Have you ever heard of Flat Earth theory?
Well, the story goes like this: The Earth is not a globe-it is flat. The governments of all countries of the worlds have conspired together with all the scientists and they are lying the whole population of the world in order to keep them in slavery and to extract financial benefit. The Earth map is not the Mercator projection as we are used to, but a UN logo instead.
These are the evidence the "flatearthers" present:
- There is no curvature and there is no evidence of any curvature. No matter how high you fly, the horizon is always at eye level. Also, they claim, there are many experiments which prove you can see objects hundreds of miles away which you are not suppose to see.
- Antarctica does not exist! Actually, it exists not as a continent, but as a ring of ice that surrounds flat Earth disk and prevents the ocean spilling into the space.
- Sun and Moon are not spheres, but also reflector like disks that emit their own lights to the Earth surface. Also they do not rise and set, but move around the surface in circular motion.
- There are no flights between South America and South Africa, South America and Australia, and Australia and South Africa. Even if they exist they are faked. They explain this by existence of ludicrous multi-stop flights which are cheaper than non-stop flights between these destinations. They also claim that the airplane should constantly dip the nose down if the Earth was a sphere, otherwise it would end up flying in space.
- The natural physics of water is to maintain its level. If Earth were a giant spinning ball hurling through space then truly flat, consistently level surfaces would not exist here. There would be a massive bulge of water in the oceans because of the curvature of the earth. If earth was curved and spinning the oceans of water would be flowing down to level and covering land. Some rivers would be impossibly flowing uphill.
- The sun is much closer than we have been told. It is, in fact, in our atmosphere. You can clearly see that it is not 93 million miles away. Many times you can see the sun's rays shooting out of a cloud forming a triangle. If you follow the rays to their source it will always lead to a place above the clouds. If the sun was truly millions of miles away, all the rays would come in at a straight angle. Also the sun can be seen directly above clouds in some balloon photos, creating a hot spot on the clouds below it and in other photos you can clearly see the clouds dispersing directly underneath the close small sun.
- If we were living on a giant sphere, moving through space thousands of miles per seconds, rotation around the Sun, rotating around its axis 30km/s, wouldn't we be able to feel this motion?
- The gravity does not exist. It is just another way for buoyancy. If “gravity” is really a force strong enough to hold the world’s oceans, buildings, people and atmosphere stuck to the surface of a spinning ball, then it is impossible for “gravity” to also simultaneously be weak enough to allow little birds, bugs, and planes to take-off and travel freely unabated in any direction.
- And as a final fact:
Being a seafarer, I have no doubt of shape of the Earth. But I would like you to tell me your oppinion.
Sources:
https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/
https://flatearthscienceandbible.com/2016/02/08/top-ten-undeniable-flat-earth-proofs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
Great blog, I'm glad I found it. These people have probably never left their parents basement long enough to explore the town, let alone the sky or the earth.
You think people can't be brainwashed? think again. :-)
I simply tell them...I watch the Sun coming at me for 6 hours and after high noon goes away from me for 6 hours, It does not change in size and does not arc. They stop talking after that ( Usually LOL ) how could it get back to the starting point in the same amount of time?
Cheers
Thank you @codypanama! Well, I don't mind having doubts or different point of view or even trying to change whole modern science. I just mind the way how somebody is doing it. Brainwashed is the exact word for that. And even if all the evidence were faked I just tell everyone; go south of equator and if you don't see the Northern star anymore that's it! You'we proven it! You should be able to see it from any point on the Flat Earth.
oh I don't beat them up or anything, they either listen to reason or they don't. when they quote NASA well....Never A Straight Answer The are not only Government but Military, They would lie when the truth would suit them better. LOL
It is a crazy theory. We have plenty of evidence that planets rotate and that they are spherical in nature. There would have to be such an organized conspiracy here that it does not make sense.
Thanks for the feedback!
You do not have plenty of evidence that planets rotate or that they are spherical in nature. Making sense is not a prerequisite for being true.
You can actually see the other planets with a telescope, you can see their spherical nature, see them rotate, and even see the moons of Jupiter orbiting around the planet with your own eyes... if you wished. But most flat earthers don't wish to see these things because they do not confirm their bias.
I have a telescope. Nothing that you just said is true.
LOL. People have been seeing that for hundreds of years. You actually have to LOOK through the telescope and look at the right planets and use the focus feature, and have clear skies. You know, use it and use it properly.
Been doing that since childhood. I don't think you have a telescope.
Weird, because me and hundreds of thousands of other amateur astronomers see those things. You might want to clean your lenses, or maybe get glasses. Or join an astronomy club, perhaps.
In fact, there are astronomy clubs around the world. Anyone interested in seeing those things for themselves could just go join a club and see for themselves before investing in a telescope.
Satellite photos show the curvature of Earth, so I'm not sure how you discount that. You would have to believe satellite photos, the moon landing, the Apollo missions, etc, are fake to believe Earth is flat. Maybe you do. Maybe they are.
Bro, the true flat-earther will find the way to discount any evidence, no matter how strong it is. It is pointless, been there...
Only if it is discountable
Everything is discountable in your eyes. Case in point is you discounting even being able to see PLANETS with a telescope! And the video you put that there are no satellite photos when you can download the massively large raw data of the:
Copernicus
Himawari
Epic Discover
all in the public domain. You can compare them to natural events around the world and see they match up. The files are incredibly massive. No possible way to fake them.
But thanks for making his point that you will discount everything that doesn't confirm your bias. You gave two perfect examples of that for globers to be able to understand the mentality of flat earthers better.
My point is they are not photographs, and if you wanted to know how strips of data from "satellites" are interpreted into the images you seem to think are photos, you would have to make an effort. Camera lenses didn't see those pretty pictures.
They are. There is no such thing as a satellite photo - if you have evidence to the contrary please post it, but listen to this song first:
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Oh, man! Give it a break!