What's the deal lately with people thinking the planet we live on is flat? If you are a believer explain me your idiotic theory. I'll read your ideas with a chuckle.
Explain why you think this matters.
>>767876361
Since when did stuff have to matter on /b/ gtfo you inbred
>>767876299
I am not personally a belieber, but from I can gather from their arguments is "you have never been to space, so how do you know it is round?" The flat Earth theory is mostly beliebed by people that are more sceptical and less trust worthy of government.
Honestly, if you think about it, YOU can not prove them right or wrong. You can only choose to trust a side. I know that I can't prove the Earth to be round (I'm to poor to buy a rocket) and most likely you can't either.
Its part of the hidden knowledge movement.
basically people in society that are usually unsuccessful or irrelevant can feel better by having knowledge the rest of us don't have. Flat earth is popular right now just like Moon Landing and 9/11 were in the years past.
Flat earth one may be here for a while because its a convincing one, you cant just rocket up there and check it out yourself. Also earth basically looks flat all day every day from being on the surface.
All these Flat Earth people, from what I can tell, reject a lot of stuff, are lower IQ and absolutely cannot handle their ideas being proven wrong, almost to the point of a mental problem.
>>767877847
Too bad that population control like that doesn't work anymore in the Internet age, huh chum?
>>767877847
You can just stand on the beach and watch a ship go over the horizon. That's how the Greeks figured it out and it costs nothing. The problem is what you hit on- these people cannot handle cognitive dissonance at all.
>>767877847
>>767877847
>Flat earth is popular right now just like Moon Landing and 9/11 were in the years past.
you absolute faggot. 9/11 is the most blatant false flag of all time. comparing that to the retarded flat earth nonsense is insulting and ignorant
>>767878509
enjoy all 7 parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN3qUXJp7l0&t=160s
>>767877139
How do you know I haven't been to space? Assumptions get you no where, just like believing the Earth is flat. Scrub.
>>767878509
All i heard was "reeeeee!"
>>767877139
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Honestly, if you think about it, YOU can not prove them right or wrong. You can only choose to trust a side. I know that I can't prove the Earth to be round (I'm to poor to buy a rocket) and most likely you can't either meep meep beep beep sillay AAASSSS COOOWWWW NIGGSAAAAAAAA
>>767878852
There is only a handful of people that have been to outer space, the probability that you are one of them is extremely low, therefore by choosing the most likely possibility I can assume that you have never been to space.
Assuming the Earth is round gets you no where, just like all the retards that assume the Earth is flat.
>>767880363
No need to assume. It's bronze age math. The earth is round. Stating your opinion about a fact is irrelevant.
>>767876299
90% of those people are trolling, another 10% are actually dumb enough to believe it.
>>767877139
>YOU can not prove them right or wrong.
Horseshit. It's easy to prove them wrong.
I'll grant it's more difficult to prove the sphere, but certainly not impossible. The big challenges are
1) flat earthers are astonishingly stupid
2) flat earthers punt with simple denial.
3) flat earthers don't even attempt to explain why things are the way they'd have to be on a flat earth.
4) almost all of them are trolls, so it's responses are just fodder. The few remaining are terrified of Hell for not believing what their pastors say, or are #1 above.
>>767880363
I've seen Gary Busey here on /b/. There's only one of them.
>>767877847
>Anonymous 05/06/18(Sun)19:32:06 No.767876541▶
>>>767876361
>Since when did stuff have to matter on /b/ gtfo you inbred
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Fucking this.
Most people don't take college trig where you learn that a large curved surface is indistinguishable from a flat surface on the smallest scales.
>>767880665
I've got ask. Are you really an astronaut (or former)?
>>767876299
The evidence for a flat earth is derived from many different facets of science and philosophy. The simplest is by relying on ones own senses to discern the true nature of the world around us. The world looks flat, the bottoms of clouds are flat, the movement of the sun; these are all examples of your senses telling you that we do not live on a spherical heliocentric world. This is using what's called an empirical approach, or an approach that relies on information from your senses. Alternatively, when using Descartes' method of Cartesian doubt to skeptically view the world around us, one quickly finds that the notion of a spherical world is the theory which has the burden of proof and not flat earth theory.
Perhaps the best example of flat earth proof is the Bedford Level Experiment. In short, this was an experiment performed many times on a six-mile stretch of water that proved the surface of the water to be flat. It did not conform to the curvature of the earth that round earth proponents teach.
>>767877139
You can prove them wrong but every argument of your's would certainly go above their head.
>>767880665
That is where the main points of the flat earthers arguments come in.
>Do you understand these maths?
>Have you worked out the measurements yourself?
>How do you know they are correct?
Again, not arguing for them, but their arguments are not given fair treatment. They are pretty much instantly shut down by people that don't have the slightest understanding of how either side of the argument comes up with their calculations, which is simply idiotic. It's stupidity fighting against stupidity, which is exactly what this debate is, stupid.
>>767881309
>Most people don't take college trig where you learn that a large curved surface is indistinguishable from a flat surface on the smallest scales.
Have an MBA in civil engineering... think I know a thing or two about trig. That's elementary level shit.
>>767881414
>The evidence for a flat earth is derived from many different facets of science
No, no, no, no, no. There is no science that can honorably conclude the Earth is flat.
"One's own senses" is not empirical evidence. It is entirely subjective. Bottoms of clouds flat? Look up "mammatus clouds."
Bedford, you liar. It was flawed and when redone with calibration for atmospheric refraction, shown to wrong.
>>767881518
Math is short for mathematics. Which I'll grant is a sphere of studies that includes numerous disciplines. That being said, the point of making a word shorter is for it to not be a pain in the ass to say. You can't tell me with a straight face that Maths is as easy to say as Math. Damn, you people don't so much speak the language as piss on it.
>>767881518
>but their arguments are not given fair treatment.
They don't *have* any arguments for a flat earth other than "it looks flat, prove me wrong." That's it. Nothing else. The blather they spew is all about trying to show how the earth is not round, and every argument has glaring flaws that they refuse to acknowledge.
>>767881881
I'm British you bloody wanker. I know how to speak right, it's you amerifats that don't.
>>767881518
You do know that an otterbox for your phone has
on multiple occasions been attached to a set of
balloons and sent into the stratosphere all
while recording video?
You can do that yourself because the curvature
of the Earth becomes obvious before they pop.
Btw, the phones all made it, with no damage.
>>767878509
this guy gets it
The History of Conditioning Humans to believe in the existence of Outer Space and Space Travel. Unfortunately outer space does not exist like we are brainwashed to believe in television (tell-lie-vision) programming.
Nowadays outer space is a given in everyones mind. It's virtually in every movie, video game, comic book, novel, and even music and tv shows. , causing mostly everyone to believe in outer space without question, eventhough they have never been there or seen it for themselves. Well, the truth is that we are being lied to about space travel and the very shape of our earth. Earth is a actually level & motionless plane and we've been systematically brainwashed into believing that we live on a spinning ball and that outer space is a real place that humans can go. Unfortunately for fans of outer space and space travel, it's all one big, elaborate hoax. Research Flat Earth.
>>767882053
The english (won't dignify you with capitalization) speak English at a middle-school level at best. Fight me.
>>767881414
>round earth proponents
you mean educated people
>>767882158
>>767881837
Please see>>767882076 to prove how brain-dead you are.
90% - trolls who like pissing off "intellectuals"
5% - idiots
5% - people who are doing an elaborate charade/thought experiment/philosophic exercise regarding the idea of trusting your senses to reliably identify the nature of reality as as opposed to rationalism or authoritarian sources
>>767882158
>amateur astronomy isn't a huge thing
every country would have to be colluding, and most countries hate eachother...
>>767882158
Elaborate anon, I'm high and curious to hear more about your theory on how the govt brainwashes society.
>What is Earth?
>What are they hiding?
>What's the point of making up the fairy-tale of "space"
>>767882158
>Nowadays outer space is a given in everyones mind.
Speak for yourself, little boi. I grew up in awe of space travel's infancy. I felt the national excitement firsthand as each baby step was taken. We all took pride in learning and understanding what was going on. It's you punks who grew up with it and are taking it for granted. The world is not populated with the apathetic, smug brats you seem to encounter.
Can't we all be happy we live on pear shaped rock that's relatively
>>767882370
You've either made a mistake in thread attribution, or you don't understand what you're reading.
>>767876299
Someone had a great idea for a reality show similar to the amazing race.
Give resources to, and a big reward for, a bunch of flat earthers, the first of whom can make it to the edge of the planet.
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>>767881837
Literally Google "reddit flat earth copypasta"
Sad
>>767882609
it's pretty much a globe ok? it has a bulge, but pear shaped is exaggerating
Can't we be happy we live on a pear shaped rock that's relatively stable?
>>767881996
Around a year ago I was really into the flat Earth theory, I searched everywhere for possible arguments that made sense. Not that I believed it was flat, but what if they are right? Anyways, I came across very few that made any sense and that provided an actual study. Then those that could have made sense weren't neccearily flawed, but conflicted with studies that were already believed as fact.
>>767882666
You want to make a point, say it.
>>767882645
Brilliant
>flat earthers congregate for new amazing race episode
>goal is to get to the edge first to win
>all flat earthers make it to the edge
>flat earthers fall off the flat earth and die
>society exponentially gets smarter now that all the tard flat earthers are no longer existing
>science evolves enough to the prove that the earth is flat
>>767882785
Oh please, tell me one thing that made sense. Anything. I've never heard one argument *for* a flat earth that wasn't flawed. Nada. Zip. Nothing.
>>767878509
ding ding ding. conflation of flat earth theory and conspiracies such as 9/11 is all part of the plan.
>>767882895
Yeah. You got trolled by obvious fucking bait
and from Reddit of all places.
>>767883593
Gee... like I'm familiar with what's going on in Reddit. What a fool am I.
Umnmm... so how do you know about it?
>>767883678
Literally copy and paste and search.
Just... stop Stop It's getting cringey
So every other planet we've ever observed is spherical, but our planet is flat? Please enlighten me
>>767877139
>Honestly, if you think about it, YOU can not prove them right or wrong. You can only choose to trust a side. I know that I can't prove the Earth to be round (I'm to poor to buy a rocket) and most likely you can't either.
There are numerous ways that you can. The ancient Greeks knew the world was round. Everyone knew the world was round 100 years ago, even though nobody had been to space. Amateur radio hobbyists routinely use satellites to communicate, and with cheap chinese electronics, these days anyone can listen to satellite transmissions and easily verify that the Earth is round. You can also use astronomical observations, observe the sea, watch a sunset from a high vantage point, etc.
Here's some random staticy image I received from a weather satellite with a 'rabbit ears' TV antenna and a $10 USB dongle.
>>767884612
Before some retard replies that it looks computer generated, this is what the image looks like before processing.
>>767877139
You can buy a plane ticket, you don't need to go all the way to space to see the curvature of the earth.
And distrusting the government is one thing, but you would need to believe far more people then just people in the government was in on the "round earth conspiracy", every pilot, everyone that have access to satellite imagery, everyone involved in making cell phones and GPS systems, hell even people that climb mountains would need to lie.
By the point that around 100+ million people are in on a conspiracy you would think that ONE would have turned whistleblower and leaked some classified documents or something.
Now i am a bit of a "conspiracy nut", anyone that thinks conspiracies never happen are as dumb as those that actually believe in flat earth bs or that all the world leaders are lizard people or other nonsense.
And i think if anything that those are in themselves a conspiracy, think about this, powerful people getting together to do shady shit for power and money is not that unbelievable right?
So how do you discredit people who like to dig in those types of conspiracies? You make or help promote outrageous conspiracies that no person in their right mind can believe, and then you make it seem like people believe in them or you get crazy people to believe in them.
Now whenever someone start to ask questions about something like "was 9/11 a false flag operation?" they are automatically placed in the same camp as the "Trump is a reptilian" "Bigfoot kidnap me and impregnated me with his child, but... it, ehh... ran away after i gave birth to it...".
Now i don't know if the footage of the moon landing is fake, but knowing what was at stake in the space race it is not crazy to believe the US would have a interest in faking it, it was not impossible to fake it, but if you question it you end up in the same camp as those that believe the moon is a hologram...
>>767885057
If you don't want to be lumped in with them, why are you, a moon landing denier, replying to a thread about flat earth ?
>>767885057
>Now i don't know if the footage of the moon landing is fake, ...
<sarcasm>Gee... you're so discerning and wise</sarcasm>
>>767885057
>knowing what was at stake in the space race it is not crazy to believe the US would have a interest in faking it,
Yes, it is crazy to not believe, precisely because of what was at stake. The Soviets had perfectly good equipment capable of tracking the missions and communications, and as you point out, had a very high stake in seeing teh US fail, and would have gleefully jumped on the chance to expose any fakery.
Basically, you're an idiot.
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>>767886014
Ok, fine, i am an idiot, even tho i never claimed it was fake, i simply said i don't know. My point was that entertains the plausible even if unlikely should never be equated with entertaining the absurd, but that part was not something any of you bothered with.
Thank god for the intellectual elite here to show me the error of my ways...
It's for attention..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yisYMTe1Y
Earth is a phlat ball dummy, that's why we so confused
>>767881414
>round earth proponents
You mean sane people?
It will always be impossible to prove the earth is flat or not flat, as we cannot perceive all sides of it at the same time.
>>767887221
Except that people put cameras on balloons, or rockets, or satellites, all of which show a round earth. Nevermind that the entire airline industry determines their routes based on a curved earth.
>>767886847
My point is, listening to the Moon landing fakery idea *is* entertaining the absurd. And it's not because "I believe" and am "brainwashed," it's because I know what's involved in the arguments and proofs. This thread isn't the first time the ideas have been posted. Each and every point the flat earthers and the fakers rely on is a spurious claim that the evidence can't show this or that, or they misinterpret (on purpose? through ignorance?) and pass off as conclusive proof of the deception. Ironic, really.
Neither is plausible. Both camps are full of charlatans who prey on the feeble-minded, easily confused, uneducated and slightly dim (enough to think they understand the arguments and points) marks, in return for the notoriety they cannot achieve through honest, dilligent investigation and research.
It's made-up crap. That's all, That's the joke. To even say, "Let's look at the evidence" is feeding the troll. You give credence where none is deserved or earned.
Worse, it allows people to think that opinion is somehow fact, and should be treated with equal weight. We are breeding a generation of idiots. The entire knowledgebase of humanity is available at everyone's fingertips, and critical thinking is a vanishing art. People no longer learn how to think, or bother. If it's on YouTube, it must have value. It's nuts.
>>767888121
That's what I'm talking about.
>>767887221
idiots.
>>767887221
This statement is inherently false.
>>767887221
I've been laughing for a solid 10 mins about how messed up of a childhood you had. Open a book. The world is evolving everyday, while people like you hold society back with utter stupidity.
