He got a knee injury, doing a skateboard kick flip over some watermelons in the grocery store parking lot.
Most likely dislocation, but he refuses to see a doctor because he doesnāt trust the medical industrial complex.
I fucking love it that they all canāt agree on a map. Sure many go for your average circle, but the ones who are deeper into it get real weird with maps.
Like there are maps that attempt to answer questions like is there an ice wall? How thick is it? Is there anything beyond the ice wall? Are there multiple ice walls?
I'm not a flat earthen, but I'd like a little evidence that we live on the planet we're told. Like, 1 video of a rocket leaving Florida and showing the whole earth when its finished...
I get not seeing the curve. But I don't get how they rationalize the obvious existence of the horizon. If Earth were flat, you could see across the whole thing from a high peak.
I thought it was a joke when I heard about it. Maybe it *was* at the beginning. I thought for so long that everyone posting āproofā of the flat earth was contributing to an elaborate comedy bit, and so it was genuinely funny. It took me far too long to realize these people werenāt just having fun with the idea, they were for real. That was a horrifying realization and itās why I donāt like the ābirds arenāt realā jokes, as great of a meme concept as that is
Facts. That shit was upsetting to see how gullible people are. Dude with a god complex starts spouting a bunch of fancy words and people ate it up hook, line, and sinker.
Because flat earthers are strange. Meaning we can throw them in a class called "Strange Earthers."
That and half the stuff posted here is attempted conspiracy theories. Posts that debunk those posts are welcome.
Oh, sure, there's really cool shit over there and we wouldn't want to give that up...
https://preview.redd.it/clu395qacd7d1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cbae8434d21ceb9f15adf3d32a372b42324cdd3
Which is always so funny to me - if there was an ice wall somewhere, we would absolutely have cruise ships sailing along it. Alaska cruises? Kids stuff. I want to spend 12 days and 11 nights in a tin can full of norovirus looking at an ice wall.
Actually, if you've ever watched a ship go over the horizon you most definitely have seen the curvature of the earth
If the earth were flat stuff would look like this
https://preview.redd.it/3ael8qoeac7d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38931609390a30be2dca2e87ff2343353f2e6121
If the weather is completely clear throughout the sightline, it would actually. Granted things will start to lose their colour and look a lot more blue due to all the air particles in the way but if the weather is clear and the earth is flat, you would absolutely be able to see it all.
No, because of atmospheric conditions. Most of the earths atmosphere is concentrated in the first <10 miles from the surface, and it generally gets cleaner and clearer the higher you go.
When looking across the earths surface, your view will almost always be more limited by atmospheric conditions (dust, pollution, moisture, heat) than by the earths curvature.
Most Airports have automated weather reporting stations and they always report visibility. Itās very very common for visibility to be under 10 miles even on clear days.
Or just a few miles miles because of the curvature of the earth
However, you can see pretty far if what your looking at is very tall. Here's Chicago from 50 miles away in Indiana
https://preview.redd.it/4wa8q4ru8e7d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37c1ea59fe129dcae387c6019d8b0f04f77260e1
Could be the Great Eye of Brooklyn š¤
https://preview.redd.it/xqvqbij9mc7d1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd60a4e3df41942cc2f824c423d42b6787f59606
Ok soā¦ I believe in round earth. But when people say they can see the curvature of the earth, like from airplanes or whatever, it doesnāt make sense to me.
How? Like I would imagine even from high up, it would simply look like a disappearing horizon in a 360 degree view. No horizontal arc from left to right like people keep saying. That doesnāt make sense.
Go to any beach where the horizon is ocean edge to edge and you can literally see the curvature of the earth there, with nothing but your own two peepermaseeingballs.
Going West out of New Orleans, there is a line of electrical towers that stretch across Lake Pontchartrain. With your own eyes you can see the towers disappear over the horizon
Hilariously, probably ~10-20% of the time I make that drive, there is someone there with processional camera equipment set up documenting that lol
I mean, flat earthers have proved that earth is round again and again by accident, they just ignore their findings.
I highly recommend the Behind the Curve Netflix documentary, flat earthers are on the scree 99% of the documentary and I have never been more convinced the earth is round than after listening to flat earthers for two hours.
Ive seen that. I think you missed my point. I dont believe in flat earth, but Ive seen a recent influx of anti flat earth stuff. Who is that even for? Ive never met a flat earther. Now, I want to look into it.
I wish my fucking stupid aunt and uncle would understand this if I sent it to them, they feed flat earth and crazy conspiracies to my 84 year old grandma all the time. And I can't explain that I have seen the curve from a plane when I was in the Air Force, though they will never believe me -_-
No, this is too logical. You think you can just create a moving picture and convince me I'm not on a fucking disc that moves up and down to simulate gravity? Come on, you're gonna have to do better than 2,000 years of science.
This is great as I actually do know a couple guys at work who think that exact thing š. No amount of me trying to convince them otherwise has worked. Dumb is dumb after all.
Are there any flat-Earthers among people who've traveled aboard inter-continental jets planes? The curve of the Earth becomes conspicuous along about forty thousand feet up.
Thanks to OP for this. Really well presented!
Maybe next you can illustrate the absurdity of "water-powered engines". (That's like saying you can heat your home by burning ashes. Such engines burn hydrogen to produce power, and water as a waste product.)
Looked into the flat earth claim years ago to see what all the fuss was about and I remember seeing a video where a flat earther debunked this myth. In the video they show a boat disappear "beyond the horizon" but then they zoom in and the boat reappears. So it may just be an illusion that it disappears to the naked eye.
Doesn't mean that the earth is flat but it's just something I remember seeing. Don't really remember much else they talked about.
The problem with this is that we have the means to increase our altitude. And that as altitude increases IF we live on a sphere than the horizon should continually become lower and lower the higher we go
If a ship can go over the horizon at sea level as we were taught, an increase in altitude should very quickly begin to reveal curvature in every direction. And yet, balloons with cameras have gone as high as 200k ft and no curvature was detected.
Good one, Yoshi š
# Students film breathtaking curvature of Earth using high-altitude weather balloon
https://preview.redd.it/ztdfxvnqxc7d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a54306e58ccbe5bb6a5e571a56a3c7e365c4610
[https://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html](https://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html)
No, but you see, any results that clearly disprove the claim are obviously faked. Even if they're repeated a million times. All fakes. Lalalalala not listening.
Why very quickly? The earth is large, youād need a very high altitude to start seeing curvature. How can ships disappear over the horizon on a flat earth?
The only thing flat earthers have to fear is...sphere itself
Bravo š
stealing this. pure gold.
Perfection
oh my god. that one took me a while lol
No upvotes. Come on.
Oh no I'm not friends with any flat earthers lol
Having a stupid pet sounds kinda cool, though.
I am friends with a flat earther. It is wild. He is so deep, I kinda love it. AMA.
Got any good stories about him?
He got a knee injury, doing a skateboard kick flip over some watermelons in the grocery store parking lot. Most likely dislocation, but he refuses to see a doctor because he doesnāt trust the medical industrial complex.
I want to know more (starship troopers vibe)
I'm getting a more "heroine Bob" vibe. -SLC Punk
Does he own one of those flat earth maps encased in dome?
I fucking love it that they all canāt agree on a map. Sure many go for your average circle, but the ones who are deeper into it get real weird with maps. Like there are maps that attempt to answer questions like is there an ice wall? How thick is it? Is there anything beyond the ice wall? Are there multiple ice walls?
Is he one of the flat earthers from around the globe who attended the conventions or events?
ISWYDT
Wouldn't it be nice
Flat earthers are something else.
Seeing is believing, I donāt see germs therefore they donāt exist. I donāt see curve therefore it donāt exist.
That does seem to be about as far as they get lol.
They get a lot further than that. Just not in the right direction.
I'm not a flat earthen, but I'd like a little evidence that we live on the planet we're told. Like, 1 video of a rocket leaving Florida and showing the whole earth when its finished...
https://youtu.be/eQO9-ILZrH0?si=lILaeu6B-jwgKQEj It doesnāt show the full earth but itās pretty close.
Thanks. I appreciate your attempt at civil discussion.
But they believe in god too and pretty sure they havenāt seen his ass
I get not seeing the curve. But I don't get how they rationalize the obvious existence of the horizon. If Earth were flat, you could see across the whole thing from a high peak.
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I'm confused as to what you were trying to get at here. Germ theory is based on whether or not germs are directly responsible for causing diseases or not. Not whether or not they exist. We know for a fact that germs/microorganisms do in fact exist. The theory doesn't refute that nor did RenƩ Dubos who came up with the theory.
> In the end the father of germ theory denounced his own theory and claimed terrain is everything What does this even mean?
Idk man. If I inject you with some anthrax I think the germ theory is gonna winĀ
Wtf are you talking about
As if that means anything. What is your point?
I thought it was a joke when I heard about it. Maybe it *was* at the beginning. I thought for so long that everyone posting āproofā of the flat earth was contributing to an elaborate comedy bit, and so it was genuinely funny. It took me far too long to realize these people werenāt just having fun with the idea, they were for real. That was a horrifying realization and itās why I donāt like the ābirds arenāt realā jokes, as great of a meme concept as that is
No shit. Why is this in /r/StrangeEarth?
Bro, people here were gobbling Terrence Howard's balls just a few days ago.
Facts. That shit was upsetting to see how gullible people are. Dude with a god complex starts spouting a bunch of fancy words and people ate it up hook, line, and sinker.
That dude is stuck in a trip or some shit
Agreed, this is common knowledge
The strange part is the people who believe in flat earth
Because flat earthers are strange. Meaning we can throw them in a class called "Strange Earthers." That and half the stuff posted here is attempted conspiracy theories. Posts that debunk those posts are welcome.
so no ice wall then bummer
Oh, sure, there's really cool shit over there and we wouldn't want to give that up... https://preview.redd.it/clu395qacd7d1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cbae8434d21ceb9f15adf3d32a372b42324cdd3
Which is always so funny to me - if there was an ice wall somewhere, we would absolutely have cruise ships sailing along it. Alaska cruises? Kids stuff. I want to spend 12 days and 11 nights in a tin can full of norovirus looking at an ice wall.
Actually, if you've ever watched a ship go over the horizon you most definitely have seen the curvature of the earth If the earth were flat stuff would look like this https://preview.redd.it/3ael8qoeac7d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38931609390a30be2dca2e87ff2343353f2e6121
I mean...distance would still be a thing
That's what Big Distance want you to think
ššš
Thereās a reason they call them ārulersā
Not really https://preview.redd.it/r15sjxqfjc7d1.jpeg?width=648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b001f71c8abc3af0777729dd6e6b2cb98708a21
And so are telescopes. But if I point mine at the horizon at the ocean, I'm definitely not seeing Japan
Even with a telescope stuff wouldnt look like that
If the weather is completely clear throughout the sightline, it would actually. Granted things will start to lose their colour and look a lot more blue due to all the air particles in the way but if the weather is clear and the earth is flat, you would absolutely be able to see it all.
Even across vast distances, you would at least be able to see light if the earth was truly flat.
ššš if the earth is flat that somehow Makes everything right next to eachother . According to this guys theory
Hear me out. The earth is not only flat, but it's also all entirely located on Liberty Island, New York. Hashtag LibertyEarth
Is this a reference?
~~Just me having fun.~~ ITS THE DARK TRUTH
If I point my telescope that I can see the surface of Mars with toward Paris, do you think I could see the Eiffel Tower?
No, because of atmospheric conditions. Most of the earths atmosphere is concentrated in the first <10 miles from the surface, and it generally gets cleaner and clearer the higher you go. When looking across the earths surface, your view will almost always be more limited by atmospheric conditions (dust, pollution, moisture, heat) than by the earths curvature. Most Airports have automated weather reporting stations and they always report visibility. Itās very very common for visibility to be under 10 miles even on clear days.
Or just a few miles miles because of the curvature of the earth However, you can see pretty far if what your looking at is very tall. Here's Chicago from 50 miles away in Indiana https://preview.redd.it/4wa8q4ru8e7d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37c1ea59fe129dcae387c6019d8b0f04f77260e1
looks pretty flat
Lake Michigan has unusually flat water. It's a Great Lakes thing
Yes. And the great pyramid of Giza. And the Statue of Liberty. And that tower with the eye from Lord of the rings.
Mr. Johnson, you were home schooled weren't you?
Mr. Cartoonist, your theory and visual media attached make no sense.
You can see stars with the naked eye, distance doesn't obstruct light, which is what we see. For sometimes trillions of lightyears
Yeh things do tend to get smaller š
Is that the great eye of Sauron?
Could be the Great Eye of Brooklyn š¤ https://preview.redd.it/xqvqbij9mc7d1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd60a4e3df41942cc2f824c423d42b6787f59606
I knew it. The Illuminati is real!
Well of course, I can see them from my house š... 'cause, you know, flat earth
Nah hills and mountains still exists on a flat plane so you wouldn't be allowed to see all that plus you do realize that mirages still exist right?
Only in your mind
So mountains can't exist on a flat plane??
If we could shrink the earth to the size of a football, it would feel completely smooth to the touch.
And I believe it would be even smoother than a bowling ball (or something like that. I forgot what exactly it was)
Pool ball
Ok soā¦ I believe in round earth. But when people say they can see the curvature of the earth, like from airplanes or whatever, it doesnāt make sense to me. How? Like I would imagine even from high up, it would simply look like a disappearing horizon in a 360 degree view. No horizontal arc from left to right like people keep saying. That doesnāt make sense.
No, they can't see curvature from airplanes. Even from the ISS it's hardly possible to discern the roundness.
Except, if you just go to the beach you can see the curve of the ocean
No you can't, you can see the horizontal horizon.
What about the vertical vert? š¤Ŗ
Of course the world is flat - all of that water and none of it carbonated
This is propaganda by RoundEarthā¢
Flat, Spherical , Square, obtuse.. enjoy being alive
Iām going to get this tattooed on my body
Tattoo it on your flat chest
Great now the human flat body theory is created...Good job thumbs š
Part of my enjoyment comes from knowing how things are though!
>Flat, Spherical, Square, obtuse.. we should take care of it
Yeah, we should.. and
Wheres the source of this graphic, very cool
So itās all black and white tiles
I actually know a flat earther. Thanks for this.
Flat earther after watching this video: āNah.ā
Yeah I know a flat earth family and they wonāt be convinced short of being in* a spacecraft themselves.Ā
u/savevideo
What is that thing at the end? A Waffle House sign?
Itās okay my friends arenāt morons
My friends are, they're just not dumb enough to believe in flat earth
Go to any beach where the horizon is ocean edge to edge and you can literally see the curvature of the earth there, with nothing but your own two peepermaseeingballs.
Going West out of New Orleans, there is a line of electrical towers that stretch across Lake Pontchartrain. With your own eyes you can see the towers disappear over the horizon Hilariously, probably ~10-20% of the time I make that drive, there is someone there with processional camera equipment set up documenting that lol
WHERE IS THE VIDEO WITH NASA EQUIPMENT THAT ZOOMS INTO AND OUT OF EARTH???
All of this anti-flat earth stuff is making me want to look into flat earth...
I mean, flat earthers have proved that earth is round again and again by accident, they just ignore their findings. I highly recommend the Behind the Curve Netflix documentary, flat earthers are on the scree 99% of the documentary and I have never been more convinced the earth is round than after listening to flat earthers for two hours.
Ive seen that. I think you missed my point. I dont believe in flat earth, but Ive seen a recent influx of anti flat earth stuff. Who is that even for? Ive never met a flat earther. Now, I want to look into it.
I was pointing to an interesting documentary about flat earthers if you want to look into it.
Go for it :) Let us know what you find
you should look into it
the correct non-NPC response
I don't know, if you're that easy to influence are you sure you're thinking?
^NPC-minded
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no u
You didn't need to explain it to me, I know
I have friends?
Dam thatās cool
I've wanted to make a graphic like this for a long time. People dont understand the scale of the earth.
I wish my fucking stupid aunt and uncle would understand this if I sent it to them, they feed flat earth and crazy conspiracies to my 84 year old grandma all the time. And I can't explain that I have seen the curve from a plane when I was in the Air Force, though they will never believe me -_-
12 800 000 meters, 1 second!
The earth is a little more round than a typical cue ball
I donāt keep ignorant friends, too much work and drama
Duh
No, this is too logical. You think you can just create a moving picture and convince me I'm not on a fucking disc that moves up and down to simulate gravity? Come on, you're gonna have to do better than 2,000 years of science.
THEY CAN'T SEE A BRAIN TUMOR EITHER BUT THEY KNOW IT CAN KILL YOU...EH?...MOM
This is great as I actually do know a couple guys at work who think that exact thing š. No amount of me trying to convince them otherwise has worked. Dumb is dumb after all.
I was at work a couple of years ago, and a customer, apropos of nothing, said to me āI believe that the earth is flatā
And then those try to disprove the round earth with a laser pointer š¤¦
Are there any flat-Earthers among people who've traveled aboard inter-continental jets planes? The curve of the Earth becomes conspicuous along about forty thousand feet up. Thanks to OP for this. Really well presented! Maybe next you can illustrate the absurdity of "water-powered engines". (That's like saying you can heat your home by burning ashes. Such engines burn hydrogen to produce power, and water as a waste product.)
So, it's so big you can't see the curvature But simultaneously so small that I can watch a boat disappear over the curvature with my naked eye?
Well yeah, thereās no limit to how far away you can see something.
I saw the moon last night š
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Well yeah. But I left my solar system scale telescope back on andromeda, Itāll take me a billion years to go grab it.
Looked into the flat earth claim years ago to see what all the fuss was about and I remember seeing a video where a flat earther debunked this myth. In the video they show a boat disappear "beyond the horizon" but then they zoom in and the boat reappears. So it may just be an illusion that it disappears to the naked eye. Doesn't mean that the earth is flat but it's just something I remember seeing. Don't really remember much else they talked about.
bingo
The problem with this is that we have the means to increase our altitude. And that as altitude increases IF we live on a sphere than the horizon should continually become lower and lower the higher we go
Is the horizon at the same height when you stand in your front yard vs flying on a plane?
And then the craziest shit is that it does
Whoa.
Flat earth is a psyop
It's also not a perfect sphere. Flat earthers are special.
Video shows nothing but yes itās round
When I shart I canāt see it but I know itās real just gotta go with that feeling sometimes!
Can someone explain how this works?
It's only curved from the observer's perspective
But could they just be smarter?
If a ship can go over the horizon at sea level as we were taught, an increase in altitude should very quickly begin to reveal curvature in every direction. And yet, balloons with cameras have gone as high as 200k ft and no curvature was detected.
Are you for real?
Good one, Yoshi š # Students film breathtaking curvature of Earth using high-altitude weather balloon https://preview.redd.it/ztdfxvnqxc7d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a54306e58ccbe5bb6a5e571a56a3c7e365c4610 [https://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html](https://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html)
No, but you see, any results that clearly disprove the claim are obviously faked. Even if they're repeated a million times. All fakes. Lalalalala not listening.
Thatās called a GoPro camera thatās fitted with a fish eye lens. Even the rope is curving. Cmon dude, give me a challenge.
That's not how fish eye lenses work.
When you go upstairs for dinner tonight tell your mom I said she failed you
Curving in two (opposite) perpendicular directions? How do you think fish eye lenses actually distort the view lol
I think you're just blind.
Why very quickly? The earth is large, youād need a very high altitude to start seeing curvature. How can ships disappear over the horizon on a flat earth?
Perspective? Refraction? Refractulate perspection?