Obama Slams Energy Critics As Members Of 'Flat Earth Society'

[ProSense]

Obama Slams Energy Critics As Members Of 'Flat Earth Society'

Delivering remarks on American energy policy at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md. on Thursday, President Obama went directly at some of his most vocal energy critics, calling them a part of the "flat Earth society."

Now, here's the sad thing. Lately, we have heard a lot of professional politicians, a lot of the folks who were running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed, they've been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels. They were against raising fuel standards. I guess they like gas guzzlers. They think that's good for our future. We're trying to move towards the future. They want to be stuck in the past.

Obama added that his detractors "would not have believed that the world was round.. If some of these folks were around when columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the flat earth society."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-slams-energy-critics-as-members-of-flat

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“If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They would not believe that the world was round,” Obama told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of students at Prince George’s Community College in Largo. “Maybe they would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who apparently said, ‘Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.’ ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-compares-republicans-to-flat-earth-society-for-stance-on-green-energy/2012/03/15/gIQAf9tJES_story.html

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

[ohheckyeah]

3. LOL .......

too true.

[zappaman]

4. I was a member of The Flat Earth Society in the pre-internet days

Still have a framed map of the flat world somewhere in my garage.
So, I take offense at what the president had to say.
Look out over the ocean. Is the water flat as far as you can see or does it curve downward?
I rest my case.

[saras]

6. It curves downward, as is glaringly obvious if you watch a boat sail away.

So how does the water curving downwards in a spherical shape (you can see this by climbing a hill next to the ocean, too) demonstrate the flatness or the earth? I don't get it.

[zappaman]

7. It was some sort of matematical crap they used to prove their point.

I'm probably not saying it right cuz it's been so long since I read it.
The fact that you don't get it is a good thing!

Oh, here you go from wikipedia
"If it is a sphere, the surface of a large body of water must be curved. The Johnsons have checked the surfaces of Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea without detecting any curvature."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Flat_Earth_Society

[jsmirman]

8. This is (more specifically) what you are looking for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment

[zappaman]

10. Thanks

That's pretty much it!
See? The earth is flat!
Thanks to science!

[saras]

12. It's perilously close to Godwin's law, but I always liked the hollow earth theory.

The earth is hollow
We are on the INSIDE.
The sun resides at the center of the earth.
When we look up, from anywhere on earth, we are looking towards the center.
There is a hole at the North pole where we can get out.
Day and night are really complicated to explain, let alone the constellations.

have some woo
http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/2010/08/20/the-hollow-earth-theory/

[jsmirman]

13. I got caught up in a wikipedia ramble

one night and stumbled on that entry.

Glad to help.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ProSense.

[jsmirman]

9. Assholes. Every last damn one of them.

especially Rick "Save the Children, Destroy the Planet" Santorum

[deacon]

11. k/r