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[bitbydeath]

Too much Game of Thrones?

The “flat earthers” plan to travel to Antarctica by boat to find the frozen barrier they believe marks the edge of our world.

The supposed “ice wall” is said to be several hundred metres thick, towers 50 metres high and surrounds the entire planet.

“We don’t believe anything can fall off the edge because a big portion of the flat earth community believes that we’re in a dome, like a snow globe.

“So the sun, moon, and stars are all inside. It’s very high but all contained inside. So there’s no way to actually fall off of the earth.”

https://amp.news.com.au/travel/worl...d/news-story/0a2e9079e5dba11d56c95590e18dafa3

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I wish I could go along simply to push them over the edge and finally save us all the trouble.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Let them keep walking. Meet them on the other side. Yell “I told you so” and then sail away and leave them stranded.

 

[Shifty]

Good luck to them.

I have a feeling they're going to be sailing for quite a while.

 

[Mohonky]

So what are they going to say when they dont find it?

 

[NickFire]

Well, at least they will probably learn something on this trip.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Well, at least they will probably learn something on this trip.

No. It will run out of money or something. And call conspiracy

 

[Whitesnake]

Has there ever been an effort to travel a complete circle around the earth longitudinally?

These guys are dumb but the idea is at least a little interesting.

 

[bitbydeath]

Finding a large sheet of ice in the antarctic is easy. If they were really serious they’d travel around the equator to find the sides of this supposed wall that has never been mapped before.

 

[I_D]

How does somebody start a GoFundMe?

I want a live-stream of this whole catastrophe.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I can’t wait for pictures of the End World Dropoff. I bet it looks cool

 

[Rentahamster]

I hope they livestream it for bonus hilarity.

 

[CyberPanda]

I hope these flat earther’s don’t reproduce.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I hope these flat earther’s don’t reproduce.

 

[CyberPanda]

 

[Pimpbaa]

I hope they livestream it for bonus hilarity.

I don't think they have the mental capacity to figure out how to do this. And if they did, it would be shot from a cell phone held vertically.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

What is wrong with people these days?

 

[triplestation]

 

[Tesseract]

eh, let them have their dream

 

[greyshark]

I don’t get why we continue to give flat earthers attention. They’re just like any other conspiracy theorists - nothing you say will change their beliefs, so let them be nuts like the people who believe in things like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Area 51, and the faked moon landing.

 

[AnotherOne]

I could understand if someone actually thought that the earth is flat in medieval age but in 2019? are these individuals just looking for attention or what.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I’d the Earth really was flat could you imagine how many dumb asses would accidentally kill themselves trying to take a selfie on the edge

 

[Ailynn]

I wish them well, but I believe they are in for a rude awakening...

 

[Fbh]

Seems like money well spent

I don’t get why we continue to give flat earthers attention.

Because it's funny and a nice reminder of just how fucking stupid people can be

 

[iconmaster]

Finding a large sheet of ice in the antarctic is easy. If they were really serious they’d travel around the equator to find the sides of this supposed wall that has never been mapped before.

But there’s no equator, so your suggestion is nonsensical.

 

[nkarafo]

Why go to Antartica? Just go to any direction until you find the edge. No need to deal with extreme cold and death.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

eh, let them have their dream

Dreams and Delusions aren't quite the same thing, in my book.

 

[Tesseract]

Dreams and Delusions aren't quite the same thing, in my book.

true

 

[iconmaster]

Why go to Antartica? Just go to any direction until you find the edge. No need to deal with extreme cold and death.

I think the theory is that Antarctica is the edge, in any direction.

 

[Pagusas]

Why go to Antartica? Just go to any direction until you find the edge. No need to deal with extreme cold and death.

They don’t see the earth as we do, they see all the continents we know as being in the center of a disc, and around the entire edge is Antarctica.

They are... weird.

 

[Nymphae]

I wish I could go along simply to push them over the edge and finally save us all the trouble.

“We don’t believe anything can fall off the edge because a big portion of the flat earth community believes that we’re in a dome, like a snow globe.
“So the sun, moon, and stars are all inside. It’s very high but all contained inside. So there’s no way to actually fall off of the earth.

You'll have to settle for mashing their faces into a gigantic pane of glass apparently.

 

[Alx]

That's actually a good initiative. However crazy your theory is, trying to confirm or refute it through an experiment is a reasonable scientific process. You actually had to wonder "if there is an edge of the world, why did nobody try to reach it ?"
The only question of course is if they'll be ready to draw conclusions from their experiment even if they don't match their beliefs...

 

[mango drank]

The flat-earth community is like a little microcosm of the history of science in fast-forward: at first, a bunch of people made random shit up out of thin air to try to explain the nature of reality, and if it was interesting enough, it stuck. Gullible followers with nothing better to do gathered around. As tools and instruments were developed, and as bright people were born into civilization here and there throughout the years, those earlier ideas were probed, refined, and some thrown out--at first with great resistance from the keepers of the tales (stake burnings etc), but then grudgingly allowed.

Flat-earthers are somewhere around their own personal 500 BC right now? If they're progressing at a rate of like 200 FE (flat earther) years for each one of our normal earth years, I fully expect them to develop interstellar travel, nuclear fusion, and to turn into Esthar by our year 2035. Then we invade and steal their shit. Go, little microcosm!

 

[Lanrutcon]

There's a Lovecraft story in this somewhere.

An expedition to the furthest reaches of the Antarctic...searching for the hidden truth....a group of believers plunged into the unknown....they went looking for the edge of the world...

...and found it.

 

[caffeware]

Why go to Antartica? Just go to any direction until you find the edge. No need to deal with extreme cold and death.

In the Flat Earth Model any direction leads to Antartica.

What if on the other side of the wall there's a parallel flat earth?
The plot thickens...

 

[bad guy]

I predict that they will arrive at Antarctica and that will be the proof that they found the ice wall.

 

[Deleted member 738976]

Edge of the world you say? Have a nice trip!

 

[5secondrulesucks]

you guys are fucking wack. that shit sounds like fun. a boat with a bunch of 50 year old bald guys. none of them actually know how to fly a boat. whatever the gay sex will be worth it

 

[WinterIsComing]

This thread reminded me that Angular Sax was banned.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

This thread reminded me that Angular Sax was banned.

I kinda miss his crazy contributions to be honest, though he had strayed into offensive territory.

 

[Liamario]

So what are they going to say when they dont find it?

They didn't go far enough and ran out of money/supplies.

 

[Liamario]

Why go to Antarctica if the ice wall is all around us? I ask rhetorically.

 

[Acerac]

What is wrong with people these days?

They accept everything they are told by authority and laugh at anyone who dares to question it.

 

[J-Roderton]

Good luck.

 

[Grinchy]

What's funny about flat earthers is that they refuse any evidence they're shown to contradict their assumption.

So even if a group of flat earthers went on a voyage like this and accidentally proved the Earth is not flat, then the rest of the flat earthers would say that the group doctored the footage. They'd look at edits and cuts and create a theory about how it was faked.

 

[MDSLKTR]

 

[mcjmetroid]

I wish them well, but I believe they are in for a rude awakening...

Spat out my tea! haha

 

[synchronicity]

You'd think there'd be enough evidence already to not need to take a trip.

For many conspiracies, no amount of evidence will dissuade the believers. They become self-sustaining micro cultures / entities.

 

[Ichabod]

This trip will likely turn into itsfuckingnothing.gif but if the S.S. FE does make it to Antarctica, it'll be interesting to see what happens when an unstoppable force (i.e. FE dogma) meets an immovable object (reality).

Personally l, I'm more interested in seeing if they can even make it that far south without intervention from the powers that be. There's a conspiracy, world powers restrict non-govt expeditions to Antarctica because there's something there the outside world isn't meant to see.

 

[Angry_Ostrich]

That will not convince them.
They need to travel all around the globe.