identity safe space studies.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 1 month ago
    Did we are did we not send men into space who eventually landed on the moon? Do they think the moon is flat too?
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 1 month ago
    Is this statement a joke? I've seen it before, but ignored it, so I have to ask? Who in their right minds could question whether or not the earth is round or flat? I really don't have time for this.
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  • Posted by Joseph23006 6 years, 1 month ago
    Let us return to the Dark and Middle Ages when this was the common belief since The Bible did not mention that the world was round; of course many of these college age persons have never read The Bible. I do think that some of the Greeks such as Hypatia had worked it out but had no way to observe it. Let's just hope they don't get too near the edge and fall off into the chasm filled with all sorts of monsters!
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 6 years, 1 month ago
    33% kool aid saturated. I'm surprised the indoctrination isn't more deeply rooted in more people.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Someone should ask them if they have been taught to believe that science means to be skeptical of everything, is no better than faith, and that it only offers mental "models" of an unknowable reality that sometimes "works".
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 1 month ago
    So the earth is just a big pizza? I wonder...thick or thin crust?, Italian or Greek?.
    I guess that makes the moon a Cheese only pizza and Mars just sauce and that strange elongated comet that made it's rounds around our sun was just a burnt calzone!?
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yet another word I had to look up today.

    Wondering if this generation has been taught to look up words they don’t understand. Or maybe they just alter them to mean what they believe they should mean in their new world. Mankind becomes Peoplekind.
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    Posted by exceller 6 years, 1 month ago
    It only tells me about the level of analphabetism among this generation.

    Not surprised at all.
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  • Posted by Esceptico 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    It must be the Coriolis force and if you sleep right on the equator in the western hemisphere you will sleep on your back, but if in the eastern hemisphere you will sleep on your stomach.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, just tell them that socialism is good because it helps people and they believe you.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
    (Wait! That’s not funny!)
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    One could theorize that earth is like a giant flat mirror...Then throw that provably invalid theory into the garbage.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep. Also, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
    But it is good for individuals to be AWARE of the current realities of the world.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 1 month ago
    Based on recent discussions that I've had with 'Teens & twenties, I don't think they are sure of anything. They are so wishy-washy in their beliefs that they can be talked out of almost anything and into almost anything. I have yet to try to see how outrageous a "fact" I can convince them of but that may be my next project. I'm trying to formulate a good question that asks if our main military structure is in the shape of a pentagram in order to keep the "Elder Gods" of H.P. Lovecraft captive in the earth below the enormous five sided structure. That should provoke some interesting responses.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Funny, when I live in the US, I am more comfortable sleeping on my right side. In Australia, I am more comfortable sleeping on my left side. Is it the earth, or is it political? ;^)
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  • Posted by Esceptico 6 years, 1 month ago
    Oh yeah? If it's not flat, then how come we don't walk upside down in Australia? I have actually been asked this question.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    On the other side, fascist soicieties attempted to make their individuals more superior. Those who couldn’t be made more superior were often elliminated from the gene pool.

    As far as I can tell there is only one physical way to equalize all of mankind. Although it could happen one day, only the really insane want that way!
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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 1 month ago
    The earth used to be a sphere but global warming and climate change catastrophe has flattened it! If we would like it to be round again we must control everything people might do or eat to re-inflate the globe. This must be done soon or we will fall off the edge and be lost forever.
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  • Posted by CarrieAnneJD 6 years, 1 month ago
    Dear GOD these people vote and reproduce and are given huge platforms to spew their "wisdom" and public policy...
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  • Posted by maxgeoac 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Kurt Vonnegut wrote a short story about equalizing everyone in the country, title: "Harrison Bergeron". Those faster at running were given weights on their legs to slow them down. Those that could reason or think better, were given a very loud radio. Etc.... It is a rather interesting look at where we may potentially end up as a society. Unfortunately, we may end up getting to that point sooner than later, if the education system and politics (I know both are intertwined) don't change.
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