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Related: About this forumI met someone who believes the "flat Earth theory".
Last edited Tue Nov 14, 2017, 07:52 PM - Edit history (1)
I came home and Googled it and it does exist. People are actually believing this crap all over social media now. They say that the planet is flat, the sun goes around the earth and there is a wall of ice around the whole planet.
I read your replies and this link is almost word for word what this person told me...believe me I ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS!
Here is the link: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/the-flat-earth-theory-has-seen-a-resurgence-with-people-trying-to-prove-our-planet-is-not-a-sphere/news-story/0bd1226fbe2e2bc819ec12733591e8c9
The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,601 posts)Glamrock
(11,994 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Anything to the contrary is fake news.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,652 posts)for proof of the wall of ice. Like a photograph. Or how do they think airplanes go from one place to another?
BigmanPigman
(52,216 posts)I posted the link above in an edit. Apparently NASA, the Govt and scientists are all in cahoots of course
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)StatGirl
(518 posts). . . who is swimming through space. I read it in a book, so it must be true.
sinkingfeeling
(52,967 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,216 posts)airline pilots, photographers, etc. He REALLY believed it and it is a real internet conspiracy theory. I was going to ask if he believed about the fluoridation conspiracy too but thought better of it since he started to go into 9/11 and how there was no plane that actually flew into the Pentagon. Other than this he seemed quite sane.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)We can't fall off the edge because there is no edge. Day and night are caused by the moon circling around the sun, which sits in the middle of the sphere. The rest of solar system and the universe is either orbiting the sun or just an illusion.
Now, try to argue with THAT nutter!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)We can't fall off the edge because there is no edge. Day and night are caused by the moon circling around the sun, which sits in the middle of the sphere. The rest of solar system and the universe is either orbiting the sun or just an illusion.
Now, try to argue with THAT nutter!
Turbineguy
(38,333 posts)People have to adapt. Trump was not elected by the sort of people who live on a round Earth. And if they are here, they are everywhere.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)I was FLOORED. Dude was completely serious, right down to believing that the night sky we see is really a huge crystalline dome. It was whackadoodle.
DetlefK
(16,451 posts)1.
Many Flat-Earthers simply don't know science. They don't know what they are talking about. They can parrot talking-points about geometry, inertia and relativity, but when you try to have a discussion with them, they get confused and angry.
2.
Flat-Earthers refuse to provide hard data.
Flat-Earthers refuse to run rigorous experiments to test their theory whether Earth is flat.
There are so many eyewitness-accounts that Earth is flat, but somehow there are no photographs, no measurements, no hard data you can double-check.
I kid you not:
Their best-possible evidence that Earth is flat is a series of eyewitness-accounts from 150 years ago.
BigmanPigman
(52,216 posts)a few weeks later. He is the guy who I met in the park while training his turtle to walk on a leash. He told me about this theory and so I went home and googled it. He was trying to sell someone else on his theory. I was able to intervene and rescue her from listening to this crap for half an hour like I did.