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Zundfolge
08-18-2017, 10:13
Look, Ma, "Journalism".

source (The Atlantic, no less) (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/do-you-believe-the-eclipse-is-going-to-happen/537090/)



The Eclipse Conspiracy
Something doesn’t add up.
James Hamblin Aug 16, 2017 "Science"

The scientists are all talking like it’s a sure thing.

On August 21, the “moon” will pass between the Earth and the sun, obscuring the light of the latter. The government agency NASA says this will result in “one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights.” The astronomers there claim to have calculated down to the minute exactly when and where this will happen, and for how long. They have reportedly known about this eclipse for years, just by virtue of some sort of complex math.
Two Minutes of Darkness
On August 21, an eclipse will sweep across the United States, from the redwood forests of Oregon to the shores of South Carolina. Read The Atlantic’s coverage here.
Read more

This seems extremely unlikely. I can’t even find these eclipse calculations on their website to check them for myself.

Meanwhile the scientists tell us we can’t look at it without special glasses because “looking directly at the sun is unsafe.”

That is, of course, unless we wear glasses that are on a list issued by these very same scientists. Meanwhile, corporations like Amazon are profiting from the sale of these eclipse glasses. Is anyone asking how many of these astronomers also, conveniently, belong to Amazon Prime?

Let’s follow the money a little further. Hotels along the “path of totality”—a region drawn up (https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/2017-path-totality) by Obama-era NASA scientists—have been sold out for months. Some of those hotels are owned and operated by large multinational corporations. Where else do these hotels have locations? You guessed it: Washington, D.C.

In fact the entire politico-scientifico-corporate power structure is aligned behind the eclipse. This includes the mainstream media. How many news stories have you read about how the eclipse won’t happen?

Meanwhile the newspaper owner Jeff Bezos is out there buying all of Seattle with the revenue from these “eclipse glasses.”

You’d think there would be a balanced look at even considering the idea that the eclipse isn’t going to happen. It’s like no one is even thinking to question this. Where are their voices? Why does Google give so few results that say the eclipse is fake? I would start by looking at Mark Zuckerberg and Charles “Chuck” Schumer.

I am not saying the eclipse isn’t going to happen. I’m just saying there are two sides to every story.

BPTactical
08-18-2017, 10:34
I want my two minutes back....

DenverGP
08-18-2017, 10:50
it's intended as a parody piece, playing off of some arguments against global warming.

sigmanx
08-18-2017, 10:51
Is this guy for real? His mother should have aborted. This person is detrimental to the progress of human intelligence.

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Great-Kazoo
08-18-2017, 11:23
I want my two minutes back....



https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.x1MmPnzH3qEYtqnJSBsK7gEsCm&pid=15.1&P=0&w=308&h=172

Gman
08-18-2017, 12:56
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.x1MmPnzH3qEYtqnJSBsK7gEsCm&pid=15.1&P=0&w=308&h=172
+1

OtterbatHellcat
08-18-2017, 13:41
lol

beast556
08-18-2017, 14:04
There's a special on tin foil at wally world right now.

Delfuego
08-18-2017, 14:14
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.x1MmPnzH3qEYtqnJSBsK7gEsCm&pid=15.1&P=0&w=308&h=172

This is awesome! Can you Re-Tweet that to me brother???

BushMasterBoy
08-18-2017, 14:45
I hope it doesn't damage my solar panels. Do you think it will destroy the space station?

BPTactical
08-18-2017, 17:35
I hope it doesn't damage my solar panels. Do you think it will destroy the space station?

No but it's gonna put a dark spot on uranus......

BushMasterBoy
08-18-2017, 22:21
This color?

BPTactical
08-19-2017, 07:25
This color?

Meh, if it's that color I'd say your........."irritated"
[Coffee]

buffalobo
08-19-2017, 08:48
Meh, if it's that color I'd say your........."irritated"
[Coffee]

And possibly constipated. [flamingo]

Circuits
08-19-2017, 09:13
I hope it doesn't damage my solar panels. Do you think it will destroy the space station?
Don't you mean the "space station"? How do we know it's really there, and not just faked like the moon landings, man!?

Skip
08-19-2017, 11:29
Don't you mean the "space station"? How do we know it's really there, and not just faked like the moon landings, man!?

Reminds me of this show...

http://tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ascension01-590x332.jpg


Spoiler: They were blind the whole time.

BushMasterBoy
08-19-2017, 13:26
The space station? I was personally there for most of the launches. I lived a few miles from the launch pads. I'd love to get to watch a Falcon 9 launch and takeoff!

Great-Kazoo
08-19-2017, 14:47
Reminds me of this show...

http://tvseriesfinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ascension01-590x332.jpg


Spoiler: They were blind the whole time.

Good show.

Gman
08-19-2017, 15:02
Good show.
I don't even recognize it. Was probably on the air during a part of my life where there wasn't time for TV.

Skip
08-19-2017, 16:24
I don't even recognize it. Was probably on the air during a part of my life where there wasn't time for TV.

Ascension.

It is worth seeing but less for the sci fi and more for the mind trip IMHO.

Gman
08-19-2017, 19:08
Wow. Only 6 episodes. Found it on Netflix, so thanks for the heads-up.

Aloha_Shooter
08-20-2017, 10:35
Reminds me of a bad attempt at Swiftian satire, probably by an Obamabot at the Atlantic trying to spoof an "anti-science" editorial presumably written by his fantasy of what someone who ISN'T a committed Leftist might say.

Zundfolge
08-21-2017, 10:46
I know many think the original story I linked was nothing more than satire and parody, but here's the Atlantic posting under "science" ... again about the eclipse and again SJW gobbledygook (says the eclipse is "racist" because it impacts more whites than blacks).

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/

KevDen2005
08-21-2017, 10:49
I know many think the original story I linked was nothing more than satire and parody, but here's the Atlantic posting under "science" ... again about the eclipse and again SJW gobbledygook (says the eclipse is "racist" because it impacts more whites than blacks).

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/

I could see how that would be the case.....I was thinking another flat earth conspiracy

Aloha_Shooter
08-21-2017, 11:03
I know many think the original story I linked was nothing more than satire and parody, but here's the Atlantic posting under "science" ... again about the eclipse and again SJW gobbledygook (says the eclipse is "racist" because it impacts more whites than blacks).

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/

The comments are fun. "Shrieking hive of retardation" ... [ROFL1][ROFL2][ROFL3][LOL][ROFL3][ROFL2][ROFL1]
[facepalm]

OtterbatHellcat
08-21-2017, 19:19
(says the eclipse is "racist" because it impacts more whites than blacks).

Man....I can't even think about reading something as stupid as that...unbelievable.