No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

I read an article on flat earthers and moon landing deniers.
It’s a really interesting sociological topic. Mostly it comes down to two main streams of taught on why it’s so prevalent.
- people who can’t understand the science themselves and so just resort to what they can see and understand within their own sphere, they see flat ground and so the Earth must be flat.
- people who don’t trust society and when presented with a theory that the majority of society rejects, they latch onto that, it makes them feel different to everyone. Like when you see people referring to others as “sheep”, they feel they are bucking the trend by believing something so different.

I presume social media algorithms have some culpability too, when you read an article it feeds you similar articles and so I can see how people start to think that’s the majority view.

About twenty years ago I went on a month holiday to Uganda with a friend who's brother and sister in law were living and working in Kampala - her brother was working for the EU on anti corruption measures within the Ugandan government. One of the trips we did was down south of the country where we went to a island and stayed in luxurious tented accommodation for a couple of days. The first night Mary (my friend) got up to use the bathroom and she called me to get up. I went outside and she said look up and I couldn't believe my eyes - millions and millions of stars in every direction. My neck got sore looking up in awe so I lay down on the grass which was a big mistake - within seconds I was covered in ants. We are only a microscopic spec in the bigger picture. That night is one that I will take to the grave.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a day were trump isn't mentioned on the news at all

To be fair you could say the exact same thing about his supporters, and especially the clowns that support him this side of the world, he doesn’t even know they are alive and yet they lower themselves to the level of supporting him.

That sounds amazing to be fair.

Even looking up on a frosty night and seeing the Milky Way stripe through the sky and realise your looking at our galaxy disc from within blows my mind.

Eventually he'll be a distant memory but there'll be some other self absorbed dickhead to replace him.

What good is that when he's single handedly destabilising the global economy. Everything he touches turns to **** sooner or later. The only thing he's achieved is lining his own pockets.

Maybe they have, but we didn't understand it or maybe they have sent a message and its on the way for the next few million years.