r/BeAmazed • u/Dexter_Naman • 1d ago

Nature Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/BX8061 1d ago

Out of curiosity, when do you think that was?

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u/Outcast199008 1d ago

That's irrelevant.

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u/Canticle_of_Ashes 1d ago edited 1d ago

The guy who asked is trying to help you understand that people in the "dark" ages didn't believe the earth was flat. Western society has known the earth is round since Antiquity. The ancient Greeks even guessed the size of the earth quite accurately considering they were, you know, ancient.

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u/Outcast199008 1d ago

I never said I thought people in the dark ages thought the world was flat.

It was an example of how people can reject any idea or knowledge even if it's true because they believe something else, and people did struggle at first with this idea...

So, whether astronomy was a thing or not in the dark ages, there probably was some percentage of people freaking out.... The uneducated.. stubborn religious figures.. etc.. That's all my OC was.

Just like other comments on this thread...