i dont think you understand the concept of youtube. you should check it out sometime.
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Shaq believes in a flat earth. Edit: Claims he doesn't believe in a flat earth
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i dont think you understand the concept of youtube. you should check it out sometime.
Princess Viola
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Omg this dude is still going holy shit.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Just curious... Do you have an explanation for my Air New Zealand question?
ok man
why do we see different stars from different places on the earth
why is there gravity
how do we have satellites
why would so many people be in on this conspiracy? the amount of people that it would take to make this work would be crazy. scientists don't make a ton of money, i mean pilots would have to be in on it as well, right?
the-pi-guy
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Yes, NASA spends billions and trillions of dollars photo shopping the Earth, and developing underwater pills to allow people to breathe underwater to film fake space videos, and all the other stuff required to fake all of these things, paying centuries of scientists to come up with theories to make all the spherical earth ideas to be plausible, all to perpetuate the most pointless lie in the history of conspiracies.
People knew the earth was spherical over 2000 years ago.
Between Earth's shadow and the fact that stars are only visible depending on if you are in the northern or southern hemisphere.
http://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round
Earthbound64
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I don't think you understand the concept of crowd sourcing information.
spiderman123
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Shaq is a certified genius/scientist/greatest basketball player ever. He is million times more knowledgeable on the workings of our universe than hacks like Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson. If he says the earth is flat. Who am I not to believe him.
Exactly. Him and Kyrie are honestly on to something and I think it's time we stop putting our heads in the sand and begin to do our own research on the subject.
Shaq is a what now?
All Possible Ways
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blast processed
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Lol
IISANDERII
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Are you unemployed? I've never met a flat earthed with a job.
Funnily enough, I had a buddy that is now a flat earther. He is currently unemployed and spends all day posting flat earth memes on facebook.
MajinSweet4
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The mere fact that someone can believe that, for example NASA has for decades kept up this supposed charade without a single significant mistake or leak is astounding. And that's just NASA. This conspiracy would require literally thousands of people around the world to all be in on it and never fuck up or go against it. Forget the science of it, this alone is way less believable.
I met with a few people who believe in flat earth, damn man... it's fascinating how much big their confidence are when they are talking about this shit, NASA is conspiring on the world and convinced them that the earth is sphere, and when you ask them for what purpose they are conspiring about it and what they are gaining from this conspiracy and what about the scientists who said the earth is sphere in the history before NASA even existed, they simply answer me that NASA washed my brain with a confidant smile on their faces.
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TeamLeftMatch
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I think that physically hurt me. Also I pretty much guess the next comment if it's going the way I think it's going. "Politicians are so out of touch and trump says it like it is".
Tetsujin_MK
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Why stop at the Earth being flat? Who's to say it also has to be circular? It could be square-shaped. Or hexagonal. Or an upside-down pyramid. You don't even know how deep the rabbit hole goes!
I don't even have the right words for this.
Upside down pyramid would be kinda cool.
Linkstrikesback
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No, academia is crowd sourced information. YouTube is a bunch of idiots screaming at each other with no sane discussion happening about ideas.
Pantaghana
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Flat-Earth conspiracy is one of those fascinating things that doesn't hold up even under the tiniest amount of scrutiny.
Let's ignore all the fucktons of actual evidence for a round Earth and just point out the fact that humans across the entire planet can't agree on anything.
Governments will fight night and day about borders, laws, treaties, hell even something as sensible as the SI unit of measurement is still not universally accepted.
But somehow there is universal consensus about keeping flat earth a secret.
Right.
Let's ignore all the fucktons of actual evidence for a round Earth and just point out the fact that humans across the entire planet can't agree on anything.
Governments will fight night and day about borders, laws, treaties, hell even something as sensible as the SI unit of measurement is still not universally accepted.
But somehow there is universal consensus about keeping flat earth a secret.
Right.
Tetsujin_MK
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What gets me is that I still haven't found a decent answer as to *why* that would even be a thing. Why would all the governments - even the ones that fucking hate each other - think it so important to agree that this needs to be kept from everyone?
What exactly would happen if the world knew the "truth"?
A Fish Aficionado
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Easily disproved by WWI gunners that has to measure the curvature of the earth for their shots.
rumor has it, if you find flat-earth's edge and you fall into it, you wake up in the real world and this is a simulation.
all people at the top in the governments were sent by them to make sure we don't learn about the truth
OMGOMG hollywood, hire me please
Earthbound64
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Disclaimer: I don't believe this. It's just an answer to the question.
One possibility is that they're doing it so that people keep funding / keep supporting funding for NASA / space programs / research into space / etc. and that money is just going toward other stuff instead.
Note: In case you missed it at the beginning, I don't actually believe this is the case. Just answering the question.
I'd watch that movie. Though it would probably spread the crazy.
LookAtMeGo
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Its the Illuminati bruh. They want us to think the Earth is round and "just another planet" to help push the belief in evolution. They are hiding the truth that the Earth is flat and we are special because god made it that way. If everyone knew the truth and that the Earth was flat and god created us, then the illuminati lord Baphomet/Satan would lose his grip of influence over mankind and his fight to turn us all into Atheists.
Except we have known the Earth is a sphere for almost 2,500 years.
Unless Aristotle was playing the long game...
Earthbound64
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I'm not sure why you quoted my post and then replied something that had nothing to do with my post.
Linkstrikesback
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It had plenty to do with your post. NASA being in on the conspiracy would require it to be a lie perpetuated for thousands of years for science funding - i.e. aristotles long game.
Chaos2Frozen
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I wonder if someone out there would one day create a sci-fi movie about a civilization that lives on a flat surface.
Monochromaticx
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WWI never happened tho 👀
It had everything to do with you post. I'm saying why would we create the myth of a spherical earth to fund organizations that wouldn't exist for thousands of years?
I know that's not your argument, but I'm saying that argument they might make doesn't fit any definition of logic.
Really gets the noggin joggin'
chromatic9
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He's looking at the firmament right there
Laughing Banana
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That's not a bad concept for a fictional world, actually, lol.
No dude, too much grammar and punctuation. People who believe in this stuff don't have this degree of articulation.
Earthbound64
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Except that it didn't.
Similar to people who think that the earth is flat, presenting something as a "fact" or "true" simply because you believe it is doesn't make it true.
So, yeah, nothing to do with my actual post.
Alcotholic
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I was gonna make some sarcastic comment involving planes and flying from California to Japan, but after reading this I decided not to.
What? I meant "not you argument" as in you were playing devil's advocate. But the argument you presented does not make any sense in any way, and I pointed out why.
They have convinced themselves that the sun works sort of like a spotlight, and that the seasons are caused by kind of a spiraling motion of the sun. Never mind this causes a ton of problems like; why isn't the North Pole sort of warm?
I assume their answer is that the trajectory of the sun sort of mirrors the calculations used for the round earth, but none of those people are smart enough to actually do those calculations to calculate that trajectory.
Earthbound64
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No, I wasn't.
I was providing one of the answers for the question that was asked.
I didn't "present" an "argument"
I never said anything about it "mak[ing] any sense"
Which, as I showed above, had nothing to do with my post.
Reminder: The question that was asked, and that I replied to, was:
There was nothing in there about the/a "decent answer" having to "make sense."
Because - surprise - no argument about the earth being flat makes sense.
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