Some people just believe in stupid shit. Make sure you don't believe stupid shit!

Taking skeptical thinking to an idiotic extreme.

Come on, clearly trolling.

Oh my god, he really believes this... not even the 9/11 conspirators are THAT dumb

so can we all chip in and send him up on the next trip to the ISS? Surely it would be worth it to end the stupidity right there.

Or would the guy think it's all staged?

But yeah, I tend to think it's a troll. Vast conspiracies such as this guy asserts to require massive resources and massive coordination. Things we simply don't have the capability of.

And if you're all individually supposed to do your investigations and not trust what has been proven for a long time...what investigation led him to believe that the world is a flat disk. Are the movement of the stars in the sky a hoax too or what's his explanation for that?

I wonder what explanation he has for the midnight sun and the lack of sun is in the two polar regions. I would think it likely requires some sort of god to manipulate the sunlight away from and towards the appropriate areas during the correct time of year.

If you get on top of a mountain or high atop a building, you can SEE the curvature of the fucking Earth with your own, unaided eyes.

So now a spherical Earth is a government conspiracy or a corporate tool for control? Are you fucking serious? Does this douche even listen to the words coming out of his own, useless head?

oh...whoops

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

Oh my god, he really believes this... not even the 9/11 conspirators are THAT dumb


Yes they are.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
Oh my god, he really believes this... not even the 9/11 conspirators are THAT dumb

Yes they are.


Hmm, you make a persuasive argument!

>> ^Boise_Lib:

If it's a disk--what's on the other side?


*gasp* Possibly a mirror universe!

I love his reluctance to use the word "global" at 1:35. Subtle...

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." - Marcello Truzzi

I think they'd have to sack-up and actually record evidence of the "edge" of the earth-disc, which is fairly possible.

So why doesn't he test it? Attach camera to a balloon, send it high enough to see the curve of the earth...

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The Flat Earth Society is an organization that seeks to further the belief that the Earth is flat instead of an oblate spheroid. The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956 and was later led by Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization in his home in Lancaster, California. The formal society was inactive after Johnson’s death in 2001 but was resurrected in 2004 by its new president Daniel Shenton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

>> ^Boise_Lib:

If it's a disk--what's on the other side?


a turtle.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

If it's a disk--what's on the other side?


orcs

For the love of god! It's 9.8 m/s^2. SQUARED!!! Do you understand what that means!!?!? For us to *feel* the gravity of Earth WITH Einstein's (or Newton's) gravitational effects it must ACCELERATE up continually per second, per second... This would not only mean that another force is responsible for Earth's movement, but since very soon after we started having gravity we would have to increase to light-speed or we stop feeling that "gravity" effect (our inertia is "caught up" if you will and we will be floating). It would mean that that force pushing us is the most powerful force in the Universe and we can't detect it even though it's strapped to our backs.

Don't get this confused with other ways to create gravitational effects or acceleration fields at 9.8 m/s^2, like centrifugal force (rotating space stations) or gravity...

@kceaton1 - i'd also just like to mention the issue of reference frames. We can tell if we're accelerating compared to an intertial frame. If we are spinning centrifugally then the entire universe and everything in it must also be accelerating centrifugally, and to explain the fact that we can see stars around us as though the universe is not accelerating centrifugally, we have to say it must also be spinning centrifugally with us. The size of the centrifuge would require that centrifuge to break the speed of light as well.

And we've BEEN to the moon, and experienced a lower gravity (aside from seeing that the earth is a sphere too). So now the moon has to be accelerating at g/4 = something like 2.5 m/s^2.. So now what? We can't both be accelerating centrifugally such that when we stand on either we see both as inertial yet we can look up and see the other.

But wait, suddenly now he has to invent a reason why the stars change as you travel further and further across flat earth.

And what invisible instantaneous scooping mechanism is it that stops the water from draining away? And what stops YOU from walking over the edge and deposits you back on the other side so you don't notice a thing?


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I just had to stop myself short. The amount of things that don't add up is huge.

I like how he urges people to go out and investigate mainstream scientific beliefs for themselves, but doesn't do it himself. What "really solid evidence" has he found for his flat earth hypothesis? Shut the front door, dude.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

If it's a disk--what's on the other side?


Perhaps it's not a disc but a Mobius strip.

Oh shit! Who wants to start The Mobius Earth Society with me?

Financial reasons? WHAT financial reasons!? A conspiracy of globe sellers?

Considering that map in the video, I'd like to know what this guy makes of the various trips to the North and South poles.

The amount of reliably testable hypotheses, theories and laws including technological advancements based on such scientific discoveries and various other distance traveling achievements that would need to be discarded for his one unsubstantiated claim to have even a chance of sounding coherent is mind boggling.

How can one think they're looking at a situation scientifically when they must dispute everything that works for their idea to have ground?

And wtf is Australia doing at the top on that map?! Get your ass back down here and be careful not to fall off the edge..

Reading the flat earth forums is a lot of fun.

The was one thread that seemed to suggest that the round earth deception began with aristotle proclaiming that men had more teeth than women...Truly these people are insane.

My sister fully believes that the 1969 Moon landings were faked. She believes that we did make it a few years after that but "no way did they do it in 1969. The technology wasn't there to make it possible."

Yeah, I know. But she's my sister and I still love her.

Dear person in interview: You are a waste of space. Please swim out and fall off.