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BanjoMan
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is actually a thing now. And apparently, if you throw out all of the scientific and visual evidence of the world being round, because that is all surely some great conspiracy, it actually starts to make sense...

So, let's try to make the argument here, without science or pictures showing that the world is round (because that is all crap and fake news), that the world is flat. What is the first thing that you would bring up to this discussion?

The first thing that I would probably say in said "debate" with a Flat Earther (which is what they call themselves) is, how can the world be flat when you can fly in one linear line West (Or East) from LA back to LA? How does fit in this scheme? They would just say that if the earth is flat and the north pole is in the center, flying from east to west (relative to the north) would just be a motion of going around in a circle that would be identical to flying around a globe.

OK, got you there, that actually makes sense. But, this is where the argument starts to crumble a bit, what about when you take a plane from LA to Columbia, and then over the South Pole headed towards Australia, then what?

At this point, even after playing their game where all space agencies from all over the globe are involved in one big conspiracy, this is where I can't believe people of today's world can actually be convinced by some ass on YouTube selling books that the Earth is flat and NASA is just one big conspiracy.

Please get somebody from the I love Trump crowd to prove me wrong.

3/6/2017 1:35:38 PM

scotieb24
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wut?

3/6/2017 1:43:55 PM

afripino
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"round Earth" is just SJW mainstream media drivel so the liberals in Hollywood can continue their Golden Globes circle jerk narrative

something, something, something "oppression"

3/6/2017 1:54:52 PM

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How about the world isn't flat because there is no "edge". If it isn't flat why can't you just sail to the end of it and "fall off" like people used to think would happen hundreds of years ago?

3/6/2017 2:03:38 PM

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So, what is their evidence for the world being flat?

3/6/2017 2:08:22 PM

afripino
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think about running "around" a sheet of paper. you get to the edge, but unknowingly end up on other side.

[Edited on March 6, 2017 at 2:09 PM. Reason : welcome to (flat) earf!]

3/6/2017 2:08:47 PM

rjrumfel
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That worked in NES era video games, but not sure how that applies to earth.

3/6/2017 2:10:32 PM

afripino
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^typical liberal round-earther response.

[Edited on March 6, 2017 at 2:15 PM. Reason : any HuffPo links you wanna post to support that "oppression"?]

3/6/2017 2:14:49 PM

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i identify my gender as flat-world

3/6/2017 2:18:23 PM

afripino
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at least you aren't like those mentally-ill transworldly folks.

3/6/2017 2:20:42 PM

BanjoMan
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"So, what is their evidence for the world being flat?"


Aside from the world looking flat in all photos (excluding those from space agencies), really interesting points like "pilots don't have to keep the nose pointed down when they fly". Also, there are youtube videos where people perched on a high building claim to see the skyline from a major city that should be theoretically impossible when calculating the curvature of the earth as if it is a perfect sphere.

3/6/2017 2:26:01 PM

TreeTwista10
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Kyrie was trolling

3/6/2017 2:28:23 PM

afripino
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"So, what is their evidence for the world being flat?"


Exhibit A:


I hung this bitch on the wall back in the day. The wall was flat.

3/6/2017 2:29:26 PM

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"Kyrie was trolling"


Nah, fam.

3/6/2017 2:39:34 PM

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Oh I have got some good shit for this later.

I have been following the posts on this flat-earth FB group... it is mind-boggling the shit they post. And I have been FB stalking one of the members/posters in the group, a chick from Australia... holy shit, all the stuff about NWO, Illuminati, flat earth, chemtrails, etc. that she posts

Links coming later when I get off work.

And yeah, there are tens of thousands, right here in the US, who believe this shit

3/6/2017 2:52:04 PM

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desert preachers who wrote the bible thought the earth was flat so it must be true.

[Edited on March 6, 2017 at 6:47 PM. Reason : they knew everything back then, way more than modern man]

3/6/2017 6:46:17 PM

0EPII1
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Flat-Earther Confronts NASA Scientist In Starbucks, Scientist Reacts Brilliantly
http://www.iflscience.com/space/flat-earther-confronts-nasa-scientist-in-starbucks-it-did-not-go-well

Watch the video... one million at the goddamn impudent snowflake moron


Shaquille O'Neal Thinks Earth Is Flat Because It Doesn't Go Up And Down When He Drives
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/shaquille-oneal-thinks-earth-is-flat-because-it-doesnt-go-up-and-down-when-he-drives

One million at him too... listen to the video


Flat-Earther's "Experiment" Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He'd Hoped
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/flatearthers-experiment-goes-viral-just-not-in-the-way-hed-hoped


How Can Anyone POSSIBLY Still Believe The Earth Is Flat?
http://www.iflscience.com/space/why-are-there-still-flat-earthers-around-today

6/7/2017 12:01:34 AM

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Flat Earthers just want to distract you from the fact that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

6/7/2017 12:44:35 AM

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"really interesting points like "pilots don't have to keep the nose pointed down when they fly"."


umm... Airplanes naturally come back down to [the surface of the] Earth (flat or not) because gravity, so I don't get how this is an argument. The nose attitude of the aircraft doesn't directly correspond to its flight path. If you'll notice, the pilot doesn't point the nose at the ground to land. It's also very possible to descend wight he nose pointed up.

6/7/2017 9:28:53 AM

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really interesting points? is BanjoMan retarded?

6/7/2017 9:33:12 AM

justinh524
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Gravity isn't real

6/7/2017 9:49:17 AM

dtownral
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i think this is the point that BanjoMan thinks is really interesting:
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"Flat-Earther's "Experiment" Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He'd Hoped
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/flatearthers-experiment-goes-viral-just-not-in-the-way-hed-hoped"

6/7/2017 10:14:14 AM

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"Flat Earthers just want to distract you from the fact that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation."


lmao

6/7/2017 10:33:00 AM

afripino
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if someone can just post a picture of the earf's edge that would shut everyone the fuck up. that should be their single "scientific goal".

6/7/2017 12:04:55 PM

BigMan157
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i looked over it once and there was a goddamned big ol sea turtle down there

6/7/2017 12:27:58 PM

justinh524
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It's a tortoise

6/7/2017 1:08:21 PM

mkcarter
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turtles all the way down, man

6/7/2017 2:16:43 PM

BanjoMan
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"really interesting points? is BanjoMan retarded?"


uhhh sarcasm?

6/7/2017 2:38:38 PM

raiden
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have these people not flown before?

Why not just put them on a window seat in a plane and go up to about 30-35000 feet? You can see the curvature of the earth there.

or you can detect the curve of the Earth from ground level at the coast with a pair of binoculars – just look for distant ships on the horizon and you’ll see that their hulls start to disappear before their masts and other superstructure. Ancient Greek scientists, who spotted this without any optical aids, used this to conclude that the Earth was round.

6/7/2017 6:01:02 PM

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^ You can measure the length of shadow made by two sticks in two different locations at the same time of day. If the Earth were flat, they would be the same length.

Eratosthenes proved the Earth was round in this manner around 300 BC.

Hell, just look at the Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse to prove the earth is round.

These people can't be reasoned with.

[Edited on June 7, 2017 at 6:32 PM. Reason : ]

6/7/2017 6:30:19 PM

justinh524
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The earth is round. And flat. Like a circle.

6/7/2017 7:58:42 PM

Wickerman
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^^^ You need to be above 50,000 ft to see curvature. Apparently it was visible form the Concorde flights.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 9:02 AM. Reason : ^]

6/8/2017 9:02:33 AM

Geppetto
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you can actually sit on the beach and see the horizon curve if you have enough of a viewing area.

6/8/2017 9:44:47 AM

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6/8/2017 10:03:32 AM

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"you can actually sit on the beach and see the horizon curve if you have enough of a viewing area."


Yes, you can see a "curve" on the horizon, but flat things bend. Since the earth is just a big flat plan like a piece of paper, than it obviously bends due to the gravitational forces of the sun and other stuff.

Like when you hold a piece of paper out by one end, the other end flops downward due to the force of gravity.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 10:04 AM. Reason : b]

6/8/2017 10:03:47 AM

jbrick83
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Kyrie shot better last year when the earth was round. He's still adapting to shooting on a flat earth.

6/8/2017 10:55:51 AM

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^^sure, but i think some of these flat earth truthers are also working under the assumption that gravity is "just a theory". at least that was what was said in the link dtownral posted

6/8/2017 11:24:12 AM

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gravity is a theory in the scientific usage of the word

their level experiment is still ridiculous though for reasons that everyone here understands.

it would be hilarious if someone did that experiment in a plane with a lot of alpha so they would think that we live on the inside of a ring like Halo. Or maybe just do a coordinated turn and let them think they are flying straight.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 11:50 AM. Reason : .]

6/8/2017 11:50:05 AM

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"gravity is a theory in the scientific usage of the word"


well yeah, of course. i was just responding to HOOPS post about flat surfaces bending due to gravity...which i don't think would add up under their line of thinking since gravity, to them, is apparently still up for debate.

6/8/2017 11:56:52 AM

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yeah gravity is totally bullshit.

6/8/2017 11:59:33 AM

beatsunc
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Magnets n lectricity the devil, making shit move from miles away and whatnot

6/8/2017 1:23:18 PM

BanjoMan
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"Yes, you can see a "curve" on the horizon, but flat things bend. Since the earth is just a big flat plan like a piece of paper, than it obviously bends due to the gravitational forces of the sun and other stuff. "


So, in all honesty, I am not sure if you are trolling or not, but this is exactly what you would deal with when you confront a flat earther. Which is why I think that beyond a doubt, the one thing that you can not refute, is that you can fly from Dubai to Houston, Houston to Sydney and then from Sydney to Dubai... without flying off of a cliff.

There is no way that this could be done with a flat earth. It is impossible.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 6:02 PM. Reason : yes, there is tons of it.]

6/8/2017 6:01:35 PM

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"You can measure the length of shadow made by two sticks in two different locations at the same time of day. If the Earth were flat, they would be the same length."


This only proves that the sun moves relative to the Earth. You can do this experiment on your coffee table (flat) and move a light bulb around on a plane parallel to your coffee table. The sticks will have shadows of different lengths depending on where you move the light bulb on its plane.

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"Which is why I think that beyond a doubt, the one thing that you can not refute, is that you can fly from Dubai to Houston, Houston to Sydney and then from Sydney to Dubai... without flying off of a cliff.

There is no way that this could be done with a flat earth. It is impossible."


Are you saying by going over the South Pole, or flying from Sydney to Dubai passing over India or the Asian continent. B/c I'm going to contend that the later is possible if East and West are directions perpendicular to the radius of the flat Earth's disk, and North and South are directions parallel to the radius. So, you're flying around the disc not around the sphere.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 6:17 PM. Reason : .]

6/8/2017 6:04:26 PM

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"There is no way that this could be done with a flat earth. It is impossible."


wrong.

6/8/2017 6:17:17 PM

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The coolest thing about this is that it forces you to think critically about what we "know". I totally believe the Earth is round, but I can't think of a solid way to prove it. Maybe the ship disappearing over the horizon example combined with shapes of shadows on the moon during an eclipse is the best evidence I've got.

I love the idea that pictures from space are fake!! And, while this may seem stupid, according to Neil Degrass Tyson all of the pictures we're told are of the Milky Way Galaxy from outside of it are fake. We haven't sent any space craft far enough out that they could have taken that picture and sent the data back to Earth. (According to his podcast, I don't have a link)

I really want to have a debate with a Flat-Earther now, just to see what I can prove!

And.. I've now read a better explanation of the stick shadow experiment, and that version does NOT work on your coffee table, because you measure the ANGLE of the rays of light to find that they are not the same relative to two places on the Earth, which they would be if the Earth were flat since the Sun is so much more massive and so far from the Earth.

[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 6:35 PM. Reason : .]

6/8/2017 6:24:19 PM

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"Are you saying by going over the South Pole, or flying from Sydney to Dubai passing over India or the Asian continent. B/c I'm going to contend that the later is possible if East and West are directions perpendicular to the radius of the flat Earth's disk, and North and South are directions parallel to the radius. So, you're flying around the disc not around the sphere."


Houston to Dubai via northpole. Dubai to sydney and then sydney to houston again via the south pole.



[Edited on June 8, 2017 at 6:57 PM. Reason : lol]

6/8/2017 6:55:10 PM

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"if someone can just post a picture of the earf's edge that would shut everyone the fuck up. that should be their single "scientific goal"."

6/8/2017 7:01:58 PM

wizzkidd
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^^Gottcha, yea... I don't have a good counter argument for that. After looking at some of their forums I think they would say that Sydney to Dubai via the South Pole is impossible and has never happened... but, I feel like someone has done it; probably many times.

6/8/2017 8:08:35 PM

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This thread got hella interesting.

I guess "really" the only way to prove it would be to take some kind of aircraft high enough to see the curvature. That way people could see it first hand and their wouldn't be any doubt with that.

Or could there?

6/8/2017 8:27:42 PM

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actually, the only way to prove the earth is round would be to examine every single point on it

because if you didn't examine every point, you might miss the hole that makes it into a doughnut

6/9/2017 12:35:49 AM

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