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ta8903 4 days ago

They believe the moon is a flat circle (not a sphere).

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Dilettante_ 4 days ago | parent [-]

Which is perfectly ridiculous. It's obviously carrot-shaped!

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Perz1val 4 days ago | parent [-]

Wait, are you saying that what we see is just the tip?

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rokkamokka 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

One half of carrot mooners believe it's the tip, the other half believe it's the butt. I'm a butt man myself

	▲	WithinReason 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

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nkrisc 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s a truncated cone. It extends infinitely away from us but is aligned such our view is perfectly tangent with the sides, so it appears as only a circle to us.