Flat Earth
Flat Earth
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So do flat earthers believe that just the Earth is flat or do they think that all the planets and their satellites (and the moon) are flat too?
Or is earth flat with a spherical moon floating above it, and somehow changing phases all the time? Is the sun flat too?
Or do they think that all of space and the stars etc are just made up?
I find it hilarious these crackpots with their terrible home made experiments and long rambling videos explaining they hole-ridden 'theories'. At the same time, the lack of respect in science, the scientific method in these people is worrying...and the biggest irony is that they're using the internet to publish their theories. Literally the medium they are using to communicate disproves their point.
- Just the earth. Everything else is round.monospaced
- the internet is awash with such drivel and people have become v.rich and famous peddling such nonsense, Google Sandy Hook if you want to see how low they go.fadein11
- Flat Earth has only got so much attention because it is a more fun kind nonsense, it doesn't involve dead children or people jumping out of skyscraper windows.fadein11
- would make sense if they think the moon is flat as we only see one side of it!mugwart
- they don't think the moon is flat, they don't even think it exists ... it's just a picture of a moon, projected on the dome, OBVIOUSLYmonospaced
- I think this movement is gaining traction only because it upsets everyone elsedrgs
- this is the way religion works doesn't it? blindly believe nonsense because everyone else does even though it's totally illogical._niko
- ^ i odnt think thats how religion works.
^^^ they dont think the world exists?
I dont even want to search for thatmugwart - yeah, it's a part of how it works ... people believe in religions because everyone else around them does ... that and threatsmonospaced
- That doesnt sound like relgion - it sounds like cattle thinking. You could the same about most things today.mugwart
- not reallymonospaced
- I disagree!mugwart
- post people I know have replaced "religion" with "science". i hear all the time - I don't believe in anything but science. I mean what the fuck does that meanmugwart
- I feel sorry for you.monospaced
- its okay most people do!mugwart
- But seriously. It MEANS they believe in the process of figuring things out, aka the technological and knowledge progress man has made in the millennia.monospaced
- It means taking other people's word for things...set
- Quantifying and explaining everything, as if this magical, unfathomable reality can really be explained.set
- It's another way to keep people's minds in chains. Locked in the science matrix. Nothing is magical and I know everything. lol to thatset
- They defend logic and science to the teeth, too, like it were their religion :)set
- Yes set, very good, it does rely on established knowledge in order to keep progressing. It’s that very mechanism that defines the scientific method.monospaced
- And yes, you’re right, there’s much that can’t be explained (yet). But almost entirely through the sciences, mankind has expanded that knowledge.monospaced
- Nobody is claiming “science” has the answer to everything. It’s the sciences through which we discover answers and refine (question) our understanding.monospaced
- This is exactly why we know the earth is a sphere, and have for centuries. If the same rigor of the sciences was applied to flat earth, it would be disproved.monospaced
- At a certain point, you must take others words for things. Certain things progress from hypotheses to actual working theories. Finally laws.monospaced
- Gravity is a theory. It’s been proposed, and verified, over and over. That understanding helped take us beyond the solar system through voyagers travels.monospaced
- Without that trust, we wouldn’t progress. It’s why we trust our aircraft and the laws of aerodynamics. Why we trust modern medicine to save lives.monospaced
- So science simply is the process of figuring things out. There are bumps along the way, but it’s what has got us to where we are today,monospaced
- Religion doesn’t do anything like that. They aren’t remotely comparable in my opinion. Have a great night.monospaced