Flat Earth

[Mikey Brown]

Sorry, I just had to share this. I clicked on it for some reason I can't explain. I'm struggling to grapple with the idea this is a thing people do, a thing people will devote a lot of their life to arguing about. Is it a joke? Have I been had?



21:48 is gold, I don't know why I can't put a time-coded link instead.

Edit- 21:40, apologies everyone.

[WaspInWales]

Well I'm convinced.

[BBD]

I lasted 6 minutes 48 seconds before I wanted to shoot him, is this a record?

[zer0]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

[Mikey Brown]

I lasted 6 minutes 48 seconds before I wanted to shoot him, is this a record?

Do you didn't get as far as "if the earth is tilted on an axis, why doesn't the Eiffel Tower lean one way in winter and the other in summer?"

(At least that's what I think he was suggesting)

[BBD]

Anatartica is a giant ice wall holding in the oceans and the South Pole does not exist

You heard it here first folks,

"Im going outside now, I may be some time as I cant find the sodding South Pole" - Capt Oates, somewhere off the coast of Argentina

[Sandydragon]

Sorry, I just had to share this. I clicked on it for some reason I can't explain. I'm struggling to grapple with the idea this is a thing people do, a thing people will devote a lot of their life to arguing about. Is it a joke? Have I been had?

21:48 is gold, I don't know why I can't put a time-coded link instead.

8 minutes 18 was as much as I could handle.

Good grief. The fact that a compass points north is proof of a flat earth. Feck me, you visit some strange sites!! I just love the way he quotes other deluded but like minded souls as proof of academic thought. So and so wrote something. Did he? So and so was also f*cking wrong.

[morepork]

Stay in school kids.

[jared_7]

I made it to 47 seconds and gave up, when they said the sun and moon are the same size.

I may have a few beers with the lads and rewatch it for a laugh. Does anyone else feel like the narrator is almost at the point of breaking out in laughter the entire time?

[Lizard]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

Gravity doesn't exist. According to Einstein's general relativity, what we perceive as gravity is the effect of mass curving space-time through which bodies move.

[zer0]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

Gravity doesn't exist. According to Einstein's general relativity, what we perceive as gravity is the effect of mass curving space-time through which bodies move.

[Lizard]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

Gravity doesn't exist. According to Einstein's general relativity, what we perceive as gravity is the effect of mass curving space-time through which bodies move.

Have you only just noticed?

[Which Tyler]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

Gravity doesn't exist. According to Einstein's general relativity, what we perceive as gravity is the effect of mass curving space-time through which bodies move.

[Matt Ha]

Believing such stuff must greatly reduce your chances of getting laid.

[BBD]

Believing such stuff must greatly reduce your chances of getting laid.

agreed for all locations except prison, there, I think it may increase your chances considerably

[kk67]

If gravity doesn't exist, how can one film fake astronauts in a zero-gravity plane?

Gravity doesn't exist. According to Einstein's general relativity, what we perceive as gravity is the effect of mass curving space-time through which bodies move.

That still doesn't explain the mechanics of how it works. Does it.?.

[kk67]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

[Lizard]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

I would hazard a guess that very early peoples, especially non-coastal populations, probably did.

I agree that at least from the time of the ancient Greeks educated people would have realised the earth was at least curved and probably spherical.

[kk67]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

I would hazard a guess that very early peoples, especially non-coastal populations, probably did.

I agree that at least from the time of the ancient Greeks educated people would have realised the earth was at least curved and probably spherical.

No one ever thought it was flat. It's bullsh*t.

[kk67]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

I would hazard a guess that very early peoples, especially non-coastal populations, probably did.

I agree that at least from the time of the ancient Greeks educated people would have realised the earth was at least curved and probably spherical.

Curved Earth is nothing new. It seems that even before the Egyptians we knew it.

[Which Tyler]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

I would hazard a guess that very early peoples, especially non-coastal populations, probably did.

I agree that at least from the time of the ancient Greeks educated people would have realised the earth was at least curved and probably spherical.

No-one with any credibility ever thought the world was flat - access to any hill (coastal or otherwise) would tell them that.
The ancient Greeks knew how large the world was as well - within something like 0.05% or accurate.
They didn't know how much was water, or how much land but they knew the size (even if not widely known, Alexander for example seems to have thought it much smaller, as he marched Eastwards hoping to find a seas port where he could build a fleet to take him the rest of the way round)

[zer0]

IIRC Norse cosmology is pretty clear in stating that the world is flat, as all of the worlds sit on different levels of the World Tree.

[Lizard]

In truth,....no one ever thought the world was flat.

I would hazard a guess that very early peoples, especially non-coastal populations, probably did.

I agree that at least from the time of the ancient Greeks educated people would have realised the earth was at least curved and probably spherical.

No-one with any credibility ever thought the world was flat - access to any hill (coastal or otherwise) would tell them that.
The ancient Greeks knew how large the world was as well - within something like 0.05% or accurate.
They didn't know how much was water, or how much land but they knew the size (even if not widely known, Alexander for example seems to have thought it much smaller, as he marched Eastwards hoping to find a seas port where he could build a fleet to take him the rest of the way round)

Eratosthenes' measurement of the circumference of the Earth was remarkable, but still 10-15% out (depending on how long a "stade" was). He used an inaccurate measure of the distance from Alexandria to Aswan (a hard thing to measure accurately in those days), and incorrectly assumed the Earth was a perfect sphere (as did everyone else). His methodology was good though. With more accurate data his method gives an answer about 0.16% out.

[kk67]

IIRC Norse cosmology is pretty clear in stating that the world is flat, as all of the worlds sit on different levels of the World Tree.

That seems unlikely to me.
Bare in mind that many politicians are bare faced liars. We know Ethelred was a proper liar.

If a politician can call it Greenland,......then we need to fuck these politicos up the arse with a red hot poker.

[Lizard]

Absolutely. We need more of the straight talking, zero BS types that gave Iceland its name.