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Tag: flat earth

Perfectly Logical

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Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson who demonstrates that Irony is the glue that holds civilization together (if not the universe). My only question is whether the flat earth is necessarily round? After all, how can we travel to the four corners of the earth if the world is not square?

Posted on 01/28/2020 by MikePosted in Critical Thinking, Humor, Science, Wing-NutTagged flat earth, irony, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Leave a comment

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