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[Übermatik]

If you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with, er, a very long tube umm, probably extending er twice the size of the universe because when you collapse the universe it expands and and it would be, err...

You wouldn't wanna put it into a tube.

 

[Ben Morales]

Wouldn't it loop to the other side?

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

We wrap around like in Mario 2.

 

[iceblade997]

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.

But... But... But what about the now thousands of pictures taken by satellites, telescopes, and probes that we've put into space? How do we launch stuff into space then?

 

[Orthogonal]

But... But... But what about the now thousands of pictures taken by satellites, telescopes, and probes that we've put into space? How do we launch stuff into space then?

Fake, all of it.

 

[Condom]

Did they not teach him astronomy in HS?

 

[irfaanator]

In 1884, meridian time personnel met in Washington to change Earth time. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day bible. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. This a major lie has so much evil feed from it's wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar.

damn straight. That's why no intellectual from MIT or Harvard has beaten this guy in a debate and taken 10000 dollars

 

[Dali]

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

We actually live in the head of a blue eyed giant. That's why the sky is blue.

 

[7DollarHagane]

It's really interesting stuff, not factual or correct, but interesting in the same way as reading about planets in star wars or something.

I think the idea of the sun as a spotlight and a conspiracy to make people think we know about the solar system and siphon tax dollars through NASA is really a funny theory. It has just enough things you might believe if you're gullible.

 

[Deleted member 74300]

Damn global warming.

 

[Earendil]

Flat Earth nutters can't even pass the first question in Dumbass Conspiracies 101 - Why would people in power even want to make you think the Earth was flat? What benefit is there to that?

It's a conspiracy from the globe manufacturers so they can sell more globes.


I wish I was kidding, but this is actually how it was explained to me.

 

[QuantumDerp]

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

I guess my moral compass is skewed.

 

[7DollarHagane]

It's a conspiracy from the globe manufacturers so they can sell more globes.


I wish I was kidding, but this is actually how it was explained to me.

Most see it as a way for the government to conceal that NASA was never able to leave earth or pass through the van Allen radiation belt. Because the space program is financially lucrative they continue to run it as a charade to give reasons for the billions spent on space exploration.

The round earth and everything we know about the solar system and space is a story crafted by NASA with computer generated imagery and video to go along with it.

Also probably a bit of conspiracy about the government trying to hide proof that the earth was created and hiding God's influence, etc.

It's all very nutty but might make a good movie or book.

 

[Grenchel]

Maybe he is trying to get Tia Tequilas attention

 

[maximum360]

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

.

 

[CharminUltra]

#teachthecontroversy

 

[panama chief]

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

exactly

 

[bonesmccoy]

Leaving aside contemporary Flat Earth truthers for just a moment, this

Neil deGrasse Tyson ✔ @neiltyson
@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music

is wrong too. For example, De sphaera mundi was written circa 1230, and considered mandatory reading for centuries. And it's not as if it was a controversial work - pretty much no learned person for like 1800+ years thought the Earth was flat.

 

[LumpOfCole]

All a flat-earther has to do to prove himself or herself is get a GoPro onto a weather balloon and let it float up until it pops, then get the GoPro and distribute video of the Earth looking obviously flat from an extremely high vantage point.

But there's a chance that experiment might backfire.

 

[blame space]

what I don't get is why would it still be a circle

 

[matrix-cat]

If the Earth is round, how come we still got monkeys?

 

[the-pi-guy]

Leaving aside contemporary Flat Earth truthers for just a moment, this



is wrong too. For example, De sphaera mundi was written circa 1230, and considered mandatory reading for centuries. And it's not as if it was a controversial work - pretty much no learned person for like 1800+ years thought the Earth was flat.

Well we can think of a couple different things:

When the spherical Earth was first proposed (600 BC)
When the spherical Earth was first accepted (300 BC)
When the spherical Earth was first demonstrated (1500 AD)

Tyson was either going by the last one, or perpetuating the myth that the Earth was thought flat until the 1500's.

 

[Aureon]

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.

But... there's flights that go over Antarctica. Commercial, even.
@_@

 

[chaobreaker]

I wish the earth was flat.

Shit would be badass tbh.

 

[chrisPjelly]

E-Earth's not flat, she's just... developing

 

[mdubs]

How Can The Earth Be Flat If Our Eyes Aren't Real

 

[Einchy]

I need a show where scientists sit down with him and explain everything to him.

Neil, make this shit happen.

 

[The Kree]

Asgard is flat (I think).

So it's clearly possible.

 

[chaobreaker]

So does flat earth theorizing go hand-in-hand with climate change denial or nah?

 

[eu pfhor ia]

So does flat earth theorizing go hand-in-hand with climate change denial or nah?

if you don't "believe" in everything that humans have learned about the Universe through mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, etc, I'd imagine you believe just about anything. So, yes.

(more seriously, I'm also curious about just how many things flat earthers might buy into, but how could one ever trust any polling or survey data collected from them? Clearly they'd assume anyone polling them was just another illumanti or whatever)

 

[Orthogonal]

if you don't "believe" in everything that humans have learned about the Universe through mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, etc, I'd imagine you believe just about anything. So, yes.

(more seriously, I'm also curious about just how many things flat earthers might buy into, but how could one ever trust any polling or survey data collected from them?)

I have browsed a few youtube channels and some of them are into other conspiracies like 9/11 Truthers and Illuminati.

No widespread polls, but it makes sense they would buy into others.

 

[Measley]

I'm in shock that people still believe this.

If we all agree that Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, etc. are planets, why would they all be round and Esrth be flat?

 

[Disxo]

I wish the earth was flat.

Shit would be badass tbh.

The fun part haha, is that the limit of the atmosphere is curved in the pic.

In all honesty, these guys need to know what is science and how do some basic physics laws work.

 

[BanGy.nz]

Hip-Hop beef got weird. B.o.B - Flatline - feat. Neil Tyson

 

[CrunchyFrog]

@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music

What in the flying fuck

 

[Camp1nCarl]

When the only thing flatlining is your career...

 

[dr3upmushroom]

I wish the earth was flat.

Shit would be badass tbh.

Going by that picture we'd run out of an ocean in a min.

 

[Dereck]

Well then

 

[30yearsofhurt]

I like it. No more effing New Zealand.

But when i fly from Perth to Jo'burg I just go west across the ocean. Shouldn't I be flying north over Malaysia and Thailand and India and...

 

[Musolf815]

If you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with, er, a very long tube umm, probably extending er twice the size of the universe because when you collapse the universe it expands and and it would be, err...

You wouldn't wanna put it into a tube.

Picture a hot dog bun and throw all the stars, the hundreds of stars that there are into a bag. Put the universe into a bag and you all of a sudden they become....um....

When I was a child, there was thought to be NINE planets. But there are now NINETY planets.

 

[Xe4]

I've read that a common explanation for believers of the flat earth hypothesis is that the earth disc is accelerating upwards at a constant rate of 1g, meaning that if you jump, the earth is literally accelerating up to meet the bottom of your feet.

Actually, according to general relativity, that is what happens. Doesn't make the flat earth "hypothesis" any less dumb though.

 

[Hackworth]

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.

That's some good math

 

[Monocle]

if the earth is round then how come the people on the bottom don't fall off? really makes u think...

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.

stahp confusing me with your numbers and pictures. imma trust my gut on this one.

Spoiler

But seriously, nice job!

 

[Jezan]

If the earth was really flat the extreme edges would be awesome turist locations.

The images would be aweesome ... like the ocean falling into space

I don't know why we worry about shortage of water, there is infinte water if it keep all falling into space. Grow up pliz

 

[maximum360]

I like it. No more effing New Zealand.

But when i fly from Perth to Jo'burg I just go west across the ocean. Shouldn't I be flying north over Malaysia and Thailand and India and...

What I would like to know is who put in place the wormholes at either ends that teleports us to the other side if we go too far?

 

[onipex]

The Earth is flat because life is flat. You only think its round because you try to live your life in circles.

 

[xenist]

Anyone with enough money to tie a GoPro to a weather balloon can see the curvature of the planet easily. The flat earth argument has never looked dumber than it does these days.

Anyone with eyes can see the curvature of the earth.

 

[Daedardus]

How could it be five centuries ago when even the Flat Earth Myth is a myth? Many scholars in the Middle Ages knew the earth was spherical, and while it's true not everyone in every part of the world did believe this, there have been traces of Ancient Greece calculating the radius of the Earth. These people are literally 2000 years behind.

 

[Mung]

How could it be five centuries ago when even the Flat Earth Myth is a myth? Many scholars in the Middle Ages knew the earth was spherical, and while it's true not everyone in every part of the world did believe this, there have been traces of Ancient Greece calculating the radius of the Earth. These people are literally 2000 years behind.

.. And in the east before that. The ancient indians actually calculated the mass and circumference of the earth highly accurately.

 

[Monocle]

The Earth is flat because life is flat. You only think its round because you try to live your life in circles.

Does the Earth become round if you think about boobs all the time?

 

[More_Badass]

How could it be five centuries ago when even the Flat Earth Myth is a myth? Many scholars in the Middle Ages knew the earth was spherical, and while it's true not everyone in every part of the world did believe this, there have been traces of Ancient Greece calculating the radius of the Earth. These people are literally 2000 years behind.

I'd love to know if it's something they learned from family and friends or if they just realized one day that "Holy shit, the earth is actually flat"