the flat earth society is meeting here todayyyyyyyyyyyy

Quest for truth iirc

everybody wants to feel special

mainly it's the belief that the earth is flat iirc

Is it tied in some way to the bible or Yesus?

wikipedia sez at least partially:

Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884). Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy, which he later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles (4,800 km) and the "cosmos" 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Earth.[7] He also published a leaflet titled "The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!", which argued that the "Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture"[8] (see Biblical inerrancy).

Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace.[9][10][11] Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.[12]

After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was "the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation". The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century.[13] A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901–1904, edited by Lady Blount.[14]

flat earthers, hollow earthers, sun-orbits-around-the-earthers, i love 'em all

how could i forget young-earthers

Is it tied in some way to the bible

not really, i am reading 12th century Biblical commentary and even in that they are lolling at flat Earthers too

There was an idea that the Earth must be flat or the water wouldn't flow to California.

Found it odd that my Philosophy lecturer in turn found it odd that there would be an idea that the earth might be flat before shown to be otherwise. You need an awareness of distance to come up with parallax and other proofs don't you. If you're going by sight as far as you can see stops before you register curvature.

Though the idea of a round globe heavily predates Columbus, contrary to what you hear in Primary school.

Australia takes its name from the idea of a counterweight continent to balance out the great landmass in the north dunnit? Not sure when the idea of Terra Australis first appeared though.

There was an idea that the Earth must be flat or the water wouldn't flow to California.

https://media.tenor.com/images/fb3f2d1e814190100a4ae401b1660d5b/tenor.gif

I mean if you say to them" ok maybe the earth is flat" so what? what happens next? teh rapture?

just wondering what is keeping flat Earthers from embracing other antiquated worldviews. like you would think there would be a revival of Galenic/Humoral medicine. "fuck big pharma, they are hiding the truth about black bile"

antivaxxers aren't too far off that level of delusion really

Columbus miscalculation was based on an underestimation of how wide the circuumference of the earth was which i think was based on a Ptolemaic calculation.
I don't think people trusted massive ocean voyaging though Columbus is supposed to have followed in the wake of a cod fishery fleet. I think the discovery of the New World had a lot to do with fishing. First long term European settlements had to do with providing shelter for fishermem then provided shelter for people fleeing Europe.

& of course the Vikings had been out that way way before him, as had the Malians and the Chinese.

I just fell like asking"what is below flat earth? eternal dirt?

so gravity is not a force towards the centre of massive objects its just a "down" force?

dude the earth is round but we are on the inside surface, plz keep up

or actually down

I got told that there was thought to be a force called gravity in philosophical thought way before Newton defined it. So could be a pre-Newtonian idea of the concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

mid third century BC, calculated the circumference of the Earth to within a few percentage points of error

THE MOON IS A POTATO

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBneRdJVoAAs118?format=jpg&name=large

o shit

I heard about that Egyptian dude on a r4 program once, pretty astonishing work was that.

Could this be the secret of the Freemasons!?!

my father-in-law's a mason and i'll be seeing him this weekend - i'll press him for details and let u know

http://i65.tinypic.com/28ipbes.png

'is knowledge truth?'

makes u think

the fully costed masons

I was thinking earlier today of how airline routes prove a globe-shaped earth only to find out that there are MULTIPLE sites devoted to showing that they demonstrate a flat earth.

https://aplanetruth.info/2016/12/03/commercial-air-flights-on-a-flat-earth-work-perfectly/comment-page-1/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVgzk3tbl0

"20,000 volts running through it"

my problem with all these flat earth conspiracy videos is that they're all like 20 minutes long, c'mon, give me the good stuff in two minutes like the illuminati folks do

not that surprising that flat earthers aren't keeping up with the times, tbf

the sun just goes around in a circle above flat earth? what the f holds it in place?

duct tape iirc

wait they also think the sun orbits the earth?

Unfortunately it looks like RT has deleted the much-mocked op ed Sam Gerrans did for them last month suggesting that a round Earth is hoax / conspiracy.

da plane pour moi

The earth is indeed flat, dull, stale, boring, lifeless...

what the f holds it in place?

gravity/centrifugal force/big bang/celestial spheres take your pick of terminology

So do they think that all planets are flat or just Earth? Or do they not believe in any other celestrial bodies, do they indeed think that 'stars' are in fact stars as in the five pointed shapes?

I think they think the universe is a dome above flat earth

also unclear on what exactly the motives of the perpetrators of this hoax are

this guy's channel is ummmm pretty good. this one's got some ASMR vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRjxQIYOj4

Its like if Neil Breen had an idea about what the universe is like

lol

I want to gain the confidence of some flat earthers and string them along for a long time before I'm all like, guys guys...what if the earth is actually mildly convex? Best to start slow, don't want to blow their minds all at once.

i am enjoying this chaos ballet

God, that YouTube about the plane flights. The dude says, flat out, "I don't think this flight exists" in two different scenarios. So, they're just, like, listing it on the site to keep the "conspiracy" going?

I love this graphic in all it 'do you see' glory.

https://planetruthblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/fe-air-map-5.png

The lack of demand for flights from Hobart to Buenos Aires is clear proof that true world is flat.

Incidentally they just launched a Melbourne to Santiago flight that comes awfully close to crossing the Antarctic. I wish there were one that went all the way to BA because flinching iver he South Pole would be so awesome.

https://goo.gl/images/FaJ7c6

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

Dead Pool 2020

whatever the opposite of "daredevil" is that's how i "self-style"

He certainly dared the devil

the flat earth claims yet another victim

Good thing he didn't manage to crawl round to the underside, he'd have fallen off (is that what these clowns believe?)

turtles all the way down mate

https://moviecomicswhoswho.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/splintercomics2.jpg

the video of the crash is quite distressing - looks like the parachute deployed on take off and then fell off, so once the rocket hit the top of it's rather steep arc, it just hurtled back into the ground at like 300 mph

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.536370043.3007/flat,550x550,075,f.u60.jpg

:) otm

Not to get too tin hatty, but this sounds like the work of Big Spherical to me. Possibly in collusion with Big Darwinism. Watch your backs, my climate change denying brethren, Big Global Warming will sneak skin cancer into you when you least expect it.

Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the rocket launch, said Hughes, 64, was killed.

“It was unsuccessful, and he passed away,” Stakes told The Associated Press. He declined further comment.

This is what they call in the scientific community a "lose/lose."

What a hill to die on. Desert, in this case.
Mantle?

man the lengths the Globies will go to silence the opposition, you hate to see it

not even the best Mad Mike ffs

This comic was in today's funny pages, in one of those weird coincidences.

https://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2020/02/23

Had no idea they were already using neural networks to generate newspaper strips. It really does look almost like something a human made!

At any rate, this should really be a celebration of someone who died doing what he loved: engaging in reckless activities with the stated purpose of proving something deeply stupid and the implicit purpose of committing messy suicide.

I don't have the data to back it up, but I feel like the overlap between flat earthers and Darwin award winners is pretty sizable.

― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Sunday, May 21, 2017 12:23 PM (two years ago)

Prophetic.

whut

https://www.inverse.com/article/21098-flat-earthers-trees

The flat-earth nonsense about 40 mile tall trees in that article is just a clickbait lead-in for a longer discussion about deforestation and loss of old-growth, climax forests. The proposal that 'in the Big Picture they aren't all wrong' is just the segue to keep you reading about the author's real concerns. He hopes you won't notice that he stops talking about the flat-earther idiocy that fetched you in and you'll imbibe some environmental awareness. It is a stupid rhetorical gambit that won't work nearly as well as the author hopes it will.