• @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

      HOOO BOY,
      that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

    • Dr. Coomer
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      Why did we ever put lead in gasoline? Now I have to live in this reality.

        • Dr. Coomer
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          But why lead? The creator even knew it was toxic and still allowed it to be used.

          • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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            Because the alternative was adding ethanol, which wasn’t patentable. The creator even got lead poisoning while developing it… then held a press conference where he washed his bare hands in it claiming he could do that safely everyday.

            • Dr. Coomer
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              But what doesn’t make sense to me is how he not only suffered lead poison multiple times in his life, but he even did extensive study on the effects of lead gas on the planet, mainly in how far it traveled and its levels in areas. INCLUDING THE ARCTIC.

              • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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                Now that you mention the Arctic… he’s also the guy who invented Freon, as in CFC, the stuff that depleted the ozone layer and caused a hole in it over the Arctic.

                If you’re ever looking for a candidate for Lizard people, he’s a good one. 🤣

                But otherwise, the simple explanation is: $$

                • Dr. Coomer
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                  I don’t know. Yes it was about money, but something just doesn’t sit right about it with me.

    • Lev_Astov
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      I’m trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is… magnets???

          • @III@lemmy.world
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            22 years ago

            Magnets have small amounts of gravity in them, duh. They come from the ground which has lots of gravity in it. I didn’t even graduate elementary school and even I know this. \s

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        Basically, there is no flat earth model. Every time they present one, there’s an easily observable fact that blows it apart. This from the people who constantly bleat “believe your eyes!”

    • @Redredme@lemmy.world
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      So the world is flat so we can’t fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

      But the sun, moon, stars and planets don’t fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

      It’s great to read, as is most fantasy.

      • @Heggico@lemmy.world
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        They consider them “luminaries” whatever those are supposed to be. Not actual objects. Cause that makes sense.

    • @MechanicalJester@lemm.ee
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      Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?

    • @malloc@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      shouldn’t have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my “personal” ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, “oWnEd tHe LiBs” content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, “silver nitrate”, and trump hat bs.

        • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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          There are folks that dedicate a good amount of effort into wasting these ads, I hear you can even automate that.

    • @alertsleeper@lemmy.world
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      they really think the sun is this small star (not big or bright enough to light the entire Earth), and that spins over Earth. Amazing.

    • PatFusty
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      Dont you love it when you use a light bulb outside and it instantly becomes day time from all the light you are projecting. Good times.

    • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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      It would be trivially easy to disprove it if it were worth the money to load them onto a plane and circumnavigate the globe in multiple directions, showing that there is no “wall of ice” and you always end up back where you started eventually. But it’s not, so they can continue to be idiots.

      • @smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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        One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.

        Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or “refraction”. Images from space? CGI.

        At one point a flat earther launched himself into “space” with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.

  • TheLurker
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    I can literally see the off switch. You sheeple are so fucking gullible.

    The all powerful Flying Spaghetti Monster uses his majestic noodly appendage to flick off the lamp each night.

    Fucking idiots.

  • @logos@sh.itjust.works
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    As a passenger on an aircraft, how is it I can see the curvature of the Earth?

    Quite simply, you cannot…

    It is likely that those claiming to have personally visually discerned curvature from an aeroplane are experiencing a form of confirmation bias.

    Oh, ok then

    • flipht
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      Ignoring that ancient mathematicians were able to calculate the size of the earth with pretty good results, considering their “world spanning empires” are what we’d consider regional now.

      Also that you can literally watch a ship come over the horizon, seeing it’s sails first before the body actually moves into view. If the earth were flat the entire thing would be visible the entire time.

      You can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.

        • @Zron@lemmy.world
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          But I thought water always found its level, that’s why they think water will just flow off a round earth because they fundamentally do not understand gravity or basic, high school, physics.

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      They also point out that passenger aircraft don’t fly above 60,000ft, only to ignore footage from other types of aircraft ascending above the stratosphere and clearly showing the globe

      They’re just lying to themselves, doing mental gymnastics, or whatever you wanna call it. Thus no point in arguing with them

    • Tb0n3
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      I mean, technically you cannot descern a curve until you’re very high up but that’s primarily because the earth is so god damn huge and our eyes are not scientific equipment.

  • aeternum
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    holy shit. you’ve made a believer out of me. I’m now a flat earther!

  • @solstice@lemmy.world
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    The only time I ever see or hear anything about flat earth is when people bitch about it on Reddit and now here.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      My brother is a flat-earther. He talks about it all the time. One of these days I’m gonna throw him right off the edge.

      • @solstice@lemmy.world
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        Is he mentally unstable or unhealthy besides that one symptom? History of mental illness? TBI? What would happen if you took him on an airplane trip around the world from say NYC to London to Tokyo to LA back to NYC? I’ve never encountered such insanity except for online (in more ways than one heh) so this is pretty interesting to me.

    • @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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      Netflix has entire documentaries about these clowns. I wish the idea of a flatearth was something that I only heard about on Reddit or Lemmy.

      • Ben Hur Horse Race
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        sometimes you see the title of documentaries on programs that are available on netflix also! its ruining your life!

      • TheLurker
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        No you idiot, you have to first scan the disk and then adjust the brightness in the photo editing software.

        For the love of Odin man, don’t you know anything about chemistry?

        • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          I’m sorry, Dave, I’d love to scan that for you, but I simply can’t when I’m so low on cyan ink. It’s basic physics.

    • @Fyurion@lemmy.world
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      Though even then, the sun would never go below the horizon, it would fly off in a stright line and disappear. Going below the horizon only works on a globe

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        The idea is that the light is small and close. It doesn’t need to go over the horizon to disappear in the distance.

        I’m not sure how they explain the random pattern the light would need to travel for different seasons or why it looks so massive as it rises or sets.

        • @green_pyroxene@lemmy.world
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          “it doesn’t need to go over the horizon to disappear in the distance”, but the problem is that it does go over the horizon rather than disappearing, as anyone who’s seen a sunset can attest

            • XIN
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              Well that’s your problem right there: you’re using logic.

          • XIN
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            Maybe not truly logical, but there is definitely an attempt at logic as well as experiments.

            The documentary Beyond the Globe was kinda funny, sad and interesting all at once.

        • @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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          so most visible stars are about 1000 light years away. And they’re still visible. And our sun obviously cannot travel at least over 1000 light years twice a day.

          • XIN
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            For reference a light year is about 63241 times further than the distance between the earth and sun.

      • artisanrox
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        the record’s been playing a lot of screamo since the whole homo sapiens thing happened.

  • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    Alright, here is my take:

    Gravity bends light. Therefore, there is a tiny black hole between earth and the sun. You see, the black hole redirects the sunlight juuuuuuust perfect to simulate that sphere nonsense you sheeples believe in.

  • @Species8472@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It’s definetly dark on the other side of our flat earth.

    And to prove I’m right: dark side of the moon by pink Floyd. The moon is also flat. Someone is flipping all those discs (you prefer ‘planets’) over every 24 hours, just like flat pancakes. How can you ignore all those obvious signs.

    Jeez. Those dumb round-earthers.

  • @Hafler@lemm.ee
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    Well when you want to go to sleep, you just say “flip me over, sky daddy”. Then God flips over the flat earth and that’s how we get to night.

  • TheKarion
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    No you idiot it flips like a coin! When we sleep gravity gets reversed until we flip back up!