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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 7578205, member: 77413&quot;]I was fortunate enough to have a class with Carl Sagan in 1969 at Cornell. There were only 12 of us. We would meet and then retire to his house where we had cider and cookies with him and his wife. I estimate he would have been about 32 at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, about those flat earthers… I always assume they are just having a laugh. It seems to be a sendup of all the seriousness in religion and science.</p><p><br /></p><p>In religion, you have sacred texts that cannot be questioned, even though they are full of internal contradictions and make nearly no sense - especially as they date from vastly different cultures from today (although human nature seems the same). Nonetheless you had serious folks spending millennia trying to make it all make sense and hammer it into a dogma.</p><p><br /></p><p>In science you have equally serious people trying to make sense of a chaotic natural world.</p><p><br /></p><p>What better sendup than to have a mock-serious assertion of something that is so obviously wrong, and to have all the seemingly serious discussions of why it must be so and what it all means. I mean, even sailors long before Columbus’s voyage could see the masts of distant ships rise up over the horizon. Everybody simply could see it was round.</p><p><br /></p><p>Put me and a flat-earther in a bar and I bet we’ll have a great time riffing off each other about the wonderful ridiculousness of it all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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