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...home to a lot of idiots.
"Flat Earthers are putting up signs on beaches to prove Earth isn’t round" :
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/18/its-sea-level-flat-earthers-are-putting-up-signs-on-beaches-to-prove-earth-isnt-round-6936118
FP Edit: I'd like to thank my mother, your mothers and of course Eric's mother. Send Globes.
AverySillyName
ok i'm awake, what now?
Alkyone
The amount of narcisim required to believe you, out of all people, just figured out the 'truth' that defies all known facts.
FlipTheCouch
"Research."
1ne5ineday
God damn education fails...
BillHubbard
From the same people who think Brexit is a great idea.
boobcat
Mainly Americans...like climate deniers
Pangs
Cool, they don't know what sea level means either.
13thDiablo
HighlySexualLobster
This strikes me as a malicious subset of Discordians.
whyisthisusernamealwaystaken
You should see the youtube video that this sign refers to. 125k subscribers. How are so many people this stupid?
GreenAce92
I'm going to be the first to post a selfie of me at the edge
ReitnesTenought
Haven't you heard? Antarctica is the edge of the world and there are UN agents on snowmobiles there to stop us from finding out!
GreenAce92
I'll just go left or right not up/down
asmallcat
At this point it's impossible to tell who actually believes this idiocy and who's just trolling.
OnlyPositiveComments
I think this comment just described the entire 21st century so far.
DystopianReality
And yet the higher you go up the bluff, the further out you can see...
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elcee50
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that.
Somanyquestions
Giant water magnets.
FoxKeegan
What the fuck do these people think happens if you just keep flying in one direction or another? Do they think that's how NASA does it?
AzureRose
You warp back to the other side ofc. Like pacman.
Somanyquestions
You hit the firmament, a indestructible dome on top of the Earth. No, I'm not kidding.
SketchNI
They don't think.
Snooj
I still refuse to believe any of these people are serious.
denigreur
I know a couple of those. There is a bunch that are serious about that stuff.Can't say for the guys doing those vids though. Maybe only for$
UndeadPriest
And they refuse to believe the earth is round. Maybe you'd get along!
userfriendly19777
phicho
Just ask them to watch a ship desapier in the horizont which part vanishes first ?
RealScienceMan
If it wasn't flat how would it stay on the back of four elephants riding on top of a giant turtle?
DamnnSon
religious believers are even more weird than flat earthers.
5po0ky
Many Flat-Earthers are Christian fundamentalists, taking Genesis literally, believing there are 4 literal corners & a clear fundament on top
Klingon00
I have to believe this is all a joke.
Malcowich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nUFLLUahSI
guata311
ok, do people really believe this? and if so, why won't they just go the edge and take a pic? or are they saying earth is infinitely flat?
emkev
YouTube: the finest in online scholarly journals.
aalien
But... but... you can literally see how the sea curves from where that sign stands.
tomtomtomtom82
FirstDagger
I would start ripping them all apart.
CosplayComet
The flat earth movement has members all around the globe.
DickwadMcDucking
How about you tell them that. https://discordapp.com/channels/327165719198433280/327165719198433280
joeee808
haahaa
theblackhole08
harrison100012
Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha
Chpgmr
What would they say? Member all around the plane?
GreenAce92
*across
mynameiselliott
*across the *map
ollieswen
Heh I chuckled
TheBlackVan
Say that again, slowly.
dontsayretarded0itsgay
Is this from I.T. crowd?
siler7
How do you even know their name is slowly?
shootforthestarsnotyourveins
You'd have to be to believe that
Retrikaethan
thatsthejoke.jpg
Squeezit
That was also the joke.jpg
LavaAxe
Everythingisajoke.png
TheBlackVan
DownVotesAreNotAJoke.oops
HitlersArtCritic
https://memestatic3.fjcdn.com/comments/6273748+_d2412dfeb5a6e97ebeb64773f3a498ce.jpg
DrMet
What the fuck does it want now?
Notoneendingps3
You. We like you.
idonthavetimeforthiseither
First time I've ever heard that....today
CosplayComet
https://media.tenor.com/images/1f92a0ce1c60897f0d499bbb757dce01/tenor.gif
mellowdrama
in every corner
frieddawk
I dont believe this. I bet its 4chan pullin a troll prank on us idiots
BitLizard
I wish. Unfortunately the Flat Earth Society is alive and well.
pistachiomoustache
As far as we have come in science and technology, WHY ARE PEOPLE REGRESSING??
faceofpoopy
Because someone on the internet made something up and validated the thing they're wanting to be true.
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
"Well I started a website called thesunisblue.com and got 500 new members, so I must obviously be onto something here...."
Takethejump
I can't find it. Clearly the yellow sun conspirators shut you down already. Bastards.
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
They just want to shut me down and hide the truth, man. They don't want people to know the sky is blue because the sun is also blue.
Ratman72
The internet and social media.
SaltheartFoamfollower
They aren't regressing. We've been dragging them kicking and screaming this whole way. Superstition is always easier to believe than science
Bandlith
Cause stupid breeds more stupid
BatmansUnderPantsAreSoSoft
Our medical advances keep babies from stupid people alive
DangerTrain
Because people cling to wrong information that makes them feel special, and the internet provides so much of it.
ilikeblondehair
people distrust the government so much that they begin to question even basic principles of reality (these purported correctly by the govt)
BewareTheIceSpiders
Dude 99% of flat earthers are just trolling, they dont believe any of it. Like Rick Rolling, its getting old.
OmikronWeapon
In a way, I hope so, but if I see how much time and effort most put into it, I doubt it. Not sure in which scenario we're better off though.
cakepunching
I'm sure people thought the same at the beginning of the Dark Age
cwagrant
Feelings > facts, no faith in experts because someone on internet says you are wrong and they'd know at earthistotallyflat.org.
DavidBrooker
You know when you introduce yourself, and ask each other what you do for a living? More than once I've had people ask me "So you think 1/2
DavidBrooker
you're clever?" when I say I'm a college professor. I somehow doubt if I said I was an athlete they'd ask "so you think you're fast?". 2/2
Naturally90
I get stigma about being a young, relatively attractive, female with a maths degree and a well paid job. As if I shouldn't be clever?
DavidBrooker
I'm lucky enough to avoid the implied (and explicit) sexism, but being young doesn't help. I'm younger than quite a few of my students.
Naturally90
Being young definitely doesn't help. My clients are boardrooms of old men. What do you teach? And what age are You?
Copperbrat
I think it's a combination of technology and the abuse of it. People don't go outside much any more, and they're glued to a device that 1/
Copperbrat
constantly spews bullshit mixed with fact. Many people simply do not have the intellectual capacity to parse this information due to 2/
Copperbrat
their stunted experience with reality. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone asked how an airplane can fly straight up after 3/
Copperbrat
looking at a photo like this:
4/4
ONISpook
Wow. I thought they were rockets as a kid...but yeah. Perspective is not an easy idea to grasp, at first, however. Dumb people be dumb.
Pangs
Because people who don't understand refuse to believe people who do. Expert is now a slur and opinions are as valid as knowledge.
OmikronWeapon
people have a hard time gauging how little they understand. The less they understand, the harder it gets to know that.
OmikronWeapon
combine that with the need for swift and flashy 'knowledge' and hating to be proven wrong and you end up with a lot of crap.
Hutchy01
In the mighty words of the Bastard Michael Gove "People are sick of Experts"
motorwaffle
These people have always existed, but for most of history we didn't make them literate or give them a voice.
Gunpowderpatron
The proportion of morons in any given population is generally the same, ergo more people than any point in history = more morons
RustBunny
Maybe it's the gluten free diets? More likely just the lowering of standards in schools, teaching kids to take tests rather than know stuff.
RustBunny
Some schools/teachers are better than others, but still... people need to actually listen to the facts, rather than just hear them.
excepttheoneswhoaredead
we aren't. the dumb have megaphones and think it's really important to use them. the rest of us are here, just quietly.
ch1m
I think people are just trolling and the trolling behavior is getting attention from people like Imgurians.
Deadmanwalkn
Definitely a portion are trolls, but there *are* people that think the earth is flat
ch1m
I never see anyone post about how they think the earth is flat, only people saying how stupid the aforementioned are.
GaySocialistLiberalMuslimCommieAtheist
On imgur? You haven't browsed usersub Or the negative comments on this post even.
epowers47127001
It actually sort of makes sense. Modern scientific conclusions are so ridiculously advanced, it's not surprising some people are confused.
epowers47127001
That doesn't really explain flat earthers though... they have no excuse
5po0ky
The internet, while it is a took that allows you to access most all of human knowledge, also allows you to access echo chambers where every-
q2grapple
Fool of a Took!
5po0ky
body shares the same wrong beliefs, but are emboldened by that fact so it propagates amongst those easily influenced by group think
AddictedToCycling
I'm pretty sure not much "thinking" is occurring here...
Tamohan
This makes me want to laugh at my flat earther friend even more lol
5po0ky
Ask him why the moon flips as you go from close to the North Pole to the South Pole
GasBandit
https://pics.me.me/u-anonymous-id-mz20pofe-01-16-17-mon-18-36-57-no-107430086-before-internet-12302600.png
Redisia
This sums up what i was thinking. Before: (I must change because i am a sexual predator) now: (there are more people who like to force them-
Redisia
selfsf on to people?! We can share video's lets take it to the next level) this happens every where. Bad behavior -> trolls -> worse trolls
usersubbordercontrol
KeepYourTangoAndYourFoxtrot
Let's say got the sake of argument that the earth IS flat. What would be the purpose of lying to everyone and saying that it's round?
OperatorTX13
Its Big Science keepin us down..
NotFarEnough
Lizard people
BrittanyGorton
Religion
ShaZam1269
That's the liberal agenda? Jk of course
Kelebek
I wondered this too, and from looking around, apparently it's because it disproves god, or at least introduces a lot of scepticism.
finantheagile
so the nasa illuminati can keep their position as our reptilian overlords
Xyzair
Well it's obvious that we get to keep our invisible teleportation tech a secret.
Somanyquestions
To control the masses for profit/power. Same as all other conspiracies.
RandomImgurian
Yeah but how would you profit from it? What power would it grant you?
Somanyquestions
Withholding the truth from people will always give you power.
FAECI
They say profit, but im sure the ammount of cash that would need to be poured into mantaining the lie would be higher than any gains, 1/2
FAECI
just imagine: international colab, police, fabricating the globe earth, comms, bribes, fake space programs, fake maps, navigation, etc. 2/2
DoritoDorito
Money.
RandomImgurian
Yeah but from where? From who? How and why?
DoritoDorito
Watch some youtube. Its got a lot of bullshit but makes some good points as well. Complete with experiments you can do from home.
DoritoDorito
From government to nasa. For a paycheck. Fyi I'm playing devils advocate here. But the why is easy to answer.
Aeturo
Nasa gets rich. They aren't exploring. It's just a trick that goes back so far people claimed the earth was flat hundreds of years ago.
NoCreativity3
The funny thing is the NASA budget is much lower than what it would cost to deceive every person in the world.
Aeturo
Plus people have known the earth was round even before Columbus. NASA has been planning this scheme for centuries apparently
SluntBiggums
The funniest thing, you can literally do what the sign says and learn the Earth is round. Just like it's the fucking 1300s.
DavidBrooker
2. ???, 3. Profit
Bootsy81
This. Even if you believe the earth is flat how does it affect you at all? Billions of people live their lives regardless. Just go about 1/
Bootsy81
Your day like every other idiot on earth.
strangejuice86
Supposedly theres more land beyond the poles that the governments decided to keep secrete from us. I watch alot of YouTube.
Perovskite
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/176/345/ALOT2.png
OperatorTX13
No secretions!
tonality
This went from conspiratorial to just plain oogy in one single letter. Love it
usersubbordercontrol
To keep secreting from us?!
GodEmperor0fMankind
But... Why tho?
Asmor
What if the Earth is flat, and we're all stuck in a gigantic Truman Show situation?
SplendidoSplendente
https://youtu.be/Q1_HfhtB5eo
Shoujo
Thank you for showing me this, made my year! Cant remember the last time I laughed that hard!
FeyLily
Selling globes
slightlyofftopiccommenter
Occideo
Pangs
Big Globe Maker lobbyists are covering it up!
WhoStoleMySweetroll
I live in Boston, and nobody buys the Globe anymore.
SwapMeetPete
Untapped market. Start selling discs to these people.
strangejuice86
Gots to call my peeps in China I'm gonna be rich.
OnlyPositiveComments
You're a genius. An evil genius.
SpecialProjectY
Pumping cash to meaningless projects, like NASA and edukat... edictu... edictian.
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
Edumacatian
usersubbordercontrol
shadolance
I can only count to four.
vidiv
I can count to patato!
DoritoDorito
NASA makes so much goddamn money..
0forallx
Are you sure about that?
DoritoDorito
100% quick google search shows you what they make a year. I am not saying I am a flat earther. Just saying what I've researched and tested..
0forallx
What do you mean they 'make' that much? Do you think someone pockets that? http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate
Deadmanwalkn
Dude, why hide behind "im not saying im not a flat earther"? Your stance on the subject is pretty clear from your comments
DoritoDorito
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate
DoritoDorito
.5% of America's budget goes straight to nasa. Thats almost 20billion dollars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/08/19/is-nasa-worth-
DoritoDorito
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/08/19/is-nasa-worth-the-money-we-spend-on-it/#217637644779 sorry posted half the link
NickDugger
They deserve to be given a lot more. NASA does more than just space exploration, but even if they didn't, their work is extremely important.