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Flat earthers

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Thought I'd share this flatard video compilation. So far my favorite is the young girl.

Out of all of the incredible things I've heard issued from the mouths of the irrational this is and I think will remain for me the most incredible. I'm having a bit of fun with a flatard i found by accident on YouTube. https://youtu.be/vKAiJT_BdTU
 
Great topic. I tried a search last night on the site to see if there was a thread about it. Because in this day and age to have flat-earthers is just incredible.

The basic idea is that the world is a flat disk. They think the disk is rimmed by the antarctic ice sheet. Nobody has ever flown past the edge because the governments won't let you.

It is an optical illusion that the body of a ship disappears on the horizon first as it heads out to sea, and the mast appears first when returning.

The conspiracy theory aspect of it is mind-boggling. All the pictures of the earth from outer space: fake. Moon landings: fake. You need all these governments coordinating the misinformation campaign about the earth being round.

My introduction to this was a radio host interviewing a warehouse laborer who had made it central to his identity. He really invested a lot of time in it and had an answer for everything. Obviously doesn't fly much at the poles. It's actually good hazard pay for pilots freighting for research outfits, expeditions, etc. Especially considering you need tail gunners to keep the government's planes from shooting you down, lol.
 
I kid you not, I watched a flat earther arguing it out with a hollow earther on a friend's Facebook post the other day. It was hilarious, and bizarre. Each thought the other was a nut job.
 
foophil said:
I kid you not, I watched a flat earther arguing it out with a hollow earther on a friend's Facebook post the other day. It was hilarious, and bizarre. Each thought the other was a nut job.
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I think you've top the incredible flat earth with the even more incredible hollow earth.
Gotta link to that?
 
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That poor girl makes me sad. Unless she's having us on, hard to tell.
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This is a real good question. Are they (some of them, anyway) having us on? Gaming us? Are the "leaders" like Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard knowingly pursuing a con game for fun and profit, picking up low-lying intellectual fruit?

She was good, yes. But the stoner - that was great! So forlorn about his family not listening to him.
 
I do wonder if, for some of them at least, it's a kind of performance art.

As far as the true believers are concerned I've always suspected that the root cause of this sort of delusion is sheer arrogance. Their common sense tells them the earth is flat, so it must be true because they couldn't possibly be wrong about something that seems so obvious. See also physics crackpots, and the intelligent design crowd.
 
I am absolutely convinced that there are people out there who truly believe that the earth is not a globe.

Just as I am absolutely convinced that there are people out there for whom the idea of a non-globe earth is an interesting intellectual exercise, and that there are people out there for whom it's all just a great big joke.
 
I started with the video in the OP then watched a few more.

I honestly think I'm starting to like these people. They have the kind of suspicious nature which warms my heart. Trust no one.

Is that $20 bill in your wallet real? Doubtful.
 
Is it possible to model the Earth as some kind of weird unbounded flat surface, with the planet's core as 'down' and the rest of the universe as 'up'?

It's doesn't sound practical, but I don't know enough about mathematics and physics to judge if we'd run into any strange problems in such a model. (Well, obviously seeing the Earth as a spheroid once we fly up into space is going to be weird)
 
Years ago, I thought all the flat-earthers were just having everybody on. Enjoying coming up with their ad-hoc arguments to counter all the evidence.
Since most people are not really all that knowledgable, it's easy to come up with stuff that the average person can't easily refute.
But now...It certainly seems some of these folks are serious. Maybe all part of the anti-science, anti-intellectual movement.
 
I'm wondering out loud here, but, if the Earth is flat, with a ring of ice on the edge, what's on the other side? Is there a whole other world down there, or is it just jagged rocks and dirt like some kind of Roger Dean* painting?









*Roger Dean, best known for his YES album cover art.
 
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Mike! said:
I'm wondering out loud here, but, if the Earth is flat, with a ring of ice on the edge, what's on the other side? Is there a whole other world down there, or is it just jagged rocks and dirt like some kind of Roger Dean* painting?
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We don't know/haven't been told.
 
Not sure where I saw it, perhaps YouTube, but I saw a flatter explaining it in the context of some biblical text about the firmament, etc. A religious basis would explain the denial of evidence thing. A flat earth is more friendly to the idea of heaven and hell.
 
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