The Earth is Flat?

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That guy is in on this whole hoax.
Up until recently you've been able to craft bat crap crazy but almost cogent (to those equally bat crap crazy) arguments in support of delusional beliefs, but have very recently adopted a broad "in on it" generalization that I'm unfortunate enough to have posted that within. How about ditching that generalization for a moment and responding to the subject matter within my post in a manner similar to that in which you have until recently?
 
I apologize in advance for when I eventually flip my lid and get banned for yelling at this guy :lol::lol::lol:

That guy is in on this whole hoax.

You really think thousands of people over decades could keep up a lie? None of them would ever want to come clean with the truth?

You've never met a scientist, have you? We are jerks who always want to be right. If there was even a fraction of a percent of evidence to suggest the Earth was flat, they would be all over that evidence, toss all their colleagues under the bus and go for fame...
 
You can see it. More accurately, you can shine a laser at a reflector we put there and see the laser come back again. If you don't shine it at the reflector it doesn't come back.

You can watch this happening. In fact you can watch it with the naked eye, because the ISS is absolutely huge, but it's marginally better with binoculars because you can actually see its shape. Follow the ISS tracker here and watch it go over your house with your own sight orbs right when it's supposed to.

That's schoolchildren with cakes and pork chops. Also Felix Baumgartner.

The Moon casts no light at all. It reflects the Sun. The "great light in the sky" of the Sun doesn't tally with phases of the Moon, eclipses, seasons, day and night lengths - particularly at extremes such as @Danoff suggests (although you don't need to go to Antarctica, but you should if you can; anywhere above 66°33 North [like a good chunk of Nunavut, Canada] would do it) - or pretty much anything else with a flat Earth.

Yet God is a "fact". Kay then.

Ever flown anywhere?
Yes I have flown.
 
You really think thousands of people over decades could keep up a lie?
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although you don't need to go to Antarctica, but you should if you can; anywhere above 66°33 North [like a good chunk of Nunavut, Canada] would do it) - or pretty much anything else with a flat Earth.

To really convince a flat earther, the northern latitudes might require two trips, one during the winter and one during the summer. 24 hours of darkness and 24hrs of daylight at the same spot don't jive well with the model. 24 hours of darkness is hard to explain at the north as well with the flat earth model, but it's harder to convince yourself that something weird didn't happen because you can't tell that the sky reset right back to where it was 24 hours ago ('cause there's no frame of reference in the sky to follow).

The other thing about antarctica that's really difficult to explain is why features are so much closer together. If he does go there (I know he won't) he should look around at some of the bays and peninsulas that he passes while enjoying his steak and lobster at the cruise ship restaurant. The flat earth model requires them to be impossibly large compared to how they'll look.

I can't think of a more relaxing and enjoyable way to prove that one's entire worldview is nonsense. :)
 
Yes you do what? You're not being sworn in here.
I was asked if I think they could keep this secret for thousands of years. And as i said earlier all scientist do not believe the earth is a globe. You can say mainstream science does but not all. That doesn't mean they are not scientists.
 
I was asked if I think they could keep this secret for thousands of years.
I didn't ask you that, however. You're probably best quoting and responding to those who are actually directing their comments and questions toward you. The last thing I asked of you was to provide more than an "in on it" generalization regarding an earlier post of mine.
 
To really convince a flat earther, the northern latitudes might require two trips, one during the winter and one during the summer. 24 hours of darkness and 24hrs of daylight at the same spot don't jive well with the model. 24 hours of darkness is hard to explain at the north as well with the flat earth model, but it's harder to convince yourself that something weird didn't happen because you can't tell that the sky reset right back to where it was 24 hours ago ('cause there's no frame of reference in the sky to follow).

The other thing about antarctica that's really difficult to explain is why features are so much closer together. If he does go there (I know he won't) he should look around at some of the bays and peninsulas that he passes while enjoying his steak and lobster at the cruise ship restaurant. The flat earth model requires them to be impossibly large compared to how they'll look.

I can't think of a more relaxing and enjoyable way to prove that one's entire worldview is nonsense. :)
Oddly, when I was doing my long-distance commute, you could see it.

The place where I worked (in the South) had roughly an hour more daylight at midwinter than the place where I live (in the North), but we had an hour more daylight in midsummer up North than there was at the place I worked. I'd drive up on a Friday and down on a Sunday at about the same time of day and as we approached the solstices, you could see the difference - I'd literally drive into darkness driving up in the winter, yet have a comfortable 40 minutes more before the headlights went on for the trip back down three days later. And in the summer it was the other way about.

That's the difference between just 54.6 degrees North and 50.8 degrees North - and 325 miles.

Yes I have flown.
Then you've been quite a long way towards space. I wonder if you know why the doors are shut and air is pumped in to keep it at about 0.95atm pressure while you're flying?
I think this way after processing information.
... after watching a two hour video in which a man who believes the Earth is flat because it says that in the Bible (which it doesn't) cherry-picked some data from what he claims are NASA and CIA documents, without corroboration, to prove his argument (which is not how knowledge works), despite the fact that the excerpts he shows in the first 20 minutes don't support what he's saying, because he doesn't understand or is deliberately misrepresenting the words they contain...

... and then told us you've seen NASA and CIA documents which prove the Earth is flat. Because a man with an agenda (which is false) told you they are and do.

This isn't the height of critical thinking.
 
I don't believe anything. I search until I know. All I can do is process information and come to a conclusion. I don't think it is flat because someone told me. I think this way after processing information.
And yet you won't share said information so that we too may be enlightened.

Even worse, when presented with information counter to what you believe to be true, you won't even consider it as an alternative. It's like I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses all over again...
 
Oddly, when I was doing my long-distance commute, you could see it.

The place where I worked (in the South) had roughly an hour more daylight at midwinter than the place where I live (in the North), but we had an hour more daylight in midsummer up North than there was at the place I worked. I'd drive up on a Friday and down on a Sunday at about the same time of day and as we approached the solstices, you could see the difference - I'd literally drive into darkness driving up in the winter, yet have a comfortable 40 minutes more before the headlights went on for the trip back down three days later. And in the summer it was the other way about.

That's the difference between just 54.6 degrees North and 50.8 degrees North - and 325 miles.


Then you've been quite a long way towards space.

... after watching a two hour video in which a man who believes the Earth is flat because it says that in the Bible (which it doesn't) cherry-picked some data from what he claims are NASA and CIA documents, without corroboration, to prove his argument (which is not how knowledge works), despite the fact that the excerpts he shows in the first 20 minutes don't support what he's saying, because he doesn't understand or is deliberately misrepresenting the words they contain.
There was 2 videos.
 
Oddly, when I was doing my long-distance commute, you could see it.

The place where I worked (in the South) had roughly an hour more daylight at midwinter than the place where I live (in the North), but we had an hour more daylight in midsummer up North than there was at the place I worked. I'd drive up on a Friday and down on a Sunday at about the same time of day and as we approached the solstices, you could see the difference - I'd literally drive into darkness driving up in the winter, yet have a comfortable 40 minutes more before the headlights went on for the trip back down three days later. And in the summer it was the other way about.

That's the difference between just 54.6 degrees North and 50.8 degrees North - and 325 miles.

Road trip! :)

Actually it would be fun to book an entire cruise full of (willing or unwilling) flat earthers in 2021 for the eclipse. I'd say that it should be something that the internet pools together and buys them the experience just so that we can stop hearing about them, but then flat earthers would be coming out of the wood work. Their numbers would go up by orders of magnitude.

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There was 2 videos.

:lol:

Ok I'm nominating this for quote of the year.
 
There was 2 videos.
Oh, well, that makes all the difference...
I think this way after processing information.
... after watching two, two-hour videos in which a man who believes the Earth is flat because it says that in the Bible (which it doesn't) cherry-picked some data from what he claims are NASA and CIA documents, without corroboration, to prove his argument (which is not how knowledge works), despite the fact that the excerpts he shows in the first 20 minutes of one don't support what he's saying, because he doesn't understand or is deliberately misrepresenting the words they contain...

... and then told us you've seen NASA and CIA documents which prove the Earth is flat. Because a man with an agenda (which is false) told you they are and do.

This isn't the height of critical thinking.
 
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And yet you won't share said information so that we too may be enlightened.

Even worse, when presented with information counter to what you believe to be true, you won't even consider it as an alternative. It's like I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses all over again...
Did you watch any of the videos I gave links for?
 
Road trip! :)

Actually it would be fun to book an entire cruise full of (willing or unwilling) flat earthers in 2021 for the eclipse. I'd say that it should be something that the internet pools together and buys them the experience just so that we can stop hearing about them, but then flat earthers would be coming out of the wood work. Their numbers would go up by orders of magnitude.

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:lol:

Ok I'm nominating this for quote of the year.
Do you think it really would convince them?
If your so deluded as to think the earth is flat and reject all of scientific knowledge, how is seeing it going to change them to accept reality? Wouldn’t they just construct some other insane narrative to fit there insane world view?
 
Oh, well, that makes all the difference...

... after watching two, two-hour videos in which a man who believes the Earth is flat because it says that in the Bible (which it doesn't) cherry-picked some data from what he claims are NASA and CIA documents, without corroboration, to prove his argument (which is not how knowledge works), despite the fact that the excerpts he shows in the first 20 minutes of one don't support what he's saying, because he doesn't understand or is deliberately misrepresenting the words they contain...

... and then told us you've seen NASA and CIA documents which prove the Earth is flat. Because a man with an agenda (which is false) told you they are and do.

This isn't the height of critical thinking.
I don't believe you watched the entire 2 videos. I could be wrong.
 

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