Ah, even better eclipse news! Conspiracy twits say 'Go ahead, stare at the sun!'

[thewayne]

Oh, and the sun isn't 93 million miles away, and this also proves that the earth and everything out in space is flat. Some of these twits claim they stare at the sun for five minutes a day with no ill effect.

The stupid is quite astounding. As is permanent, irreversible retina damage.

https://gizmodo.com/conspiracy-theorists-say-stare-at-eclipse-1851387594

Comments

[motodraconis]

It's kind of depressing though, and a sign of being poorly educated. But then populist, nationalist parties prefer people to be uncritical and unthinking, as they are more likely to vote for right wing parties who spout meaningless slogans.

And the rapture thing too, FFS, there is a total solar eclipse ever 1-2 years around the world. Presumably the rapture is only for Americans.

[thewayne]

Only for especially gullible Americans.  The Book of Revelation is one of these where a lot of people say 'Why was this included?  This guy clearly needed help.'