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I'm getting choked up. They put this thing on a rocket and shoot it across space to another planet.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Feb 18 '21, 13:03

They pick a spot on that other planet the size of the rug in my living room and it never stops, it never slows down to have a look around, it smashes through that thin atmosphere, deploys a parachute, leaves the parachute behind, fires some little rockets, and lands on that spot perfectly...

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127,000,000 miles away and nailed it -- nm - decline Feb 18, 13:08 7
- Take that, Flat Earthers and Geocentrists! Orbital Mechanics ftw! -- nm - ❄TWuG 🚀 Feb 18, 13:10 6
  - One of the more amusing things about flat earthers is that they acknowledge that every *other* planet is a spheroid. -- nm - mara Feb 18, 13:19 5
    - I uh, was not aware of that - JD Feb 18, 13:27 4
      - It's like American Exceptionalism. They think Earth is just that special. -- nm - mara Feb 18, 13:34 3
        
        (Actually, some of them think other planets may be discs, not spheres, and that it doesn't matter anyway.) -- nm - mara Feb 18, 13:36 2
        
        This is what I had in mind. They're all discs, I can see that as a belief system. One disc amid a universe of spheres really hurts my brain -- nm - JD Feb 18, 13:39 1
        
        Discs that we only ever see full on, not edge on or angled. :-) But the Flat Earth Society wiki says "The planets are spherical bodies which revolve above the Earth." -- nm* - mara Feb 18, 13:40
It is insane when you start to think about it. Truly incredible. -- nm - oblique Feb 18, 13:05

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I'm getting choked up. They put this thing on a rocket and shoot it across space to another planet.

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