Flat Earthers
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- Moliere
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Re: Flat Earthers
The same is true driving towards a city with skyscrapers. The entire building doesn't pop into view as you get closer. The problem with this thread is that the topic is not even worth arguing about. Take a compass on commercial flights heading west. Eventually you will end up back where you started.
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Re: Flat Earthers
So the International Brotherhood of Compass Makers is part of the conspiracy too?
- Moliere
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Re: Flat Earthers
I wouldn't trust them. But good luck getting this on the plane:
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Re: Flat Earthers
Or watch a eclipse where the Earth's curved shadow is on the moon.
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Re: Flat Earthers
They claim the earth is a ring magnet where the inner ring (north pole) is one pole and the outer ring (Antarctica/Ice Wall) is the other pole. So you can travel west and go in a circle.Moliere wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 3:29 pm The same is true driving towards a city with skyscrapers. The entire building doesn't pop into view as you get closer. The problem with this thread is that the topic is not even worth arguing about. Take a compass on commercial flights heading west. Eventually you will end up back where you started.
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The short answer is that people think it does due to issues with word choice and translations, but there's nothing clear cut that says it is.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Re: Flat Earthers
Keep an eye out for conspiracies about the ocean being bottomless.
Step 1: Ponder why that's not a conspiracy yet, since most people have never been to the sea floor
Step 2: Make a joke subreddit discussing the newly invented conspiracy
Step 3: Oh god, probably people starting to believe it.
Alternate step 3: people who already did believe it find a new home and reinforce each other's beliefs. From what I've heard, that's exactly what happened with the Donald Trump subreddit.
Step 1: Ponder why that's not a conspiracy yet, since most people have never been to the sea floor
Step 2: Make a joke subreddit discussing the newly invented conspiracy
Step 3: Oh god, probably people starting to believe it.
Alternate step 3: people who already did believe it find a new home and reinforce each other's beliefs. From what I've heard, that's exactly what happened with the Donald Trump subreddit.
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Re: Flat Earthers
Ages ago, I created a D&D campaign that was set on a cylindrical world (which, had it been explored, would have revealed itself to be a ginormous spaceship with terrain on the other side of the paper, too, but it was mostly about looping hex maps). My players knew that the horizon was really short in the E-W direction and really long in the N-S axis, so they figured out the cylinder, but they didn't explore that. If they had, they'd have found "impenetrable" ice walls at either end (that also held the atmosphere in place)...but if they managed to survive the crossing, they'd have ended up inside the cylinder.
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Re: Flat Earthers
Because God doesn't like that part of his plan. Thats why he started over.
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Re: Flat Earthers
It's also there to keep the white walkers out..
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Re: Flat Earthers
Is that what they call Santa and his elves now a days?
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- Moliere
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"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
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Re: Flat Earthers
Oh No Ross and Carrie did an interesting 2 part Flat Earth podcast not too long ago:
http://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2 ... th-edition
http://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2 ... th-edition
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Re: Flat Earthers
So... I've been wondering if they believe the Earth is flat, do they also believe all of the other planets are as well? Decided to google that and found this where the answer seems to be... nope. Just the Earth.
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- Moliere
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Re: Flat Earthers
Damn! The evidence keeps proving us wrong.
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Flat Earthers
My wife and I watched Behind the Curve on Netflix. It was hilarious, fascinating and depressing.
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Re: Flat Earthers
We were wrong! We must keep trying until we are right!!
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Re: Flat Earthers
The cornerstone of sound scientific method - working backwards to justify a preconceived answer.
The thing BEHIND THE CURVE made readily apparent was that these flat earthers are prone to believe in ANY conspiracy theory. Must be some psychological need to feel they are smarter than everyone else combined with an amazing talent for falling for multiple logical fallacies.
The thing BEHIND THE CURVE made readily apparent was that these flat earthers are prone to believe in ANY conspiracy theory. Must be some psychological need to feel they are smarter than everyone else combined with an amazing talent for falling for multiple logical fallacies.
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Re: Flat Earthers
The Meal, shall you explain scientific method or shall I?
- Jaymann
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Another cornerstone of the scientific method is the control group - a group of people where you control what they think.
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Re: Flat Earthers
No, you have it backwards. In this case, for example, the control group is NASA and the airlines, who (under the orders of the World Government, but really only as an extension of the Illuminati) route all sky traffic parabolically in order to create the impression of a globe.
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That's some brilliant analysis right there!
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Re: Flat Earthers
I've been watching this and still have 30 minutes left, but it's really good. It was painful to start with, but the treatment they give the topic is really good and leaves me shaking my head rather than wanting to punch a wall for people's stupidity. That's a big accomplishment.YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:00 pm The cornerstone of sound scientific method - working backwards to justify a preconceived answer.
The thing BEHIND THE CURVE made readily apparent was that these flat earthers are prone to believe in ANY conspiracy theory. Must be some psychological need to feel they are smarter than everyone else combined with an amazing talent for falling for multiple logical fallacies.
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