[Closed] These make the truthers look sensible

Sure, but it has never been a commonly held belief, even in antiquity.

It has enjoyed various levels of belief I think.

A lot of FE'ers still cite the [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment ]Bedford Level Experiment[/url] performed in 1838 and later published in the book "Earth Not a Globe", which demonstrated that you could see a flag six miles away across still water, even though it "should" be 11 feet below the horizon on the ball earth "model".

[img] [/img]

It then resurfaced in 1904 when Lady Elizabeth Anne Blount repeated it with a telephoto lens.

[img] [/img]

Do they believe other planets are flat, or is it just the earth?

Some of them believe that the "celestial bodies" (not "planets") are round. Though they are usually described as being much closer than science would claim.

Others don't believe in space at all. It's all just on the dome.

What? Painted on? Waiting for Trump to put one of them in charge of NASA.

Take your pick: holes in the dome, projections, lasers, holograms from the moon, glimpses of heaven.

When presented with the star trails problem above I had one FE'er tell me that it couldn't be explained because God made the Dome and it is therefore beyond our understanding.

Tough to argue with that logic! 😆

That Bedford Level experiment is one of my favourite episodes in the flat earth craziness- in 1838 you could be forgiven for thinking that they were right! 🙂

These are my new favourite [s]nutters[/s] people with a different reality 😀

I had a client the other day tell me the world was flat.

There was one on 5-Live this afternoon. Very sincere in his beliefs he seemed. I couldn't detect a note of sarcasm in his voice which I found very troubling.

Plenty of them on YouTube if you care to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I recommend "Orphan Red" as she is one that can actually pose questions that might make you scratch your head for a bit. (Ignore her [s]annoying[/s] unique "ditzy" presenting style - she's not nearly as dim as she pretends).

https://www.youtube.com/user/SecretCherryKiss

She needs to point and jump more...

I recommend "Orphan Red"

I lasted maybe 30 seconds before her voice made me want to kill kittens

Some don't accept the current scientific explanation of gravity - they believe the force is caused by the disc Earth accelerating upwards (yes I know!)

So anyone care to work out what our current instantaneous velocity is (roughly)?

Anyone seen the videos on YouTube where the experimenters take a spirit level on a plane and ‘prove’ the earth is flat because the bubble is in the middle when placed on a horizontal object, rather than showing the plane dropping its nose to match the curve of the earth.

Apparently gravity doesnt apply to commercial aircraft...

So anyone care to work out what our current instantaneous velocity is (roughly)?

Relative to what?

Well given that, according to some Flat Earther alternate-gravity theory, the speed the disc earth is travelling upwards at has been increasing at 9.80665 m/s for however long they choose the Earth to be.

Even if "gravity" only started when I was born, we should be doing about 43 times the speed of light by now. 😆

And they think water sticking to a spinning ball is silly!

If the world [i]is[/i] flat, how come cats don’t knock things over the edge all the time?

Cat proof ice walls silly.

there are hundreds of flat earthers and yet not one is allowed to be a pilot. might want to think about that. perfect proof of the conspiracy. go into any field where flat earth theory could be disproven, and you're not going to find a flat earther. why?

Polaris is a good one. Travel south, it gets closer to the horizon, eventually going below it. That alone is proof.

But my favourite is driving up the A493 northwards towards Barmouth. What looks like a series of islands is gradually revealed to be a string of mountains on land.

Are you a psychiatrist?

They've discovered us, quick - pull out the platters/hamsters from the STW server and burn them with thermite, from orbit preferably.

All up the A9 written on the back of road signs it says "The Earth is Flat"

I teach Geography in Inverness and I've had to deal with the fall out of that. 2 minutes with an inflatable globe, something to stand in for a ship and the projector to cast a shadow does the trick.

There's also one that reads 'The earht is flat' but I'll leave that for the English teachers to sort out.

Don't forget the elephants...

Nope, it's turtles all the way down...

2 minutes with an inflatable globe,

Can you explain further Spin?

Showing them ship disappearing on the horizon? Or showing shadows from the ship?

Grahams- non believer.....

Can you explain further Spin

I’ve no idea how ace a geography teacher spin is, but when he explains it, it’ll be like night and day.

I’ve no idea how ace a geography teacher spin is, but when he explains it, it’ll be like night and day.

Their explanation for night and day is [i]interesting[/i]* too.

Usually something along the lines of the Sun being much, much closer than science states, actually inside the "dome" just above the clouds, as "proven" by pictures like this:

[img] [/img]

It moves in large circles above the disc and, for some unfathomable reason, is very directional like a desk lamp.

[img] [/img]

* (i.e. completely barking)

I might go all in on flat earthism, its so bonkers, it's hard not to love them the little scamps.

Someone at one of the stores I deliver to is convinced the world is flat.
To reinforce his opinion when he brings up the subject he bangs on about all these internet sites he's been on that prove the Earth is flat.IMHO that's one of the main problems with the web,people use it to reinforce their opinions not to question them or listen to the alternative view.
He's also a major pot head so I guess that's also affecting his rationale...

I might go all in on flat earthism, its so bonkers, it's hard not to love them the little scamps.

It just makes me think I need to start my own cult.

I could then base it in the US and register as a religion to get tax breaks. It worked for Hubbard.

How do they explain Coriolis force and differences between hemispheres? And the fact that water goes straight down the plughole only on the equator?

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=54949.0

Is there a head flat earther? Like the pope, for these folk?

I wish to petition NASA to take him/her into space and film the realisation of his/her stupidity.

I wish to petition NASA to take him/her into space and film the realisation of his/her stupidity.

Easy to stage with flight sims these days. So be careful who you're calling 'stupid' as when you point at someone there's a small problem you're overlooking. Want a clue? Well, observe your hand when you point. What do you see? Yep. There are [s]five[/s] three fingers pointng back at [guess-who?]

[img] [/img]

Clearly, these folk are nutters. The Earth is not flat.

It's slightly convex like one of those mini roundabouts.

Err, it's Coriolis [b]Effect[/b] not force. 😀

The straight down the plug hole on the equator is bunkum, sorry. Also bunkum is the "stand this side of the equator and the water drains clockwise, stand the other side and it drains counter-clockwise." The guy demonstrating this turns one way or the other to impart an initial spin to the water before pulling the plug out.

How do they explain Coriolis force and differences between hemispheres? And the fact that water goes straight down the plughole only on the equator?

Well that's not [i]entirely[/i] true.

Most sinks, baths and bogs are waaaay to small to be influenced by the Coriolis effect over other influences:

But yeah, they usually deny it happens at all.

as when you point at someone there's [s]five[/s] [s]three [/s] six fingers, on the same hand, pointing at [guess-who?]

I’ll take that...

What about the Moon?

Is it flat too?

I only ask because i've actually seen it and looks kinda round to me.

I might be wrong though.

Is there a head flat earther? Like the pope, for these folk?
I wish to petition NASA to take him/her into space and film the realisation of his/her stupidity.

It wouldn't work sadly. From my observations they spend a good portion of their time accusing each other of being government shills or plants, put there by the man to discredit the truth.

I suspect that for many of the true believers you could take them into space, show them the world, and they'd still deny it.

Damn Gummermint...

What about the Moon?

Spherical, but very close (e.g. [url= https://wiki.tfes.org/Moon ]32 miles wide, 3000 miles above the surface[/url]).

Though some believe it is hollow (David Icke stylee) and may be a projector. Others will tell you it is a hologram (because [url= https://wiki.tfes.org/Moon_Transparency ]it is transparent[/url])

Some people are so stupid that showing them proof is still beyond their comprehension, so they feel happier sticking to their original daft beliefs.

Lucky for them sex is pretty straight forward, otherwise they would have been extinct by now.