the flat earth society is meeting here todayyyyyyyyyyyy

Was just checking to see how spectacular Mike Hughes's entrance to Valhalla was. Psssh. What a tease. But at least the update has some choice pull quotes.

His project has cost him $20,000, which includes Rust-Oleum paint to fancy it up and a motor home he bought on Craigslist that he converted into a ramp.

"My feeling is that one of the top executives at the Bureau of Land Management called Needles, California, saying ... 'What's going on? Who permitted this?'" Hughes said.

Plus, as he and his team were preparing to leave Wednesday, the motorhome/rocket launcher broke down in his driveway, he said.

just fell down a youtube rabbit hole on some local flat earthers' videos. basically, all of their questions can be answered by gravity. which they deny the existence of, of course

feel like i should give my 2 cents as a physics educator

what's funny is that some of these people actually are science-ing and doing good experiments, the problem is they're not proving what they think they're proving. they're just proving a basic assumption in physics - that a small enough piece of a large enough curve can be accurately approximated by a flat surface. similarly you could misuse erathosthenes' experiment to disprove the curvature of the earth (really you'd just be proving the assumption that at a big enough distance from the source, light rays are assumed to travel parallel to each other).

while it's kind of cool i guess that people are attempting to think scientifically the distrust of "book learning" is really sad. i feel like a lot of these people haven't done the basic research and just aren't aware of really simple proofs, like, say, eratosthenes' experiment. also even though they're exercising scientific thinking they're pretty bad at it, cf just not understanding what they're proving or disproving

hmmm...that might be true, but does any of that matter if we're living in a computer solution? just sayin

dude it is precisely by spotting and noting such inconsistencies in the programming of the matrix that we can bring the whole facade crashing down

he should have tried flying to tucson, arizona - well-established experiment for testing whether we are living in a computer simulation

lol tlg

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How could he know the lengths of the shadows at exactly the same time though?

Eratosthenes heard about a famous well in the Egyptian city of Swenet (Syene in Greek, and now known as Aswan), on the Nile River. At noon one day each year — the summer solstice (between June 20 and June 22) — the Sun’s rays shone straight down into the deep pit.
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Eratosthenes erected a pole in Alexandria, and on the summer solstice he observed that it cast a shadow, proving that the Sun was not directly overhead but slightly south.

first paragraph should be

Eratosthenes heard about a famous well in the Egyptian city of Swenet (Syene in Greek, and now known as Aswan), on the Nile River. At noon one day each year — the summer solstice (between June 20 and June 22) — the Sun’s rays shone straight down into the deep pit. They illuminated only the water at the bottom, not the sides of the well as on other days, proving that the Sun was directly overhead.

But how does he know exactly when noon is? Would that be using the shadows to prove the shadow lengths?

and just who IS this eratosthenes, anyway?

More like error-tosthenes, amirite?

He knows that on one day (Summer solstice, which civilisations have always been very good at noting and marking) there is no shadow at Syene, and some shadow the whole day at Alexandria - the shortest shadow will be the point at which the sun will be closest to being overhead.

https://imgur.com/gallery/BxA9T

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYQiHLhX0AIN0al.jpg:large

same tbh

he looks pretty happy about it. Blissful ignorance I suppose.

https://www.indy100.com/article/flat-earthers-reality-show-joke-7959556

(xps) insert 'blue balls' joek here...

email correspondence posted on guardian writer dawn foster's twitter account:
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"the suez canal is 100 miles long and there are no locks" is i think my favourite

https://www.flatearthconventionuk.co.uk/

3 day convention coming up in Birmingham, with talks by many "high educated heliocentric believers". Quotes from Tesla, Socrates and Neil deGrasse Tyson on the site!

The reality TV idea is fun, but I'm afraid that the participants will either be so suspicious of anyone involved that they would think they were being tricked whatever they were shown, or (and I reckon this is at least 80% of flat earthers) trolling.

"the suez canal is 100 miles long and there are no locks" is i think my favourite

The Standedge Tunnel is the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in Britain. It is 5,500 yards (5,000 m) long, 636 feet (194 m) underground at its deepest point, and 643 feet (196 m) above sea level.

I have been through this, it is deep and high at the same time, this might be confusing to Flat Earthers.

Flat Earthers not Ike and Tina fans, then?

I'm more curious about Tina's take on Sir John Ramsden's very narrow canal!

https://noizetv.vhx.tv/mad-mike-hughes-the-launch-or-non-launch/season:3/videos/to-the-world-the-end-the-begining

They still haven’t been able to get us a picture of the whole earth in one pic. I’m skeptical on space at all. Over 50 years later and still no actual proof that we’ve been out of low earth orbit

— jerry mcgregor (@benchmarksr) November 19, 2018

unrelated to flat earth, but i also like this idea:

You should be asking that on a street, not at a place where around 100% will say they're ready.

— SecretAngel (@SecretAngelOp) November 19, 2018

(in response to the tweet "Raise if your hand if you're ready for humanity to wake up and start becoming a galactic civilization.")

yeah, take to the streets to ask everyone if they're ready to start becoming a galactic civilization! that's where such ideas are taken very very seriously

I have never seen the back of my own head with my own eyes, whose to say its there at all, I am skectipal.

We are in the version of 2001 where Dave just pees on the monolith while flipping it off.

i need some good sincere pro flat earth memes for a project (the more "sciency" and professional looking the better) - plz help??

I sometimes think the more "sciency" and professional looking ones are likely to be spoofs.

That "suez canal has no locks" is a crackup. How does he think the ocean works!?

https://steemitimages.com/DQmRRNjWxx4aZtyo24GsmuQEW9FAZsKjzcRttsCR3tem9TA/FB_IMG_1506536175486.jpg

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Wait, what is the flat earth explanation for night and day? In the above model, wouldn't it be sunny 24 hours a day?

light switch

https://i.imgur.com/gpC4NVG.gif

seems plausible

So the sun is a directional light source. Fascinating!

Kinda want to employ Karl to turn that into my next music video (just turn earth and sun into records)

Waitamo, if that gif was accurate the sun would rise in Sydney before Melbourne.

another question. according to the flat earth model, are the Sun and the Moon also flat?

Sun and the moon are on sticks coming out of the North Pole IIRC.

There’s a great flat earth documentary on Netflix right now. The funniest bits are the flat earth scientists who go out to disprove that the earth is round and keep getting clowned by physics and reality.

A pictorial representation of the sun:

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_1bf07f64-ee93-47c3-bb44-222992c638f9?wid=48&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

Lol, hueg and not so hueg. It's a paradox!

I'll spare a drop of cheap scotch for limo driver, daredevil, and flat Earth conspiracy theorist Mike Hughes, who sought altitude on a DIY rocket to prove all prior geographers, navigators, physicists, space scientists, rocket pioneers, astronauts and modern world travellers wrong.

DAREDEVIL 'MAD' MIKE HUGHES DEAD AT 64 ...Fatal Rocket Crash Landing

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