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[the-pi-guy]

To Flat Earthers:

What exactly is there to gain by convincing everyone the Earth is spherical?

It would be one of the most ridiculous things to convince people of, if it wasn't true.

 

[iamblades]

Pretty sure he was going off the often perpetuated flat earth myth, being that most people thought the Earth was flat until Columbus basically. Incorrect though.

Yeah I get what he was saying. When it was physically proven via circumnavigation vs. when it was mathematically and theoretically proven. Just thought it was important to note that there hasn't been a time in the last 2500 years where a flat earth was a consensus in the west or the near east, it's basically always been a crazy lunatic fringe. Even in the dark ages Christians almost always depicted a spherical earth(even if they were hazy on the details, not being up to snuff on the Greek philosophers like the Islamic world was).

 

[cloud_sleep]

I actually thought about this today (probably more than it deserves), and I think it's because it isn't really about the shape of the Earth, it's because of a disbelief in the concept of outer space/the Universe itself. The (flat) Earth itself is all that exists to them.

It'd be interesting to see some Venn diagrams of flat earth, creationism, lizard people, etc, believers. The region of overlap of all the diagrams would be...Ben Carson?

A flat earth is at the center of the universe. It is a special creation by God made for us, his special children. NASA (nearly an anagram of SATAN) wants you to believe that the earth is a ball, just like all the other planets in the universe. Nothing special about it or us. No need to think we were created or that God exists.

That's the gist of it. I wish I was joking.

 

[la flama blanca]

To Flat Earthers:

What exactly is there to gain by convincing everyone the Earth is spherical?

It would be one of the most ridiculous things to convince people of, if it wasn't true.

Because heaven is above and hell is below. The realms need to be protected.

 

[freethought]

Just think how stupid all you spherical Earth peeps are going to feel when they prove the Universe is 2-dimensional and this is all just a hologram.

 

[Catvoca]

How has no one posted the best reply to all this? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPSnacks/status/691443961005785090

@bobatl robert, you have enough money to call richard branson and literally go into space to collect this galaxy-sized L

 

[CloudyTuba]

B.o.B ‏@bobatl 45 minutes ago

16 miles equals how much earth curve ?

I was thinking about this question. 16 miles is 0.06425% of the Earth's circumference. That's loosely around one twentieth of a single percent (more exact fraction being closer to 8/125).

This translates to around one fifth of a single degree with it comes to angles (0.2313 degrees exactly).

If my math is right and I didn't screw this up, please someone tweet this to him:

Short answer: None. This is a real circle I created in Photoshop, zoomed in to display only "16 miles" worth. Just because it looks flat doesnt mean it is. That is literally a circle we're looking at.

 

[hipbabboom]

Why do people want the earth to be flat?

I honestly believe its a really profoundly ignorant form of elitism.

If you have ideas about existence that diverges with someone else then the more of ideas you can have divergent from that someone serves as proof of how wrong they are. You'd have little obligation to respect a fool who can't see the truth.

 

[Permanently A]

A bunch of my friends put a balloon with a camera high enough to see the curvature of the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-lrfs_ipo

We're done here.

Hmm, looks pretty goo- what's this?

Aha! Thought you could slip the wool over our eyes, did you? ENHANCE

ENHANCE

I KNEW IT

 

[iamblades]

I was thinking about this question. 16 miles is 0.06425% of the Earth's circumference. That's loosely around one twentieth of a single percent (more exact fraction being closer to 8/125).

This translates to around one fifth of a single degree with it comes to angles (0.2313 degrees exactly).

If my math is right and I didn't screw this up, please someone tweet this to him:

Short answer: None. This is literally a real circle I created in Photoshop, zoomed in to display only "16 miles" worth.

Edit: I actually think I discovered a flaw in my math, it may be even smaller of a degree...making him even more wrong. Double checking.

Your math looks about right to me.

It's ~69mi/110km per degree, so 16 mi would be about that.

 

[Dreavus]

Flat Earth is so 1500s. Hollow Earth is where its at.

The entrances are at the poles, of course!

Agharta, Land of the Advanced Races, here I come!

 

[CloudyTuba]

Your math looks about right to me.

It's ~69mi/110km per degree, so 16 mi would be about that.

Thanks for the double check!

 

[Bagels]

Just like the settings of your favorite 16-bit RPGs, our world is a donut. If you go far enough "North" in Canada, you can see Patagonia.

Spoiler

donuts are just bagels for people who are not freemasons.

 

[openrob]

If the earth is flat how would you explain time zones? Like its dark in europe but still bright in the US.



smh, some people are dumb

edit:



Like that shit right here!!! Why the fuck is the light just stopping?

Lool i know, I mean how would they explain night?

 

[cloud_sleep]

Tides come in. Tides go out. How do flat earthers explain that?

 

[Ben Morales]

Michael here!

Your channel is amazing! And, yeah I think it's time to watch the Flat Earth episode again.

 

[zulfate]

so earth is in constant mode 7?

 

[Yarbskoo]

So...how do airplanes work under this scenario? D: Like as soon as planes took off wouldn't the earth accelerating upward slam into the bottom of the airplane?

It's not really much different than an object accelerating toward the center of the earth due to gravity. The plane is kept above the ground because of the air pressure applying force to the underside of the wings, and the atmosphere is kept above the earth's core because it can't pass through the ground. In the accelerating plate scenario, the effect is the same. The plane doesn't hit the ground because the air pushes on the wings the same way the earth disc is pushing on the air. Whether it's the plane accelerating toward the ground or the other way around depends on your point of reference.

I'm not sure how they attempt to explain the atmosphere not just all being blown off the edges of the earth though.

 

[hipbabboom]

Just like the settings of your favorite 16-bit RPGs, our world is a donut. If you go far enough "North" in Canada, you can see Patagonia.

Spoiler

donuts are just bagels for people who are not freemasons.

Its cold in the inner center because the sun cant reach there. The moon follows a spiral orbit around the donut like it was wrapped in a slinky that's why Satan is a liar!

 

[Frozenprince]

It's kind of elegant, in a demented way. Perfectly explains compasses and why circumventing the earth according to the maps we use still wouldn't get you to the edge. They've even worked out models for the solar and lunar transits to account for how day and night cycles would work on a flat Earth:

Gotta hand it to them, they've given it some thought at the very least.

If anything this makes it worse.

How do they explain gravity? I'm assuming all their math and calculations are using contemporary physics? If so, how the fuck does any of it work?

It might be some thought put into how it works, but it stops working the second you think about it beyond a surface level. I mean, what the hell is beyond the edges of the world then? If you keep going do you just, you know, fall into space?

 

[Jacksinthe]

They're flat too. They're just discs that always face towards us.

Really real life uses videogame style billboard objects confirmed.

Earth isn't flat, its whatever you want it to be. That's how the Matrix, where we live thanks to this discovery, works.

 

[KarmaCow]

Oh right, everyone else is not looking at the overwhelming evidence that even a child can refute.

 

[-COOLIO-]

To Flat Earthers:

What exactly is there to gain by convincing everyone the Earth is spherical?

It would be one of the most ridiculous things to convince people of, if it wasn't true.

so that we can push flat earthers off when they dont suspect it.

edit: also, BoB is making a statement about the irrefutability of religious belief.

 

[iamblades]

If anything this makes it worse.

How do they explain gravity? I'm assuming all their math and calculations are using contemporary physics? If so, how the fuck does any of it work?

It might be some thought put into how it works, but it stops working the second you think about it beyond a surface level. I mean, what the hell is beyond the edges of the world then? If you keep going do you just, you know, fall into space?

I think you are taking this more seriously than anyone who has ever been a proponent of this nonsense.

 

[The Albatross]

I'm with BoB, can't reject this evidence

 

[Frozenprince]

I think you are taking this more seriously than anyone who has ever been a proponent of this nonsense.

Man I get the need to believe in conspiracy theories because it makes you feel important and smarter than you really are (because if you believe the zany ones you're certifiable), but this shit literally makes 0 sense.

 

[Arkos]

Tides come in. Tides go out. How do flat earthers explain that?

Can't.

 

[TouchMyBox]

Is his career doing THAT badly that he has to resort to these publicity stunts?

 

[Subpar Scrub]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOz_J6tJVU

 

[Yarbskoo]

Are satellites a lie too? If the earth is just an accelerating plate, then orbits obviously don't work. Once they fall around the earth once there's nothing to bring them back. Just a marketing gimmick invented by telecommunications companies I guess.

 

[Doge]

of course he his. the reactions are pretty funny though because people on twitter are completely incapable of understanding sarcasm.

obviously

This is amazing.

How has no one posted the best reply to all this? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPSnacks/status/691443961005785090

oh muh gawd

 

[FelixOrion]

How has no one posted the best reply to all this? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPSnacks/status/691443961005785090

fuuuuccckkkkk

 

[Frozenprince]

How has no one posted the best reply to all this? https://mobile.twitter.com/DPSnacks/status/691443961005785090

 

[Subpar Spatula]

I understand the evidence for both cases but I tend to lean more towards flat earth simply because a spherical earth requires a few leaps in logic.

 

[Grover]

Isn't the "Flat Earth is a 15th century thing" a myth, too? Hadn't most people accepted a spherical Earth by that point?

yes

Eratosthenes discovered that the earth was round thousands of years ago

https://youtu.be/Pc1NatQKSP0?t=1907

 

[Nosgotham]

To Flat Earthers:

What exactly is there to gain by convincing everyone the Earth is spherical?

It would be one of the most ridiculous things to convince people of, if it wasn't true.

well if this was proven to be wrong, people would not have trust in science, government, anyything...pandemonium, cats and dogs living together etc etc

 

[hipbabboom]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOz_J6tJVU

Can you spot it? When the conversation went down the shitter?

 

[blame space]

pretty close minded thread

 

[LaserBuddha]

pretty close minded thread

Can it, flathead.

 

[……forgetit]

I don't know guys, he may be on to something.

 

[iamblades]

yes

Eratosthenes discovered that the earth was round thousands of years ago

https://youtu.be/Pc1NatQKSP0?t=1907

Eratosthenes calculated the circumference, but at that point the spherical earth had been a settled matter for a few centuries in the hellenistic world.

 

[MattKeil]

Antarctica. Yep, according to them Antarctica isn't actually the continent at our sothern pole - it's a wall of ice surrounding the flat earth in all directions. We only think it's the South Pole because the North Pole is the center, so everytime we reach the wall we are as far "south" as possible.

EDIT: An illustration:

The hovering spotlight is the sun.

Why wouldn't you be able to see the sun at all times no matter where you are on the disc?

 

[Stormhammer]

pretty close minded thread

i blame space

 

[LQX]

If the earth is truly round how come we don't walk up or with a slight curve?

 

[besada]

Space travel would be so much easier if the Earth were flat. Just set up your launch facility at the edges, and push spacecraft off the planet.

 

[Subpar Spatula]

Space travel would be so much easier if the Earth were flat. Just set up your launch facility at the edges, and push spacecraft off the planet.

Wouldn't it loop to the other side?

Speaking of that... what's on the other side?

 

[AstroNut325]

I still have no idea who this B.o.B character is. And why is he/she getting any attention?

 

[la flama blanca]

Wouldn't it loop to the other side?

Speaking of that... what's on the other side?

All our farts

 

[Johndoey]

So is the flat earth two sided or is everything on one plane? How flat is it? Is it like one dimensional or what. Does trying to go off one side loop you to the other?

 

[……forgetit]

Wouldn't it loop to the other side?

Speaking of that... what's on the other side?

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