flat earth people

I really cant take this seriously. How can you believe this?

But… they claim flat Earth is true and the globe Earth is the massively effective conspiracy that has fooled billions. LOL. The sheer audacity of it. The flat Earthers are nothing but time wasters. Human detritus.

They are as flat as they can be. This topic they believe in, makes it much easier if the government plan to conduct selective evolution. My concern goes to the smarter young generation believers who might spend their precious time finding their way back to the reality. This also what worries most scientists. We don’t want a “Flat Generation” to slow down progress.

There has been relatively large group of people believed in such nonsense secretly or silently. Now this movement has encouraged them to show up, causing more destructive irrational acts. I’ve seen it….

- Clemence

You can’t live without a belief system, there must be a religion to link people. And yes atheist is also a religion ironically, but a materialist one.

Philosophically speaking if the founding myth is a unique earth and the whole universe turn around it, it will gives your life more importance and meaning than living on a meaningless rock full of water spinning in a infinite space with trillions of other stars and planets with maybe similar life forms as us.

As a thought experiment it is a interesting, and maybe it is true. :partying_face:

Well, their flashlights can throw farther than ours without a horizon, so there is that.

I have always suspected that some of it is down to attention seeking, but I do actually know one flat earther. His daughter was badly injured and this led to him losing the plot somewhat. He began insisting that the earth was flat and pointing to various passages in the Bible which he claimed proved it. Then insisting that other people were not proper Christians if they did not follow a literal interpretation of the Bible. In his case it does not seem to be attention seeking but genuine illness so I have muted him on social media, and get the occasional update on how bad he has got from my wife :slight_smile:

It always amazes me to hear people say the Earth is flat. Hundreds of years of scientific research and one YouTube video changes your mind. I used to argue with these types of people, but it is no use. The problem, I have found, is their weak mental fortitude. A lot of these individuals also believe vaccinations for deadly diseases are unhealthy, the moon landings were faked, and Elvis Presley is still alive :person_facepalming:

Here are some photos I took myself, from my own cell phone flying at 40,000-45,000 ft. (pictures are clickable):


Another from 51,000ft (if I recall correctly):

If that isn’t enough proof the Earth is round, then you have a mental disorder and probably shouldn’t reproduce :neutral_face: (only slightly kidding)

You can’t see the curvature of earth at such low altitude, its a illusionary effect because of perspective.
Its like saying this road is in a triangle shape.

Even Neil Degrasse Tyson explain you can’t see the curvature unless you are in space.

I honestly never realized that flat earthers were a real thing until some youtube videos showed up in my feed about some $100k bet and how the flat earther kept dodging paying out on it.

Wellp, anyone who’s seen “Bubba Ho-Tep” knows the last to be true.

There was the whole myth about sailing your ship off the edge of the planet… until some people, like Christopher Columbus, decided to “go for it.” The curvature is there. You can easily see it with a high powered telescope as ships sail off to the horizon. Lasers will also prove it. But flat Earthers are mentally ill people.

But… if the earth was a flat round disc, there would be an EDGE. A prominent edge that would be a massive spectacle to go see. THERE IS NONE. Where are the photos? Where are the trips to see the edge?

Even still, we need a globe for orbits. ORBITS. Those satellites that roam around the Earth would fall out of the sky if they weren’t in orbit. ORBIT. ORB. SPHERE. GLOBE.

This is why it’s such utter time wasting nonsense. It’s like arguing 2+2=4 with a dog.

It’s Greek to me. Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/eratosthenes.htm

It’s all a conspiracy! There is no such thing as space travel and ships and planes do fall off the edge of the earth. However immediate teleportation takes them to the other side of the earth seamlessly and quicker than one can process. Same with satellites of course.

It’s sad to see that people believe in things that were known to be false 2,000 years ago. With the push back against science these days in the US it will only get worse :rage:

Flat Earth? Meh.

Wife called me a fat headlast week

It’s kinda like a huge infinity pool. By the time you realise you’re at the edge, >PLOOMP!<, you’re over.

I still say we’re all on the back of a giant turtle…

Flat earthers are entitled to their beliefs without being insulted and treated like idiots, as are all the people that believe in an all powerful deity (God, Allah, whatever) as there is NO proof whatsoever that one exists, yet as an Atheist I am insulted by so called religious people all the time and am told that proof is not needed just faith.
So let the flat earthers believe in what they want to and I let me continue in my disbelief without ridicule.

Cheers David


Do not start a religious discussion here as it is against the forum code of conduct also I have no interest in people trying to convert me to their beliefs.

That’s like saying people are entitled to believe 2+2=3. They’re not. The bad math screws up everything. People believe a conspiracy “like” a religion, meaning on blind faith… that’s the only commonality. Just an analogy on that factor. But it’s just wrong to believe something so outrageously false. Not that we need Thought Police roaming around, locking up anyone who believes the Earth is flat. Just that people shouldn’t propagate such falsehoods. THAT is wrong. They only bolster the movement, which is doomed to begin with because it’s based on an all out lie.

what is on the other side of the flat earth?