Flat Earthers- what to do with em

Flat Earthers- what to do with em

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gregs656

10,918 posts

182 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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He was in the Netflix documentary about flat Earthers wasn’t he?

CanAm

9,255 posts

273 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Shuvi McTupya said:
Plate spinner said:
You can see it from a commercial jet at cruising altitude ffs!
Fish eye lenses installed in EVERY window of every airplane ever built..at a guess smile
Indeed! And if not that, it's the camera lenses distorting every single photograph ever taken!

coldel

7,916 posts

147 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Yes, despite the fact that most countries cannot even agree to the most basic of conventions the one that has stood the test of time is this idea that every country needs to keep up the pretence that the world is round.

Absolutely fking mental this lot. But as others have said, harmless enough and does provide light entertainment laughing at their videos.

durbster

10,288 posts

223 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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200Plus Club said:
maxdb said:
What's wrong with just attaching a go pro to a helium balloon?
Fisheye lens conspiracy. .... you do not know just who is part of it or how big this cover up is....
:-)
Oh, you believe in curved lenses do you?

Do some research - they're all FLAT.

Camera manufacturers (Big Lens) just want you to believe they're curved because vague reasons something about taxes and the BBC probably.

alorotom

11,953 posts

188 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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coldel said:
But as others have said, harmless enough and does provide light entertainment laughing at their videos.
Is it harmless entertainment though??

It’s spread to defacing road signs on the A1M in North York’s and the North East and the fools that believe are often of lower intelligence who are more prone to violence when their ideas are challenged.

alorotom

11,953 posts

188 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Apparently Mad Mike is now dead. Killed by his steam powered rocket yesterday. It’s all a conspiracy I hear them scream!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost....

FredericRobinson

3,730 posts

233 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Who guarded the edge of the earth in the olden days before NASA?

Skyedriver

17,912 posts

283 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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FredericRobinson said:
Who guarded the edge of the earth in the olden days before NASA?
Neptune. Do you know nothing?

200Plus Club

Original Poster:

10,774 posts

279 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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alorotom said:
Apparently Mad Mike is now dead. Killed by his steam powered rocket yesterday. It’s all a conspiracy I hear them scream!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost....
Welcome to his wake, we were discussing this news already :-)
Makes you think though that they all must have thought Felix Baumgartner faked all his space jump. He fell for 7 mins odd, mad Mike would have got nowhere near as far up into the "firmament"

FredericRobinson

3,730 posts

233 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Skyedriver said:
Neptune. Do you know nothing?
Sorry, never realised his trident was that long

A Winner Is You

24,993 posts

228 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Youtube doesn't disappoint






Down and out

2,700 posts

65 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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FredericRobinson said:
Who guarded the edge of the earth in the olden days before NASA?
Why have we never seen any photos of these "guards"? Surely someone must have snapped one by now and are they positioned all around the edge or is there a fence?

coldel

7,916 posts

147 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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alorotom said:
coldel said:
But as others have said, harmless enough and does provide light entertainment laughing at their videos.
Is it harmless entertainment though??

It’s spread to defacing road signs on the A1M in North York’s and the North East and the fools that believe are often of lower intelligence who are more prone to violence when their ideas are challenged.
I wouldn't say some graffiti constitutes a clear and present danger to the populous. I tried looking and didnt find any videos of flat earth supporters turning to violence to justify their point of view, found plenty of videos of supposedly intelligent leaders of countries committing genocide/war crimes/invading countries illegally but no flat earthers out there killing indiscriminately at science fairs wink

If anything, the Mad Mike news article shows they are more a danger to themselves than to other people laugh

In any case, the whole flat earth thing is going to fall on its arse when space hotels open up and they can go up there for themselves. Although I am sure the whole flight, window shapes, or whatever other bonkers things they come up with mean it was all FAKE biggrin

GOATever

2,651 posts

68 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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I like winding the flat earth idiots up, by telling them to go and watch a ship disappearing over the horizon. Some of their explanations are hilarious.

coldel

7,916 posts

147 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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GOATever said:
I like winding the flat earth idiots up, by telling them to go and watch a ship disappearing over the horizon. Some of their explanations are hilarious.
The problem is the internet. There will be flat earthers who will show you 'evidence' this isn't true by bringing up a YT video showing that 'zooming it back in' shows its not over a horizon. The problem is that the 'evidence' or test has no controls, no peer review and is often badly and/or incorrectly executed but its confirming a belief so it must be true.

A Winner Is You

24,993 posts

228 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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coldel said:
alorotom said:
coldel said:
But as others have said, harmless enough and does provide light entertainment laughing at their videos.
Is it harmless entertainment though??

It’s spread to defacing road signs on the A1M in North York’s and the North East and the fools that believe are often of lower intelligence who are more prone to violence when their ideas are challenged.
I wouldn't say some graffiti constitutes a clear and present danger to the populous. I tried looking and didnt find any videos of flat earth supporters turning to violence to justify their point of view, found plenty of videos of supposedly intelligent leaders of countries committing genocide/war crimes/invading countries illegally but no flat earthers out there killing indiscriminately at science fairs wink

If anything, the Mad Mike news article shows they are more a danger to themselves than to other people laugh

In any case, the whole flat earth thing is going to fall on its arse when space hotels open up and they can go up there for themselves. Although I am sure the whole flight, window shapes, or whatever other bonkers things they come up with mean it was all FAKE biggrin
There's nothing harmful about it by itself, but the problem is that it can be a sort of gateway drug for conspiracies such as anti-vaxxing, which absolutely are harmful.

Thales

619 posts

58 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Which piece of equipment can I use to see 5000 miles away? I'll disprove this nonsense this weekend.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

235 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Thales said:
Which piece of equipment can I use to see 5000 miles away? I'll disprove this nonsense this weekend.
A television.

robinessex

11,073 posts

182 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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I've seen YouTube stuff where flat-earthers try to sell their rubbish to passers-by. I'd love to meet a few like that see how they get out of answering the bloody obvious.

Old Man Fred

821 posts

90 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Down and out said:
FredericRobinson said:
Who guarded the edge of the earth in the olden days before NASA?
Why have we never seen any photos of these "guards"? Surely someone must have snapped one by now and are they positioned all around the edge or is there a fence?
It is just the ice wall apparently, and they don't need visible people as they have radar and cameras etc..

Someone mentioned SciManDan on youtube, who debunks a lot of these things, also "Professor Dave explains" is good. They both have numerous videos which can waste a few hours