Mega Thread The Flat Earth Mega thread.

[Sublime]

I really don't get how this is even still a thing. I get how people can believe in whatever religion or spirits or even parallel universes bit this is just ******ed. Nek minnit someone will be claiming we are flying around on the back of elephants standing on a giant turtle

You were close!

 

[Cmarsh]

 

[ash_1050]

I've still yet to find out what proving the earth is flat would achieve? Asides from the heightened sense of superiority which Conspiracy Theorists seem to have in spades anyway.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I've still yet to find out what proving the earth is flat would achieve? Asides from the heightened sense of superiority which Conspiracy Theorists seem to have in spades anyway.

What would it achieve? Why does it need to achieve anything..?

 

[Thrawn]

His facial expressions are hilarious! Find it really impressive he keeps his cool, though.

 

[kickazz]

I'd be interested to hear who they think has fallen of the edge of the world in the past.

Chuck Cunningham

 

[I Rock]

The complex type scenario here is that it is quite probably that the Earth (like all Planets) is indeed both “round” and “flat” depending at what speed you are travelling through the Universe.

However; in the parameters in which our reality is, besides all the science behind each theory. IMO, the conspiracy is just too big to control and to what end? To hide what’s on the other side…….

For that alone, for me the Earth is round even before we break out the graphs etc.

 

[Present Not Past]

Why would the Earth be flat when you can easily peer into a telescope yourself and see that the Moon is actually spherical?

 

[Duritz]

Why would the Earth be flat when you can easily peer into a telescope yourself and see that the Moon is actually spherical?

Exactly. Said same earlier ITT. In fact you don't even need a telescope. On a clear night you can see it with your own eyes.

 

[Present Not Past]

Obviously the only real purpose it serves is to weed out the morons who do not actually look at verifiable facts. A little like the "no-planes on 9/11" disinformation. Nonetheless, it seems to work to provide mass-ridicule of anyone who dares to question things.

I know a little POGMA who would be devastated to read this

 

[Wallaby]

Exactly. Said same earlier ITT. In fact you don't even need a telescope. On a clear night you can see it with your own eyes.

No - you can't see it's a sphere. It could be a flat disk, like a plate.

 

[Duritz]

No - you can't see it's a sphere. It could be a flat disk, like a plate.

No, you can see a sphere. When it's less than a half moon you can see the shape.

 

[katana]

No, you can see a sphere. When it's less than a half moon you can see the shape.

uh no, you can see a sliver of light, a small sliver of shading next to the light and if you look carefully, you can still see the remainder of the moon in dark shading. you're just looking up and seeing what you're told to see.

note that also the ball moon supposed turns exactly at the speed of the earth relative to its size, so we conveniently never see any other aspect of the moon's surface. also that the moon and the sun appear the same size because one is conveniently an equal distance closer than the other one is larger in size.

 

[ioppolo]

y is this a thing tho

 

[katana]

I've still yet to find out what proving the earth is flat would achieve? Asides from the heightened sense of superiority which Conspiracy Theorists seem to have in spades anyway.

questioning the nature of the very earth you stand on is unimportant?

 

[Duritz]

uh no, you can see a sliver of light, a small sliver of shading next to the light and if you look carefully, you can still see the remainder of the moon in dark shading. you're just looking up and seeing what you're told to see.

note that also the ball moon supposed turns exactly at the speed of the earth relative to its size, so we conveniently never see any other aspect of the moon's surface. also that the moon and the sun appear the same size because one is conveniently an equal distance closer than the other one is larger in size.

1. No, I can see the curve of the moon. Perhaps it's because I don't live in the city and the sky is much more clear here, but just recently on a clear night with a quarter moon I looked up and observed the curve of the moon.

2. Yes it orbits earth with the same side always facing us. This is not uncommon in the universe btw, perhaps you should read more.

3. Sure the earth sun fits conveniently behind the moon right now, but that wasn't always the case and won't always be. The distance between the moon and the earth is gradually changing, the moon is slowly slipping out of our orbit. It used to be closer and would more than block the sun, we happen to live in a time when the difference is pretty snug. In time it will no longer block it out entirely.

I feel bad for mentioning these things because if you'd done any research at all you'd have known that. Sorry for embarrassing you like that.

 

[katana]

not uncommon in the universe hahah. good lord... the space propaganda is a brutal machine

 

[Duritz]

not uncommon in the universe hahah. good lord... the space propaganda is a brutal machine

Yes, it's the "propaganda"... I feel sorry for the likes of you. This a marvellous time to be alive. The Hubble telescope is changing everything we know, and yet here you are arguing the world is flat. You're missing the boat here.

 

[katana]

I've never said the world is flat. i just said the moon doesn't look spherical to the naked eye.

 

[Duritz]

I've never said the world is flat. i just said the moon doesn't look spherical to the naked eye.

And I'm saying it does if you see it in a very clear sky and have 20-20 vision

 

[katana]

and I'm saying it doesn't if you see it on a clear night and have better than 20-20 vision

 

[Duritz]

and I'm saying it doesn't if you see it on a clear night and have better than 20-20 vision

Your location is Northcote. Your ideas on what a "clear night" is involve smoke from the meth lab down the road being only 50%. Invalid.

 

[Duritz]

uh no, you can see a sliver of light, a small sliver of shading next to the light and if you look carefully, you can still see the remainder of the moon in dark shading. you're just looking up and seeing what you're told to see.

note that also the ball moon supposed turns exactly at the speed of the earth relative to its size, so we conveniently never see any other aspect of the moon's surface. also that the moon and the sun appear the same size because one is conveniently an equal distance closer than the other one is larger in size.

Further, on the bolded, did you know that on current theory the moon was once 15 x larger in the sky, not long after forming, than it is now? That's not so convenient, is it...

 

[katana]

15 x times larger haha do where do they claim this?

also I camped on cradle mountain in Tassie a few months back, saw some epic celestial bodies.

 

[Duritz]

15 x times larger haha do where do they claim this?

also I camped on cradle mountain in Tassie a few months back, saw some epic celestial bodies.

Saw it on a doco where they discussed the impact theory of the moon's creation.

I suppose you reckon it's a spaceship though right?