If the earth was 10ft closer to the sun...

Maledictator · 4 months

No one climb a ladder! You will be 10 ft closer to the sun and will BURN!!

joshvw1 · 4 months

She has clearly never heard of an airplane, or a 2 story building.

breaking_bark · 4 months

What. A. Fucking. Twat.

felicityrc · 4 months

Wowwww. Excuse you for exposing that her "fact" was actually a falsehood. For exposing the blatant lie she was trying to get other people to believe. How horrible of you.

JeffRobots · 4 months

She has a good point. You shouldn't disagree with people because then they feel bad and have to think.

Poe's law... so... winkyface.

Lol_Hard · 4 months

If this repost were 10ft close to the sun....

snowboardinsteve · 4 months

Don't ever tell me I'm wrong! I clearly have little to no knowledge of Physics and heard some random fact which I instantly believed without any research or confirmation. I love spreading misinformation so if you ever bring your "science" to my life again there's going to be big trouble!

Calvin_v_Hobbes · 4 months

BRB, got to stop my family from taking the elevator!!

Undoer · 4 months

She's a bit of a cunt.

Also, fun fact: This post has been here before, and if posted another 10 times the Earth will BURN!

IameAuhSomme · 4 months

Okay that's cool and all but I didn't read your comment at all (too boring, and my mind simply cannot comprehend your big fancy words and ideas), except to pick up on the fact that you presented a differing opinion to mine using logic, evidnence, and common sense, so I'm going to get all defensive now and tell you in an overly dramatic fashion never to question me ever again, because as you all know I am always right because I just am, and my inflated ego will not let me accept anything less than that, to the point where it impedes on the education of others. Did I ask you to correct me, even though you are merely exercising the freedom of speech I so recently used to post my "fact", and even though you were politely pointing out flaws in my reasoning and trying to protect the learning of others from becoming corrupted? Answer: NO.

DevilsVixen · 4 months

If she doesn't want to be corrected, she shouldn't post stupid things and call them "facts." Dumb cunt.

UnconsciousOnions · 4 months

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kovahdiin · 4 months

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konblivion · 4 months

"don't even comment on a status saying i'm wrong again"

And that friends is what is wrong with the first world.

robertd55 · 4 months

DO NOT POST FACTS ON MY FACEBOOK! I AM CHRISTIAN! I DON'T DEAL WITH "FACTS"!!!!111!!!!!

knut01 · 4 months

God, the blatant ignorance of some people!!

RadioActiveKitt3ns · 4 months

Don't ever comment telling me I'm wrong again! It disturbs me that she's OK with spreading junk like that around the internet because I guarantee most people believed her and stored it in their brains as another "fact".

forcedtolie · 4 months

nothing wrong with this repost, I and many others wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

PivotalPlatypus · 4 months

Translation:

"Hey, like don’t ever completely disprove what I said and like tell me I’m wrong ever again. Because I don’t have the well-being to accept the fact that I’m wrong."

PivotalPlatypus · 4 months

“I didn’t ask you, did I?”

Since when do you have to be asked in order to be proven wrong?

Semajj · 4 months

Damn this thing is old

dReDone · 4 months

Mad repost.

hayhaysunshine95 · 4 months

wow what a pussy shit, throwing a fit just because she was wrong.

MeliWolf · 4 months

"Teacher, that's cool and all, but don't ever tell me that my answers are wrong, eeeever again." If only logic worked that way.

Vorgan12 · 4 months

As a person who went to a Christian school for nine years I can legitimately say that I was taught this.

deepwebassassin · 4 months

I wish we just had a top 500 list of all the posts that keep on repeating so anyone unfamiliar could just go read that list and the rest of the community can move on and post other shit to the front page.

TheSpassy · 4 months

Not to mention the astronauts who have been out into space surrounding earth, and to the ISS.

FriendlyCommie · 4 months

The only thing worse than unscientific nonsense is when people fail to use "were" for a conditional.

willyolio · 4 months

i can confirm this. Last time i walked upstairs, i burned to death. I managed to come back to life by freezing myself in the basement.

wtf_asaurus_tim · 4 months

That's a mighty fine cunt she is there.

Zicamox · 4 months

No matter how many times I see it, that bitch's response always infuriates me.

[deleted] · 4 months

People who say 'don't comment on my status' really annoy me. Yes, you did ask for people to comment, by putting it on an open forum, with a big 'comment' button!

nbca · 4 months

This is old as shit.

mynsfwfriend · 4 months

already time for a repost?

minno · 4 months

Needs more jpeg.

runfromtheraptor · 4 months

Honestly I cant say I have ever had facebook friends that post fundie christian shit... I think sometimes I'm missing out... Then again I am from Cali... we have fewer bible thumpers out there.

Ap0Th3 · 4 months

I don't know if I'm more dumbfounded by the ignorance or the way her friends cheer her on for insulting someone who gives accurate information.

HERP DERP AMERIKUH DON'T TRY TO MAKE US SMART

toldyaso · 4 months

Out of curiosity, was it Wikipedia or Google that you consulted before rebuffing her?

As a 35 year old, well educated smartass, I miss the pre-internet days when there weren't very many of us who could talk to people that way.

Rflkt · 4 months

Dumb cunt

Eyshld21sn · 4 months

I wish after the millions of times this has been circulated I could just figure out the chick who posted the original post.....for science.

abbiistabbii · 4 months

"LOOK AT THIS CLAIM, JESUS IS AMAZING!"

"OK, but this claim is bullshit, here's why!"

"DON'T TELL ME I'M WRONG!"

Thunderdyne · 4 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/eq5a2/false_facts_supported_by_god/

Over a year old and you get free karma -_-

TheDevilsquared · 4 months

Alright, anyone who's tall, don't stand up! You'll burn to death!

panzerkampfwagen · 4 months

The last time I climbed a ladder I burst into flames.

thuderroar · 4 months

I read it as: "I'm too stupid to know that when I'm wrong, being corrected improves me." Humans and their silly aversion to correcting their own flaws.

BKNexus · 4 months

..."That's cool and all, but don't ever comment.......tell me I'm wrong again" facepalm Facepalm FACEPALM That is one classic example of "even if you could prove that God didn't exist and my religion was false, I'd still believe it anyways. What the fuckity fuck?!

korkyshadow · 4 months

Man i wish i could make up facts like that.... Fact: if you put every cat in a building reddit would die because they would be catless. See can't do it, my facts are just facts...

FlyingRabidUnicornPi · 4 months

What the Hell?

Bizronthemaladjusted · 4 months

I would post back, I won't tell you when your wrong when you quit posting shit that is blatantly wrong and trying to pass it off as fact.

hobomojo · 4 months

"Next time, don't correct there status, just post in your own status the correct statement, and then tag the person in it who made the false claim." Idea given to me by my roommate.

SoulOfGinger · 4 months

** Fact: I dont want to live here anymore.

[deleted] · 4 months

I weep for the future

LokiTheSkeptic · 4 months

I remember ye olde church saying that....

Aidrean · 4 months

Jeez. What a bitch

methodM · 4 months

Whenever I see something like this I wish the names weren't blocked so I could jump in on the argument and make these idiots feel stupid

ibzzi · 4 months

her way of saying "i'd rather be ignorant than proven wrong." i pity her kids

jaj5954 · 4 months

That dude is awful, using basic facts to correct her blatant lie.

CondescendingPrick · 4 months

Yet another example of how religious people lack basic critical reasoning skills.

Graviest · 4 months

Wow what an open mind. Can't just graciously accept that you are wrong and say thanks?! What a giant douche

KafkaFish · 4 months

This is a classic. Always funny.

deToast · 4 months

O_o I've seen this before...

aazav · 4 months

Or say this:

"Climb 10 feet up a mountain and see if you die. Or better yet, climb up two flights of stairs. You'll be 20 feet closer to the sun in no time. Make sure to put me in your will before you go though."

cdegon · 4 months

Don't ever prove me wrong again! How dare you educate me! LMAO!

torchlit_Thompson · 4 months

Don't people realize that when they "share" an obviously poorly researched post to reaffirm their own ignorance that they are in fact asking their friends to reply, even if the reply makes their faithful mind meltdown?

Personally, I love when people share one of their "deep" thoughts and is immediately corrected with math. I fuggin love the maths...

Aristocratman123 · 4 months

After all that you should have ended with, what is it like to have an IQ of a dead cat? It most likely would have really thrown her off, and then the real fun could have began!!

WoollyMittens · 4 months

It's a sad world where giving a friendly and patient explanation, results in anger.

Lariasio · 4 months

What is really sad is that whole fine tuned crap or 10 feet closer crap is making their god look weak. An all powerful god doesn't need to fine tune SHIT he could make us rub shoulders next to the sun with a mild climate that science wouldn't be able to explain but no they hear something and puke it back up trying to make themselves look cool. Stop being stupid!

barium111 · 4 months

Can someone link to confirm hes info. Quick search reveals it actually varies 5,003,451 km and not 152.000.000 km

Edit: Read the thing wrong. He actually says its about 5.000.000km

bordslampa · 4 months

I'd say: "If you don't want other people to call you on your stupid shit then don't post it publicly or create a group with idiot that you can post to who will swallow that shit. Or simply remove me as a friend, that works too."

tcb98 · 4 months

Flip off ALL the dumbs!

tomhilll · 4 months

The bit that really makes me chuckle is that she asks a rhetorical question "I didn't ask you did I?" and then answers it herself.

No idea why but it makes me laugh.

rosts · 4 months

Every time you air an opinion you instantly give the right to everyone else to oppose it. If you can't handle opposition; don't post in the first place.

painperdu · 4 months

In afew years this meme will change to isn't it cool that God made it so that the Earth has a buffer zone!

TheGnome546 · 4 months

I do not think he grasps the concept of "facts".

its_so_on · 4 months

(sarc) This is stupid. Obviously the girl was being METAPHORICAL, and metaphorically, a margin of error of 0.95 to 1.35 AU is like 'ten feet'. What is so hard to get about religion:

1) If it's physically, true, the sentence is LITERAL

2) If it's not physically true, the sentence is METAPHORICAL or meant to make us reflect on deeper truths and NOT to be taken literally.

Jesus H, is this so hard to get? (/sarc)

karadan100 · 4 months

I love how the OP then goes on to chide him for correcting her irrespective of the fact her 'fact' was completely erroneous. I guess that's the mindset of most fundie religious people. Facts don't matter, apparently.

Khorv · 4 months

My favourite response to that is the step ladder argument.

Justice502 · 4 months

Haha

wukkaz · 4 months

Answer: NO

Aiyon · 4 months

don't ever comment on my status telling me that i am wrong everrrr again. I didn't ask you did i? Answer: NO

Wow. There's ignorant, then there's just plain rude. Apparently nobody's allowed to tell her she's wrong. Wonder if examiners agree with that.

[deleted] · 4 months

scienced!

arahman81 · 4 months

For anyone who might be able to answer, I am curious.

If the earth was closer, or further from the sun the speed at which it travels would need to adjust to compensate for the gravitational pull of the sun (hence why mercury needs to move fast, and neptune slow to stay in orbit with the sun).

Does anyone know far off our current orbit we could move before we would spiral into/way from the sun? (In a human appropriate time frame, like, 200,000 years.)

YoRpFiSh · 4 months

Someone should link that idiot to this post!

patio87 · 4 months

FACT.

Notyourfaja · 4 months

Because fuck science and facts.

ThePis7olStar · 4 months

I might have believed this in 1473.

AlexthePwner · 4 months

As a student in an astronomy class, seeing this status makes me want to throw things at my computer.

JimDixon · 4 months

I'll repeat a back-of-the-envelope calculation that I posted in another thread:

The average surface temperature of the earth is 14 °C. (Thanks to Wikipedia.)

The average surface temperature of Venus is 460 °C.

Earth is 149,598,261 km from the sun (semi-major axis of orbit).

Venus is 108,208,930 km from the sun.

So Venus is 41,389,331 km closer to the sun, and 446 °C hotter, than the earth.

So for every kilometer you get closer to the sun, you would get around 0.00001 °C warmer. (I leave it to you to convert to English units, if you care.)

And if you took the characteristics of the atmosphere into account, the effect would be even smaller than that. (In other words, if Venus' atmosphere were like the earth's, it would be cooler than it is, and the above calculation would yield an even smaller number.)

thetoneranger · 4 months

Does one require asking to point out the obvious ignorance and spit contained within? Answer: NO

d_overclocked · 4 months

so... we all can travel 2 Antartida, make houses at 9 ft from the floor/ice and have a nice caribean clima all the year :D

WE ALL LOVE UR RELIGION XDDDD (BIG SARCASM TOO BIG SARCASM)

seriously big sarcasm... no one loves ur tardness religion :) belive me :D

tendeuchen · 4 months

I had someone say this to me in person, and I responded the same way about the elliptical orbit. His response was "Oh, I guess that's true and all...but just think if it moved a little bit out of that area..."

VMikeL · 4 months

I wish upon her herpes for being such a bitch.

SARAborenRAWR · 4 months

I literally lol'd

0mousse0 · 4 months

what a bitch.

TheStratStar · 4 months

Call me an asshole but I think that censoring people's faces out defeats the purpose of these posts. If one is dumb enough to say something like this on Facebook then they should have to be accountable for their actions. Obviously this person is not very tight with their privacy settings so let us share who said it with the rest of the world. I am not completely certain about defamation laws in the US and Canada but I believe you are safe as long as you can prove what happened. So in this case having a screen shot is enough to keep you out of litigious harm. Anyways my whole point is that if you open your mouth (literally or figuratively) be prepared to back up your statements as well as be prepared that people will know that it is YOU who said this. If you want to be safe from repercussions then post anonymously.

DGAF_rh · 4 months

Ha stupid girl.

[deleted] · 4 months

"MY comments" "MY page" "MY thread" "MY profile" every time these words are posted I get the urge to slap their author.

Parcanman · 4 months

Nobody will say you're wrong if you actually do your research beforehand, it's just like when people get mad at me for telling them to fuck off, I say that I won't tell you to fuck off if you don't give me a compelling reason to.

bitparity · 4 months

I assume you were friends with her because despite her idiocy, she's actually pretty attractive.

TheMattAttack · 4 months

I see this all the time.

It makes me grit my teeth when people are like that cunt.

I defriend them. Point blank.

Mr0Mike0 · 4 months

Why do we pay for gas when all we need is a ladder to cook food? Explain that to me, please.

beepbeepwow · 4 months

Hahahaha I know it's been reposted many times over again, but dam it never gets old.

dtrainusmc · 4 months

I look forward to people like her sleeping with me because they are too fucking stupid to realize when they are being lied to.

RickRay1 · 4 months

Yeah, remember when the xians thought the world was flat, 6000 yrs old and the sun orbited the earth, and the moon had its own light, and women are slaves to men, and children should be killed if they don't do what their parents say.......?????????? Need I say more? U.S. education needs to include critical thinking! Screw your 2000 year old fairy tales stolen from the Greeks and Egyptians.

CygnusApsaras · 4 months

Yes, that's exactly why we park the car on the street instead of in the garage. We live on an incline.

JohnWL · 4 months

That person was such a baby. 'did I ask you?' no. But you posted incorrect facts on a public forum.

Peppe22 · 4 months

Also, if it was not in the habitable zone and the earth was in fact devoid of life, she wouldn't have posted that statement on facebook. Cause and effect.

darkheart86 · 4 months

By that logic, skyscrapers and 2-story buildings are virtually useless!

mqken · 4 months

"Did I ask you" is not a rebuttal - it is an admission of defeat. Whatever happened to "Man you're right, ops!"

ICrimsonI · 4 months

fact: if i go to gym in school, i'll sweat... alot....

Seanofthebread112 · 4 months

Translation of her 2nd statement: "I know you have explained it but you disagree with me so I shall now disregard any and all things you say that tell me I am wrong."

rastashark · 4 months

I would have punched her in the face before she got the third "r" out in that "everrrr"

bcoen5707 · 4 months

I don't want to be on this planet anymore...

CCCPDmitriBrony · 4 months

She's uneducated without god too, 'everrrr.' -.-

AnAtheistGamer · 4 months

Bitch got science'd. Bitches hate getting science'd.

neuman9000 · 4 months

What an idiot, the earth goes at least 10 feet closer and farther from the sun every year ._.

dievasthegreat · 4 months

Hey look guys! A dead horse! Let's kick it!

imperial_criid · 4 months

Thought for the Day: Knowledge is to be feared!

howsweettobeanidiot · 4 months

even if this was true, i don't think that would be amazing - an omnipotent being couldn't really cope without calibrating skills...

jonneyboy45 · 4 months

crazy thing, i was thinking about whether or not the earth could stay in orbit in a different place today. Thank you for educating me Upvote for you sir:)

Electroverted · 4 months

17 /likes was the best part.

qb_dp · 4 months

Why the hell would you use miles and kilometers, talking of the same distance, in the same sentence ?

Digimonkeisari · 4 months

This exact discussion has been posted before.


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