11-25-2017, 08:47 PM | #1 |
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The Flat Earth Movement
I can't believe this is really a point of debate in this day and age, but it is.
This guy wants to launch himself into the sky in a homemade rocket to somehow prove that the Earth is flat: Flat Earth Researcher Told He Can't Blast Himself Into The Sky at 500 MPH There was even a whole convention about this recently: A Fascinating Look Inside the First Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina
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11-25-2017, 08:55 PM | #2 | |
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Flat Earth..."researcher"?
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11-25-2017, 09:36 PM | #3 |
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I had a good laugh at the homemade rocket.
Dude, you 'gon die before you can even make the distance to see the Earth's curvature.
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11-26-2017, 04:06 AM | #4 |
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11-26-2017, 09:39 AM | #5 |
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I believe flat-earthers are just internet trolls and media believes anything that's on the internet.
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I'd be inclined to agree, save for the fact that a very good friend of mine met a couple in Brooklyn.
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11-26-2017, 12:05 PM | #7 |
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If the earth isn't flat why does the Earth Turtle story exist in China, India and North America before they ever had any contact?
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11-26-2017, 12:07 PM | #8 |
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Aren't most of them religious nuts too? Like the ones who believe Earth began with Adam and Eve so humans co-existed with dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone or something.
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11-26-2017, 12:18 PM | #9 | |
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11-26-2017, 12:57 PM | #10 |
Just...way too serious.
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I feel like most of them are just crazy conspiracy theorist types. Like this rocket guy thinks all the astronauts are freemasons and the government deep state is controlling science.
Nevermind that they knew the earth was round way before the idea of government deep state existed.
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11-26-2017, 01:31 PM | #11 | |
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Hate to say it, but if people believing stuff like this in the 21st century despite clear, easy evidence to the contrary, want to launch themselves in rockets... why stop them?
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11-26-2017, 02:23 PM | #12 |
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Indeed. Tribal creation myths involving totem animals predate every other form of religion. That a turtle would be one of them is hardly surprising.
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11-26-2017, 02:40 PM | #14 |
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The part that confuses me is, what does the rest of the world have to gain by saying the world isn't flat, if it is supposed to actually be flat? Like thousands of years of everyone from scientists to laymen saying "the Earth is not flat" are just doing it to f**k with people?
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11-26-2017, 02:56 PM | #16 |
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The myth says it was until Christopher Columbus (1492), not as late as the Enlightenment era (18th century).
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11-26-2017, 02:57 PM | #17 |
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Remembered hearing something about this article (or related articles) a bit ago and had to go find it. Probably relevant:
http://www.businessinsider.com/belie...special-2017-9 |
11-26-2017, 05:49 PM | #18 |
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10% uneducated paranoid/conspiracy theory types... 90% internet trolls.
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11-26-2017, 05:52 PM | #19 |
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Well there's something I've never thought I'd see in here. A thread about the Flat Earth Society
...I mean, what is even there to discuss here? It's a fact that the Earth isn't flat. So really, what compels someone to believe it is? I could see an illiterate person living in a village in a non-developed country believing that... but people in USA and Europe believing the Earth is flat in 2017?! |
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Saw that on Facebook, laughed my ass off
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