Post: #26

Y'all round earthers are obviously Hitler lovers.

Post: #27

Woah - I have changed my mind. These guys are idiots.

Check this out!

Quote:In his big “Save the Planet” speech, Obama compared people who have actually looked at the science and found that Global Warming hasn’t raised temperatures to the Flat Earth Society.

“Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm. We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” Obama said.

The Flat Earth Society however objects to being depicted as being skeptical of Global Warming. As devotees of imaginary science, the Flat Earth Society, like Obama, earnestly believes that cow flatulence is endangering the flat planet.

The Flat Earth Society is a real group, and its president says he believes climate change is real. He also doesn’t like being used as an example of backward thinking on the issue.

“For what it’s worth, the Flat Earth Society doesn’t have an ‘official’ position on climate change. That falls a bit outside our remit,” Flat Earth Society President Daniel Shenton told Business Insider in an email from England.

“Personally, though, I believe the evidence available does support the position that climate change is at least partially influenced by human industrialisation.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenf...l-warming/

Post: #28

Well if Obama is against it, it must be true.

Post: #29

(05-21-2014 04:12 PM)cardguy Wrote:  Woah - I have changed my mind. These guys are idiots.

So you thought at one point that they were geniuses?

Post: #30

lol - I was being sarcastic!

You can't be a mod in my new chatroom (I have hired MarK Zuckerberg to build me one) - if you can't tell when people are joking! :-)

Post: #31

(05-21-2014 07:38 PM)cardguy Wrote:  lol - I was being sarcastic!

You can't be a mod in my new chatroom (I have hired MarK Zuckerberg to build me one) - if you can't tell when people are joking! :-)

Dang it CG, I was being sarcastic with you!

Make me mod, I'm going power hungry. I even managed to grab Tuthmosis's Thor GIF.

Post: #32

The flat earth conspiracy theory is a real fun and clever mind game if you want to retrain your brain to think in a different way.

According to them the south pole and Antarctica do not exist, and this is why airplanes don't (can't) fly on southern hemisphere routes like from Australia to Argentina.

So instead of Antarctica looking like this:




For them the earth is like a massive round puddle of water with landmasses in it and surrounded on all side by a massive ice wall.
Their maps are like this and "Antarctica" surrounds everything:




Also, it seems this conspiracy is quite old, as guys were making these kinds of flat earth "maps" more than a hundred years ago:



If this is true, then the Antarctica "ice wall" is a barrier like the one at the end of the film "The Truman Show"








Even if I don't believe it at all, trying to imagine it really gets your brain in gear.

Post: #33

(04-11-2016 04:12 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  The flat earth conspiracy theory is a real fun and clever mind game if you want to retrain your brain to think in a different way.

According to them the south pole and Antarctica do not exist, and this is why airplanes don't (can't) fly on southern hemisphere routes like from Australia to Argentina.

Commercial airline routes over Antarctica did exist, but current routes don't go directly over it now for security reasons. Potential air traffic through the southern polar routes is limited to flights between the Cono Sur/Brazil, Australia/NZ and S. Africa, which is too limited a market to warrant setting up a tracking infrastructure.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums...n/2372669/




One quick way to debunk this map for the retards who might be swayed by that BS:

Flight time from London to Johannesburg: 11 hours
Flight time from Sao Paolo to Johannesburg: 9 hours

but the map above shows that the distance from London to Jo'burg is less than half that between Sao Paolo to Jo'burg...

Post: #34

I watched a conspiracy theorist espouse this nonsense on the Gavin McInnes show a couple months ago. I think I got some insight into how his mind works, and have a theory about why some people wind up thinking like this.

First, the fellow talked about 9/11 truth, and made a lot of good points. I agreed with much of what he said. Then he talked about Sandy Hook, and I wasn't as sold, but I still found it compelling and think he made some good points. Then he talked flat earth and looked like a complete madman.

My theory: The stress of knowing the truth about something huge (eg 9/11, though i don't fully buy into the conspiracy theories surrounding it, there is clearly something being covered up) is too much for some people to bear, they grow anxious and paranoid and start seeing conspiracies everywhere they look. This sort of thing doesn't just apply to conspiracies, but also people who've been abused/exposed to violence, they start seeing potential threats everywhere (PTSD, I guess).

Post: #35

Apparently Flat Earthers have been around for awhile.

I believe it was Samuel Shenton or Samuel Rowbatham who started one of the flat earth societies (the Zetetic society) back in the 19th Century.

There was a guy named Charles K Johnson who was a successor who lived up until the 1980s I believe - what I read is that he was some type of religious fundamentalist who believed that if Jesus ascended "up" into heaven the earth must be flat since if it was round then there was no "up".

(For the record, it's also a myth that people in Columbus' time believe the earth was flat; most educated people of the time knew it was round, aside possibly from some superstitious sailors).

Post: #36

I dont get this though - once I was at a seaside and the horizon into the ocean clearly looked curved. I even mentioned it to my brother who agreed.

Post: #37

(04-11-2016 10:49 AM)911 Wrote:  One quick way to debunk this map for the retards who might be swayed by that BS:

Flight time from London to Johannesburg: 11 hours
Flight time from Sao Paolo to Johannesburg: 9 hours

but the map above shows that the distance from London to Jo'burg is less than half that between Sao Paolo to Jo'burg...

But the pilots are in on the conspiracy too! They purposely slow down the flights going in certain directions.

Post: #38

I've always been suspicious that the FES is just a big joke/troll effort. Here's their explanation of time zones:

Quote:Q: "What about time zones?"

A: The sun is a spotlight which shines light on a concentrated area, so not everywhere on Earth will be lit at once. Times zones exist so that everyone's clock will be at 12:00 around the time the sun is approximately directly overhead.

A spotlight sun?! Are you fucking kidding? Everyone has at some point observed with their own two eyes that night happens when the sun falls underneath the horizon. A five year old could disprove the notion that night occurs because the "spotlight" sun is concentrated on a different region of a flat earth.

I have to admit though, it is a good mental exercise to think about whether you really know the things you believe you know.

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Post: #41

(01-21-2017 02:01 PM)Mercenary Wrote:  

It's almost as if nobody wants to fly from Jo'burg to Perth! Only crazy people would think Dubai is a major travel hub...

"I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak." - Arnold

Post: #42

Not to spoil the fun, yet you can get direct flights from Perth to Johannesburg & return.

Otherwise, there's one factor I've never quite found in the whole 'flat-earth' theory deal.

Who is profiting from claiming the earth is round & not flat?
Who is being marginalized or held back by the earth being 'round'?

Where is the exact problem?
Most folk only travel ~20 miles a day or so back & forth from work.
The sun rises & falls each day regardless.

There's no invasion of privacy or impediment of human rights.

Post: #43

One of the reasons flat earthers believe that the 'globe conspiracy' is spread is to separate people from their connection to God. To think we are on a 'little blue dot' in an unremarkable galaxy, in an unremarkable corner of the observable universe, rather than being on a flat plane at the centre of all of God's creation.

Just imagine for a second that it was proven beyond doubt that we live on a flat plane, at the centre of all creation. How would that change how people lived their lives. Would we still see the degeneracy spread by leftists, or would everyone be living in accordance with scripture?

Post: #44

Or maybe people don't fly over Antarctica because it's risky and the flights that go over it aren't exactly high on profit margin.

The differences in the pictures of earth are probably because of different weather patterns for when the picture was taken and they were taken over different parts of the the earth. Still looks the same. Round, cloudy, a lot of water, little bit of land. Look like continents.

Post: #45

According to leading flat-earth "authority" Eric Dubay, the FES is a recent creation, designed as a misinformation campaign to flood the debate with embarrassing arguments for a flat Earth.

Sounds possible.

For the record: I'm not a flat-earther, but I do think they have posed a handful of intriguing questions. The one that really gets me is why the curvature of the Earth fails to obscure our sight of lighthouses and towers 40+ miles away, which should be 1000s of feet below the horizon at that distance. Can anyone set the record straight on this?

Post: #46

Although I don't personally believe it, the hollow earth theory is actually a much more convincing conspiracy to ponder. I like how it ties together a lot of science (quasi) with mythology and religion. Reminds me of the great literary classic, Journey to the Center of The Earth by Jules Verne.

While I would never rule out the hollow earth theory entirely, there is probably only like a 1/100,000 chance it is legit. Fantasizing about these alternative history hypotheses has always had somewhat of a romantic allure to me. I think it has to do with an unfulfilled sense of adventure within my psyche that can never be truly satiated now that we are in the internet age and the world no longer holds any secrets.

Sad that we will probably never experience the curious feeling of true discovery- one part anxiety, one part excitement, one part sheer curiosty- that many of our ancestors felt when stepping out for the first time into the unknown of strange and distant lands.

Post: #47

Eclipses explained

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Post: #49

Mr WTF: well put.

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