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Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021...
Author's bio line says they are a "flat mooner". Which gave me quite a chuckle.
MangoToupe
5 months ago
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What's the meaning? Like, they have a flat ass?
DrAwesome
5 months ago
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They're (jokingly) saying they believe the moon is flat. Like a flat earther, but the moon instead of the earth.
ta8903
5 months ago
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They believe the moon is a flat circle (not a sphere).
Dilettante_
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Which is perfectly ridiculous. It's obviously carrot-shaped!
Perz1val
5 months ago
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Wait, are you saying that what we see is just the tip?
rokkamokka
5 months ago
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One half of carrot mooners believe it's the tip, the other half believe it's the butt. I'm a butt man myself
WithinReason
5 months ago
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Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
nkrisc
5 months ago
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It’s a truncated cone. It extends infinitely away from us but is aligned such our view is perfectly tangent with the sides, so it appears as only a circle to us.
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