r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/districtcourt • Mar 26 '23
“Fact:” *spews bullshit*
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u/TaxsDodgersFallstar Mar 26 '23
Source: trust me bro
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u/districtcourt Mar 26 '23
I believe Liberty University first promulgated this “fact”
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u/ThatsAWeirdLookinSax Mar 27 '23
I think It's also a Mormon thing. This is the kind of thing that my friends parents would shit out.
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u/murphguy1124 Mar 27 '23
Not just a mormon thing. This was a supposed fact that Bible thumpers would spout out because some youth pastor told them that at church camp and they never questioned it. I got kicked out of that lesson because I asked too many questions and my very basic and rudimentary 6th grade earth science and astronomy knowledge was too advanced.
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u/sloany_16 Mar 27 '23
This is not a Mormon thing. It would be an “idiot who happens to be Mormon” thing.
Source: I’m a Mormon
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u/69ThisIsThrowaway69 Mar 27 '23
That's cool, but don't ever comment telling me I'm wrong. I would rather basque in my God based facts.
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u/Agreeable_Text_36 Mar 27 '23
Basque - similar to a corset. Region of France
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Mar 27 '23
Anyone who responds like that to something objectively true is not someone who particularly cares about truth. Admittedly, there are many out there like that. The guy could have been angry at being proven wrong, and still at least grudgingly accepted as much.
It's scholar vs soldier mentality. Soldier wants to win at all costs. Their mentality is about being right, not being correct. The scholar accepts that people can be wrong and will accept a convincing argument, knowing that ultimately they will have the correct world view in this way. Be scholars, folks, not soldiers.
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u/Sky_Beres Mar 27 '23
Not sure if this was something that happened a long time ago at Liberty, but nobody believes that now a days
Source: I’m a Liberty student
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u/The-Solid-Smoker Mar 27 '23
Sauce: Jesus told me, bro.
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u/TaxsDodgersFallstar Mar 27 '23
I care about Jesus, but I don't have to act like him... because I can just ask for forgiveness and be good again
🙄
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u/Beautiful_Belt156 Mar 26 '23
almost downvoted out of anger, and then I remembered you're not the idiot who thinks we'd all burn to death if we were 10 feet closer to the sun
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u/Foxk Mar 27 '23
Climbs ladder, head bursts into flames.
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u/Chrissyball19 Mar 27 '23
This is the reason for my fear of heights, I just know one day it'll happen /s
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u/TJ_Longfellow Mar 27 '23
I’d be interested in hearing how mountain climbers, airplanes, and birdies don’t spontaneously combust in flight
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u/SMRose1990 Mar 27 '23
As they climber higher, their upward movement actually pushes the earth downward at the same time so they're not actually getting any closer. And this somehow happens every time for every person, so there's some pretty complex math involved. Just know, they're right and shouldn't be questioned. God commands it.
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u/Pandantic Mar 26 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
Been called the “fact check police” by people for doing this. Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you were posting “fun FACTS”. My mistake, you just like to perpetuate lies, duly noted. unfriend
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u/Liberkhaos Mar 26 '23
That comeback is so pathetic. I can't even imagine someone like that actually exist.
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u/XBakaTacoX Mar 26 '23
It becomes a little bit more funny if you read the comment out with a valley girl accent.
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u/Liberkhaos Mar 26 '23
I think I just mentally threw up.
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u/Kooky-Satisfaction20 Mar 26 '23
THEY'RE EVERYWHERE AND EVEN WORSE....
THEY VOTE ON IMPORTANT ISSUES
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u/No_Cat_3503 Mar 27 '23
And a lot of them want “conservative christian” to be a voting requirement.
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Mar 27 '23
When I had a Facebook I loved to write this kind of commend debunking stupid beliefs. People always replied like that. "I'm wrong, but I didn't ask!" So ridiculous.
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u/s7ormrtx Mar 27 '23
If you cant imagine that, theres someone out there that liked that comeback and thought “hey, imma use this next time im in a bind”
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u/hyperboleistheworst Mar 26 '23
By that logic we would burst into flames every time we climbed a ladder.
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u/Primordial_Peasant Mar 27 '23
Everyone on the second story of a building would too. Also airplanes exist.
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u/CadenVanV Mar 27 '23
Or walked up the stairs. And skyscrapers would be perpetually on fire. And don’t forget that nighttime would kill us
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u/Hour-Watch8988 Mar 27 '23
This attitude toward being proven wrong is so absurdly common. People who can exercise intellectual responsibility should have more votes on important issues.
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u/medium_Sampson Mar 27 '23
We should all have to take a logic test in order to vote. Everybody is guaranteed one vote no matter what. Passing the test means your one vote may receive a 1.1-2x multiplier depending on your performance. How's that sound?
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u/Careful_Deer1581 Mar 27 '23
That could turn out really terrible. Think about all the stuff that could influence the outcome. It would be an invitation to rig the system even more against poor people.
Its not that this dipshit is incapable of understanding why they are wrong. The problem is the wilfull ignorance.
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u/Apprehensive-Till861 Mar 27 '23
Do they not still teach about poll taxes in high school?
Every time people bring up tests for voting...we literally already did that!
They made white voters answer 4+4 and made Black voters define the square root of a horse!
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u/Careful_Deer1581 Mar 27 '23
poll taxes
I am not from the US and was not familiar with this part of us history. Holy shit...imagine the audacity and disrespect (or racism) it takes to do it this openly.
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u/CadenVanV Mar 27 '23
Yeah there were a lot of creative ways of disenfranchising minority votes. Still are. An old one back when segregation started was that you could only vote if your grandfather could. Completely avoided any race based legal trouble while disenfranchising almost every black person in the states because their grandparents had been slaves
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u/medium_Sampson Mar 27 '23
I'm not actually being serious about that. Thank you for entertaining it though.
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u/JakeArewood Mar 27 '23
This is literally what republicans in the US want you doofus. Strip public education, make the general populace workers then tell them they’re too stupid to vote on things.
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u/Siansian010 Mar 27 '23
Wow what a Christian like response
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u/NiceGuy737 Mar 27 '23
Many call themselves christian, not too many around though.
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u/ghambone Mar 27 '23
I mean, to my mind, Christianism was always more of a colonizing/slaver type way to crush other cultures. In my 5 decades, I have yet to actually see a positive influence that religionists add to the world. Most of it is mythologically driven cults.
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u/JaztyMania_ Mar 27 '23
Christian Here
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u/AshgarPN Mar 27 '23
Well, you're all in the same country club anyway.
If you want him out, do something about it.
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u/TheHansinator255 Mar 27 '23
The funniest part about this "earth is in the exact right spot" argument is that it doesn't even prove the existence of God like they want it to - yeah, it piles yet another thing onto the extremely improbable things that would have to happen by chance if God didn't orchestrate them, but that still leaves us with no actual idea of how likely God was to exist before the universe began. If you want to prove that God exists/created the universe, you need to find something that is categorically impossible to exist by chance, which is an entirely different problem.
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u/OmNamahShivaya Mar 27 '23
It’s just survivorship bias in action. In other words, there’s an unfathomable amount of planets that are so extreme in temperature/atmosphere that no life can form or exist on them. It only seems like our planet was created specifically for us because we survived for this long.
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u/TheHansinator255 Mar 27 '23
Absolutely - if any of the conditions that allowed us to evolve didn't happen, we just wouldn't be here. There are also a bunch of ducks-in-a-row that had to happen in order for our universe to exist at all, such as the values of the fundamental constants being what they are, which I've also seen used to make this argument - though all it does is create an even slimmer probability that we managed to survive through.
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u/EdbAndZmbfid Mar 27 '23
>say something completely wrong
>get corrected
"don't ever come to my page correcting my objectively false comments ever again"
I want to know what goes on in the heads of these people.
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u/nchp2002 Mar 27 '23
You don't need to know, since there's nothing going on in there.
These "feelings don't care about your facts" mfs are straight up existing on a different spectrum.
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u/MaleficentHandle4293 Mar 27 '23
I want to know what goes on in the heads of these people.
Narcissism. They need to be 'right' in order to feel important for the first time in their lives, and no one dare take that away from them.
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u/jerrygallowithac Mar 26 '23
He did the math
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u/comrade_jacktaber Mar 26 '23
And the other guy did the meth
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u/districtcourt Mar 26 '23
Did *the Bible
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u/Pandantic Mar 26 '23
How dare you question any statement that proclaims “God is amazing!!”?! What are you, a satinist?!!!?!
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u/simpi36 Mar 27 '23
That's the worts thing, people like this make look all christians dumb af. I feel so embarrased every time somebody brings up Bible during an argument and tries to defend some bullshit with it. The best part is, usually it goes against the teaching of the Bible as well.
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u/districtcourt Mar 27 '23
This is easily disprovable if you think about astronauts going into space. Once they leave 10 feet beyond earth’s atmosphere are they freezing or incinerating?
It literally takes one brain cell
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u/madmaxjr Mar 27 '23
Just so it’s out there. once you leave the atmosphere that’s exactly what would happen without shielding lol. Or, if you’re in the shadow of something, you’d freeze.
Spaceship design accounts for this, in fact. The sunny side of the ISS would be hundreds of degrees warmer than the shady side without thermal controls.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21mar_1
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u/Necessary_Essay2661 Mar 27 '23
That's cool and all, but don't everrr comment on my thread telling me i'm wrong. I didn't ask you did i? Answer: NO!!!
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u/Conscious_Pickle3605 Mar 27 '23
*Thats
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u/Mando_dablord Mar 27 '23
*Okay, thats
(I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I understood the joke.)
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u/districtcourt Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Fact: it’s God—not spaceship shielding design and thermal controls—that keeps the ISS safe from extreme temperature changes in space
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u/No-Shoe7651 Mar 27 '23
The correct move is to constantly post corrections on every one of this tissue paper skinned simpletons status'.
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u/bloonshot Mar 27 '23
"the earth would burn up if it was 10 ft closer to the sun"
mfs on the top of skyscrapers:
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u/rickybaby0407 Mar 27 '23
God sent that person into their comments to let them know they're wrong. It is in His plan :P
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u/Ray_Gun69lol Mar 27 '23
"That's cool and all"
Proceeds to react in a way that heavily implies they don't think it's "cool and all"
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u/HushedShadow Mar 27 '23
I grew up religious and I wholeheartedly believed this cause this is the kind of thing the church would always say but around grade 9 I started actually listening to science and facts instead of just saying "that's not in the bible" and soon after that realization I stopped being religious
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u/polkaguy6000 Mar 27 '23
Can confirm. I live in Denver (elevation 5280ft), and the city burns down daily.
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u/TheChristianDude101 Mar 27 '23
The real problem was not in being wrong or praising God but how they responded to correction. Theres a proverb on this, Proverbs 12:1
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u/districtcourt Mar 27 '23
To me the dogma of Christianity seems to defy learning wisdom, and growth. If there is a God, they didn’t give us these big ole brains to ignore scientific evidence. And therein lies the problem.
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u/Hammy-Cheeks Mar 27 '23
What I read for the response: I never paid attention in science and lack critical thinking skills.
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u/A_Wild_Bin_Appeared Mar 27 '23
as a christian, it pains me so much every time i see a post like this. theres so much lies and propoganda against science and truth within my religion and it sucks as i am someone who loves science. not to mention it makes the whole religion look bad and ignorant when people do shit like this. pisses me off so bad.
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u/pete_ape Mar 27 '23
Because all the people freezing to death on Mt. Everest are actually burning, and Death Valley is so cold it feels like burning
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u/Prepared_Noob Mar 27 '23
If it real these people are dumb yeah. But the response to the truth definitely seems heavily scripted. Also the fact all of the other comments have no likes… odd
Also I just noticed the person who screen shooter this “epic destruction with facts” liked the original post? Whose side are you on
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u/SpiritLamp304 Mar 27 '23
Fact - If the earth was 10 ft closer to the sun we would all be perfectly fine, and if it was 10 ft further we would all be perfectly fine... Pretty lucky aren't we?
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Mar 27 '23
I didn’t ask you, did I?
That doesn’t matter because you’re spreading bullsh*t, and everybody can comment your post. If you don’t want replies, why posting in the first place?
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u/BoopNotFound Mar 27 '23
Says something that’s wrong, saying it’s fact
Gets proven wrong
“Don’t ever comment on my status telling me I’m wrong everrrr again”
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u/NinjaEagle210 Mar 27 '23
My great great grandfather died when he was 4 feet above sea level and jumped one foot high. His head instantly turned to toast.
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u/Some_Street7410 Mar 27 '23
Pov: Gets salty after being proven wrong by kindergarten knowledge
Edit: the bullshitters grammer is so bad
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u/Bladeofwar94 Mar 27 '23
I like that they got mad because you were informing them on what was right.
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u/Shlafenflarst Mar 26 '23
I get the terrible facebook part, but how is this a meme ?
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u/bugxbuster Mar 26 '23
Okay thats cool and all but don’t ever comment on this post telling OP that theyre wrong everrrr again. i didn’t ask you did i?
Answer: NO
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u/Sir_Honytawk Mar 28 '23
I've seen this meme being spread on meme websites for a long time
Even if it is just text, it now fits the definition of "meme"
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u/Acextreme77 Mar 27 '23
IDK about the ten foot thing. But there is such a thing called "The galactical habitat zone." It is the realm in which our planet is able to sustain life. On the outside of the ring the planet would freeze, and on the inside we would all fry.
The person was exaggerating but makes a good point scientifically.
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u/Nestormahkno19d Mar 27 '23
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is religion in a nutshell, faith over facts
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u/bogiihboi Mar 27 '23
Yeah this guy is wrong because that many kilomaters is smaller than a foot🙏🙏🙏amen🥰
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Mar 27 '23
If that was true, a 6 feet tall person standing on a 4 feet stool on top of Mount Everest would be burning to death.
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u/VLenin2291 Mar 27 '23
Here's the most condensed version I can possibly offer:
The Goldilocks Zone-the zone the Earth is in, allowing for life to exist on it-starts at a width of 0.99 astronomical units, which is 92 million miles. If we were 10 feet closer or further from the sun, we probably wouldn't even notice
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u/IHateMath14 Mar 27 '23
Why can’t people accept that they are wrong sometimes. If I am corrected then I will thank them. (unless it’s wrong because I usually check google in some cases)
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u/Plastic_Feed8223 Mar 27 '23
Fact: An outbreak of lightning frogs is taking place in Dallas, Texas, and citizens are advised to take shelter or evacuate
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u/aceh40 Mar 27 '23
Actually, you do not need to know anything about AU to know the claim is bullshit. If it were true, the second floor of any building would be uninhabitable.
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u/HalensVan Mar 27 '23
I had friends like this, and my response always was "Well if you don't want people correcting your stupid shit on social media, don't post it"
I am no longer friends with those people lol
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u/Child_Beter69 Mar 27 '23
*points out that they’re spreading misinformation
UM AKCHOOLY DID I ASK?????
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u/HeroBrine0907 Mar 27 '23
Remember kids, in a democracy, two such people's votes have more weightage than 1 vote from a person who is actually rational.
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u/Seawolf571 Mar 27 '23
Iirc the elliptical orbit thing is actually largely false, but someone fact check me on that before I do it myself.
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u/Significant_Tank_889 Mar 27 '23
Walks up to balcony on second floor Falls out of orbit and fucking dies
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u/ClayAndros Mar 27 '23
Basically " how dare you correct me in my religious ranting and give actual proven facts instead
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u/DawnBringer01 Mar 27 '23
Someone blocked me once because I saw them complaining about Superman's son being gay (they pretended it was about the children of course) and told them no child was concerned about "what's going in his butt" and she was projecting hard as hell.
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u/Far-Mastodon8878 Mar 27 '23
I dont know anything about science, except if its computer, but i am assuming he meant if the earth went out of its orbit, not to the extent of 10ft, cause that -i assume- is nothing when speaking of space, but from my basic knowledge, i think he makes sense
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u/NoobFromTwitch Mar 27 '23
Why does the whole comment section sound like a 4 year old discord group XD
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u/dukedizzy93 Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I mean thats still pretty amazing on the scale of the solar system, those distances mean nothing tbh and the numbers the guy gave are wrong, heres what i found while searching size of the solar system, sedna is the furthest object observable in our solar system: 1 AU(distance from the Earth to the Sun) equals 149,597,870.691 km. Based on that figure, Sedna is nearly 960.78 AU from the Sun and the Solar System is 1,921.56 AU in diameter.
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u/Collarsmith Mar 27 '23
Confidently wrong instantly transitions to belligerently and willfully wrong.
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u/Foodcarsanime1390 Mar 27 '23
"Did I ask you? NO"
"Do I care? Also no. Now shut up, you're making the rest of us stupider"
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u/Darkhallows27 Mar 27 '23
This motherfucker acting like 10 fucking feet is absolutely anything on a cosmic scale
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u/Stein_um_Stein Mar 27 '23
Lol the "how dare you" comment. This person will completely forget they're wrong and repeat it somewhere without a shred of second thought.
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u/VioletGhost2 Mar 27 '23
Mfw people don't know the earth, our sun, our solar system, our galaxy, our supercluster, and I would say our universe, are constantly moving :/
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u/MaulSinnoh Mar 27 '23
"Hey let me tell you misinformation that I made up, but you won't know."
"Actually, that's isn't all that true, and here's why.
"Did I fucking ask though"
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u/Perfect-Virus8415 Mar 27 '23
I wonder who believes the 10 feet thing like do they realize how small 10 feet is in cosmic terms?
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u/tayroarsmash Mar 27 '23
Wouldn’t that mean everyone dies on the night side of earth from freezing to death? You’ve moved more than ten feet away from the sun just by being on the rotation.
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u/DeezThoughts Mar 27 '23
Could you please stop discrediting my insane religious rant with cold hard facts? It really hurts my ability to brainwash people with reinforcing their own ignorant beliefs!
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u/DickySchmidt33 Mar 27 '23
This is why conservatives are so angry about public education.
Factual reality doesn't align with what they want to believe, so they want the opportunity to create their own reality.
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u/Casual-Notice Mar 27 '23
I'm making a public statement but will accept no non-supportive comments from the public.
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u/Internal-Pie6014 Mar 27 '23
I mean, technically this is a r/lostredditors but fuck that person. If you claim something is fact on a public forum, you’re also committed to being made accountable if it’s inaccurate
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u/PsycheAsHell Mar 27 '23
The sad part is that I've heard this little "fact" numerous times from Christian sources (my parents, people from the church I went to as a kid, Christian media, etc.). A ton of them actually believe this is true.
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u/ArachnidMiserable314 Mar 27 '23
“Don’t tell me I’m wrong because I can’t handle knowing that I’m stupid.”
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u/MicahN44 Mar 27 '23
This is legitimately one of those things I was spoon fed as a little kid and have just never questioned until right now. Like this is the first time I’ve thought of this since I was probably 12… JFC I’ve really gotta go through my brain and clear the lies out
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u/Realistic_Run7318 Mar 27 '23
He just forgot to say, "Oh and the earth is flat fyi shitty hipster, elliptical orbits..."
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u/RYNO758 Mar 27 '23
Branching off that; do earthquakes actually affect the planet’s orbit? How does that work when motion only changes due to outside forces? Does a quake change earth’s center of gravity that significantly?
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Mar 27 '23
My science teacher in 6th grade thought this as well. Actually no, she didn't say 10 feet, she said a few millimeters.
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u/Patient_Wasabi7976 Mar 27 '23
I love you can detect the neurotic defensiveness and insecurity in the last comment in the thread.
Also, congrats for posting an actual bad Facebook meme. Most Redditors could learn from you.
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u/shuranumitu Mar 27 '23
Even if that were true, why would God be amazing for doing that? He placed his precious creation right in between two extremely deadly places which he also created. If anything that makes him weird and edgy.
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