• teuast@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, while the sun rising over Colombia yesterday is safe to assume and trivial to prove, having the proof of it isn’t a bad thing. At the very least, it provides evidence that continues to support our current heliocentric and uniformitarian understanding of how our solar system is structured. And there’s a lot of overlap between flat earthers, people who think God changed the laws of physics to allow for Noah’s flood, and Qanon people, so you can kinda see where that might fit into a larger, more significant evidentiary pattern.

    Sure, it is trivial to prove. Just ask someone who was there, if you weren’t there yourself. But that doesn’t mean it’s useless.