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Zimba said:
Do you not think it's odd that water doesn't just drop off the end of the world? Also how do you explain if you travel East from here you'll eventually end up at the Western side of Canada.
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Or if water was to obey the same principle of water in a jug, why do we get tides?
 

vinegar hill said:
When people who have a lack of intelligence have a platform like social media and influence other people of the same ilk then this is the shit you get.
The world’s fucked.
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The worrying thing is they are allowed to vote and breed
 
rudd said:
To be fair he’s committed to it. @DaveH rips him apart time and time again in flat earth thread in parsnip and he’s still fully invested in his Simpsons movie glass some idea
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I would just like them to apply the same burden of proof to a flat earth theory as they do to everything else
 
Nukehasslefan said:
And what do they tell you that you can test and prove a spinning globe?
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It’s odd that you find the water in the seas such a compelling argument against a global earth.

We know that objects behave in different ways and exert different forces depending on their size.

I agree that a lot of science is counter-intuitive, but that doesn’t mean it is wrong. Our brains have evolved to make quite basic decisions around getting food, shagging and not being killed… Not understanding gravity, the vastness of the universe, the quantum level etc.

So I think it’s a mistake to use your basic intuition to try and disprove theories of physics when we have every reason to think our intuition is extremely fallible.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
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I agree but in a flat Earth world how do tides works, bearing in mind the thinking being the moon is not real nor the sun? Do they pull the plug and then fill it back up again?
haway said:
It’s odd that you find the water in the seas such a compelling argument against a global earth.

We know that objects behave in different ways and exert different forces depending on their size.

I agree that a lot of science is counter-intuitive, but that doesn’t mean it is wrong. Our brains have evolved to make quite basic decisions around getting food, shagging and not being killed… Not understanding gravity, the vastness of the universe, the quantum level etc.

So I think it’s a mistake to use your basic intuition to try and disprove theories of physics when we have every reason to think our intuition is extremely fallible.
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Also in space is there a north and south or top and bottom?
 
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How come these flat earthers have all come to exact conclusion as each other? Quite the coincidence....
 
Boris Bear said:
Have you seen the film ‘Behind The Curve’, about Flat Earthers? They set up a scientific team to prove the earth is flat…they did separate experiments which actually proved the curvature of the earth and they were gutted.
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Yes, I thought it was interesting and their reaction to the experiments was funny, but I was disappointed that it seemed to follow just the lifestyle of the one bloke (who seemed to be doing remarkably well, not apparently working and funding a cushy lifestyle from being a flat earth guru - so no motivation to keep that one spinning at all), and didn't really go into the whole aspect of how a flat earth could possibly work as opposed to a globe.
Cockney Mackem said:
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Isn't it odd that the craters you see towards the middle look very circular, yet the craters towards the edge look elliptical. I tried drawing a circle on a ball and rotating it, and as it got to the edge, that looked elliptical too. Clusters of sun spots and features on Jupiter show the the same apparent distortion as they get towards the edge. Weird. I can't think why that might be.
bobster999 said:
wait until he gets into the earth being covered by a dome and the sun is just a reflection
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The sun is a reflection of light coming from the crystal projection site in the middle of the earth, that also projects the stars. They never all disappear because there is a projection circle where it never gets cloudy. The moon is a secondary reflection of the sun, bouncing of the highly reflective dome and off another surface. Sometimes that secondary reflection forms a crescent because of reasons.

When we have an eclipse, the secondary reflection actually reflects off itself at the same point the light hits and cancels out its own light because at times it can do that, much like the way a mirror can absorb all light and go black in spots. We have all seen it, go into the bathroom, look in to the mirror and there is only blackness there. I see that all the time if I get up for a slash in the middle of the night and don't put the light on. The clever thing about this secondary reflection is that it only completely cancels itself out for people in certain locations, where as people a bit further away only see a little bit of this effect like a circular chunk taken out of the sun because they get a different secondary reflection. People much further away get no secondary reflection and the sun keeps shining for them.

This effect is obvious. We know planetariums exist right? We know they use a projector to project the image of the night sky onto a dome and you know you see something completely different depending on where you sit right? So it is clearly possible to project an image of the sun that only people in certain seats can see, while projecting a semi-eclipsed sun to others and projecting no sun at all to other people. That is why they ask you what bit of the show you want to see when they give your ticket and seat numbers. It is the same effect that is used in cinemas where you and the missus can't agree on what film to see, so you just sit 5 rows apart and both see a completely different image and both get to see what you want. This sort of effect happens so much in everyday life that it is just obvious that is what an eclipse is.

Now the really amazing thing about this highly reflective dome that can be projected on and has this amazingly selective secondary reflection thing going on, is that we can't project anything off it ourselves because of the existence of monster munch, obviously.

I lerned all this of the thread in Parsnip.
 
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DaveH said:
Isn't it odd that the craters you see towards the middle look very circular, yet the craters towards the edge look elliptical. I tried drawing a circle on a ball and rotating it, and as it got to the edge, that looked elliptical too. Clusters of sun spots and features on Jupiter show the the same apparent distortion as they get towards the edge. Weird. I can't think why that might be.
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This is why I don't understand why people are obsessed with all of this made up shit like that earth. There is literally a whole universe of limitless, wonderful, mindbending real shit to explore
 
DurhamRedStripe said:
Can't understand why people actually spend time debating with these obvious WUMs.
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They aren't WUMs that's the scary thing.
Cockney Mackem said:
This is why I don't understand why people are obsessed with all of this made up shit like that earth. There is literally a whole universe of limitless, wonderful, mindbending real shit to explore
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These types think they are being 'questioning' and 'open minded' because they doubt everything. What it really boils down to is a distrust of authority so even if something is 'fact' they have an aversion to the thing because it comes from a position of authority.
 
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qixman said:
Space travel is shortly going to become viable for the masses thanks to the likes of Virgin Galactic, this will make it hard to refute what will be even more overwhelming evidence. Even flatards will be able to see for themselves, although they will probably come up with excuses such as fisheye windows to keep their delusions going and to make themselves feel special.
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Do people who are 'special' need to make themselves feel more special?

Sounds like a habit
Boris Bear said:
Have you heard of Dunning-Kruger effect. You’re walking proof of it
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This has happened to me.

Fortunately, the wife has been there on each occasion to set me straight.
 
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