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I asked him "what color were the clouds back then?" and he said they were white. I asked him what happens if I take an orange light and light up something that's white with it. He ignored me. He went on about how everyone in his age group remembers the Sun being orange, and by me questioning him, I'm calling him and all his peers liars and I'm stupid because I'm younger than him and vaccinated.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 133 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yes. If the sun was orange, the light would be orange, and everything white would be orange.

The fact that your friend believes the sun was replaced by a giant LED is a sign they should not be your friend anymore

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Your friend is either trolling you or a complete idiot.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] a_person@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago
[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 days ago (5 children)

No, there's actual people like that. The guy I mentioned in my comment came into work one day, claiming that the moon makes its own light. I once asked him if he had heard of the Stargate series. He paused, looked me dead in the eye, and said, super seriously, "yes and Stargates are real."

There are people that honestly believe this shit. The only thing is now they have the internet to convince each other that it's all real.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Well they are real, they used them in the series.

They don't make you teleport though, that's just special effects.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Has he written his congresspeople about the need to increase defense spending because of the threat of the Goa’uld?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The nature of reality is such that you can believe a very silly thing and have it impact your life in no meaningful way. People have been wrong about the nature of the universe for millennia and continued to get by. The oddball who believes in native moonlight and stargates isn't going to benefit tangibly for being correct or suffer tangibly for his misbelief. In many cases - thanks to the proliferation of internet subcommunity echo-chambers - they may actually suffer (socially) for reconciling their beliefs with reality if they can't bring their friends along for the ride.

But, again, when they have extremely limited influence over their surroundings (this guy is not, presumably, running an astronomy lab or charged with funding improvements to municipal mass transit) their zany beliefs don't really matter. Correctness doesn't benefit them and incorrectness is more fun.

[–] rented@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's the Fargate! "F"! It's different from that movie, which I have never seen, so how would I copy it?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. I know people like this irl.

Not the exact belief, but insane nonetheless. Usually they get all their news from fb and xitter. And theyre always smarter than scientists despite not finishing hs or college (not that one needs to do those things to be smart, but just saying as a rule..)

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I stand by my previous statement. They are either trolling you or complete idiots.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Or mentally ill.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

It's likely this isn't the only conspiracy theory he believes in. Time for you to find better friends,.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They didn’t replace the sun that would be impossible

They replaced the sky which obviously uses LED imagine trying to run a panel of halogens that big

[–] unknown@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

imagine trying to run a panel of halogens that big

Is that what caused global warming? /s

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

No, that was me. I stuck my glove in the oven.