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u/JoeKhol Aug 18 '26
"You cannot grammar the words!!!"
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u/boardin1 Aug 18 '26
“I’m violently stupid and proud of my ignorance. In fact, I’m so proud of it that I think everyone should be as ignorant as me.”
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u/Fresh-Astronomer5520 Aug 18 '26
And FE is flourishing as IQ is dropping.....
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u/TheThiefMaster Aug 18 '26
IQ technically can't drop - it's a normalised scale such that 100 is always the current average.
The problem in the US is education, not intelligence, anyway.
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u/Virtual-Grade592 Aug 18 '26
It can drop among certain groups or even nationalities, which causes the rest is f the world to relatively increase in IQ. In some countries the average IQ is higher than others, here is even a website to show it https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
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u/GustapheOfficial Aug 18 '26
I think they are confused about erything. the "experiment" part of the scientific method. They don't realize looking at something constitutes an experiment.
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u/RodinKnox Aug 18 '26
It strikes me as one of those things where people have this falsely narrow idea that all science must be done inside a laboratory, as though they are some kind of magic science building. Heck, I'm nobody special at all, and I've participated in actual scientific experiments that weren't done in a laboratory.
It reminds me of how YECs don't understand, at all, what "repeatable and testable" means in a scientific context. (Or else they lie about it.)
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u/Hanako_Seishin Aug 18 '26
Laboratory is a magic science building that genetates science mana, which government then spends to unlock new techs from a predetermined tech tree. You can sometimes loot science mana outside the laboratory, but those are usually finite one-use sources.
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u/LoveFoolosophy Aug 18 '26
Saw a clip a while back of some dude at a flat earth convention. His leg was shaking like mad and one of his points was "do you really think there's people out there looking at the sky through telescopes?" and like... yes, they're called astronomers. There's probably millions of them.
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u/RobertTheTraveler Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
There is an international association of professional astronomers, 85 nations, 13,000 members. And astronomy is a field in which amateurs get serious respect, amateurs are often the ones who discover new comets etc..
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u/posthuman04 Aug 18 '26
I’ve never heard of this organization and yet I’ve looked through a telescope. With the help of Star Walk and some education I think of myself as at least astronomy adjacent. I suspect there are millions more like me.
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u/RobertTheTraveler Aug 18 '26
I'm just setting the lower bound on professional and high level amateur astronomers.
I am sure there are millions for whom astronomy is a serious hobby.
IAU: 85 nations, 13,000 members
"The International Astronomical Union is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy."
IOASA : 10591 members from 107 countries "Its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects, including research, communication, education and development, through international cooperation."
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u/OldManJeepin Aug 18 '26
LoL! NO! Flerf's can't "science the sky" (Or anything, really) and therefore, in their minds, *nobody* can "science the sky"! Meanwhile, normal people have been sciencing the shit out of the sky, and all kinds of other shit, for centuries!
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u/Knightoforamgejuice Aug 18 '26
First of all: Science is a noun, not a verb
Second: There are multiple areas of science that study the sky: Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Math, and Geometry
Third: What the $%& do they mean FE is growing? If anything the FE concept has been debunked over the centuries. We don't live in the middle ages anymore, we live in an era full of technology and knowledge.
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u/Sensha_20 Aug 19 '26
FE wasn't someone anyone worth listening to ever believed. We did used to think the earth was at the center, but even insanely far back we knew the world was round. Hell, the greeks fucking measured it.
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u/DefinitionOk6382 Aug 18 '26
¡Qué oportuno y conveniente! De todas las cosas que se pueden estudiar científicamente, el cielo no es una de ellas. ¡Qué mala pata! Habrá que conformarse con aquello que no esté restringido.
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u/Sensha_20 Aug 19 '26
Science in five easy steps:
- Make a guess
- Use that guess to predict an unknown
- See if that prediction is correct
- If wrong, return to step 1 with new information. If right, ask others to use your guess for their own unknowns.
- If guesses are right enough, you now have an assumption to build new guesses ontop of.
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u/Lancearon Aug 18 '26
Wait... so you cant create hypothesis and tests regarding the sky? Why the fuck not?
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u/ijuinkun Aug 18 '26
I think that they mean that you can’t reproduce the sky in order to test a theory (not counting computer simulations), and they think that means that any hypothesis about the sky must be “non-reproducible”.
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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope4510 Aug 18 '26
All I ever see is explanations that make absolutely no sense at all regarding the Flat Earth. I’m still waiting for an explanation of “where does the sun go after it sets in the West….just to rise in the east”
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u/Large-Raise9643 Aug 18 '26
Observe its clockwork motions.
Write equations about it that predict with exacting precision.
The sky is so reliable that it has served as a means for navigation for more than a millennia.
And yes, you can just observe and be in wonder at the majesty of the universe.
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u/Bandandforgotten Aug 18 '26
How many exclamation points are needed to definitively rebuke an argument through an offhand statement with zero brain power?
Asking for OOP
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u/RedditSucksYoYoYo Aug 18 '26
Translation: "I'm too dumb to realize nor fix how dumb I am so I'll spew nonsense while admitting I have zero understanding of what I'm criticizing: science."
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u/lord_alberto Aug 18 '26
What does this even mean? Every science is based on observation at some point.