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To paraphrase Carl Sagan, it was once an obviously stupid idea to believe the earth wasn't flat, or that the sun didn't revolve around it. We should consider a
by booleandilemma 9y ago
To paraphrase Carl Sagan, it was once an obviously stupid idea to believe the earth wasn't flat, or that the sun didn't revolve around it.
We should consider all the tools we have at our disposal and there shouldn't be any questions that are off limits and not allowed to be asked, however obviously stupid they appear.
Whoever asked this question was curious, imaginative, and wrong.
NOAA understands this and that's why they went to such lengths to provide a great answer to the question.
Your knee-jerk attitude of "nuclear weapons - bad!" is neither constructive nor scientific.
- zimpenfish 9y ago> it was once an obviously stupid idea to believe the earth wasn't flat, or that the sun didn't revolve around it. When, though? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth it's been considered spherical since at least the 6th century BC (first documented mention) and Aristarchus had a heliocentric model in ~250BC.
- redblacktree 9y agoThis is pedantic sniping. The poster's point stands, despite your objection to the flat-earth claim.
- pluma 9y agoDo you want sharknados? Because this is the kind of thinking that leads to sharknados.