Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 3 2021 02:27am)

Columbus thought the earth was way smaller than it was known to be. His correction would be "it has been known for many thousands of years the earth is larger." And they would be right.

In the case of Galileo he would be the expert punishing in the field and would be presenting real data and so wouldnt get a message at all.

I love how every time I see a social media censorship post it has to totally misrepresent the state of affairs to make its point.

Quote (cambovenzi @ Jun 4 2021 06:53am)

Quote (Ghot @ Jun 3 2021 04:01am)

Well, Columbus' main project was to sail "around" the world, in order to discover a short sea route to Cathay. So as to avoid all the trials and tribulations of the eastern land route.
He really didn't understand how BIG the world actually was.

But I do agree that the lack of education evidenced on social media is appalling.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 4 2021 09:39pm)

Yeah, and the thing is everybody at the time knew how large the world was. If you know trigonometry it's easy to calculate to within a few percent based on a couple simple observations, and that was done thousands of years ago. Columbus thought the earth was smaller and there were no continents in the way.

So your cartoon is wrong and not accurately representing how the social media tags are functioning.

Quote (Ghot @ Jun 4 2021 09:20pm)

Seriously... get out more often bro. You getting riled about this is pretty weird. It's just a cartoon. Learn to laugh. :)

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 4 2021 10:33pm)

Why are conservatives such snowflakes? If you think that's "getting riled" it's no surprise you love Trump. You're scared of your own shadow.