Flat Earthers

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:50 am

Do we have any Flat Earthers here?

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:53 am

Yeah me.

Why?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:56 am

Figures

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:00 am

Prove its not then

A copy and paste won't do as it needs to be your own opinion, not someone else's...

I'm waiting!

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:14 am

starting_11 wrote:Prove its not then

A copy and paste won't do as it needs to be your own opinion, not someone else's...

I'm waiting!

I could try and use science to explain it, but you wouldn't understand if you already believe that the earth is flat

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:16 am

No argument either way, everyone knows the Earth is a Mobius Strip. One surface with one side and one boundary but walk in any direction and eventually you will end up where you started.

Braindead · Post by **Braindead** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:16 am

Flat earth ? Just lol

So all the photos/videos/images sent from space-stations/satellites etc are fake then?

It's all just one big conspiracy?

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:19 am

Still waiting.

Get typing

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:22 am

UpTheBeehole wrote:Do we have any Flat Earthers here?

Mentally we certainly have plenty of flatliners

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:23 am

It's up to you to prove it is flat starting_11.

The accepted wisdom from the finest minds on earth over the last thousand years or so suggests it's round.

Pictures of the Earth from Space being the major one.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:30 am

Photoshop

Braindead · Post by **Braindead** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:31 am

I would love to hear a flatearther prove that the word ISN'T round.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:35 am

It's not spherical.

Socrates · Post by **Socrates** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:35 am

I saw a great idea on Twitter the other day.

A TV show with flat earthers racing each other to find the edge with a $10 billion for the first to find it.

Braindead · Post by **Braindead** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:38 am

starting_11 wrote:It's not spherical.

Prove it

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:38 am

starting_11 wrote:Prove its not then

A copy and paste won't do as it needs to be your own opinion, not someone else's...

I'm waiting!

The earth's shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse is always round. If the earth was flat then sometimes the shadow would just be a straight strip down the middle of the moon.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:39 am

The moon is fake.

Next!

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:43 am

"If the Earth was flat then cats would have pushed everything off." - Someone.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:48 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:"If the Earth was flat then cats would have pushed everything off." - Someone.

Now that I like. Our bloody cat is the clumsiest animal alive and the floor is regularly littered with photo frames, fruit bowls, ornaments and plants. She's a thief too.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:51 am

Interesting...

: flat earth society all around the globe.jpg (21.91 KiB) Viewed 4186 times

and the eclipse issue...

: earth is flat - eclipse.jpg (10.26 KiB) Viewed 4186 times

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:54 am

Questions: if the earth is flat how do we keep the sea in? And what happens to the contestants in the round the world yacht race? Why has a plane never disappeared off the edge, or a ship. What exactly does a manned spacecraft orbit? Why does it even have to be flat? Is it because FEBs don't believe in gravity?

I could go on but I'm fed up of throwing doubt on a ridiculous theory.

RammyClaret61 · Post by **RammyClaret61** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:54 am

If the earth is flat, why is it dark outside my house now in Australia, and daylight in the UK? Light travels in straight lines, and I should be able to see the sun 24/7. Or is that fake as well?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:57 am

RammyClaret61 wrote:If the earth is flat, why is it dark outside my house now in Australia, and daylight in the UK? Light travels in straight lines, and I should be able to see the sun 24/7. Or is that fake as well?

Illustrated simply with this.

Tall Paul · Post by **Tall Paul** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:04 am

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:13 am

Tall Paul wrote:

6 months light in the summer and 6 months darkness in the winter and vice versa for the north and south poles (actually proven by people, real people, visiting there) - this model doesn't show that, it shows a daily change in light and dark for each pole.

Explain...?

RammyClaret61 · Post by **RammyClaret61** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:15 am

Where’s Antarctica?

And how would you ever have an eclipse with that?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:16 am

He's not presenting it to support his belief, quite clearly.

It's a p*sstake model created to show up the flat earthers' theory

ClaretinMyBlood · Post by **ClaretinMyBlood** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:18 am

UpTheBeehole wrote:Illustrated simply with this.

Are you suggesting the earth is lit by an IKEA lamp?

That's a worse theory than the flat earthers

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:19 am

ClaretinMyBlood wrote:Are you suggesting the earth is lit by an IKEA lamp?

That's a worse theory than the flat earthers

I'm not presenting it to support the flat earth case, quite clearly.

It's a p*sstake model created to show up the flat earthers' theory

RammyClaret61 · Post by **RammyClaret61** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:20 am

Anyway, it’s my bedtime in the Southern Hemisphere!! Enjoy your day, and don’t fall off the edge. Night!! UTC.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:57 am

A good thread to show that well over 99% of the human race isn't particularly good at original thought.

We're all just mapping, really.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:03 pm

Rowls wrote:A good thread to show that well over 99% of the human race isn't particularly good at original thought.

We're all just mapping, really.

your stats dont add up Rowls, there's only been 30 or so replies which indicates that if 1 person is capable and has demonstrated it then the statement should be "approx 97% of the human race isn't particularly good at original thought"... unless you mean 100% of the human race isn't particularly good at original thought which is well over 99%, by all of 1%...

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:15 pm

What's Earth? And are we not all in a computer simulation anyway?

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:25 pm

Gerardus Mercators cylindrical projection in 1569 was the first map to be laid out on a
flat piece of paper. This was seized on by the flat earthers of the time
as proof the Earth was flat, but it was basically to help mariners navigate.
(Mercators map is the one many of us used at school...the one on the rubber roller
you inked and rolled in your exercise book.)

He was almost executed as a heretic and traitor a few times, but his map persists as the norm today,
despite more modern projections like Robinson and Gall-Peters, but both of these distort the polar regions.

Mercator is also thought to have first used the term "atlas" for a book of maps.

Having said that, i much prefer the idea of the world being supported on the back
of a giant turtle.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:26 pm

ClaretinMyBlood wrote:Are you suggesting the earth is lit by an IKEA lamp?

That's a worse theory than the flat earthers

Wonder who built the lamp..

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:32 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:What's Earth? And are we not all in a computer simulation anyway?

The "Earth" is the simulated mainframe's desktop area. It's a handy storage area for us data files.

There's also at least two other mainframes running meta-simulations. Nobody knows which one we're in. Oddly enough these mega-computers are all flat.

Rick_Muller · Post by **Rick_Muller** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:38 pm

ElectroClaret wrote: i much prefer the idea of the world being supported on the back
of a giant turtle.

Is that Turtle Imploding...?

Falcon · Post by **Falcon** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:01 pm

It's turtles all the way down

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:02 pm

Can't we just flush the turtle away?
Or will he grow in to a Mutant Ninja turtle?

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:37 pm

Can a flat earther try and explain the Coriolis Effect?

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:42 pm

I've got all their albums

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:53 pm

The earth isn't round.

It's an oblate spheroid

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:11 pm

If I fall off the flat earth where will I end up?

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:19 pm

Flat AND round, bit like a CD.
(That's compact disc not cross-dresser.)

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:22 pm

starting_11 wrote:Photoshop

So what were they before Photoshop was designed?

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:55 pm

box_of_frogs wrote:Can a flat earther try and explain the Coriolis Effect?

Oh dear, you haven't fallen for that one as well have you?

BabylonClaret · Post by **BabylonClaret** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:25 pm

There's masses of evidence for a spherical earth and none that demonstrates it is flat. Thw flat eaeth theory is simply lots of theories and crap to try and argue against the hige body of evidwnce that it is round.

Everyone can use their own eyes - climb a hill and see further than the horizon on the level; go up in a plane and you cam actually see the curve.

The biggest issue with a flat earth theory thoigh (as with all "conspiracy " theories) is what's the point. Why fake loads of evidence to show rhe world is round when for all of us it doesnt matter whether the earth is roind or flat.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:32 pm

I think all the flat earthers are at Wembley tonight.

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:57 pm

gawthorpe_view wrote:Oh dear, you haven't fallen for that one as well have you?

The water swirling round the plug hole has me convinced!

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:02 pm

If the earth was round. Then explain how Tarkowski can zip the ball across the wembley turf tonight!