Flat Earth Believers... I DONT GET IT!!!!

[Member2035261]

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Wonders where the participants want the thread to go in the future.

Can we also cover the floating sea bananas ownership debate?

 

[Shotgun84]

How sure are we that up is actually up and down is actually down? If you came from space from our east wouldn't right be up and left be down?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

It's a twisted donut.

 

[Zigman66]

You just had to bring food into this

 

[mikedt]

The Earth is a huge pork jiaozi (dumpling)

 

[Zigman66]

The Earth is a huge pork jiaozi (dumpling)

Ok, then just where does the sauce that drips off fall to??

 

[Zigman66]

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Wonders where the participants want the thread to go in the future.

You expected this lot to stay on target??

 

[Bg260]

 

[Bg260]

^^^

 

[olbriar]

It's good enough to share twice.

 

[Dngrsone]

Funny, only the Earth is flat...

 

[dan330]

i dont get it...

Mars is round...
i am guessing they also believe the Moon is round.
the Sun is round... but they dont believe he size of it. or distance.
all of this can be proven.

where do these big ass round objects go every day? as it goes down the horizon and up the opposite side the next day?

common sense.. not so common with everyone...

 

[Dngrsone]

There's an interesting article at Ars Technica about the recent Flat Earth convention. That might help explain why.

 

[Deleted User]

So it occurred to me that if the Earth was in fact flat (a disc shape?), then the water would naturally fall off the edge, especially if the disc was rotating (or do they not believe it does rotate?)
Anyway, to stop the flow of water off the edge, that would mean the edge must have a ridge of raised land, which you could walk around continuously. I'd like to ask them if that piece of land has ever been found?

 

[bcrichster]

So it occurred to me that if the Earth was in fact flat (a disc shape?), then the water would naturally fall off the edge, especially if the disc was rotating (or do they not believe it does rotate?)
Anyway, to stop the flow of water off the edge, that would mean the edge must have a ridge of raised land, which you could walk around continuously. I'd like to ask them if that piece of land has ever been found?

I think the closest to science they got was like stating that your walkable 'ridge' theory was made of ice (or something, like the Arctic) since it was so close to space.

 

[Dngrsone]

A lot of the theories involve the Antarctic continent being the border, so yes, ice and snow keep the water from falling off. I kind of wonder, though: if the giant tortoise upon whose back the Flat Earth rides sneezes, is that where earthquakes come from?

 

[Deleted User]

It's good to know they've thought about these things then

 

[psionandy]

There's an interesting article at Ars Technica about the recent Flat Earth convention. That might help explain why.

If you want more information about it, Merseyside Skeptics society did a play for play podcast about it.. I can dig up a link if you like...

 

[dan330]

yeah... they believe the Antarctic is what surrounds the flat earth. and it is closely hid secret by the "man". if anyone trys to look closer..

they will stop you.
Divert planes
control the satellites

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so..do they believe the earth is the bottom of the.. universe?
what is below us.. or over the edge?
if they extend their theory out past earth... what is there?

 

[lunatic59]

Does the new coat of arms designed by the Duchess of Sussex mean she's secretly a flat-earther?

 

[PitCarver]

It's good to know they've thought about these things then

A wall and trained attack penguins.

They explain it ALL here...
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=75984.0

Kind of makes you wonder why penguins are only native to Antarctica.

 

[Hadron]

A wall and trained attack penguins.

They explain it ALL here...
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=75984.0

Kind of makes you wonder why penguins are only native to Antarctica.

I'm trying to work out how many of those people are serious and how many are taking the pee, and it isn't easy.

Beware of the penguins though: they don't just live in Antarctica! Humbold penguins live in Chile and Peru, Magellanic penguins also live in Argentina and the Islas Malvinas (probably a secret Argentinian invasion force which the Falkland Islanders won't recognise until too late), the Fairy penguin lives in New Zealand (though that one's of little military value), and the Galapagos penguin is self-explanatory. Are these scouts, or an advance guard to take down the less wary flat-Earthers before they even reach the wall?

And is George R. R. Martin a heroic flat-earther who has managed to sneak the truth of the ice wall past the censors by hiding it in a popular fantasy series?

 

[PitCarver]

I'm trying to work out how many of those people are serious and how many are taking the pee, and it isn't easy.

Spent about half hour reading some of the posts and about fell out of my chair laughing.

 

[Dngrsone]

so..do they believe the earth is the bottom of the.. universe?
what is below us.. or over the edge?
if they extend their theory out past earth... what is there?

There is only Zuul

 

[Zigman66]

There's an interesting article at Ars Technica about the recent Flat Earth convention. That might help explain why.

There was an interesting thought running thru this: Power makes what is presented as knowledge. Similar to history is always written by the victor. I can see where they more present themselves as free thinkers and even why they might not trust information that has been crammed down their throats. I have always been interested in science yet even in just my lifetime I have seen "facts" change. Same in political science. Mathematical science. Even more fringe types of thinking like astrology seem to have changed over the years. All these facts change due to more advanced knowledge over the years, at least I like to think so, but what do we truly know about things we have not had personal contact with?
Don't get me wrong, I have way more faith in the scientific community as a whole than I do in in any of these fringe-type opinions and studies but since we have so many different ways to self prove many things the only ones that seem to hold water are the theories and studies of the scientific masses. Not to say that one man with an outrageous sounding theory can't suddenly be the next Einstein or Galileo, It is simply that we have accrued so much knowledge that many theories are much easier to prove than they used to be.
The downside tho, getting back to those in power supplying what we are supposed to take as knowledge, when you have a world leader (pick your country, at this point) that decries any facts not personally spoken by him or her and has the benefit of media control it gets harder for the average person to know what to believe. And therein lies the problem: The masses are not as educated as they really should be. Most of history's villains were of genius level and controlled the people by promoting their own set of facts.
Personally, I think it is ALL fake news. There is no other universe outside of Android Forum. My dog told me and she wouldn't lie... I asked her!