the flat earth society is meeting here todayyyyyyyyyyyy

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.

This twitter UI update is great pic.twitter.com/KOhzzRNTpl

— Krystal (@krystalbepsi) June 16, 2017

Yeah Ive seen that "these routes dont happen so thats proof!" claims before. Which were immediately shot down (er pardon the phrasing) by a pilot who flies AU-Sth america all the time.

Also for some reason, Brian Cox seems to attract a lot of these nutters?

I spoke with my friend last night and he revealed he thought the flat earthers made some good points. I asked him if he was kidding. He's not and of course he's a Trump supporter.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle and the earth is at least moderately flat.

the earth is flying saucer shaped, and flying saucer sightings are caused by atmospheric anomalies producing a complex mirage

if the earth wasn't flat, how come cars drive off cliffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkO3qRD2GZQ

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/us/b-o-b-flat-earth-gofundme-trnd/index.html

The cities in the background are approx. 16miles apart... where is the curve ? please explain this pic.twitter.com/YCJVBdOWX7

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

Met my first bonafide Flat-Earther yesterday and he was British. It was kinda lol but mostly sad.

https://pics.me.me/where-is-the-curve-research-flat-death-star-28182361.png

http://wspa.com/2017/11/09/flat-earthers-from-around-the-world-descend-upon-nc-for-convention/

quality headline

This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

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.