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Rapper B.o.B. Has Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Prove That the Earth Is Flat

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bitbydeath

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Bill R Boggess said:
You'd literally have to fly them into space and show them a round earth.

Even then, who knows?
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dpunk3

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I'm surprised they haven't attempted to get enough money to send someone into space and take photos of the Earth.
 
Monocle

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Fox318 said:
This type of cognitive dissonance should not be treated like a joke.
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Yeah, if he's sincere, this kind of thinking is a direct attack on science and an undermining of public confidence in experts. It's dangerous bullshit that should be thoroughly discredited in full public view, shortly before the person spreading the nonsense is laughed into retirement for being an aggressively incurious moron in the information age.
 
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The Jazz Cabbage Master

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If this conspiracy REALLY runs as deep as they believe then what is gonna stop the all powerful N A S A from editing the footage? I bet they could even edit a live stream in real time with their super advanced technology.
 
Turnip Truck

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Question: If the earth is flat, is there any chance of a society of people living underneath it. Maybe living in the darkness, clinging to roots, and occasionally popping to the surface?

Maybe mole people!
 
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TAJ

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Turnip Truck said:
Question: If the earth is flat, is there any chance of a society of people living underneath it. Maybe living in the darkness, clinging to roots, and occasionally popping to the surface?

Maybe mole people!
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There's a conspiracy theory for that.
Hollow Earth, my dude.
 
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Fisty

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Our president says that the entire scientific community was tricked into gathering tons of unbiased evidence to support a fake conspiracy created by China saying we are impacting our global climate.

Shit like flat earth doesn't surprise me
 
Chuckie

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high-profile flat-Earthers include Tila Tequila
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That girl is seriously batshit insane.

So besides being Hitlers number 1 stan nazi girl, she is also a flat earther. Why am I not surprised.
 
Weilthain

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I watched a few flat earth videos on YouTube trying to get a idea of why they believe in it.

It's pretty dumb. Antártica is the edge of the world, and all the governments of the world are all colluding to keep everyone out/away from it to hide truth about the edge. space isn't real, stars aren't real, the sun and moon are the same size and only about 1000 miles up or something. Satellites aren't real, light doesn't travel further than a few thousand miles.

It's all a big conspiracy by the world governments, but I'm not sure what the reason for that is.
 
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Joeku

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Skipping to the end, did anyone else post "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars" yet?

Cuz I hope they did.

And fuck B.o.B. for this. Dipshit.
 
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Mung

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The flat earth conspiracy theory is a perfect illustration of the worrying anti-science times we currently live in.
 
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tonysidaway

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Nostremitus said:
Space X commercial spaceliners need to happen. Then we can put this bullshit to rest...
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SpaceX isn't the one with the plans to do tourist flights, is it? Virgin Galactic has suborbital space planes, called SpaceShipTwo.

The problem with these suborbital flights is that they're susceptible to the same flat earth handwaving as are airliners.

Nevertheless there are many ways to demonstrate the curvature of Earth's surface without leaving the ground. For instance, go to a coastal town with a large commercial seaport and observe car ferries and cruise ships sail to the horizon and gradually sink beneath it. The sun rises from due east everywhere in the world at the equinox. The sunrise and sunset in much of the southern hemisphere south of the tropic of Capricorn near the summer solstice is close to southeast and southwest, even though at noon the sun is due north.
 
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Ollie Pooch

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Another unfortunate side effect of the trump era - stupid idiots getting exposure for their brain dead views.
 
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_Rob_

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Ollie Pooch said:
Another unfortunate side effect of the trump era - stupid idiots getting exposure for their brain dead views.
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This kind of stupidity and it's exposure has been around far longer than the sitting president of the USA, and I have no doubt it's here to stay. The exposure in this case comes from B.o.B's preexisting fame.
 
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CCS

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Let's not forget that he believes in lizard people and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories too! He's gone full moron.
 
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Ein Bear said:
I just don't understand where the flat Earth people come from at all.

Setting aside all rational logic, lets say for a second that they're right. The Earth is flat and there's a big conspiracy to cover it all up.... What exactly is the benefit to the Government or whoever of doing this? What is the actual problem that a round Earth causes and a flat Earth would fix?
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Most of these people also believe in massive global conspiracies around every branch of science, the economy, etc, and that it's all about controlling information and hiding the truth and whatever else.

There's no logical underpinning to any of it.
 
Haunted

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Ein Bear said:
I just don't understand where the flat Earth people come from at all.

Setting aside all rational logic, lets say for a second that they're right. The Earth is flat and there's a big conspiracy to cover it all up.... What exactly is the benefit to the Government or whoever of doing this? What is the actual problem that a round Earth causes and a flat Earth would fix?
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checkmate globeheads
 
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Monocle said:
Yeah, if he's sincere, this kind of thinking is a direct attack on science and an undermining of public confidence in experts. It's dangerous bullshit that should be thoroughly discredited in full public view, shortly before the person spreading the nonsense is laughed into retirement for being an aggressively incurious moron in the information age.
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Maybe people just pretend to be flat-earthers to get reactions like this out of people.
 
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Ghost

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I used to think this was a bit of a joke until I met a flat earther and realised this is a movement that purposefully spreads ignorance as far and wide as it can, they are the same people who don't vaccinate, the same people who think Hillary's emails are important, they believe they are smart for not believing everything they read but the truth is they do believe everything they read so long as it supports how they feel.

This guy I met had a kid as well and thinking about what will be shoved into his head as he grows up just makes me mad.
 
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tonysidaway said:
SpaceX isn't the one with the plans to do tourist flights, is it? Virgin Galactic has suborbital space planes, called SpaceShipTwo.

The problem with these suborbital flights is that they're susceptible to the same flat earth handwaving as are airliners.

Nevertheless there are many ways to demonstrate the curvature of Earth's surface without leaving the ground. For instance, go to a coastal town with a large commercial seaport and observe car ferries and cruise ships sail to the horizon and gradually sink beneath it. The sun rises from due east everywhere in the world at the equinox. The sunrise and sunset in much of the southern hemisphere south of the tropic of Capricorn near the summer solstice is close to southeast and southwest, even though at noon the sun is due north.
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Oh, you're right. I forgot about Virgin Galactic...
 
LimanimaPT

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Nostremitus said:
Space X commercial spaceliners need to happen. Then we can put this bullshit to rest...
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They will say the windows are just LCD screens that display fake images. There will always be an argument.
I'm not sure if this people believe in this flat earth shit or just say this for clicks.
 
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