this one could go troll or dumbass, hard to tell
Probably started as a troll and picked up by dumbasses. Like the Flat Earth Society.
I wonder if the Finland conspiracy has any genuine believers yet…
I thought it was Belgium?
This kinda makes me feel old.
The version I heard I thought it was New Zealand… 😝
New Zealand doesn’t exist. Show me New Zealand on a map
(this joke works because New Zealand is left off of a stupid number of maps)
Wait, it’s not Iceland?
I’ve also heard it’s Australia
But then where do the waffles come from? And the chocolates? And diamonds?
All those things come from Bielefeld !
You have been lied to your whole life !
Ok, you convinced me. Where do I sign up?
Uhhh…
That’s a great great question…
“Where is Bielefeld ?”
We know that it exists. But where ?
Bielefeld? The football club from Armenia? 😉
Where does black metal come from?
Hate to be this guy, but it’s Norway.
Finland?
Mostly Norway, Sweden, and (to a lesser extent) Denmark.
Also from a profound sense of alienation combined with a tendency towards macabre flamboyancy and just subjective stylistic preferences of expression, I guess 🤷
Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.
That sounds like something a Finn would say.
So Finns do exist, other than Belgian people
Careful, that word’s really offensive in most parts of the galaxy.
Except in serious screenplays, of course.
I once won the Rory Award for The Most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay, you know… Then someone stole it, of course…
Pretty sure it was Idaho
What conspiracy?
That Finland does not exist. It started on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/52f5ae/the_finland_conspiracy_and_all_you_need_to_know/
That what does not exist? I have no idea what you’re talking about.
what a lame copy of the Bielefeld-Conspiracy
I went there for a visit, and they just toured me the east side of Tallinn as if I was an idiot
Jesus people are dumb.
First time I hear them being referred to as “Jesus people”
Well I guess there was an implied comma but this works too I guess. 🤣
I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can’t even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.
It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org
Wait, as far as I understand, this is a wikipedia page for severely Learning disabled people? Great, since I know a lot of idiots.
It’s for children, people with learning difficulties, and/or people still learning English. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages
It’s condensed content with simpler terms and plain English, which is helpful for those who aren’t native speakers, like Gamba said.
Simple wiki also comes in handy in topics like biology, which can have very specialized vocabulary.But in this context, the people who unironically believe in things like the moon not being a reflector can’t be reasoned with. They won’t change their mind no matter how simple English you explain the fact.
The reflection (scattering) of light can be seen on the picture they choose to make their point. Sure, the comment is correct that anything you can see scatters light otherwise you would not see it, but in the picture it is particular obvious where the light source is from the reflection on the rock.
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specular, rather than diffuse, for reference
when i do it is called spectacular
It’s also a pretty dumb rock to use as an example. If the moon were that color it would be way brighter than it is currently. And with a rock as shiny as that you would clearly see a reflection of the sun as well.
In real life the moon is about as bright as dark asphalt and because of all the dust it is very dull as well. So a matt black paint would probably be closer to what the moon looks like. Still bright as hell compared to the nothingness that surrounds it. Our eyes are also very good at low light conditions, once we get used to the dark a little bit of light goes a long way. So we can even pick out shadows in the moonlight on earth. A brighter moon would be annoying I think, imagine having some nights that look like early evening on a sunny day. But if we evolved with it we would be used to it I guess.
Just like with flat earth the glowing moon theory fails to explain the phases of the moon or things like eclipses. And why the glow doesn’t follow black body radiation, but instead perfectly follows the tell tale signs of reflected sunlight, Fraunhofer lines and all. And where the energy to generate that light would come from, making something glow as bright as the moon takes a lot of power. And why that power source selectively lights some parts some of the time. And where does the sunlight that hits the moon ends up, if it’s not reflected.
I would think it’s a troll, but these days you’d never know. Even if a troll for example claims vaccines cause autism for the grift, idiots still believe it.
I wonder how would the percentage of the people believing it change depending on the Moon’s albedo
It only seems like rocks are brighter when you are dumber than a rock.
Rocks are literally brighter than that person :p
Do they think all rocks glow?
I mean, technically rocks do glow.
Technically everything glows.
Surprisingly, this even applies to black holes (i.e. Hawking radiation).
Now make the nornal distribution meme for it
If I remember, I can do it Monday afternoon. I unfortunately work 14 hours tomorrow and I can’t risk staying up.
This was my first thought. Somebody tell this guy that not only is his moon model there glowing, but he is too!
For bonus fun, tell him that he’s radioactive.
It would probably be fun to have some instruments on hand to prove it to him as well.
These people are walking among us. Worse - they sometimes breed.
I feel for every child that has to find out their parents are fucking stupid.
Honestly, it sucks. I have never been able to take advice from either of my parents as an adult. Of course as a teen they seemed dumb to me, but even then I recognized that I was a teenager and that perception was typical for my age. But they never got any smarter. Frankly, the older I’ve grown, the more like children my parents seem to me. As a kid they always told me I was super smart. Now as an adult, do they listen to me if I try to correct their mistakes? They do not. They’ve been suckers for cons my whole life.
And no, I’m nowhere near as smart as they led me to think.
My dad was the dumbest man I ever knew and he still had wonderful advice sometimes.
I mean, I can say that to you here and you can only imagine with the limited data, but my dad was duuuuuuumb.
There is value in our idiot parents. We just have to find it.
My dad’s advice sums up basically to “come back to Jesus.” Mom was far worse, but she died recently.
Yeah my dad never bothered me with that, but boy oh boy my mom does.
That was the biggest part of their struggle. My dad was a wild animal and my mom should’ve married a preacher.
She’s married to a man who sees the world like she does now. He’s a good dude and he’s perfect for her. She spent 30 years trying to make it work with my dad.
I like my mom’s husband, but stories could be written about my dad (wasn’t my father, just raised me).
He lived a life that would make some award winning movies look like Sesame Street.
Ah, don’t worry. They’re often too stupid to realise that themselves
While it’s certainly possible for a person to be stupid, I find that very often it’s more accurate to describe a person as ignorant. In this context, I don’t mean that as an insult; I mean literal ignorance, as in the described person has not been exposed to relevant information, or possibly has been conditioned not to accept that information if it is provided.
It’s anecdotal, but most stupid people I meet aren’t stupid, just missing or unable to accept certain information. This especially applies to young people.
Ye, I agree with you. I made the comment as a joke, but I don’t actually believe these people are stupid. This is a generalisation, but I think they’re largely uneducated and brainwashed, but still very intelligent, and curious people. You can see this in some of the experimentation that they do that’s really sound from a scientific method POV. The internet is littered with flat earthers disproving themselves.
The best ones admit they’re wrong, and abandon flat earth. I have nothing but respect for those people.
Oh now, come on. My family believes some bizarre shit and I’m glad they did enough of the hibbity dibbity to get me here.
Is this person suggesting it’s a star with well-defined edges?
Cold fusion achieved!
From a distance, I thought this was going to be a 3D printed MST3K logo.
NO! You can see things because light hits it, not becuz it reflects it STOOPIT ^\s
radioactive cheese
Everybody wants a rock…
I mean, what else are you gonna wind a piece of string around?
If it doesn’t reflect light, it’d be black. If it emitted its own light then there wouldn’t be shadows in the craters of the moon and we also wouldn’t have moon phases. It’s hard to tell if this person is actually being serious because this is literally just entry level physics. Plus, we’ve collected moon rocks during the numerous moon landings.
Also, it wouldn’t look like a static hard circle in the sky, it would look like plasma.
If you can see it, it’s reflecting light
I think the nutcake / troll was trying to convey that the rock is emitting light. Which is no less stone bonkers and a load of old cobblers, but here we are.
Well I caught that
But I can see light. Is light reflecting light? What else am I being lied to about?
If rocks emit their own light, how come you can land on them?
