At a press conference yesterday, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry raised some eyebrows when he shared his doubts about the earth being round, saying this:
"I've just gotta get this out there. I'm getting sick and tired of scientists and experts and people who know what they're talking about telling me that it's for certain the earth is round. They call us skeptics, round skeptics or whatever. They act like this is fact, but is it? Is it really? How would we know unless we drove from one end of the earth to the other? Who's done that? Nobody! So how do we know? Who has the time to do that anyway, you know? When you fly on a plane, does the stuff below you look round or flat? I've never been in space, but if I was, I'm told I'd see a flat earth in a circular shape. What about televisions? What's the latest thing? Roundscreens? No, it's flatscreens. Look, I'm not trying to be a conspiracy person, but I think we need to put to the side all the pictures we have, all the sciencey stuff, all the facts, and have a serious conversation about this. Is the earth round? Flat? Some other shape I can't think of at the moment? I don't know, I don't think anyone else does either, and I think we should discuss it."
Ironically enough, Mr. Perry's glasses fell off directly following this speech. Rumor has it the glasses were trying to escape the Energy Secretary's cranium, all the while shouting, "Get me away from this idiot!"
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