the flat earth society is meeting here todayyyyyyyyyyyy

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

“I don’t believe in science,” said Hughes, whose main sponsor for the rocket is Research Flat Earth. “I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.”

Dunning-Kruger

nothing scientific about doing an experiment that proves a hypothesis

may offer some evidence towards natural selection

this is all so purely in the realm of not even wrong

Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.

i doubt his commitment to this cause.

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, 21 May 2017 17:23 (six months ago)

It's rare to read a pre-obituary. Godspeed, dude who's about to smear himself across the Mojave.

But that’s not science, that’s just a formula.

Does this person know what the word science means?

*trying not to mention Trump*

one of my 10th grade chemistry students just told me he's a flat earther

i asked him why, he said "because it looks flat to me"

i asked him about all of the evidence for a round earth (including photos from space) and his response was "that's just shit adults tell me, and most shit adults tell me is bullshit"

hard to argue with that

the argument is that "most" doesn't equate to "all"

ask him what thinks is on the other side of the flat earth. also what happens to planes when they fly to the edge of earth.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/53/db/7153db148076be56ad4f9d7ab1230acd--poster-ads-strip.jpg

It's a ridic position because this isn't even something so complex that you just have to take experts at their word about it. It's pretty easy to follow along step-by-step the logical path that leads to "Earth is a sphere", and there's numerous paths which lead to it. They're just too lazy to do it themselves.

internet flat earth people are insane cultists. there's no other explanation.
the amount of stuff they don't believe is real is baffling.

It's an infantile response to an uncertain, confusing world. "These 'adults'* don't have a 100% spotless record of telling me the truth about stuff, so therefore I will assume EVERYTHING they tell me is wrong googoogaga". You see the same thing with people post-2016 election going "well it's a poll and the prez election polls were wrong so therefore I totally dismiss it"
*for actual adults saying this, swap in "experts" or "scientists"

I had a conversation with one of these dopes where when confronted with the extremely obvious contradictions and fallacies in their 'theory' they then explained "well actually we're living inside an artificially generated construct so how could we really know, makes u think, etc".

this is a thread I never expected to get to 100 posts. makes me kinda depressed :/

yeah in some way I think this particular flashpoint is really symbolic of the current in-vogue strain of know-nothingism

they even made fun of flat-earthers in Encyclopedia Brown ffs

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