[Misc] Do you believe the Earth is flat?

[looney]

NASA patrols the ice
wall.
Australia is a hoax.
The flat earth accelerates upwards giving the effect of gravity,
Round earth pictures are CGI or fish eye lens.

This stuffs real clever.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

NASA patrols the ice
wall.
Australia is a hoax.
The flat earth accelerates upwards giving the effect of gravity,
Round earth pictures are CGI or fish eye lens.

This stuffs real clever.

Apparently Neil Armstrong was not an astronaut, he was a brilliant actor.
If anyone can find last weeks Jeremy Vine when this was discussed it really was very entertaining.

 

[Megazone]

Apparently Neil Armstrong was not an astronaut, he was a brilliant actor.
If anyone can find last weeks Jeremy Vine when this was discussed it really was very entertaining.

What are their beliefs on gravity and do they believe all the other planets are flat too?

 

[looney]

Apparently Neil Armstrong was not an astronaut, he was a brilliant actor.
If anyone can find last weeks Jeremy Vine when this was discussed it really was very entertaining.

 

[looney]

What are their beliefs on gravity and do they believe all the other planets are flat too?

Here you go Globetard...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAdduUyXcAAb7rz.jpg

 

[Megazone]

Here you go Globetard...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAdduUyXcAAb7rz.jpg

So they don't believe in Gravity?

Do they believe the other planets are flat as well?

and what on earth is a Globetard? I thought flat earth's didn't believe the planet was a globe so I'm assuming Globetard is in reference to people who believe/know the world isn't flat?

Either way, what's with the unnecessary insults?. You're a massive tinfoil hatter yourself so why are you laying into fellow loony boons? A very cowardly way of redeeming yourself from your awful reputation on here. Joining in with the mobbing when it's you who usually gets mobbed just shows how weak you really are.

My thoughts go out to you.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's what I call the "democracy of opinion" and it's what the internet has given us.

It is mostly positive. You think are alone in the world with your problems etc.. but have found hundreds more people who have empathy. That's great.

The downside is that you can now believe in any old horseshit and you WILL find someone who will agree.

That's why a few completely handstand nut-jobs on here keep going. They swallow the criticism and simply log onto another forum to chitty chat with the loony friends.

 

[looney]

So they don't believe in Gravity?

Do they believe the other planets are flat as well?

and what on earth is a Globetard? I thought flat earth's didn't believe the planet was a globe so I'm assuming Globetard is in reference to people who believe/know the world isn't flat?

Either way, what's with the unnecessary insults?. You're a massive tinfoil hatter yourself so why are you laying into fellow loony boons? A very cowardly way of redeeming yourself from your awful reputation on here. Joining in with the mobbing when it's you who usually gets mobbed just shows how weak you really are.

My thoughts go out to you.

I was being sarcastic, wasn't trying to be rude. But I can be rude without trying apparently.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But do they really believe that the world is flat, because it just isn't with 100% undeniable proof that it isn't.
So that makes me wonder why people say that it is and what is wrong with them.
There are some theories that have not been proven which people believe and that is fair enough, but they must really know that the world is not flat so why say that it is, what is going on in their swede.
I worry for these people and in a way they frighten me because some people are totally sucked in when told a total load of crap, not only believing it but giving the most insane reasons.
But I also agree with others that apart from making themselves look total fruit cakes, they are doing no harm.

The same is said about people with religion. I disagree. Once you accept it as OK to structure your life around demonstrable but 'benign' falsehood, it makes it legitimate to give credence to anything. If homeopathy and catholicism are OK, why not witchcraft? Who is to say what is benign? For me the line is promotion. There are jehova witnsses permanently stationed outside the hospital where I work, pedalling lies to the vulnerable. Just so they can book a seat on the spaceship to heaven. They don't work. Yet they are sponging off me via social security. Bottom line, flat earthers can believe what they want, but not to justify not working, scrounging off the dole, and pedalling their lies unchalleneged to the foolish and gullable.

 

[Simster]

Your arguments are all over the place. No-one has said that flat earthers are a threat to humanity, no-one is saying that they are to be mocked exclusively, no-one is scapegoating them for anything (do you understand the meaning of the word scapegoat because it looks very likely that you don't?), no-one is preventing you from holding simultaneous views on flat-earthers and nuclear weapons and frankly it's a bizarre comparison to make. It's yet another straw man argument.

As regards that 2nd para of yours, nuclear proliferation has been mocked for decades. There's also a huge contradiction there. You need to make your mind up... would a nuclear war wipe out humanity or would it pave the way for a bunch of nutcase psychopaths to rule the world? And how exactly would a nuclear war give power to nutcase psychopaths that they didn't already possess?

There's also the question of why you think that the way to oppose something you regard as extremely dangerous should be the same approach as something you consider ridiculous but benign.

Yours

Confused of Brighton.

I ruddy love Buzzer when he's in the mood to destroy a known tiresome NSC tin foil hatter.

 

[Simster]

I was being sarcastic, wasn't trying to be rude. But I can be rude without trying apparently.

Whatever you are, you're splendid entertainment on here loonster, so please don't go anywhere. x

At the moment I'm particularly enjoying your constant calling out of THPP on the Naps thread despite him being in the top 2 or 3 for the past two seasons and you being absolutely shithouse at napping. [emoji38]

 

[BadFish]

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round. They could predict solar eclipses and everything.

Every eclipse casts a round shadow, every time.

Because the world is a globe.

 

[BadFish]

I was surprised to learn on the Fred, Sav and the Ping Pong Guy podcast that Freddie Flintoff is a flat-earther. And no, he didn’t seem to be on a wind-up either. His question was this. If he stood at the “top” of the world and drilled a hole all the way through the planet and out of the other side, then climbed down into the hole on a ladder aaalll the way through to the other side (ignoring the fact you’d be incinerated by molten lava well before you got anywhere near the core), then what way round would you emerge through the hole at the other end – feet first, or head first ? At what point do you stop climbing down, and start climbing up ?

Hang on. I’ve confused myself now.

In the middle.

 

[BadFish]

They must have a list of all the possible questions so that they can reply with a stupid answer, if you asked a flat earther that question they would probably all give the same reply.
I wonder what they think when they see pictures from the space station, something readily available.

I read the other day that some of them don't believe Australia exists.

Which is probably why you can't ready this post.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Every eclipse casts a round shadow, every time.

Because the world is a globe.

Exactly.

 

[pearl]

Where's the 'How the bug-gery bollux should I know' option?

 

[nicko31]

In the Trump era of alternative facts anything goes

 

[beardy gull]

As well as Freddie Flintoff another 'famous' flat-earther is David 'Avocado' Wolfe (one of the developers of the Nutri-bullet, you may have seen him on the infomercials.)
Amongst his other believes are gravity is a hoax, solar power is not a renewable energy source, solar panels are draining the sun you see. And obviously vaccines cause autism. Oh and mushrooms are intelligent aren't from earth and are trying to levitate to the sun. Of course. Mad as a bike.

 

[father_and_son]

Seriously though, why don't they zoom in from the ISS and show us planes flying upside down? I want to see that.

You can't.... flat or not.

There is an experiment you can do with small children to gauge when they first develop an understanding of *relative* position. You have a diorama of a landscape with various landmarks. You stand child at one side and place teddy bear/doll/action man somewhere else around the outside. Then ask the child to describe what teddy/dolly/action man can see.

Until they grasp the concept of *relative* position, they will always describe teddy's view in terms of what they themselves see, so the water is in front of the house which is in front of the mountain, or whatever.
Once their brains have developed enough, they will be able to mentally move the picture they see with their eyes to reflect a different perspective and be able to describe the layout as if they were in a different position, so the water is next to the house which is next to the mountains.

This is a key milestone in our mental development and one that the flat-earth guy (who said this) still hasn't reached.

These people are not presenting an 'alternative' point of view based on evidence, they are highlighting they have a degree of mental retardation and should not humoured, but be helped as we would anyone else who had failed to develop a basic mental function.


All that said... comprehending Space in something other than simple, Cartesian 3-dimensions is required [or at least helpful] to explain many observed aspects of the universe... black holes, the big bang and expansion theory, so perhaps the simplistic view of Earth being a sphere is as incorrect as Earth being a disc and that (some of) these guys are on to something, just lack the language to discuss it coherently because the rest of us have failed to develop mentally to see things from Teddy's non-Cartesian perspective the way they have!

 

[LlcoolJ]

https://youtu.be/OXypyrutq_M