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[Tesseract]

read the practical math series and then read feynman's lecture series on physics

memorize them, as for to they are your guidance in this nightmare verse

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

@MadAnon

because this thread keeps going round and round and round and round

That’s actually really good. Do one for me please!

 

[ResilientBanana]

Hello guys. Hello @Weilthain I found this thread fascinating and couldn’t resist. Have you looked at pre 1600s maps that have more land masses on them? Both toward the north and along the “ice wall” where “Antarctica” is? I believe this is one key to the globe deception. Land is being hidden. The suns light only travels 3400 miles in any direction. If you keep going “south” you reach desolate desert places that would pretty much match many terrains of “other planets” that we’ve been made to believe exist and can be reached by traveling far upward. Complete darkness out of the range of the suns light

This can’t be real.

 

[Blade2.0]

Truth is, the Earth is round. Saved you a lifelong endeavor.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Hello guys. Hello @Weilthain I found this thread fascinating and couldn’t resist. Have you looked at pre 1600s maps that have more land masses on them? Both toward the north and along the “ice wall” where “Antarctica” is? I believe this is one key to the globe deception. Land is being hidden. The suns light only travels 3400 miles in any direction. If you keep going “south” you reach desolate desert places that would pretty much match many terrains of “other planets” that we’ve been made to believe exist and can be reached by traveling far upward. Complete darkness out of the range of the suns light

 

[Blade2.0]

Could we not be in a simulation where the world is not a globe...?

Even if it's all just a simulation, we'll still be dead. When we run simulations or make games with working worlds, the people in them don't magically come out of the simulation after dying in a game. So, even granting you that this is all a big fucking show, it's still reality to us. And the reality is, we're on a globe and we don't come back after death or get magically transported to a new world. We die and we rot. Even if all this is is just a simulation on a godly computer, that's still our reality in the end.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

This is kinda entertaining right now.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

This image always made me laugh at how bad it is. I wonder if there is a person that thinks the earth is flat, but is still orbiting around the sun in space.

 

[ResilientBanana]

This is kinda entertaining right now.

What a condescending fuck. He just bulldozed the guy That was trying to give us explanation Just to push his agenda by being the loudest guy in the room. More than half the time was spent explaining that this guy was going to get demolished and that his reasoning didn’t hold any water but yet we never get to hear it.

 

[jonnyp]

Can we get NASA to launch all these people into space directly into the sun please?

 

[ManaByte]

Can we get NASA to launch all these people into space directly into the sun please?

With a window facing backwards so they can see the round Earth and realize how wrong they are right before they burn up.

 

[Juke Joint Jezebel]

With a window facing backwards so they can see the round Earth and realize how wrong they are right before they burn up.

They'd probably just scream and shout about how the window is really just a display rendering the "fake" earth!

 

[ResilientBanana]

They'd probably just scream and shout about how the window is really just a display rendering the "fake" earth!

Well what ever disbelief they have, they'll have a year or so to contiplate until they fizzle out of existence. I just wonder how these turds don't look up in the night sky, see the milky way and think, Oh my fuck, that's amazing.

 

[Halo is Back]

 

[lock2k]

Flat earthers™ , the fastest growing community around the globe.

 

[MalcomseX]

You'd have to leave your parent's basement to fall off the edge of the world, so they're safe in their belief.

 

[OctagonalHamsterwheel]

Can we get NASA to launch all these people into space directly into the sun please?

the sun isn’t in “space”. It’s directly above us.

 

[Tesseract]

a balance of imagination and skepticism is necessary for truth to prevail

sagan's cosmos holds up incredibly well in this regard

 

[infinitys_7th]

I've never seen the source video for this. Glorious. Now this topic has actually produced something of value.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Flat earthers™ , the fastest growing community around the globe.

Well, yeah. A controversial viewpoint such as this will get you a ton of subs and ad revenue on youtube.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Well, yeah. A controversial viewpoint such as this will get you a ton of subs and ad revenue on youtube.

Shit, brb.

 

[Prison Mike]

Take a look at the shape of the Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse, particularly during a partial phase. Do you notice how the Earth’s shadow always appears to be a piece of a near-perfect circle? If the Earth were a flat disk, that means there’s only one possible orientation that the Sun-Earth-Moon alignment can take place in to create a circular (rather than elliptical) shadow: with the Earth’s “disk” perpendicular to the Sun-Moon plane. This means the Sun would need to be at the “midnight” position relative to the night side of Earth, and yet lunar eclipses occur at all different times depending on where you are on Earth. The flat Earth can’t explain that.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

We die and we rot. Even if all this is is just a simulation on a godly computer, that's still our reality in the end.

Except we are patterns of information on a physical substrate, so there's a good chance we can transcend death. Most of the atoms in the brain are replaced over time, yet we persist, like the ship of Theseus.

Patterns are what you move around when you pass a digital file from one location to another, and patterns can reoccur even naturally. It is like the words in a book, burning the physical book does not burn the actual story in the book.

Take a look at the shape of the Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse, particularly during a partial phase. Do you notice how the Earth’s shadow always appears to be a piece of a near-perfect circle? If the Earth were a flat disk, that means there’s only one possible orientation that the Sun-Earth-Moon alignment can take place in to create a circular (rather than elliptical) shadow: with the Earth’s “disk” perpendicular to the Sun-Moon plane. This means the Sun would need to be at the “midnight” position relative to the night side of Earth, and yet lunar eclipses occur at all different times depending on where you are on Earth. The flat Earth can’t explain that.

Their excuse is that some other third body is causing the shadow on the moon, iirc.

 

[OctagonalHamsterwheel]

Eclipses aren’t caused by the earths shadow. Can a “globe earther” explain how the moon can set at varying positions south to north and back over the course of a couple weeks? Wouldn’t the “globe” constantly have to be tilting back and forth?

 

[Foamy]

If all the flat earthers could just heart this post I'd know who to add to my ignore list.
That'd be great thanks.

 

[greyshark]

Eclipses aren’t caused by the earths shadow. Can a “globe earther” explain how the moon can set at varying positions south to north and back over the course of a couple weeks? Wouldn’t the “globe” constantly have to be tilting back and forth?

It’s because the moon is orbiting the earth.

Why is the moon in a different place every night? (Beginner) - Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer

Ask an Astronomer is run by volunteers in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University. We answer your astronomy questions. Please browse our archive first.

curious.astro.cornell.edu

 

[lock2k]

Are there actual flat earthers here? For real?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Except we are patterns of information on a physical substrate, so there's a good chance we can transcend death.

Spoiler

You actually just cease to exist though.

 

[lock2k]

Eclipses aren’t caused by the earths shadow. Can a “globe earther” explain how the moon can set at varying positions south to north and back over the course of a couple weeks? Wouldn’t the “globe” constantly have to be tilting back and forth?

You actually believe the earth is flat?

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

Spoiler

You actually just cease to exist though.

Matter, energy, etc can't be created or destroyed, though. We don't actually know what happens after death for sure. You can claim to be certain one way or another, but that's just an unproven belief.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

You actually believe the earth is flat?

If we sit down and really ponder and look at the bigger picture. People believe in all manner of things don't they? Look at religion and the stories behind it for example. How many stories from any religion can you read and not question? Is it really this hard to believe some people think the Earth really is flat? (flat is NOT justice)

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Matter, energy, etc can't be created or destroyed, though. We don't actually know what happens after death for sure. You can claim to be certain one way or another, but that's just an unproven belief.

Death is a state we will all achieve one day. Wheter we become dust, mulch/nutrients for the earth makes no difference. Once you are dead your conscious ceases to exist. Also matter and energy can be created and destroyed.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Death is a state we will all achieve one day. Wheter we become dust, mulch/nutrients for the earth makes no difference. Once you are dead your conscious ceases to exist. Also matter and energy can be created and destroyed.

Is there proof of this? As far as we know, all matter exists and has always existed and can't not exist because it exists. Everything has been here since the beginning and it will be here at the end.

 

[lock2k]

If we sit down and really ponder and look at the bigger picture. People believe in all manner of things don't they? Look at religion and the stories behind it for example. How many stories from any religion can you read and not question? Is it really this hard to believe some people think the Earth really is flat? (flat is NOT justice)

They can believe it is flat. They will still be utter idiots to do so.

Flying on a plane in cruise altitude reveals the curvature of the earth.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Is there proof of this? As far as we know, all matter exists and has always existed and can't not exist because it exists. Everything has been here since the beginning and it will be here at the end.

But we came from nothing. The entire universe was made from nothing and the moment it was created its lifespan began counting down. Black holes will eventually return everything into nothing.

 

[OctagonalHamsterwheel]

You actually believe the earth is flat?

It’s not flat. It has hills and valleys. It simply doesn’t spin nor is it a globe. According to scripture it’s actually deeper than it is wide so all of those flat earth pizza models are nonsense.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

Once you are dead your conscious ceases to exist. Also matter and energy can be created and destroyed.

energy can be transformed into matter, and matter into energy, but overall the stuff is indestructible.

You can't be certain consciousness ceases to exist when energy, matter and information are indestructible and can't be created or destroyed.

But we came from nothing. The entire universe was made from nothing and the moment it was created its lifespan began counting down. Black holes will eventually return everything into nothing.

blackholes can't destroy information, and they evaporate.

Also even the original nothing is not true nothingness, there is quantum vacuum and laws of physics. There is some evidence suggesting the universe might be cyclic(edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology), ending and beginning in an unending cycle. Sooner or later your genetics and brain structure would probably repeat, and you can't prove it wouldn't actually be you.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

energy can be transformed into matter, and matter into energy, but overall the stuff is indestructible.

You can't be certain consciousness ceases to exist when energy, matter and information are indestructible and can't be created or destroyed.

blackholes can't destroy information, and they evaporate.

Also even the original nothing is not true nothingness, there is quantum vacuum and laws of physics. There is some evidence the universe might be cyclic, ending and beginning in an unending cycle. Sooner or later your genetics and brain structure would probably repeat, and you can't prove it wouldn't actually be you.

I disagree with these theories.

 

[ResilientBanana]

But we came from nothing. The entire universe was made from nothing and the moment it was created its lifespan began counting down. Black holes will eventually return everything into nothing.

Black holes aren’t nothing though. They are every bit of matter they suck in.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Spoiler

You actually just cease to exist though.

Or maybe we never die, our consciousness just continuing on through (generally) the most-probable path.

It’s not flat. It has hills and valleys. It simply doesn’t spin nor is it a globe. According to scripture it’s actually deeper than it is wide so all of those flat earth pizza models are nonsense.

What is at the bottom of the deep flat Earth?

 

[OctagonalHamsterwheel]

The abyss.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

What is at the bottom of the deep flat Earth?

I think some of them say there is water above and below.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

I disagree with these theories.

Conservation of energy in closed systems is basically proven, it is a law

In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. This law means that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. -wiki

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Or maybe we never die, our consciousness just continuing on through (generally) the most-probable path.

Wishful thinking of a self aware multicellular animal.

Maybe?

 

[TheGreatYosh]

They can believe it is flat. They will still be utter idiots to do so.

Flying on a plane in cruise altitude reveals the curvature of the earth.

You can't see curvature from a plane. I think you have to be over 200 thousand feet up to see it.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Wishful thinking of a self aware multicellular animal.

Maybe?

I'm not sure it is all that wishful when that means we will all probably end up in some horribly enfeebled but conscious state eventually, barring technological intervention.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Conservation of energy in closed systems is basically proven, it is a law

Explain how said law applies to nuclear fission then.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I'm not sure it is all that wishful when that means we will all probably end up in some horribly enfeebled but conscious state eventually, barring technological intervention.

Preposterous. Death literally means we cease to be. You are only conscious at this moment because you are alive. A person that is braindead in a comma doesn't have a conscious state they are literal husks.

 

[Rentahamster]

Explain how said law applies to nuclear fission then.

E = mc^2 ?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

E = mc^2 ?

Fuck you Einstein you mass converting motherfucker nuclear reactions violate said law unless things are converted.