{"id":1418,"date":"2008-05-19T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:26:16","slug":"this-is-not-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/05\/19\/this-is-not-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I think.<\/p>\n<p>This pamphlet arrived in the mail:<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/geocentricity.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/geocentricity-268x300.png\" alt=\"Geocentricity\" title=\"Geocentricity\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/geocentricity-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/geocentricity.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Click for larger image.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEver since the scientific community adopted heliocentrism as fact, attempts have been made to prove it. Some of these attempts should have worked. Remarkably, not only has <strong>NOT ONE<\/strong> of these attempts produced proof, but also the results of all of them are consistent with the hypothesis that <em>the earth is at rest.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The general argument seems vaguely familiar:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The King James Bible clearly states that the Earth is fixed and the Sun moves around it.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists claim that the Earth actually moves around the Sun. They have been trying to prove this for centuries, but have never succeeded (at least, not to our satisfaction.)<\/li>\n<li>Q.E.D.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now it would be easy for some wise guy to set up a web site as a joke, but a direct mail campaign costs real money. Also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocentricity.com\/\">web site<\/a> seems &#8220;funny-strange&#8221;, not &#8220;funny-ha-ha.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I think. This pamphlet arrived in the mail: (Click for larger image.) Ever since the scientific community adopted heliocentrism as fact, attempts have been made to prove it. Some of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/05\/19\/this-is-not-a-joke\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wonderful-and-strange","tag-geocentricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}