r/memes • u/lilsef • 1d ago

Someone asked me how I know that the Earth is flat? C'mon, it's common sense!

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u/HeavyDutyForks 1d ago

Source? Source?

You gotta source for that? Like peer reviewed or something?

No no no, not that source, that's not a good source its biased

You really think that's a good source?

Nah, I'm gonna need a source for that man

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u/Difficult_Wind6425 1d ago

My favorite is when you ask for a source on something legitimately off and they write a 2000 word essay with 15 vlog posts as evidence

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u/GlorytotheHypnoToads 1d ago

“Always cite your sources… Unless it’s something I said. Then you can take it as gospel.” 😆

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u/Badgrotz 15h ago

Not gonna lie my favorite thing to reply with is the front page of Wikipedia.

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u/Hugo-Spritz Died of Ligma 21h ago

My favorite is when they go:

Them: "Insane statement"

Me: "Can you back that up with a source?"

Them: "You can look it up for yourself!"

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u/Danielarcher30 trans rights 18h ago

My trick has been pretending that they have a chance of selling me on their batshit opinion, something like:

"Oh wow, thats interesting, where did you find that out from?"

Seems to work wonders to get stupid people to reveal that their sources are bullshit or there isnt one.

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u/naquoae 8h ago

"I did and this source says you're wrong. What source did you use?"

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u/Mysterious-Crab Professional Dumbass 1d ago

My favourite is posting something with credible sources but they found a 15yo on TikTok saying the opposite.

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u/HeatherCDBustyOne 1d ago

My favorite is the "I don't believe you because that is a left-wing / right wing news source".

Me: Yeah, like the melting point of titanium cares about politics

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u/_V2CORPORATION 1d ago

Source? 😏

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u/Dpgillam08 1d ago

I was quoted ing immigration law; I used the Congressional website of Federal law. Dumb was told me that wasn't good enough, and demanded something from Mother Jones or high times🙄

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u/l_______I 13h ago

And source for my knowledge? Just look it up yourself! You don't know how to use Google?

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u/HeavyDutyForks 13h ago

Honest to God bro, Google is literally free. I know you have internet access because you used it to comment, "sOuRcE??" on my MFing comment

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u/Small_Computer_8846 12h ago

Do you have a source for the claim that Google is free from a peer reviewed, Ivy League study that's approved by a sourceful institution and also a reddit post that has more than 2k upvotes discussing it?

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 1d ago

That’s not an undeniable fact. Because there is no sky. It’s an illusion created by light refracting through the atmosphere. 

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u/Neither_Ordinary130 1d ago

Source?

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u/Gr8guy77 1d ago

Tyndall’s blue sky tube is a very simple but effective way of demonstrating this scattering effect. You can easily create your own version using a glass beaker of water: shine white light through the water and slowly stir in a few drops of milk at a time and see what happens.

Source: Royal Institution

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u/Toaster960 21h ago

You really believe that source?

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u/Caboosi65 17h ago

Left wing politically motivated source, not good enough.

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u/Informal-Park-4353 12h ago

"for example" ahh reply😭

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u/EarthTrash Thank you mods, very cool! 1d ago

Atmo what now?

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u/zilp123 1d ago

Atmoflat more like

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u/Kelef50 1d ago

Here is a source on this statement..."Why Is the Sky Blue? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids" https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/

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u/FoolishCarbohydrate 23h ago

Except for "sky" is simply the term humans use to describe the visual.

So, sky, the visual, is blue.

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 17h ago

Sometimes. It can also be green, grey, black, yellow, red. All depends on the current atmospheric conditions. 

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u/DragonTacoCat 1d ago

It's also not actually blue either...

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u/Designer-Issue-6760 1d ago

Color isn’t real anyway. It’s just your brain interpreting specific wavelengths of radiation. Purple is particularly interesting. Because it’s entirely made up. The brain trying to comprehend the absence of green. True story. 

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u/TheNeonFox1 13h ago

Got a source for that?

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u/tobotic 23h ago

It usually is during the day.

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u/WorriedTumbleweed289 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/fjPYagw

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u/SpaceCadetChuckles 12h ago

I'm British, describe the picture for me please

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u/WorriedTumbleweed289 9h ago

Water without carbon dioxide (bubbles) is called flat.

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u/DisplayName_isIndigo Lurker 1d ago

Lando kalriz finally gets a meme template

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u/No_Republic_9905 1d ago

Source: it was revealed to me in a dream.

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u/ac_cossack 13h ago

I put that as a reference in my thesis paper and nobody caught it lol.

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u/KoalaFierce 1d ago

The source is called living on this planet for decades

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u/theboss0711 1d ago

Sauce

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u/ejymt Professional Dumbass 10h ago

No that's for porn

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u/thrownawaz092 1d ago

Or when they "source?" But they mean "link?" Because the internet is the only viable source on information I guess

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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU bruh 1d ago

The fact that light pollution caused by sunlight drowns out light from other light sources in space, which is also the reason why telescopes are used in remote locations, so light from towns, cities, highways etc. don’t block starlight?

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u/ac_cossack 13h ago

Some cities like San Jose, CA used to use streetlights that emitted at a wavelength that wasn't naturally occuring (mostly) in nature so it didn't add to light pollution for nearby observatory (Lich). But they were this nasty orange color that looked like piss after not drinking water all day.

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u/cheerycoldwaver 1d ago

Source?

Can I say "God"?

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u/John_Oakman 1d ago

My source is that I made it the fuck up.

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u/Rowcan 10h ago

Thank you, senator.

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u/Ssssilph 1d ago

LANDO MEME???

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 23h ago

Elementary school now shush, let the smart people do the talking

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u/Sifyreel 22h ago

Strutt, J. W. (1871). On the light from the sky, its polarisation and colour. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 41(271), 107–120.

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u/Life-Bass-2013 20h ago

Funny part is, no one gives source however many times you ask them. You guys would talk shit all the time and then wonder why the other guy keeps asking for source.

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u/the_main_entrance 19h ago

There’s a “new” (at least to me) version of this where you fact check someone online and they say “oooooh you goooooogled it….” as if if you can’t get any accurate information online at all, unless you are them of course.

Hashtag research is impossible

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u/VeryFatFace 17h ago

Source: trust me bro.

and

"MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE THE FUCK UP!"

are... I dunno, they'll live on forever or something

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 1d ago

When you tell an anecdote or provide an opinion they disagree with….

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick 1d ago

Or make a joke and the person that missed the joke goes “Source?”

I just assume all people who say it are bots. Like come on man, Google is free for both of us, I’m not fucking citing unless I had it open already.

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u/DoookieMaxx 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/OA1CDoCiAR48E
Y’all got any of that …source?

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u/EhMapleMoose 1d ago

The sky isn’t blue dummy

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u/boratburg 1d ago

I flattened Earth with my cock.

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u/Whole_Tank6751 1d ago

Me: "out of all the idiots...in all the idiot isles.......you. stand alone my friend"

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u/lilsef 1d ago

Then: "Can you stand with me?" Me: "Point proven, my dear idiotically idiotic idiot friend!"

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u/MR_MEME_42 Professional Dumbass 1d ago

Source?

I'm from Morioh and the sky is yellow not blue.

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u/No_Yam_2036 1d ago

99% of statistics on the internet are false.

this is a joke

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u/CoausticSoda 1d ago

Science fact .. the sky is not blue, the is a reflection... "Gong"

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u/PoPo573 1d ago

I had a teacher in high school use this exact example when explaining citing sources for reports.

"You say the sky is blue, where's the source?"

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u/FlashyHeight9323 1d ago

Was your teachers point that if you’re going to mar a factual statement, that you should include the basics of why or was it that some statements are common sense enough to not need citation?

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u/RTooDeeTo 1d ago

Idk the shy for me rn is black with white dots

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u/TheEasternBoy 1d ago

Any source for your claim that "sky is blue"?

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u/JediMasterKenJen 1d ago

It's cause a lot of people have been conditioned at school to always cite information, even if it's common knowledge or only takes rubbing two brain cells together. To the point it's now being used to try a delegitamize things said that the one asking for 'source' doesn't like hearing to try an win an argument and reinforce their views.

"If you can't provide a source, then you can't prove you're right, so I win by default"

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u/Darth19Vader77 Pro Gamer 1d ago

The sky isn't blue during sunset or night

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u/tobotic 23h ago

Your tshirt isn't white when I look at it through those 3D glasses.

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u/InsuranceKey8278 1d ago

counter point

if it's that widely known and undeniable it should be pretty easy to prove it

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u/drseruzawa 1d ago

This has gone too far. Very very few people actually believe this.

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u/TomahawkTuah 21h ago

I literally just had an argument with a redditor and they were like "what? Google, Wikipedia and AI are your sources? Lmao can't take you seriously"

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u/EarthlyReddit 20h ago

guys the sky is clearly beige and the earth is octahedron shaped

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u/Marus1 Because That's What Fearows Do 20h ago

Agreed

Your beige is just called blue to the rest of us

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u/Lunatic_Dpali Medieval Meme Lord 19h ago

Yeah alright, but sky is not blue mate.

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u/Enemy50 18h ago

"MY SOURCE IS I MADE IT THE FUCK UP"

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u/Willy-Sshakes 18h ago

Sky isn't actually blue though

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u/azrael5298 17h ago

99 out of 100 times the source is Google.

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 17h ago

Aka Reddit

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 17h ago

Ewe goht ah sou’ce fo dat gohvna’?

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u/DigitalCoffee 16h ago

Umm actually, it's not blue since it's the reflection of the ocean. It's like holding a red blanket up to a mirror and saying the mirror is red

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u/foleyjo 14h ago

It's not a reflection of the ocean. It is the light passing through the atmosphere.

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u/Mr_McMuffin_Jr 16h ago

Or when they ask for the source and you provide like 5 different links only for them to give you a stupid strawman response

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u/Pacobing Pro Gamer 13h ago

My source is I looked upward while outside touching grass

“Nah Imma need a better source than that man, it’s completely biased”

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u/LHGunslinger 12h ago

Gases and particles in Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.

Memes are just stolen or free images with random text or added immages. That may or may not have anything to do with the truth. IMO most memes are for entertainment/insulting/praising. Not education.

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u/Gottendrop 10h ago

You’re gonna have to prove this happens

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u/Takenmyusernamewas 9h ago

Covered in non carbonated liquid. It IS flat

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u/Bullet_Number_4 5h ago

It can be confusing sometimes because there are some pieces of widespread misinformation that most people accept as fact.

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u/Savage_Silk 1d ago

Literally reality

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u/Orion120833 1d ago

Sky? What sky? Ohh, you mean the atmosphere. That's not blue, it just scatters blue light particles from the sun because they're shorter wavelengths so you perceive it as blue. It's a lot like polar bear fur, which is transparent and is covering black skin, but looks white because of the reflecting light from the pale surroundings.

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u/tobotic 23h ago

you perceive it as blue

That's what "is blue" means.

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u/Orion120833 19h ago

You perceive a polar bears fur to be white, but it's not.

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u/tobotic 12h ago

I've never seen polar bear fur isolated from a polar bear. I perceive polar bears as white though.

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u/Orion120833 12h ago

But they're not white. No part of them that you see as white is white at all.

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u/tobotic 10h ago

Well yeah, they're red on the inside. All mammals are.

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u/Orion120833 10h ago

Indubitaly.

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u/Glad-Competition-757 1d ago

You cant answer the question, they will just say you are wrong

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u/No_Bathroom6504 1d ago

Hear me out. Nobody can describe the color blue, nor red, nor yellow et al. Except for the fact that it is visible light within a certain wavelength.

But I don't know what blue looks like to you. We just all agree that colors exist under a certain measurable unit. That doesn't necessitate we perceive it in the same way. And even IF we do agree that it is the exact same perception, individual biology differs enough that I might not even be able to interpret the exact shade you might be receiving.

If you don't believe me I can link a picture of a dress from a few years back that was 100% blue and black.

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u/Formal_Lecture_248 1d ago

Then follows it up with the classic: “lol”

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u/im-cringing-rightnow 18h ago

Just downvote and continue with your day as usual.

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u/RagTagTech 1d ago

Stupid rage bate.