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20. Not as many as a few years ago

There were a lot of them back around the 40th anniversary of the Apollo landing; a lot of pretty amazing (in a "reach for the antidepressants" manner), drawn-out threads with all the standard conspiracy-theory silliness, etc. A lot of them either got bored after the coverage of the anniversary faded, or got banned for getting excessively flamey when people wouldn't drink their kool-aid.

Electric universe stuff is for all practical purposes a rehash of aether theory, where they deny the existence of physical forces other than electromagnetism and believe all physical interactions involve that with one form or another of plasma being the transmission medium. Some take it even further and, e.g., deny the existence of meteorites ("that crater was caused by a colossal ancient lightning strike from space!&quot .

For some reason I still don't get, every EU fan I've seen is really, really, really evangelical about it. The loudest couple here got banned a year or so ago but would regularly appear in various science threads, trying to make whatever was being discussed all about electricity, and showing baffling amounts of tenacity in Not Shutting Up About It.