Mega Thread The Flat Earth Mega thread.

[Duritz]

Yep. It's a huge conspiracy. In fact I think everyone in the world must be in on it.

 

[kane249]

I'm so deeply involved with it that I can't even tell myself that I'm a part of it.

 

[BrewSmackerVeiny]

I'm so deeply involved with it that I can't even tell myself that I'm a part of it.

 

[Shane Hird]

Not flat.

 

[Always Ballin]

Or this one -

Window distortion

Same way the earth looks round from your window seat on an airplane barely in altitude after takeoff

Here's a weather balloon footage from 121,000 feet. Just a normal lens, no fish eye or distortion.

 

[Duritz]

Window distortion

Same way the earth looks round from your window seat on an airplane barely in altitude after takeoff

Here's a weather balloon footage from 121,000 feet. Just a normal lens, no fish eye or distortion.

Clearly a flat-eye lens.

 

[Always Ballin]

Clearly a flat-eye lens.

Good joke. Now I don't believe one thing either way. So I can look at this topic from a better perspective than say you or a "Flat earther". I simply look at evidence, and provide unbiased explanation. The man who mocks the flat earther takes just as much a leap of faith as the flat earther himself.

Call me a centrist if you must. I sit in the umpires seat, watching the balls bounce across the net. You are just the same as the man across the net. 2 sides of the coin. I however.... Am above that. Connected to something more... rational.

Anyways, back to the specific post. I proved your piece of evidence wrong, and have multiple pieces of weather balloon footage to support this.

Now before you go on an anti-conspiracy jerkoff (To which you get the same ego fluff/ intellectual righteousness and superiority that the flat earther does... More or less), please understand that I am neither saying the Earth is flat or round with this post. Simply calling the bullshit on your posted "evidence".

- The Rational One

 

[CJApples87]

Someone doesn't believe that the Earth is round calling themselves 'The Rational One'.

I love this thread... Though it does paint humanity in a bad light sometimes.


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[Duritz]

Good joke. Now I don't believe one thing either way. So I can look at this topic from a better perspective than say you or a "Flat earther". I simply look at evidence, and provide unbiased explanation. The man who mocks the flat earther takes just as much a leap of faith as the flat earther himself.

Call me a centrist if you must. I sit in the umpires seat, watching the balls bounce across the net. You are just the same as the man across the net. 2 sides of the coin. I however.... Am above that. Connected to something more... rational.

Anyways, back to the specific post. I proved your piece of evidence wrong, and have multiple pieces of weather balloon footage to support this.

Now before you go on an anti-conspiracy jerkoff (To which you get the same ego fluff/ intellectual righteousness and superiority that the flat earther does... More or less), please understand that I am neither saying the Earth is flat or round with this post. Simply calling the bullshit on your posted "evidence".

- The Rational One

Lol. I'm sorry but the way you wrote your post I just had to read it in a Captain Kirk voice... "I however... am above that. Connected to something more... Rational."

Lol.

Anyway on point I understand your philosophy and agree with it when it comes to theology - to blindly agree or disagree is as bad as the other in theology. But that theory doesn't apply to everything. If we stand on the edge of the ocean and look at the ocean, and I say "that is the ocean", and you say "I choose to believe nor disbelieve", then you're just insane. It's the ocean. It's right there in front of us.

I run into the ocean, getting wet and splashing you with water.

"It's the ocean!" I say. "Taste the salt water, feel the sun, they're beautiful!"

"I am... Above that." You say in reply.

So I grab you and drag you into the ocean. I hold your head under until you cannot breathe any more then I let you up. You're coughing and spluttering and desperate, but thanks to your years of philosophising rather than doing something useful your muscles are weak and flaccid so your blows fall without impact on my ripped frame.

"You arseh*le!" You yell. "You nearly drowned me!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" I laugh, my chest heaving with muscular joy. "But how can you drown if there is no ocean?"

My point is this: your philosophical stance is valid, ie your self congratulatory tennis analogy wankfest is valid, but not in every circumstance.

 

[Always Ballin]

Someone doesn't believe that the Earth is round calling themselves 'The Rational One'.

I love this thread... Though it does paint humanity in a bad light sometimes.


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What makes me irrational? Please explain. I am failing to see your reasoning here?

Explain to me how you know the Earth is a perfect sphere. This will be funny. I think you might realize you are the irrational one here, my friend.

 

[Duritz]

What makes me irrational? Please explain. I am failing to see your reasoning here?

Explain to me how you know the Earth is a perfect sphere. This will be funny. I think you might realize you are the irrational one here, my friend.

Who said it was a perfect sphere? Strange comment, that's like asking "explain why you think it's a triangle!"

This Fred is about whether it is flat, or vaguely round.

 

[Always Ballin]

Who said it was a perfect sphere? Strange comment, that's like asking "explain why you think it's a triangle!"

This Fred is about whether it is flat, or vaguely round.

So how do you guys know it's round?

And I'll throw one out for the flat earthers too.

How do you guys know it's flat?

 

[Duritz]

So how do you guys know it's round?

And I'll throw one out for the flat earthers too.

How do you guys know it's flat?

What about my previous post where I drowned you with my amazingness?

 

[Always Ballin]

Lol. I'm sorry but the way you wrote your post I just had to read it in a Captain Kirk voice... "I however... am above that. Connected to something more... Rational."

Lol.

Anyway on point I understand your philosophy and agree with it when it comes to theology - to blindly agree or disagree is as bad as the other in theology. But that theory doesn't apply to everything. If we stand on the edge of the ocean and look at the ocean, and I say "that is the ocean", and you say "I choose to believe nor disbelieve", then you're just insane. It's the ocean. It's right there in front of us.

I run into the ocean, getting wet and splashing you with water.

"It's the ocean!" I say. "Taste the salt water, feel the sun, they're beautiful!"

"I am... Above that." You say in reply.

So I grab you and drag you into the ocean. I hold your head under until you cannot breathe any more then I let you up. You're coughing and spluttering and desperate, but thanks to your years of philosophising rather than doing something useful your muscles are weak and flaccid so your blows fall without impact on my ripped frame.

"You arseh*le!" You yell. "You nearly drowned me!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" I laugh, my chest heaving with muscular joy. "But how can you drown if there is no ocean?"

My point is this: your philosophical stance is valid, ie your self congratulatory tennis analogy wankfest is valid, but not in every circumstance.

I am a philosophical god. I've written 3 e-books.

I'm loosely following this ocean example. I know what the ocean is, because I've experienced it myself. I have traveled across many lands. The Indian. The Pacific. The Atlantic. I have dived down deep in the murky depths of the outer reefs of Rottnest. I have surfed the goliath blue waves of Pipeline on the North shore. I have caught a great white off J-bay in South Africa. I have swum with deep sea monsters off the south coast of Australia. I have driven my jetski for hundreds of miles across open oceans. I have done it all. My experiences of the ocean are rich and lively. I know exactly what the ocean would be.

However, I cannot say the same for the geometry of the Earth, and humanities visit to the lunar moon.

If a squire tells I that the grass is greener on the otherside, should I take his word for it? How does he know? What do I know? What is there to know? Rational.

 

[Duritz]

Lol, nice.

 

[darth_timon]

So how do you guys know it's round?

And I'll throw one out for the flat earthers too.

How do you guys know it's flat?

A spherical earth explains things like the night/day cycle, tides far more within the realm of Occam's Razor than the flat earth arguments. The relationship between mass and density (and gravity) is a well-understood theory with plenty of evidence behind it.

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[Always Ballin]

A spherical earth explains things like the night/day cycle, tides far more within the realm of Occam's Razor than the flat earth arguments. The relationship between mass and density (and gravity) is a well-understood theory with plenty of evidence behind it.

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Because it is all mathematical equations based upon false presumptions. A flat earther has perfectly reasonable explanations for the things you just listed from what I've seen.

The globe model is actually extremely ridiculous once you break it down. It usually comes to a point wherein the answer is just... "gravity". Pretty crazy right, how a giant sphere can keep large bodies of water stuck to it... But it's gravity right? But we're revolving around the sun right? But the moon revolves around us right? Why doesn't the moon revolve around the sun? Everything spins just perfectly so we never see anything but the same side of the moon, irrelevant of wherever you are on Earth.

It seems gravity works like a wifi. It's an absolute force... Only some of the time.

And don't forget. I don't believe the earth is flat and I don't believe the earth is round.

 

[darth_timon]

Gravity and mass and density (and the relationship between them) make perfect sense. They are poo-pooed by people who are easily swayed by pseudo-scientific claims and terms, or those who buy into nonsensical conspiracy theories.

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[Always Ballin]

Gravity and mass and density (and the relationship between them) make perfect sense. They are poo-pooed by people who are easily swayed by pseudo-scientific claims and terms, or those who buy into nonsensical conspiracy theories.

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Gravity is an explanation for observations based on the assumption the earth is a sphere.

You are not winning me over here, globehead.

The rational one continues to watch the monkeys sling poo at eachother, from above. Laughing unceremoniously.

 

[CM86]

Lol.
AB you're one of the best trolls on bigfooty.

 

[darth_timon]

Gravity is an explanation for observations based on the assumption the earth is a sphere.

You are not winning me over here, globehead.

The rational one continues to watch the monkeys sling poo at eachother, from above. Laughing unceremoniously.

I can only hope your posts were in fact April Fools related and are therefore not to be taken seriously.

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[Duritz]

I'm going on a big aeroplane in two weeks to Dubai, then to Italy. I'll be sure to quiz the pilot on why he is flying in the wrong direction.

 

[Always Ballin]

I can only hope your posts were in fact April Fools related and are therefore not to be taken seriously.

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I suggest you go research up on Newton, Einstein, and their conglomerate of work. Total bush league science if you ask me.

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I'm going on a big aeroplane in two weeks to Dubai, then to Italy. I'll be sure to quiz the pilot on why he is flying in the wrong direction.

Make sure to quiz him on whether or not he has to pilot the plane at a slight downward angle to attribute for the curvature of the earth. His answer will probably be gravity. Because you know... it's like the force in Star Wars. Magic. Also makes you wonder. If Gravity keeps us in atmosphere and able to fly in a straight line above and across a sphere... Then why isn't air travel faster in the direction of the earths rotation? Why isn't it slower the opposite direction? But alas, you'll find no such difference either way.

Because gravity, like wifi... Only works when you have the password.

"Bro, what's your wifi?"

 

[Always Ballin]

 

[darth_timon]

At this point, I am certain this is an April Fools joke that has overstayed its welcome.

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