"Flat-Earthers are back" Topic

I cannot believed it… (big smile)

"YouTube videos and spiffy websites espouse the conspiracy theory – but is the movement doomed to once again fall flat over countless schisms?

YouTube user TigerDan925 shocked his 26,000 followers recently by conceding a shocking point: Antarctica is a continent. It's not, as he previously thought, an ice wall that encircles the flat disc of land and water we call earth…."

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flatoutwrong.com

Amicalement
Armand

just another conspiracy theory that pulls in the disaffected and the disturbed ….

Flat Earthers are just plain silly.

Of course, so are those that think the Earth "orbits" around the Sun, when everyone knows it is the other way around, based upon voluminous, empirical evidence.

;-)

What I find incredibly interesting is when two people look at the exact same evidence and draw two completely different conclusions.

Most every ancient society---Earth Round

Mid 1800's Rowbotham comes around--Earth flat--one data point is all I need

Dumb…….

If the earth is flat, why haven't the cats knocked everything off?

I hadn't thought about it like that before. I guess the earth must be round after all.

But if the earth is round how does it rain in Australia?

Saw something like this on FB yesterday "you know there are Flat Earthers all around the globe."

LOL !

Heathens!!! The Earth is HOLLOW!!!!! While we're up there, THEY are down there!!!!

Feh, the earth isn't flat, it's a bowl. My own eyes tell me so every day, when I look at the hills surrounding my house (okay, it's in a valley, but that's not evidence that I'm wrong!)

Next thing you know, they'll be telling us to skip vaccines against terrible diseases that kill people!

Ha-Ha-Ha….!

Amicalement
Armand

If we were as crazy as DiscWorld, I'd believe them…

I'm disappointed in the flat-earthers. I enjoy a crackpot theory. Theirs are lame. I watched a couple videos, skimmed a couple of web pages, they have a little more than the anti-vaxxers but not enough to be amusing.

Such a lost opportunity.

We live in an age of the highest levels of education ever. And yet we have more idiots than ever. We live in an age of educated idiots.

Education does not equal intelligence. An educated idiot will know many things, but deeply believe really stupid things.

Perhaps we have the same percentage of idiots as ever, but there's more people than ever.

How Sweet to be an Idiot (You Tube)

When you consider "people's opinion" you have to factor the availability of information post Gutenberg.

What kind of lightbulb should I put in my shower to replace the burnt out one?

Most people in the Medieval and earlier era (being generous) had no opinion about the shape of the world. They had no more considered it than any of you had considered the lightbulb in my shower before reading the above question.

I'm fairly certain everybody reading this understands lightbulb and showers, and the idea of having a light in the shower. But it's highly unlikely that anyone reading this ever bothered to stop and think about the light in my shower before just now.

Likewise, I have a hard time coming up with a reason that a group of farmers in 257AD would bother wondering what the entire world looked like, or even that there was a world much beyond the part with which they interacted on a routine basis.

Now what happens in the 19th Century when you get beat about the head and shoulders with the shape of the world framed in a fallacious "science conquerors the church" argument? Again, most people still have little to no equity, so they respond viscerally, based on the context, not the content.

Thus begat Twitter.

+ 1 Russ… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

OTOH, there may be something to the flat earthers' claim that those who say the world is a globe are just going around in circles… ;-)

You made me spit my cofee Zephr1!… (big smile)

Amicalement
Armand

To be far, these loons are no more crazy than the ones crying the "sky is falling" and that humanity will be wiped out in 10 – 11 years from now.

I've traveled around the world, everywhere I went it was flat.

Wolfhag

Well that explains it then, the earth got tipped and all the fruits and nuts rolled to California.

Good point Wolf !

And von Schwartz !

I live in California. On the positive side, it's a target rich environment. However, I'm retiring and looking at Tennessee.

Wolfhag