I’m picturing those profiled faces from The Electric Company.
c at
cat!
c arson
carson!
Well, barges would be a very wasteful solution, but perhaps propellers could be attached to rainclouds and…
“Ted Cruz Compares Himself to Galileo, Calls Those Who Believe In Climate Change ‘Flat-Earthers’”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/25/3638622/ted-cruz-is-like-galileo/
In the near future, Justice Moore will valiantly stop a gay couple from intercourse by diving between them as they are about to copulate, causing the penis to penetrate his eye and into his brain, instantly killing him. Horrified at their deed, the gay couple become Evangelical Christians, traveling around the country to speak out against the evils of gay marriage. Their rapid rise in influence forces a beaten Obama to reluctantly sign an Amendment banning gay marriage. Moore is declared a national hero and a statue is erected in his honor at the Capital Building, which is coincidentally where the first people were Raptured as they prayed beneath his stony gaze…as Roy Moore writes in his own fan fiction of How Roy Moore Saved the World
That’s an excellent confirmation of what I’ve long suspected is the state of right-wing knowledge of science and history.
Wow, who is that going to fool? Most of his constituents would burn Galileo at the stake.
And what is this “the world is on fire?” Doesn’t that make him a global warming alarmist?
Saraħ Palin is little more than a spokesmodel. She has no actual thought process.
Wait, what was Galileo’s relationship to the flat-earth controversy? Was he involved in any way at all?
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
Exactly!
If Cruz had said “earth revolves around the sun” instead of “earth is flat” it would have been a slightly better analogy, but even then he’s confusing Galileo with Copernicus.
And above and beyond that: what flat-earth controversy?
It’s pretty much the same controversy as climate change, and pretty much the same sets of people except a few hundred years apart.
Except, acting upon the premise that the Earth is flat was of tremendous consequence, whereas global warming is wholly unimportant.
Nah, Copernicus was a slick motherfucker. He figured out that the Earth revolved around the Sun but didn’t want to rock the boat so when he published his astronomical treaties he took care to say “I’m only using this theoretical model because it simplifies calculations” - he never went one step further and assert “because that’s the way if fookin’ well is !”.
Galileo was less tactful about it, which is why he got smacked (among other things, few of which were actually related to Galileo or astronomy really). But he did get smacked for asserting a geocentric model.
As for the “flat earth controversy”, **Miller **is right : there never was any. People (well, scholars) have known the Earth is round-ish since Ancient Greece (and probably earlier - I’m thinking classical Egypt & Babylon here).
errr that would be helio-, not geo-, obviously.
So Ted Cruz could look at becoming the example the dictionary will use when one looks at the definition of “Not even wrong”.
Fish is a food for them bicoastal/bisexual elitist pervs.
Wouldn’t it be easier to pipe it due south from the Pacific Northwest, where “rain” is another word for “air”?