the flat earth society is meeting here todayyyyyyyyyyyy

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.