OT: Duke Alum - Kyrie Irving and Sparty Alum - Draymond Green Believe Earth is Flat
It appears Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green are flat earthers. FYI, the Earth is round.
Per the initial podcast where Kyrie unleashes this foolishness:
“This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. “It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.”
While serial ball-kicker Draymond doesn't proclaim that the Earth is flat, he's definitely not a believer in a round earth:
“Who’s to say that picture is telling the truth? I can make a round picture with my iPhone today, with the panorama camera and make it look round."
I hope Kyrie is trolling, but based on his follow up comments he appears to really believe this stuff. Draymond is a Sparty, so not much surprise there.
Links to the various stories:
http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/kyrie-irving-flat-earth-draymond-gre…
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2017/02/18/draymond-green-kyrie-irving-…
February 19th, 2017 at 7:05 PM ^
Don't accept or be;ieve 2+2=7, so I stand by my comment.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
Any time I hear the "2 + 2 =" analogy, I always think of my CPA friend who would always give me what he termed the "Accountant's Answer":
Q: "What's 2 + 2?"
A: "What do you want it to be?"
February 19th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
The belief that strawberry ice cream tastes better than vanilla = the belief that there's a giant underground alien base near Dulce, New Mexico.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
People haven't suddenly become tolerant of things that are wrong. That's not a thing that just accidentally happened. What happened is that corporate, for-profit news institutions turned into 24-7 propaganda machines, and in the interest of attracting the ratings of a particular propaganda machine, other, better for-profit news institutions copied their style of reporting, which basically involves arguing loudly and poorly on the air for hours at a time over whether or not basic facts are true.
This isn't an accident. It's not something that just happened with no precusor. It's an intentional effort by people who have a monetary interest in making sure that most American people don't have a solid concept of what the facts of their existence are intentionally designing and propagating media which reinforces the idea that all facts are open for debate by people, no matter how unqualified, and that if a fact doesn't fit the world you want to live in, you're free to seek out another fact which cancels it out.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
This is so far beyond corporations. Stupid and ignorant people are as natural occurring as trees and flowers.
Blaming corporations might make the radical in you feel better, but it is incorrect. Corporations did not create these people. Rather, they are pandering to them as they pander to any and all potential customer.
These people have been in existence for many millennia.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
That's TWO comments by you in this thread that I completely support.
What's next?
February 19th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
so this must be End Times or something.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
Not to add into the circle jerk mentality on this board, but dude, very well put.
The collective knowlege of the human species is literally at our finger tips in this day and age. Yet, somehow, stupid people remain stupid.
February 19th, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
yes, it's called the history of capitalism
February 19th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
I agree with almost everything you say, but strawberry ice cream is objectively tastier than vanilla unless it's for a sundae.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:37 AM ^
Dude, i applaud your effort to troll crackpot conspiracy theorists , but when you lead with trolling roughly 90% of the planets population and breaking the no religion rule on Mgoblog I gotta neg you. That's a dick move.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
He's not trolling any religions; he's merely poking at a belief that some of them hold.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^
I don't know how anyone, who belives evolution is wrong, can say flat earthers are wrong with a straight face.
February 19th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
I do believe that in 1,000 years some sort of widely accepted scientific theory will be disproven. I don't have any to single out but I doubt science is correct on everything.
February 19th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
Young earth creationism isn't a religious thing, it's a political thing. I know that sounds weird, but remember that the vast majority of Christians don't believe in YEC - it's a pretty niche belief that's only espoused by politically conservative Christians in the United States, and the politically conservative part of that conversation is the specific bit.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
I consider myself a politically conservative Christian. I don't believe in Young Earth Creationism any more than I believe in the Tooth Fairy.
I agree with the sentiment that conspiracy theories, et al, are attempts by the ignorant to simplify what they otherwise do not understand. That extends to science generally.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
Is cut down an old-ass tree and count the rings to realize the Earth is older than 6000 years.
February 19th, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^
That would imply that there are trees at least that old still living. There are not.
However, there are villages in the Middle East that have been continuously settled for 20,000 years. That fact alone should be enough to put an end to most YEC theory.
February 19th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
I think ISIS got rid of all those
February 19th, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^
There's a tree in Sweden that is more than 9000 years old, but it is clonal so only the roots are that old. There is also a tree in California that is likely more than 5000 years old, so pretty close.
Edit: Did a little more reading. There's an aspen grove in Utah that has a root system that is estimated to be 80,000 years old.
February 19th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
Something tells me you'll be arrested on the spot for cutting down a tree that is 6000 years old lol.
February 19th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^
#treelivesmatter
February 19th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
And there are plenty of other ways to prove it anyway.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^
says go fuck yourself. #pastafariansrule
February 19th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
Any person with just a few thousand dollars can travel and verify for themselves that the earth is not flat.
Evolutionary theory itself does not have answers for all questions of life, and they certainly do not have any confirming tests an individual can perform at home.
Climate science has some similar trouble in that they do not have fully vetted answers on questions like which percentage of warming is created by man vs say volcanic activitiy.
One reason for the polarization we have is because people lump in things for which there is definitive proof with others which are supported by theory more than with repeatable experimentation.
February 19th, 2017 at 6:02 PM ^
The problem we have today is that people choose to believe whatever they want to believe as a fact.
Ask any scientist and they will tell you that evolution has just as much scientific backing as the claim that earth is round.
The flat earthers are using the EXACT same tactics that Creationists use to attack evolution. Any difference among them is pure aesthetics.
February 19th, 2017 at 7:56 AM ^
I'd be more shocked if Green thinks the world is round.
February 19th, 2017 at 8:00 AM ^
He has got to be trolling. There is no way he actually believes the Earth is flat. I mean, this is almost too stupid of a statement to even address. I didn't actually know there were still people out there that believed this stuff. I wonder if Kyrie and Draymond believe that the US put men on the moon?
February 19th, 2017 at 9:31 AM ^
You'd be surprised. People use to tell at Buzz Aldrin that he didn't go to space and instead mocked the moon landing on a sound stage in LA. Stupid people come in all shapes and sizes.
February 19th, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
And Buzz would slap the shit out of them too.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:38 AM ^
We landed on the moon? YES!
February 19th, 2017 at 8:02 AM ^
Isn't the "flat earth" a hoax conspiracy designed to mock the other conspiracies?
February 19th, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
I think that's what it was originally intended for.
Until a few dorkmeisters heard about it and totally ran with it.
February 19th, 2017 at 8:08 AM ^
Those two should be eternally thankful that they have the ability to dribble a ball and put it in a hoop better than 99.999% of the rest of this country. And that there is an industry here that will pay them an exorbitant amount of money to do it. Both have them seem to have a very apparent lacking of intellectual capacity.
As Frank Grimes once said to Homer Simpson, "if you'd lived in any other country in the world, you would've starved to death years ago."
February 19th, 2017 at 8:11 AM ^
If the holographic universe theory is correct, then he's right and our perception of three dimensions is an illusion (i.e. the universe is really flat, not just the earth). It's an interesting concept if you've never read about it and attempts to explain observations about the universe and gravity without dark matter.
Of course, I'm probably giving a bit more credit to them than they are due...
February 19th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
Totally bogus, as proved by the very magnificence of Kate Upton's three-dimensional chest.
February 19th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
I have only seen Ms. Upton's image in two dimensions: in print and on screens. If she would like to verify her three dimensionality, I'll be happy to meet with her, in person, at a time and place of her choosing.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:29 AM ^
I'd enjoy hearing either of these guys try to explain black hole thermodynamics and string theory to me.
February 19th, 2017 at 11:13 AM ^
String Theory is a belief that all matters are comprised of one dimensional strings vibrating at different frequencies.
It is really not a theory as there is no test, at least with current technology, to prove it.
Somebody else can explain the blackhole...
February 19th, 2017 at 8:20 AM ^
Well, it explains why Irving lost the 3-point competition last night - clearly he was unfamiliar with the shape of the object required to make said shots and that's what threw him. Now, if he had been allowed to use, say, a Frisbee or a flat piece of cardboard or something, it may have turned out differently.
February 19th, 2017 at 9:00 AM ^
That's was clearly a flat disc that he threw into the net. Looks like a pancake to me.
February 19th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
Lol. Yes telling the city with 1 championship this year they should be upset that a team nowhere near as good as the team that beat them could have made for 2 championships in the same year .... When we haven't had 1 in 52 years is probably gonna fall on relatively deaf ears.
February 19th, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
I'm sure you still have nightmares of blowing a 3-1 series lead.
February 19th, 2017 at 8:20 AM ^
If the earth is flat, then why can't I see Cuba from Key West? They tell me it's because of the curvature of the earth, whereas I always thought it was because Cuba was 90 fucking miles away!
February 19th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
It's the chemtrails that are obscuring the view, silly. Why do you think the gubbermint is spraying them in the first place?
February 19th, 2017 at 8:23 AM ^
I don't want my ship going over the edge