• FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Also, most of the myths weren’t “serious”- it wasn’t like they were debunking flat earth or something.

    • candybrie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      6 months ago

      I hate that debunking flat earth is now seen as serious rather than a 5th grade science experiment.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I actually got fired because I told a Flat Earther to leave the store I worked in, it was closing time and he was harassing people… But if you bitch enough to corporate you can get us to walk on water…

        Whatever, I’m a Janitor now, never doing retail again.

        It’s too easy to debunk flat earth, if it were flat cats would have knocked everything off by now.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      it wasn’t like they were debunking flat earth or something

      Though you could do that. And with equipment and a type of experiment that would make sense on their show. The experiment conducted at the very end of the documentary Behind the Curve is perfect. Great big lasers, a simple and easy-to-visualise pass condition. If they had wanted to, they absolutely could have done it.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I mean, yes.

        but their myths generally didn’t piss surprisingly large segments of the population off. it was more… the urban legends that gave them an excuse to blow stuff up, shoot stuff, or otherwise crash stuff; all in slow motion.