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Time Cube Jr.: 200 "Proofs" Earth is Not a Spinning Ball
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Well we did have one on GAF who was very insistent.
Flat is justice, mate.
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Chittagong
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That site creeps me out, so help me out brave ones.
Why are people able to sail around the world (start from one place and end up in the same place) if the world is flat?
Why are people able to sail around the world (start from one place and end up in the same place) if the world is flat?
Correctomundo
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Aw, look at them trying to math and science. It's adorable.
*pinches cheeks*
You keep at it, little men. One day you'll know how it really works! And then, we can all math and science like the real guys do it!
*pinches cheeks*
You keep at it, little men. One day you'll know how it really works! And then, we can all math and science like the real guys do it!
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
"Have you ever actually SEEN someone sail around the world with your own eyes? Those people CLAIM they have, but where's the proof, huh?"
Filthy liars.
Linkstrikesback
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When you reach some point out in the ocean, you flip over to the other side of the flat surface immediately without noticing. So you can keep going and eventually get back to where you started.
That's the best I've got. It's damn stupid, the earth is spherical.
sono
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Yes and dont jump into the air too high or you will hit the wall as it moves towards you in the meantime
Mohonky
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More_Badass
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Was watching Vsauce and the funny thing is that we knew the earth was spherical as far back as Ancient Greek times
anonymous_abc
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I'm pretty sure we shouldn't refer to such people as scientists. As they clearly do not follow basic scientific principles.
djplaeskool
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drtomoe123
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Yeah, my GF's sister is like this. Flat Earth, Shemitah, whatever...she's all about those conspiracy theories, but she never really takes them too seriously. She's definitely into trolling.
Amentallica
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I can only troll so much, and even then it's for rather innocuous things. Trolling to the point where people really think you're deluded and a fucking idiot is quite something.
uncelestial
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119) It is claimed that the other planets are spheres and so therefore Earth must also be a sphere. Firstly, Earth is a plane not a planet, so the shape of these planets in the sky have no bearing on the shape of the Earth beneath our feet. Secondly, these planets have been known for thousands of years around the world as the wandering stars since they differ from the other fixed stars in their relative motions only. When looked at with an unprejudiced naked-eye or through a telescope, the fixed and wandering stars appear as luminous discs of light, NOT spherical terra firma. The pictures and videos shown by NASA of spherical terra firma planets are all clearly fake computer-generated images, and NOT photographs.
Sho_Nuff82
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Gravity isn't a constant force, it's a constant acceleration. I wonder how these guys talk their way through a Newtonian physics class.
More_Badass
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QuicheFontaine
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wut
BobTheFork
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Someone posted the video explaining how gravity and force would work if the Earth was flat and we were spinning on a disc. Serious question, why isn't it the same for people at the equator. Doesn't the area at the equator, which is further from the center of the globe then people living farther north or south, spin faster to cover the same rotational speed with greater distance?
Poodlestrike
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In all fairness, they just kinda sorta highlighted probably the biggest mystery in modern physics. We don't really get Gravity.
wut
Pro-tip: tucked inside every conspiracy theory, no matter how innocent or wacky, there is at least a little antisemitism. Without fail.
Cymbal Head
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"Their rich, powerful corporations with slick Sun-cult logos."
Chuckie
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Earth's gravity is weaker at the equator and stronger at the poles. The equator is slightly further away from the center of gravity than the poles, and the force of the centrifugal spin counteracts gravity a little bit.
The difference is that it's almost imperceptable, since the mass is more uniformly spread in a sphere than it is on a disc, gravity-wise. This is why large objects form spheres.
How many corporations have this, anyway?
More_Badass
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"Surveyors, engineers and architects are never required to factor the supposed curvature of the Earth into their projects. Canals, railways, bridges and tunnels for example are always cut and laid horizontally, often over hundreds of miles without any allowance for curvature."
What? No. No, that's not true at all.
What? No. No, that's not true at all.
freenudemacusers
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Has anyone stopped to consider that they are right? I've heard talk if the universe being a 2d plane with 3d depth being a hologram, maybe that explains the phenomena outlined in the link.
No. To all of that.
Cymbal Head
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diggmcbadass
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Pilots of planes don't have time to look for any curvature, because they are busy constantly steering downwards so that the plane does not fly into space.
Baron von Loathsome
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119) It is claimed that the other planets are spheres and so therefore Earth must also be a sphere. Firstly, Earth is a plane not a planet, so the shape of these planets in the sky have no bearing on the shape of the Earth beneath our feet. Secondly, these planets have been known for thousands of years around the world as the wandering stars since they differ from the other fixed stars in their relative motions only. When looked at with an unprejudiced naked-eye or through a telescope, the fixed and wandering stars appear as luminous discs of light, NOT spherical terra firma. The pictures and videos shown by NASA of spherical terra firma planets are all clearly fake computer-generated images, and NOT photographs.
I love how this one just uses "The Earth is flat" as a jumping off point, not a conclusion.
Slackbladder
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God. People like this turn me into some kind of would-be fascist dictator! That's to say I'd happily lock this cunt up and never let him utter a word ever again. This kind of shit makes me really, really angry.
Sephiroth503
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This is amazing. Up to point 45 and just had to have a sensible chuckle.
If only.
Whilst I'm sure your right that most "members" just joined for shits and giggles, there is definitely a core contingency of true believers in the society. There's just no way that so many of them can go to such extremes for so long (the current form of the society is 11 years old) just for the sake of trolling. By now someone would have gotten bored, moved on and publicly admitted to the world that it was all an orchestrated hoax. As far as I can tell that hasn't happened, so barring some outrageous, unrealistic cover up (hey, that's a great idea for a new conspiracy theory), I think it's safe to say the core is not satire.
Linkstrikesback
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The "phenomena" outlined in the link are all explained away easily by known scientific principles. Or they're just fundamentally wrong.
There are some out there ideas that could be real, like, the entire of our universe being a simulation, but if your idea involves "holograms", you had better have a darn good explanation for it.
There are three spatial dimensions easily accessible and manipulatable by macroscopic objects. I don't see how anyone can think this is not true.
You can move your arm forwards, then to the side, then up/down, or all three at once. This is true for basically any object. If string theory, or something similar, turns out to be correct (big if), then there are more dimensions.
I can't comprehend how that can be understood as "Holograms!".
ultratruman
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General Relativity is a Zionist Conspiracy designed to hold back the progress of humanity. Why do you think so many theoretical physicists are Jews?
zeitgeist.org
zeitgeist.org
SpacePirate Ridley
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Ive been laughing my ass all morning watching the videos people poster here and reading this thread.
What the hell is the problem with this people.
The guy in the dopefish video is totally bonkers.
What the hell is the problem with this people.
The guy in the dopefish video is totally bonkers.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Quantity over quality, I guess.
PetriP-TNT
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Sounds pretty legit to me. Checkmate, round earth conspiracists
That fucking "!". Wow, hahahaha.
! indeed. Let's just ignore how international airlines actually operate (in this case it appears we're looking at an Emirates flight). And let's also completely ignore the fact that South African Airways does in fact offer a direct flight from Perth to Johannesburg (In fact if I really wanted to, I could catch that exact flight within the next 25 hours).
Well fuck you. I say everything is upside-down in Australia. Wanna fight?" The idea that people are standing, ships are sailing and planes are flying upside down on certain parts of Earth while others tilted at 90 degrees and all other impossible angles is complete absurdity. The idea that a man digging a hole straight down could eventually reach sky on the other side is ludicrous. Common sense tells every free-thinking person correctly that there truly is an up and down in nature, unlike the everything is relative rhetoric of the Newtonian/Einsteinian paradigm.
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Because the other side of the Earth-disc is a scorched hellscape where they send people who know the truth. It's so simple, all the facts are there you just have to look a little everyone gosh.
uncelestial
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Their proof that the Earth is flat is that Earth is flat, duh
hydragonwarrior
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You know what would be awesome? If Fox News was able to convince it's readers that the world is flat.
I mean, why not? Amp up how the scientists have been paid or whatever to say the earth is round, and it's only liberal media saying this and *voila* - the earth is flat to half of America.
I mean, why not? Amp up how the scientists have been paid or whatever to say the earth is round, and it's only liberal media saying this and *voila* - the earth is flat to half of America.
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