Why Do People Believe The Earth Is Flat?
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- čas přidán 24. 10. 2017
- Theories stating that the earth is flat and disk-like are easily debunked, no matter the amount of seemingly complex pseudoscience and smart sounding words they may use. I'm not debunking the flat earther movement, but instead asking why people believe in something that is so clearly false.
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My strategy for dealing with flat-earthers is to play "Conspiracy Hipster." They tell me the Earth is flat, and I go "Oh wow, you still believe in the earth?"
"You still believe in shapes? Wake up"
Somers
I know right? Damn Sheep!
The "Matrix" Approach? I like it.
Rad. I like it!
I love you, and I want to have your babies.
"The Flat Earth Society has members around the globe"
It's a double secret conspiracy.
or this one..."The global conspiracy to supress the fact of the flat earth."
You could easily be describing your own comment... I don't really know to whom you are referring, but I guess it doesn't really matter, does it?
I'm guessing Kio Pho is invoking some Reddit meme or something.
Kio Pho He quoted it so it’s not really all that bad
I love it how this video just starts with “why do people believe things in something so easily disproved?” Flat Earthers are going to throw a tantrum.
What's great about the Flat Earthers, is that they believe that high-resolution CGI, existed from the mid-1940's into more modern times.
Pfft have you seen the graphics on final fantasy 7 in the early 2000s ? Don't even know what your talking about
Well obviously the guberment has been hiding the technology only to reinvent it for the public later.
The majority is always wrong by design. Education is indoctrination. Marcus Aurelius said "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." The earth is very much flat and stationary. Heliocentric model, big bang, evolution, gravity, relativity theories are all lies designed to indoctrinate the masses.
@@awkwardlycast5801 The earth isn't flat mate. Turn around and walk back out of that rabbit hole before you make even more of an absolute dumbass of yourself.
@@GraemePryce1978 because it's even possible to make an ass out of oneself, a, on CZcams. B, in a world filled with mindless narcissistic, hive minded zombies.
Guilt trips and shame tactics only work on either those still under mk ultra mind control, people suffering from chronic insomnia and health issues, or those that strive to fit in with the CULTure. You're a narcissistic cultist. Guilt and shame tactics work on people like you because you're all incapable of controlling your own emotions, or are capable of critical thinking and independent thought. You need your presidents and prime Ministers to socially engineer your drugs for you. I can't think of a more sadder thing to do than try and inflict one into producing guilt and shame emotions within oneself. If you understood the simple concept of the cause an effect principal, you'd grow a brain, the fuck up and scroll past someone's comment. You can't help it because you're a Nazi.
Don't worry, bro. Youse won both world wars. Youse even completely lied about the Nazis being a German state political ideology, AND that youse managed to defeat and eradicate the evil Nazi empire. And that youse went to the moon. (NASA Nazi scientists, look it up.) That the Nazis were executing Jews in death camps.
Meanwhile, the Jewish wealthy families control every television station network (Hollywood/Facebook/CZcams included.)
I'll bet you're covered in tattoos something chronically
Flat Earthers: Because Scientologists need someone to laugh at
nailed it
Peter scientologists are just ponzi schemers and stalkers.
John P lmao
czcams.com/video/ffAFlvLaHBM/video.html
hahahaha! omg that's funny!!!
I like to believe they're just really hardcore Terry Pratchett fans.
My brother legit claimed he believes in a flat earth and we argued about it for half an hour years ago. To this day I have no idea if he was serious or not.
The Demon Curupira As Sir Pterry fan I find it amusingly tragic
OOOOOoooooGGGGGG!
Im still convinced that the whole "flat earth" thing was just some troll on 4chan, fcking around and a bunch of...lets call them misguided people...latched onto it without realising that its a joke.
Vish Wah nah. Didn't orginate there. As far as I can tell it mainly started here on youtube. We did pick up hollow earth for a while though :p
It's older than the internet.
@@Carabas72 It is, but I think he's right that that's how it became popularized.
A few thousand years ago, Ancient Greeks correctly figured out the circumference of the Earth using only 2 sticks and shadows. And here we are in 2019 with Flat-Earth cultists still desperate for attention.
The earth is actually shaped like a velociraptor
Azau 😂😂😂
No doorknob-shaped asteroid can hope to survive a collision course with us!
Correction: Philosoraptor
Ugh you still believe in that theory? Everyone knows its shaped like the giant flying spaghetti monster
Connor notyerbidness it's actually more similar to a giant flying noodle monster
Think about it. If the earth was flat how would Hitler and the dinosaurs be living inside it with our Lizard Overlords?
Get a load of this guy with his "dinosaur" talk! The devil duried those bones after creating (insert ethnic group here). Lizard people live on the moon. Idiot.
I assume none of these people have ever thought to journey to this impassable wall of ice and check it exists? Or scale it? Or dig through it? Can you imagine being so dedicated to an idea and yet so incurious about the actual truth that you've never double checked?
I imagine there have been flat earthers who attempted the journey. But they ceased to be flat earthers.
(Wishful thinking.)
@@another-person-on-youtube Nah, they have a story that the Antarctic Treaty forbids anyone from visiting Antarctica, and therefore the "globe earther" claims can't be verified. This is of course false, because the Antarctic Treaty does no such thing, and there are multiple ways of disproving Flat Earth claims about Antarctica without visiting Antarctica, but that doesn't stop them.
Some of them claim that the entire "wall" is garrisoned by the military of the treaty participants, plus some freemasons. So, anyone approaching it is shot down/apprehended and is never heard from again. Yup. Cool story.
@@TheHalflingLad Yeah... I mean a lecturer of mine at university went to Antarctica annually and there was no wall, but the minute you say "university" the FErs' eyes glaze over and they start yelling about postmodernism and homosexual frogs, so.
When I google "Flat earth map" the bottom of South America and the bottom of Australia are both close to the edges of the world. If one got enough altitude in those areas, wouldn't they see the ice wall? Fly up in a personal plane? Fly towards "the wall" and live stream it?
As someone who lives in the Southern Hemisphere, I find this all hilarious. Why the hell would New Zealand, South Africa and Australia all play rugby with each other if we all lived on opposite sides of the world? Don't you think we would have noticed?? Also, the moon in London is upside down compared to the moon in Johannesburg.
Southern hemisphere? You mean you live on the underside of the earth pancake? ;)
That doesn't explain why the moon appears upside down in different continents. A circle is comprised of 3 120 degree parts. If the moon performs a revolution from a parallel axis, with the same side facing down toward the earth's surface, then the moon's face would appear differently from all three continental positions. Heleocentricity is not the only explanation to this
@@brettg82au idiot
@Flux Incapacitator thank god for the internet hey, where you can be rude without any consequences. I'll bet you don't talk to pole like that in reality.
If the moon in London is upside down compared to the moon in Johannesburg, then it's your fault because you are standing wrong! lol
1960: In the future we will have flying cars.
2017: There are still people that belive Earth is flat.
HypercatZ
#irony .
Back before the internet, your average crackpot went down to his local bar to spout his latest conspiracy theory. And just about everyone told him to shut up... And eventually he did. But in this post internet world, your average crackpot makes a CZcams video and gathers followers. Somewhere in that first 30 or so is someone who know how to make an impressive website or a polished video. Before you can shake a stick they appear as confident and knowledgeable as intelligent people. I believe this dynamic explosion of conspiracy cults is 100% a side effect of the internet. If you think about the evolution of mankind, never before has your average crackpot had access to such a powerful broadcast platform.
The Blissful Zombie, can you quit saying this falsehood. You had to repeat it. Some of the other comments made here are quite correct. In the local bar this attitude wouldn't have been tolerated. If you are going to make blanket statements make them true and believable.
So explain to me again, zombie, How Colombus saw a ship sailing over the horizon, years ago in Madrid. And at 6 I watched from the Cabrillo National Monument, a ship doing the exact same thing? Or is it the work of the evil illuminati. And exactly what is their work? They don't seem to do much, regardless of their fan base.
OOOH, you're lying for Jebus. I'm sure he'll reward you with absolutely nothing. Just like he hasn't come back in 2000 plus years.
You really missed the opportunity to say “flat earthers are found all over the globe”
Actually that was posted on the Flat Earth Society facebook. They said: “The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe”. The first comment was: “Read that again... slowly” 😂😂😂
True
This earned seriously evil man laughter. Bless you Jaina. Go forth and snark with the best of them!
He did mention they believe in a global conspiracy...
Because he's not that lame to use a common flat earth meme. It's no longer clever to say this it's just lame now.
I was really surprised when you showed footage of someone using a level to prove that the Earth was flat. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how a level works and that air planes have never flown in a flat plain.
I have a copy of Planet Earth on dvd and I can confirm that it is, in deed, a disc. It spins insanely fast, too
I bet lasers are involved as well!
Why is the Earth so special? In the entire universe, we have not seen even one "disc" world anywhere else.
Why is the earth so special? Did you really just ask that... Wow
Marc Barrett I mean, we have yet to discover another planet that supports life, so that is kinda special.
You've been reading the wrong books.
That's because we have yet to find the giant space turtle who is carrying the four smaller but still giant elephants that are carrying the disc.
300 BC: The Earth is flat!
1950: We'll have flying cars in the near future!
2018: The Earth is flat!
2025 our lives are fake and everything around
2040 wordwide mental breakdown
Aww that's not fair, where's my flying Chevrolet ?
Still waiting on those flying cars???
7r0113r ...CGI
Actually in the 1950s there were already flying cars. ironically most people are unaware of that.
On the other hand the Earth has generally been known to be spherical for at least 3,000 years
Never underestimate the power of boredom. The world can be boring. One's life can be boring. Conspiracy theories, ideas that go against the boring status quo of daily life, can be a way to add a bit of thrill to spice up the monotony of daily life.
People are trying to get attention. Professing a belief in a flat earth is a desperate attempt for attention.
No, posting self righteous comments on youtube is a desperate attempt at getting attention.
You're welcome.
Irony
@@bobohacker5037 Spotted the salty flerfer
Bobo Hacker ‘Yes, let’s post my comment agreeing with the majority here, that’ll get me attention!’
What’d get him more attention, by sharing the same belief as everyone here, essentially being another face in the crowd.
Or posting as a Flat Earther, by disagreeing, more people would notice him.
If the Earth was round, then how tf do you explain mine-crafts infinite flat world?
#woke
Minecrafts flat worlds do have a limit. And matpat proved that actually its not flat
It's not round because Minecraft can't make spheres. ;)
fun fact : in minecraft you can witness objects disappearing below a Visual Horizon as they get into the distance, just like in real life.
General S. Patton Two words,
Cartisian plain,
Minecraft is just an ever growing cartisian plain not actually a world
I believe flat-earthers are penguins. When they say they are not, I say: "Don't mock my beliefs". It drives them crazy.
Helge Samuelsen I'm using this. Thanks.
That's perfect.
I'll give you 500 bucks to show curve. That's something you can't do
@@bugsbunny313Rd ok use a rocket
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A good story teller can make you feel like the hero just by hearing the story, this is the root cause of many conspiracy theories
That's really insightful.
@@tomfoolery5680 I completely forgot about this comment. I think I was high when I wrote it
@@autodidacticartisan Well, I was high when I read it. And then high when I remembered I read it.
why would nasa, spaceX etc. waste millions of dollars in making us think the earth is round. in that case Elon Musk would be the poorest man on earth instead of the richest
What I can't grasp is that the Flat Earth Society admits that Mars has been observed to be round, but for earth it isn't...
I haven't observed Mars to be round? Quite the contrary actually! I has no definite shape, get a telescope!
What he meant was that rational people with telescopes have observed that Mars is round. Conspiracytards only believe that which they believe.
So you're saying that the Flat Earth Society is rational? OK?
Is that how the conspiracytard logic train works?
Are you OK in the head? Optidorf stated, "he /she/they/it/zie/zim/zir/zis/zieself/sie/sie/hir/hirs/hirself/ey/em/eir/eirs/eirself/ve/ver/vis/vers/verself/tey/ter/tem/ters/terself/e/em/eir/eirs/ emself" can't grasp why the FES ADMITS Mars is round, but... Now you say, "read your comment." Then I wrote, "read comment." Are you on the logic train or the OZZY CRAZY TRAIN!
"... my real name is Parallelogram" that was hilarious
*Steve* Parallelogram
01:22 Does he actually say Astrology? I'm hoping he meant Astronomy, otherwise is he really basing his proof against a flat Earth on horoscopes?
The "why" question was what did it for me too (that and studying about Eratosthenes). Why would "they" try to fool us into believing in a spherical earth? It just made no sense.
Because they done gone crazy.
One thing I've learned about people who think the Earth is flat. They can't have a normal conversation because it always devolves into conspiracy theories.
Spaceman Spliff Susie is mad at you. And your Mom and Dad. And Rosalyn. Moe wants to kick your ass.
The "non-confirmist type"
within this you get
1) the ones who are intelligent and stand for something - their reason is they disagree, are sick of what they see wrong in society, or they have a logic which dictates they have to be this way
2) those who can't fit in, and will do or say anything for acceptance, as well as do anything for attention. (try to be different, or get a different disease) -- some find flat earth a good way to be "different" and special with the goal of attention and ego actually. They'll argue like their life depends on it, but they really couldn't care less. As long as they are "winning" or out-talking you, they feel smart. For them, what a beautiful world they stepped into. They can't do science or math, and now here comes this group which turns them into the lead researcher, or the next Kepler. You just have to parrot the basics that the group teaches you, and add your own flavour. They simply make it up as the go along... its like saying unicorns are actually real .... but YOU need to disprove me (its a long winded waste of time.. so they 'win').
And they say they really believe, but honestly its more about *they have some secret knowledge you don't* ... or at least they feel good being able to make this claim. Its not about whether they believe what they say or not... *they don't care, as they don't have a clue and they know it* They have to pretend to believe for their ego.
*They have this "secret knowledge that the flat earthers have about knowing the (fill in whoever: Vatican, lizards, bankers etc) have lied to the world".. They're the special ones now!!!*
-- Thing is: *what benefit does this "secret knowledge" help them? Nothing. Nothing at all*
These idiot globe and science believers, you know the sheep like us.... we can only launch satellites, engineer planes, computer navigation systems, mapping, logistics etc.. Nothing compared to the power they possess from seeing though the lies of (fill in whoever: Vatican, lizards, bankers etc)
The other reason is that some fall into a false dichotomy. (if one side is wrong, the other is right)
This is just my opinion of Jeranism, but he probably believes what he says. He is not quite the same as your average troll that you'll find on RT when they show a launch, or whatever channel they find that tolerates them.
Jeranism believes a bunch of conspiracy theories, because there is good reason and a logic behind them. And many of these turned out to be true. So now he sees the government lied to him.... NASA lied .... so the education system lied.... and anything else, must be challenged to..
So anything he hears or reads from a point of view that is endorsed by "the system", is scrutinized....
The problem is, he will base his view on any offical understanding as "they must be lying"... and work back from there.. And his critical thinking has stopped, as he is satisfied that "his side is right"...
*He (Jeranism IMHO) no longer sees things purely objectively, as he doesn't start with a neutral stance. But he still has the mindset he is the same critical thinker that used to challenge the mainstream belief*
Just like believing in a imaginary man whos gonna float down here and save every body!!
Shendoah .50 Caliber You're a rambler huh?
I believe the Internet is flat, when I look at my screen it seems flat so it must be.
XD
Clever you!XD
Paul O'Sullivan still better story than twilight
Paul O'Sullivan The internet is for porn.
Fucking genius
Deep down, they know the earth is round.
They just like all the attention.
Antifoul Awl right? that's what I say! I mean you can feel the spin of the earth and see the curve of the earth everyday, how can those stupid flat Earth idiots think it's flat?? I mean we've seen tons of imagies of earth from NASA! I mean sure they're photoshopped and they're not actual photographs but come on it doesn't mean the earth is flat, duh that's so dumb, I mean yeah they faked the moon landing 6 times but still come on the earth is still round duh...
still seeking attention?
Evil Bastard i think he’s a troll. A genuine flat earther likes to use big words and convoluted analogies and then state that because you can’t understand it, the earth is flat. I mean, I’d love to box one over the head with a metal globe, but you only know what they are in person.
@@viktorvasilik5477 lel you can.t feel the earth spinning
No I dont. Nor do millions of others of educated people who have researched the science of helio vs. Geo.
Well, the world is in like a disc. It's being held up by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle swimming through space. :D I know it's true, I built a ship that went off the edge and saw the turtle! Or... read that somewhere. :P
Hmm, sounds like a colourful tale -- you might say, a Magically Coloured tale. : )
Turtles all the way down, baby!
Sounds like a Stephen King novel. Cosmic Turtles and Dead lights. Lol
How dare you disparage my man Atlas. He's been carrying this world on his back for millenia and you give credit to some elephants? Absolutely shameful.
@@heroino89 lol
If the earth was flat cats would've pushed everything off by now. xD
If the earth was flat there would be a flood of dog slobber
PlotTwistGamer Or ari. (if you watch Jaiden animations you’ll get it
I thought there was supposed to be an ice wall on the border.
EchoWolF013 What in God’s name are one of her fans doing here?
[Edit] If you are a fan of her that is.
Sir Turtle We're having fun.
They're not that sharp and know it deep down. Their maladaptive coping strategy is to overcompensate by latching on to an esoteric minority opinion which allows them to believe they're more perceptive, smarter than most people who cannot see the truth.
Also, the idea that people in power have so much ability to maintain conspiracies is comforting because 1: it means the world isn't so chaotic and unpredictable 2: It gives them a scapegoat to excuse why their life isn't what they wish it were 3: If we could only change the people in power, they would have as much control to make the world as great as we wish it were
michaelemouse1, aye, it makes people feel better to blame someone else for their shortcomings;-)
michaelemouse1
way to make a scientific debate political. That's an eloquently stated and politically verbose opinion. (You take one psychology class and now you know everything.) You attribute the opposing theory to psychosis and dismiss it outright. You sure the curvature you saw wasn't on Pandora? Sure you're not brainwashed? Forget sides and diagnoses. Take a look at the things you consider facts about the earth and verify them. If you don't have time to, don't bother commenting back. You'll be saying the same thing about the psychological state of the other side, but I don't recommend it. Your sense of superiority stems from a massive excess of confidence in your own beliefs on the subject, all given to you by others who never tested a damn thing either... how perpetually sad is that?
aludred, how can both solar and lunar eclipses both occur in the flat earth model? If both bodies have a fixed orbit, from any one point, only one can eclipse the other, yet, it is possible to have stood in one spot and at some point in time have observed both a solar and at another time, a lunar eclipse. How is this possible?
Before I was 10 years old I had travelled around the entire globe on a ship. In the southern hemisphere one can see a plethora of constellations which are invisible from the north (ie from Europe). Add to that the fact that the Moon appears upside down makes for compelling evidence of a spheroid planet Earth. Any idea of the Earth being flat is utterly ludricous.
so you saying if i take a pic of the moon from arctic circle and then from the antarctic circle that the moon would look up-side down? i think it stays the same.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
we all see the same moon no matter where your at.
@@rudy103069 okay Joe dirt
@@rudy103069 You think wrong
I was recently accosted by a FE. After listening to 5 minutes of his diatribe, I flattened his arguments with one question.
"If Earth is flat, how is the gravity constant over the entire surface?"
There is your mistake: you engaged.
if the earth is flat then a Russian would be hanging off it with a selfie stick
Ha! Checkmate!
When I was a child, I can remember having trouble with the idea that the sun was actually much larger than Earth and very far away. My young brain thought the sun was just a small ball of light in the sky. The difference between me and the flat earth types is that I eventually outgrew such concrete thinking.
exactly omega, flat earthers see the world with the mind of a child. I too had that same problem as you did when I was about 5 and under
That kind of thinking can be VERY easily tested. Take a regular play ball and bring it close up to someone's face, where the cone of vision would make it seem like the ball is huge, occupying most of the person's field of view. Then just....walk away with the ball....did it get any smaller? xD
I would like everyone reading this comment to take note of that green lamp. Literally decades ago I started to notice that lamp in SO MANY movies, TV shows, commercials....EVERYWHERE! All the time. Seriously. Take note. Start looking for it and you will see it nearly daily. It is not like hearing a new word then all of a sudden hearing that word all the time. That stinking green lamp is everywhere in video. I wonder if it simply shows up well on screen so producers use it. Like why streets are always wet at night in movies...but make no mistake about it, that freaking lamp is everywhere. I also used to own one.
Oh, yeah, great video, by the way
On a flat earth, with no gravity, what happens when you jump?
Without gravity your body accelerates away from the ground. What causes you to stop accelerating and not continue on into space?
Flat Earthers would claim that this is due to density. You are more dense, therefore you fall down because the air around you can't support your weight.
Of course, the problem with this is that gravity is a vector whereas density is a scalar (so there's no reason why you should fall DOWN as opposed to falling in any other direction), but if you use big high-school-math-sounding words like that, their eyes glaze over and they claim you've been programmed and brainwashed by the They.
@@wolfieinu You can really confuse them by reminding them that the air above them is less dense than the ground below them, so by their 'logic' we should all be floating away into the air - unless something is pulling us down. Their stupidity is such that they don't see that the thing they try to use to deny gravity wouldn't work if it wasn't for gravity. Fuckin dumbasses.
Cuz they wanna be edge lords or because it's unconventional and goes against what we've been taught
Joshua Herbert same with the holocaust deniers lmao. Like I'll hear them out if they're rational but they always start off with some antisemitic statement which already poisons their arguments
Some believe there is no edge, just a endless mass of frozen waste lands.
devilshooter126 M yeah I my college class a former soldier with PTSD said that but when asked what would be the purpose in covering up a flat earth truth he said because it would prove the earth had a creator and everyone's reaction was like what??? Lmao
Spot on mate. A good number of them want to feel "special" in some way and finding "secret knowledge and information that goes against the mainstream reality" certainly does make one special. It's the same with the Mandala Effect people who would rather struggle to fulfill a sense of being special over the idea that their memory may be flawed. I kinda feel bad for them, tbh. I mean, their main reason for wanting to be a part of some world where there's a global conspiracy that makes everyone else sheeple and these people alone the unsung heroes who will save the world, well, that says a lot about how they have issues adjusting and dealing with the reality around them. So from that, I feel for them.
If everywhere you looked, all you saw were crazy situations that made the world look like it had gone mad, wouldn't you want to be a part of something that could hypothetically try to fix it? I just wish they'd do like others who choose more respectable and less ignorant ways of going about this and try to be something more than Internet trolls about it. You know, like dress up with your underoos over your pants and wear a cape and mask and call yourself some weird animal-man title and try to fight crime or something. Anything really. Sheesh.
You re totally right. They get addicted to getting their "Mind Blown" from there conspiracy BS. I have a friend who swears that The Mandela Effect is real, and the Earth is flat. Hes in so deep that he thinks Alex Jones is a liar, at least sometimes. Not because he is just a bullshitter, its to discredit the movement or something, something globalists. Everything is a false flag, everything is a conspiracy. I always ask him "Are there any boring conspiracies?" . The answer is no. Its always some grand, exciting thing that would be so far reaching, it would change everything we know about whatever.
New rule: If you believe in flat earth you are no longer allowed to use gps. You have to make your own program called feps. Then you can be just as lost while youre driving as you are in your thinking.
Excellent!
Thomas Godsey
GPS uses trilateration, not triangulation; not that any flat earther cares about science
Well, according to flat earther, there's no outer space. So there should be no satelite 😂 so they should research another way of positioning system.
APS - Antenna Position System
lol that was good
What's with all of the dislikes? Are there seriously that many flat-earthers?
sadly, yes.
People who try to post “answers” to flat earther question, are simply wasting their time. This is Because, if they Post one of the questions from the Basic FE Indoctrination Checklist, such as “then show me a helicopter taking off, hovering, and waiting for its destination to ‘arrive to it’ “, they ARENT interested in scientific answer. You can post the correct answer (conservation of momentum, energy, inertia, etc etc...) but flat earthers are NOT interested in these answers. They have already decided that these answers are wrong, since they have already decided that it is impossible for a helicopter to do this, since it is never observed. Stop wasting your time feeding the trolls, by trying to “answer” questions posed by flat earthers. The correct answers, are wrong answers, in their view, simply by default. If they accepted the answers as being correct (which they are), then there would NOT BE a flat earth movement/hoax/cult to start with.
Fact is they are no trolls, you are right saying no answer is good for them but i think responding to them in some ways is usefull, they should be laughed at, exposed and marginalised.
Mark Pointer
What we are doing is re-informing the young stupid as to the majority view so they don't get trapped by this crap too!!
The flat earther is not the target of comments.
His/her audience are
And many enjoy a good roast.
i actually learnt a lot from some "answers to flat earth questions" videos. Of course those videos won't convince a single flat earther to question their dogma, but those videos are not really for them anyway.
Life became much simpler once I stopped accepting the delusion known as reality. Now if you'll excuse me, my lizard over-lords are trying to contact me through my phonograph...
You have a PHONOGRAPH?
I have a simple Challenge for the Flat Earters.
I want them to explain me in Detail, a few things.
There's only 1 rule.
The explanation must be consistent with observed reality and not contradict itself.
1) Total Lunar Eclipse (blood moon)
2) Sunset/Sunrise
3) Stars on both Hemisphere
4) Timezones
I'm ready to bet money, that they can't.
Pac0 Master
Lunar eclipse is God placing his hand in front of the sun.
Sunrise/sunset is God moving the sun in front or behind the earth
How about a question for you since you claim to be right and you have the burden of proof that goes with the claim. Where is the curve? Show us this curve shape and we will stop wondering about the shape. Simple as that. Oh and no lens issues please just a real picture.
You have to be very high to observe a curve. You can't see it at ground level. There are plenty of pictures of a curve from the required height, but of course you'll deny they are real. Out of interest and for the sake of argument, IF the curve exists what would it actually take to convince you it exists?
Pac0 Master why would asking about the shape of the surface of the Earth you mentioned things that are in the sky do you not understand the logical differential between the two. If yours is indeed flat than the lights in the sky are irrelevant to the shape of itself if it measures flat than it is flat regardless of what things in the sky do. The two are not bound of a logical necessity. What you are doing is mixing the two worldviews. When talking about the Earth being flat what is really being talked about is the shape of the physical ground itself not what is going on above it there are a lot of assumptions made in the globe model that are not necessary in the Flat Earth model all that really matters in the Flat Earth model is whether it's physical ground is flat if it is shown that the physical ground is flat by measuring the ground itself then what happens in the sky is irrelevant I'm repeating myself because I'm trying to make it clear. A disco ball light setup has no bearing on the Dance Floor the dance floor is flat regardless of what the lights in the ceiling do
1. God.
2. God.
3. God.
4. They're fake.
I'll take that money now, spherist loser! ;)
The question is what is the dome made of glass, plastic? xD Does someone need to wipe it clean? Does it fog up? lol
I don't believe anything these are what you call facts lol. Facts are empirical that can be measured independently by anyone. Not only that but facts are true even if you don't believe in them.
These facts are learned but also verifiable using empirical evidence independently from multiple sources. I don't see your point lol. You have what is known as confirmation bias. No we figured out the Earth was a sphere in 250BC lol *face palm.
What does none with life mean? Is English not your native language or perhaps you left school early. lol
Sure I have as many of thousands if not millions of people over many years. What's your point lol. These are facts. You know what facts are right? lol
um.. what? How old are you?
Flat Earthers....
The longest range commercial aircraft is the Airbus A340-500, capable of flying up to 16,670 km (9,000 nmi) with 293 passengers.
I can buy a non-stop ticket from Santiago, Chile to Melbourne Australia with a flight time of 15 hrs and 10 minutes. (FYI...it flys over Antarctica...so passengers SEE Antartica WITH THEIR OWN EYES
On a globe, the distance from Santiago to Chile is 7,000 miles, and the aircraft cruises at about 500 mph. So a 15 hour flight time makes sense and the range doesn't exceed the range of the aircraft.
However, on a flat earth the distance is a staggering 21,230 km (13,200 nmi). This distance is longer than ANY commercial aircraft can fly AND it would take about 26 hours even if it could.
SO.....why is Quantas selling tickets for direct flights from Santiago to Melbourne?
So simple, so elegant and so right!
Nice one Matt C
Out of curiosity Matt - have you flown on the flight personally?
I think that is the problem that the flat earth community have. That the flights are shown but do not actually exist - I couldn't say either way. With the obvious fake astronaut footage REF iss. The very convincing notion that Apollo missions did not happen (and I speak as a sceptic of FE), it leaves the potential questions as to what else may also be fantasy.
i did years ago, ok, happy now?
Stevelewissaab saab did you just call the live footage from the iss fake. Hahahahaha
I think the earth is really a triangle and made of lime jello. I have no proof of this so that's why it must be true.
Bash, Everybodys Favorite Canadian Motovlogger I'm with you. Triangle Earth is the true!!
Oh yes it's a triangle total
Could it have whipped cream on it too? I'll support your theory if it can have whipped cream!
Sure that sounds good to me.
I was just wondering if anyone thought this! (yes, I'm aware you're being ironic)
One day you’ll see. The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe!
Tom Forge "around the globe" i see what you did there
Lol
Tom Forge: LOL I actually saw a flat earther say that they have members all around the globe. FUCKING MORONS!
The actual tweet is there if you search for it on twitter lol
I saw one that pointed out that the earth was found when they said that 😂
What I've been told is they embrace (strangely) an early scientific principle. That unless they actually experienced it, can prove it by their own, very own senses, something doesn't actually exist. But then there goes the idea of the atom, viruses, etc.
"However, you can never underestimate the power of ignorance. Or contrarianism."
The earth is actually on a conveyor belt to the centre of the universe, the sun just gets bigger so we think it’s the same size.
Why would hundreds of thousands of scientists doctors astronomers etc throughout history come together to cover up something so irrelevant. Why not hide a technology like microprocessors or quantum computing?
They have been fooled too, very few people are actually lying and know the truth. Max Planck said it best:
"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Cheers
Except you're talking about things that can be independently measured, questioned, and verified, John, and what you're really saying there is that *nobody* out of hundreds of thousands of people over many centuries, managed to put 2 and 2 together. None of the conspirators stopped and said "hey, why are we doing this? screw this, let's go get a pint." And the Flat Urfers have yet to give a reason- any reason- why such an impossible hoax would be perpetrated at all to begin with, let alone how such a reason would remain globally relevant across such a massive span of time that none of the nations that existed then still exist today.
(I see you remembered to use your spell check this time. Then again, one doesn't tend to need that for copy/paste.)
Indomitus1973 Please find someone who has completed the Cavendish experiment to determine the density of the ENTIRE Earth via a string and two lead balls as he did.
Or just think about the plausibility of that...
As for reasons behind the lies, start off by researching Albert Pike or Adam Weishaupt. If these guys had the idea to rule the world back then, what makes you think someone else doesn't have the same ideas in mind now?
Cheers!
John Smith I'm pretty sure Albert Pike was a mason. A bad one. Helped plans for the illuminati. You're probably referring to the plan for the flat earth theory to reemerge as a distraction. It's causing more division, preparing everyone for WWIII. Something like that?
John Smith Weishaupt I believe was a member of the original Illuminati of germany.... put together to oppose the Jesuits. The German illuminati was for women's equality and against the evil of the Catholic church.... I'm pretty sure that the German Illuminati was erased and all member were either executed or fled. Nothing like the illuminati we talk about today.... I could be wrong. I'm in a recording studio right now and don't have time to look them up but I will later....
Earthquakes? Vibrations from the elephants, obviously. Or Atuan farting.
I think that some people don't like being told what to think simple as that, they would rather believe strange ideas than be seen to follow established thinking
My maintenance man told me everything is a lie . I just concurred with him and he fixed my toilet .
With that logic, he didn't fix your toilet, you actually didn't agree with him and that your need to take a dump is unnecessary.
But is the toilet real? I don't think so.
Proof positive. Or negative. Or something...
Priority. My man.
He was lying.
Now wait a minute, Georg. Around 1:15, you said astrology - you meant astronomy.
Jim Kildow I think ge was being ironic as even astrologer can see the world is a globe.
Actually my horoscope today said, "Leo: Your intelligence will not go unrecognized. Put yourself out there and you will succeed. Unless you're dumb enough to be a flat earther. Everyone knows that shit's round."
I noticed that too. :)
Racist.
Jim Kildow Astrology also proves a globe.
Astrology is based on a globe and a very old "belief".
Why wont any flat earther answer my 5 questions? 1. How is it that the earth makes a spherical shadow on the moon on a lunar eclipse?
2. How is it that you cannot see Mt Everest from a telescope from anywhere on earth?
3. How is it that we cannot see Japan or even Hawaii form any telescope from California?
4. How is it that some places are light/dark for 24+ hours to months?
5. How is it that the sun sets below the horizon every night?
WinstonIV, I’ve done long range rifle shooting. In no way whatsoever is the curvature or spin of the earth calculated before pulling the trigger. It’s outright falsehood for you to suggest otherwise.
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Jay Dee Johnson, LOL!!! No shooter ever has gotten his compass and calculator out and compensated for some alleged “coriolis effect”. It’s complete nonsense, and an article and video by two hillbillies with no scientific evidence whatsoever in them prove nothing.
@@joeltunnah still an effect one takes into account shooting over long distances
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Hillbillies? Please. You've been proven wrong
Again, FWVLIW:
I think there are two kinds of "flat earthers":
1) Dishonest actors:
Those who promote "flat earth" knowing it is not true with personal gain in mind. This will include all notable promoters as anyone capable of constructing a coherent argument in favor of "flat earth" will be aware it isn't true.
2) Exemplars of cognitive dissonance and the Dunning-Kruger effect:
People who have personal difficulty with the concept that the Earth, and by extension themselves, are not at the center of the universe while being so uninformed they grossly overestimate their competence to form a rational opinion.
Such people will be willing to accept being told they are a member of an "elite few" in possession of "the truth" in the face of an "international conspiracy" to keep "the truth" hidden because it bolsters their need for self-importance. All this in the face of all reason because they lack competence to form a coherent opinion based on the evidence of their own experience.
3: trolls. Lots and lots of trolls. This is kinda like group 1, but the personal gain is so much more petty and pathetic.
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Dunning-Kruger effect, that's why.
I've always said, "There is stupid, then there's so stupid you don't know you're stupid." I was unaware there's a term for this lol
There is but it is an effect and not the cause. It is _a_ cause. Another cause is a psychological survival instinct, bred into us through evolution.
We have a constant need to look for potential danger. This is also why more sensational news networks are more popular than the ones that actually bring useful news, like science breakthroughs and news on world trade and such.
What I mean with the constant need to look for potential danger is not that we feel the need to go the edge of a cliff every day and stare over the edge imagining what it feels like to smash on the rocks below. We feel the need to be prepared to defend against or run from danger. So in a world without hungry lions our imagination sometimes takes a run with us and we imagine conspiracies and ghosts and since the body can't distinguish between fact and fantasy(because fear from an actual lion is a thought and fear for ghosts is also just a thought and that is what the body reacts to and nothing else) it is easy to mistake fantasy for fact.
You see this happening with the third wave feminism and black lives matter movement as well.
We have all done this; to come up with an alternative explanation for something and believe it solves everything and that everyone else overlooked this. It is inevitable. Even if it was just for a second before your rationality took over again. Most of us have learned to distinguish between fact and fantasy and critical thinking and fact checking makes sure we are mistaken as little as possible. Some of us are just too stupid to understand the value of that and get caught up in the feeling of confidence of 'knowing' something someone else doesn't, making them feel special and pretty much everyone needs to feel special; to feel like they are making a difference.
We will see this happen with the #metoo, when little snowflakes who feel neglected and unimportant will come up with grandeur fantasies, bigger and better and with more detail than any other and they will have a large impact on the continuation of people's jobs and their credibilities in the future. And because we all want to have an impact, it will turn into a witch hunt unless we can persuade the masses to keep their heads cool.
A third reason is linked to the survival instinct and it maybe the biggest reason. We feel exhilarated when we find out something new that turns our world upside down and that feeling is addictive. A lot of chemicals are released in the brain that make us very happy when that happens, among which , the famous endorphins. This is why conspiracy theories and flat earth theories are so attractive to people. Oh, and aliens of course! And the All Source(new wave godlike thing; spiritual crap ffrom the eighties or something; still hasn't died out yet)! And all the other crap people come up with.
After checking out your smoking ass for a while i came back to reality, i then had to look up dunning kruger.
There is no point to this comment lmol
+Setekh I think you're looking much too deeply into it. A great deal of the flat earthers are simply stupid, uneducated, highly religious people. Their silly book of bronze age superstition says the Earth is flat (in one interpretation of one translation, anyway) and that's all they need.
That and the Sunk Cost Fallacy sound about right
It doesn't matter if it's round or flat.......no one is leaving!!!! We're all stuck here.
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
He actually says, "I think really their belief often comes down to their inability to really accept the world is round" 4:38
Aww , come on , that's just tits !
Or knees .... or a close up of a hand .... or a foot .... or nothing , just pixels .... generated in photoshop .... or a crafty painting .... or something else ....
Truth Sets Us Free
Freedom is an illusion. Every action is contingent on the circumstances we find ourselves in. Every thought is based in only those concepts which have already occurred to us.
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Because of what appear to be accidental events we have an illusion of freedom.
The fact that (some) people believe in a flat Earth isn't that hard to understand when you keep in mind that we live in a world where we have an epidemic of people chewing on laundry soap pods.
This is a very insightful statement.
LMAO yes exactly. Haha
dont eat the laundry soap pods
and obviously raised by post 60's liberals
Hmmmmm, they just use that as a way to explain their ridiculous theory. These folks are vegans stomping around in their berks and not conservatives praying to god. Check out their gatherings.
"Why would they hide that the Earth is a globe?"
"To control our money"
"How much money do you have?"
".........."
Particulalry to control the money of all those globe makers and sellers ! Nasy people ! Na !
Allan Folmersen, NASA spends $53 million dollars a day. That’s a lot of money. Just sayin’.
@@joeltunnah $53 million a day is lot to an individual , not to the richest country (0.48% of all governmental spending) and certainly not to the world.
How many flat earthers travel? That tells you what you need to know right there😂
The ones who are Sovereign Citizens travel. 😀
I used to think the earth was flat
but that was an all round bad idea
Eyyyy
Flat earther butthurt 👁👁
But then I took an arrow to the knee. (It's time to revive this dead meme)
ThatGeekyKid
Must have been a curve ball in your life ;)
The earth is actually fat, but no one wants to hurt its feelings.
*Why do people believe the earth is flat?* Because we all had that 'weird' kid in class. What we didn't realize then is there are a lot of classrooms in the world and each of them has that 'weird' kid. Enter the internet.... We can see how it's all played out from there.
Sorry dear but the present FE cult in the “west” is basically a Christian cult, plus the usual loony hangers on, based on the biblical claims of the Brit, Sam. “Parallax" Rowbotham made in the mid 19th.C. He is the one who dreamt up the ice wall etc. All of the stuff the FE cultists accept as factual is part of Christianity as written in his "Earth Not a Globe". OK. Then -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carpenter_(flat_Earth_theorist)
This was followed up by the publication of “Zetetic Cosmogeny" in 1899 by Thomas “Rectangle” Winship, and so on up to today.
Similarly with Islam.
And there is a common thread of biblical literalism which comprises but is not limited to the FE, ID, Creationist and YEC cults.
Fleet Man
No, the weird kid most often became a rich nerd with a PhD. The FE's are the class clowns that did nothing with
their life after their famous young jock phase and are trying to recoup lost HS glory.
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@@rstevewarmorycom "No, the weird kid most often became a rich nerd with a PhD. The FE's are the class clowns that did nothing with
their life after their famous young jock phase and are trying to recoup lost HS glory." PERFECTLY stated!
@@theultimatereductionist7592 That also explains why they're always bullies about it who think that their personal incredulity (i.e. appeals to their own charisma) and insulting their enemies will convince people of their ideas. Sadly, they are right.
it's interesting that people debate them when really they ought to be ignored
The Foucault pendulum was given as proof that the Earth is round. It behaves differently at both of the poles than at the equator. At each pole, a Foucault pendulum changes its swing path all the time acting as if it were not attached to the Earth. As the world revolves beneath it, the pendulum stays in the same direction relative to the path it took in the previous swing. But because the Earth has turned beneath it, the pendulum's path apparently "moves" in a clockwise fashion. This happens all over the world at various time periods, but the fastest it happens is at the North and South poles:it comes back to its original swing position in 24 hours.
There is only one place in which this does not happen: at the equator, where the Earth's axis perpendicular to the pendulum.
Put a record on a turntable as if it were the flat Earth revolving around its center, and you can see at the very center that a Foucault pendulum swing does the same at the center as a pendulum swing at the north pole of a globe: the pendulum stays the same while the Earth turns beneath it. And in 24 hours the pendulum comes back to its original swing position.
But try that at different positions of the world in a flat Earth, and the pendulum swing still rotates, no matter how far you are away from the North Pole. In fact, at the equator of a flat Earth, the pendulum would still swing in a circle whereas on a global Earth, the pendulum swing path is stationary; however you start the pendulum, it will remain in that direction and not rotate. In fact, since the flat Earth must rotate or be still, as it rotates, all points on the flat Earth must rotate in 24 hours, so the Foucault pendulum path anywhere on the flat Earth will be in a circle and complete its circle in 24 hours. You would not have any slowdown anywhere.
And if the flat Earth did NOT turn, you wouldn't have the rotating path of the Foucalt pendulum to begin with, and the pendulum path would not happen.
And for goodness sake, how do you have an entire 24 hours of sun at the poles with no night and 24 hours of darkness at the poles on the solstices with a flat - Earth sun?
Yet another easy to prove commonsense answer to the flat earthers, I enjoyed reading your comment but what I was hoping for watching this video was a broader brush. One that could be more generally applied to cause even the most unreasoning person to stop and consider.
However I don’t want to delude myself and I don’t think any such strategy exists; still not a complete lose I will be interested to see just how they of the unhinged persuasion approach your argument. It was very well presented.
I'm sure I have Foucault's Pendulum swing album but my turntable isn't working.
I hate fat-shaming, BUT I LOVE FLAT-SHAMING!
I found 1.7k flat earthers here
because people want to be special. Same thing with alien abduction people, big foot sighting people, lockness sighting people, conspiracy theorist.... they are special because they have an exclusive knowledge or experience that gets attention.
exactly
The guy with the spirit level on the plane gave me cancer
If the Earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off of it by now.
Made me laugh.
From a 1951 tale by Hy Sheridan in “Flying” magazine.
“I’m not worried, exactly,” Tom replied. “I just don’t know what to believe.”
“That’s easy,” the tall pilot observed. “Don’t believe anything until it is officially denied.”
I was hit with the, "Do your research." one time when I asked, "If the Earth is flat, why is our universe three dimensional?"
How dare you dismiss the flat earth theory! My aunty is a mole person who proudly hails from the flipside, are you dismissing her race too?? Disgusting.
Gunter the penguin, oh Myrtle is your Aunty? Yeah, she's quite a good sort. The life of the party down here on the flip-side...
Why do people believe the Georg Rockall is Schmidt?
That level should not be allowed on a plane because it could be filled with a biohazardous fluid or chemical and used for a terrorist attack
My father always said “You never realize how smart you are until you realize just how damn dumb everyone else is” flat earthers making me feel like Einstein right now lol
You married your cousin?
@@playbackproductions1 the Egyptians can't have all the fun
One problem with conspiracy theorists (and a lot of everyday folk) is that they don't understand how a hypothesis works. When you have one you don't try to prove it's true, you test everything that would make it untrue
Sasha, using a gyroscope proves the world is round. The planes thrust pushes it up against gravity, making it move parallel to the surface of the earth. Because the plane moves parallel, the plane naturally curves with the earth. The gyroscope shows flat, because the plane is always parallel. If the earth was flat, the gyroscope would point somewhere in the direction of the north pole because that is where the center of mass would be.
I always assumed this is 95% trolls and 5% fools
Nope, it's 95% fools, 10 % trolls, and the rest are just people who can't add...
All you have to do is attach to Go-Pro to a weather balloon and send it up to reveal the truth. Lucky for us, people have already done just that, and it can even be watched on CZcams. Spoiler alert... you eventually see the curvature of the Earth.
I think the best way is to tell them something that doesn't make sense since they don't think clearly. For example "the globe model is much cooler and so smart. Your flat earth model is dumb and looks ugly."
1 reason! ads revenue its monetize trolling just look at the amount of view on their video. Nobody believe that but it doesn't matter because it bring exposure and exposure bring revenue.
How on a flat earth can you explain away that anyone that observes the tidally locked moon that is always facing you on on point of the earth is also facing another person on the opposite side of the earth? If the moon is so close the angles wouldn't work out, you would at times see the moon from the side.
On the flat earth, the moon is not tidally locked to anything. It is self-illuminating, produces its own phases, and it is textured as willed by its CREATOR, so as to be differentiated from the sun, which is exactly the same size as the moon.
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The moon moves over the entire surface of the earth in a circular path over a period of 360 days. There is no front/back or side view of the moon. It is simply a luminary celestial body placed within the atmosphere by its creator for the telling of times and season. However, the government-sponsored /atheist biased textbooks vehemently disagree, as well as most of the globe earth followers.
ok this is it. this is the most stupid proFE argument I have ever read. I must go now, or I will punch the monitor. Some of the arguments for FE are at least challanging to disprove or it is fun to learn how things really work (for example the artificial horizont in the airplane) that one wouldn't really think about in day to day life. This comment on the other hand, is just flat-out (pun intended) stupid troll nonsense.
Okay then why is the texture of the moon the same no matter what angle, even the steepest angles on opposite ends of the earth the same for every single person observing it. You know I don't think I trust you, I think there is some kind of conspiracy by a small group of people susceptible to conspiracy and cognitive dissonance, I wonder who is sponsoring you, which enemy of the state could it be, perhaps they are tied to Satan or the Vatican or whatever you see how ridiculous you sound, when the same logic is turned back on you?
realize this is an old video, but i appreciate your approach to this modern conundrum. Your ability to peak into the perspective of someone who believes the earth is flat and give it justification without belittling it, but also being firm in discrediting the validity of the claim shows curiosity coupled a level of respect that is admirable amongst today's more common and insular discourse.
Cheers, mate. Well done.
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I've lost people in my life whom I thought at one time to be "Friends" due to their inability to convert me into a flat earth, type(?) I'm better off..
I'd take a round the world cruise, or a trip to the opposite side of the world to where you live, sending spiteful postcards all the way: "having a wonderful time. Too bad you can't get here."
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that sucks. I have tons of friends who don't believe a word of it. They still genuinely laugh in my face. This is an interesting debate, but true or not it shouldn't affect your relationships with people. I'm a flat head, surrounded by globulists, and just like religion, believe what u want, we're all human, and we're ALL wrong at some point about something. ALL of us.
Just not flat earth.🙃
Yes yes yes. Well done sir. You should be proud of yourself. Many people fall for these fallacies and it can ruin families very easily.
alludred said _" I'm a flat head, surrounded by globulists, and just like religion, believe what u want,"_
Except that spherical earth is NOT a belief. It is a fact backed by legitimate, valid, independently-verifiable, scientifically-accurate, documented, factual evidence. Flat earth is pure conjecture based on tired old and outdated ideas from long ago when men didn't understand much of anything. What they didn't understand they attributed to a god that just happens to conveniently look like an old male mammalian human.
NebTheWeb I don't believe the earth is flat, but how do you explain the California salt fields being 8 miles of a flat plane. According to modern science, the earth's curvature should be detectable, but it's not.
1k flat earthers saw this
Wait... You mean there are a thousand or more flat earthers? The Earth groans and starts to crack. It ejects us all in disgust!
Any one who truly believes the earth is flat doesn’t understand how space works fundamentally. They need only look at Jupiter, or better yet Saturn, through a telescope or binoculars. If everything was flat, you would only see thin horizontal lines at every planet and star and guess what, that’s not what you see. Go look for yourselves. Better yet, look at Saturn through a telescope. You can clearly see the planet is a sphere the way the ring goes around it. It’s fucking majestic to look upon and instantly proves all celestial bodies are spheres unless it’s assorted rubble (asteroids,comets,etc) too small for gravity to crush them into a perfect ball yet.
I talked to a flat earther and he conceded that other planets are round since anybody can buy a telescope and see that. However he was adamant for some reason that Earth was still flat while all other planets are round. I don't get it.
@Jay Wanders Out I think it comes from flat Earthers also not understanding how to visualize themselves on the planet. They look at a globe and don’t understand 2 things:
1) they don’t understand the atmosphere goes from the ground we walk on to space. Picture one of those bouncy balls that have a smaller, colored ball in the center of the larger clear ball. As an example for earth, picture the colored center as what we walk on and all the clear surrounding it is the atmosphere.
2) they don’t understand that there’s no such thing as upside down or right side up in space and gravity keeps us cemented to that colored “core” of that clear bouncy ball and indeed the folks directly on the exact opposite side of the earth from you are in fact “upside down” compared to you. You essentially stand feet to feet with your counterparts across and through the earth from you.
I hope everyone knows the type of bouncy ball I’m referring to or my example prob won’t make sense lol but I feel these are the main problems with flat earth thinking. They can’t visualize walking around a ball in space which would put them upside down in relation to how they were when they started walking around said ball. And since one never feels “upside down” anywhere on the planet folks assume earth MUST be a flat plane, like a snow globe.
I have noticed a lot of these flat earth vids have people saying "we believe the earth is round because of blind faith in science. it's what we are told so we believe it and then they say a lot about God and how we are told the earth is round because we are not special but if you believe the earth is flat that means we are the centre of the universe and we are special. So if you believe the earth is round it's to stop our faith in God and how special everyone is. which then means in my opinion having blind faith in God and not science.
Dude you said astrology is evidence of the shape of the earth. I sure you meant astronomy.
Very probably he did, but even the amount of astronomy needed to do astrology is evidence (at least) for the Keplerian model of the solar system...
he meant to say the Bible is proof
Realistically Astrology and its ability to function would also be reliant on a spherical earth, as the transition and movements used in it are inherently based on a spherical model of the planet... so even if it wasn’t a pseudoscience at the very best, it would still be definitive proof of a round earth
warren WTF conspiracy theorists are the biggest sheep of them all.
plot twist, astrology works only on geocentric model
Because they lack critical thinking skill and a basic understanding of mechanics.
How can the force called "gravity" be able to hold down trillions of tons of water in the ocean but is not strong enough to squish a butterfly?
Mark Nutt because water does not resist the gravity in any way. The butterfly flaps its wings to resist the gravitational force. Also a water particle has a lot less mass then a butterfly
Physics, not mechanics.
Mark Nutt the example your looking for is scaling the densities of water vs a butterfly, then you stack how many butterflies are needed to match that. 12 million pounds of water, if butterflies are .5 as dense you can say why don't 24 million butterflies collapse under their weight. They would. Also, how does one collapse water? And obviously the lower the butterflies are the more the weight and the higher the pressure, kinda like, I don't know, the ocean. Gases and liquids exist in a detached form as well, your question is inherently incomparable.
You must be very smart
My brother went out with a flat earthed and he didn’t know until like a week in. I’m not proud of it but after we found out we made fun of her until she broke up with him
Good on ya, keeping the family gene pool chlorinated
If they're gonna teach creationism in schools than flat earth might as well get a shout.