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Apr 13, 2017 6:24 PM
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Trevor37
just because the billiards balls are spheres does not mean the billiard table is a spheres. Is an argument i heard from a flat eather
watcherdave
I imagine the next republican president will be a flat earther.
TheNorthernSkeptic
Wonder how they explain how Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in fighterjets.
loneknight116
heres a question for these people...when shooting long distance why do we determine coriolis effect if the earth is flat???
mokurd21
Ppl that beleieve the earth is flat also believe the were in a dome and the solar system in the sky is just a really good illusion
michael7lover
Pretty sure most flat earthers don't believe other planets exist
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DavyDavyDave
What planets?
Slimtastik
Triggered
HapilyDamaged
Whatever troll started this is probably laughing 24/7 at the idiots
LajesticVantrashellOfLob
yo wheres that dude who made Fun Fact posts about flat-earthers? He just disappeared. did the CIA take him out or something?
windyroad
Did all Flat Earthers vote for our current president.
flynnwall
Say that slowly
aldoraine1986
Flat Earthers. All. Around. The. World.
parker52
I think flat earthers are literally all just trolls
BeaglesLoveBlueberries
That's what I suspect as well
orbitn
the earth isn't round or flat.
Tylendal
I refuse to believe that flat earthers are serious. The alternative is a level of stupidity that I don't want to acknowledge as existing.
Radandie94
My contention: if it came out tomorrow that the earth is actually flat I would not give 2 fucks what's the difference? Still gotta live
MostlyHereForTheStarCraft
I don't believe in flat-earthers
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
Or do they not believe in other planets?
apolloniusthegreat
I wonder how many flat earthers are anti-vaxxers as well.
brwyatt
The middle of that venn diagram is probably very close to a circle...
NotThatOneTheOtherOne
What do they think happens when you fly from California to Japan? Or Australia? Have they heard of Magellan? Who wipes their ass for them?
icanhearjimi
It's like Pac Man. You just show up on the other side.
alwaysL8
IM NOT ONE. They think the arctic is the centre and antarctic is the outside of the circle, so "circumnavigating" is still possible.
psheen13
They think the map is like a disc with the north pole at the center. It still doesn't make sense but neither does a flat Earth.
Dramacian
"Most Flat Earthers think Astronauts have been bribed or coerced into their testimonies. Some believe they have been fooled or are mistaken"
NotFatJustCultivatingMass
Oh the irony.
PunJedi
I think it's that they don't believe any of the universe is real save for our flat-earth, holo-hidden, skies or some shit.
CaptainObviouslikesthemthicc
Spoken like true FlatEarther or some shit.
HapilyDamaged
yep they don't believe in other planets as far as I know
corsettedconfectioner
I have a question ... if I dig down deep enough will I go through it? Where will I go?
SirRulean
You will see Great A'tuin
brwyatt
Well... first you'll hit bedrock... and if you get past that (usually by cheating), you'll just fall into the void.
LebaneseNinja
Your shovel will melt.
whatWolf
that's why you bring two shovels
SalamanderCmndr
And put the second in the fridge for a while
Chrsstffr
I joined a flat-earth group on FB just for laughs and after a while you can't tell the trolls from the believers They are all fully insane
DeckMyHalls
That sounds both hilarious and then scary
ReekDidNothingWrong
I love the number of conceptually complicated bs arguments that only trolls could make.
MukieK
How does it look from space?
bingbongbingbong
My boss is an extreme flat earther. We have had many discussions and they do not believe space/planets exist. I'll do an AMA if you want.
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bingbongbingbong
There is definitely religious beliefs behind it, but some of the questions he has are down the rabbit hole kind of shit.
stormegedendarklordofall
OzzyKnight
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GrandmaSlappy
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SomeoneUnusual
Please do
Somanyquestions
What is the Sun according to him?
rantingphotos
They think the sun and the moon are 2,000 miles apart (can't remember the exact # but close) from each other with same distance from Earth.
bingbongbingbong
A light that just circles the earth above us. Like if you were to tie a flash light to your ceiling fan and turn it on low.
IsmokedAweedOnce
Its turtles all the way down bro
SpacemanSpiff124
Sturgill is awesome
Belshoh
That's actually a very good song. https://youtu.be/6gBV-Nzq7Pg
ClockworkRepairDroid
Lionskull
nah man, skybox.
ArthurTaft
Turtles and elephants.
LajesticVantrashellOfLob
i personally believe the lights from other planets are the reflections of the sun off of the carapaces of other turtles.
BiscuitJesus
I'd read this sci-fi book
Smayds
Swamp gas, light of Venus, weather balloon?
IsmokedAweedOnce
And I believed my dad would come back....
imadeulook
Ask them to explain how the moon and sun work on a flat surface
Pugabyte
http://wiki.tfes.org/File:SunAnimation.gif from their wiki. I've never facepalmed harder
alwaysL8
They think the sun works like a spot light, so it only shines into one area at a time. nevergofullretard.gif
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
But if you're standing beside a spotlight, in the dark, you can *see* the light from the spotlight coming down in a cone shape. How can /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
anyone possibly believe this? /2
alwaysL8
I totally agree. It's stupid, but that's what they say.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Wow.
wizardboy24
You're asking a group of people to agree with physics that also easily verify the spherical-ness of the earth.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yeah, but for the spotlight thing you can just SEE it. You don't have to understand any of the physics behind it. Just look at a spotlight.
ThisIsANewName
They don't believe there are other planets as far as I can tell.
kraqbud
Some think that the other planets/the moon are round and that just the earth is flat
strugglesnuggler
To be fair, the only reason I know the earth is round is because that's what school taught me. I've not tried walking it to double check.
BeerNinjaEsq
You can tell the earth is round with your eyes/ telescope because you can see the horizon
strugglesnuggler
According to this this theorist the horizon would largely look the same. Sky might look weird though.
strugglesnuggler
Wait... source is more than 150 characters.
strugglesnuggler
http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/08/ about 5 questions down.
Chroven
But you can see them? Like really easily with a basic telescope
seentoomuchdeath
They paint them on the sky ceiling.
Nandabun
It's fake. Duh.
statelessnfaithless
There's also a worryingly popular conspiracy theory that the MOON does not exist. No, really. Our species is doomed :/
Bricklemeyer
Well if the Earth was flat the moon would have to not exist. You can see the moon is round (and the sun too for that matter), so why would
Bricklemeyer
other celestial bodies be round but not the Earth?
Somanyquestions
What about the Sun? The Moon?
ThisIsANewName
Those are different. There's the Earth, sun and moon and a dome of stars over the top of all that. Or are you asking whether those are flat?
Djehuty
Some assume the moon is a hologram. As for the sun, well... at that point I stopped listening to be honest.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yeah, do they think the sun and moon are flat too? And all the other stars? Or are those allowed to be round?
spoileddentist
Maybe they think all of that is in 2D? So it's flat ????
ThisIsANewName
I don't have an answer to that, I didn't think to ask.
DanglyDongle
Know two. They believe there is a dome over the earth projecting the stars. The edges are at the poles which is why no one goes there.
RecurringNightmare
nope, the south pole is the edge, north pole is the center of the disk
FriedMonkE92
But their really is a dome stretching from the poles. It's the Earth's magnetic field.
utts
ok so poles, with governament defense and walls (yea they belive in it) are top and bottom, but what about going left and right?
TerraDactyl89
I believe the official opinion on that is
laestrella
I wondered this too. Wtf is wrong with people
Zimno
Other planets are basically "painted" on the backdrop of the earths "ceiling" or something along those lines.
ThisIsANewName
"If it does not fit my understanding of things, it must be fake." It's a worldview not unique to flat-earthers.
LadyWidebottom
Sounds like most conspiracy theorists.
ThisIsANewName
More prevalent than that even. One example: Hugh Everett, the first proposer of the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics, is said
ThisIsANewName
to have been treated so poorly by Bohr when he shared his proposal that he gave up on quantum mechanics. Bohr having rejected Everett's
SquidCuddles
BaconOnARock
Oh really? THAT'S where they cross the line?
SquidCuddles
Of course! I can get on board with a turtle taking us around... but no other turtles exist? That is bananas
ThisIsANewName
I asked someone, who claimed the stars were a fixed dome, about the planets, which move at a different speed than the apparent dome of stars
rIOsK
And how they explain parallax?
ThisIsANewName
When shown pictures, he claimed they were fake. When told how to observe them moving on his own, he asked why I couldnt show "real" pictures
SaffronTeabagPierogi
I refer to this kind of circular reasoning as, "a feedback loop of stupidity."