The Earth is flat, you fools!

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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:23 pm

How many of those posting there really, truly believe what they're saying, and how many are just fanning the flames, so to speak, pretending to be brlievers? It would seem to me (granted, I have a weird, twisted sense of humor) that it would be great fun to pose as a believer, just to get into nit-picky little spats with others about tiny details in the theory.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:33 pm

I've flown round the world, how do they explain that?

Although, when we crossed the International Dateline, flying from Fiji to LA, it was a long night flight, and they did shut all the window blinds. Perhaps some jiggery pokery took place then, and they moved the plane back to the other side of the map, so we could keep flying East.

I have photos taken when we flew over the North Pole going to Canada, but they'd say I faked them. And if that wasn't Australia we went to then it was a bloody big movie set.

The world must look a lot simpler to those who don't get out much, next you'll be telling me the planet is 6,000 years old.

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Indeed, Barry Setterfield, an Australian physicist and astronomer, has completed an analysis of the measurements of the speed of light taken over the last 300 years and concludes that light is slowing down. His work remains to be validated but if correct, he extrapolates back 6,000 years to a time when the speed of light was nearly infinite.

From http://www.creationism.org/

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:35 pm

@Packman - I think your theory has merits, but you may be wrong about the shape Wink

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:41 pm

Roycropper wrote:

The world must look a lot simpler to those who don't get out much, next you'll be telling me the planet is 6,000 years old.

Not to pull religion into this, but time is very relative. It could be 6,000 years as according to a higher being. A day could be a million years. If there is a God (and I believe there is), then he would not be constrained by our time constructs. Therefore according to us the Earth could be 4 bya, while to God it is merely 6 kya.

Forgive me, but I had to respond to that.

Personally, I think that if the Earth was a flat disk sitting on the back of a giant turtle, the turtle's name would be Crush.

ETA:

I am probably going to get yelled at for this post. Confused

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:46 pm

iMike wrote:

@Packman - I think your theory has merits, but you may be wrong about the shape Wink

and they called me a crackpot at the university, BUT I'LL SHOW THEM! MAHAHAHAHAH [/madman laugh]
*edit* should have been at instead of and.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:55 pm

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I am probably going to get yelled at for this post.

Lucky for you I started it, though I didn't mention the 'G' word. Smile

I have fossils here that are 200 million years old, but then my clock could be wrong.

Anyway, the flatties are bonkers enough, and have more sense to bring religion into it, they must have good mods.

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Roycropper wrote:

I've flown round the world, how do they explain that?

Although, when we crossed the International Dateline, flying from Fiji to LA, it was a long night flight, and they did shut all the window blinds. Perhaps some jiggery pokery took place then, and they moved the plane back to the other side of the map, so we could keep flying East.

I have photos taken when we flew over the North Pole going to Canada, but they'd say I faked them. And if that wasn't Australia we went to then it was a bloody big movie set.

Here is a map of the flat earth. As you can see the north pole is in the middle. So flying over it is not a huge problem. Heading due east will take you round in a circle. It's heading south that will show you the ice cliffs.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:59 pm

Roycropper wrote:

Lucky for you I started it...

I know. That was going to be my excuse if I DID get yelled at. Wink

ETA:

How do they explain the fact that on one side of the earth there is night and on the other there is day?

Maybe the two sides should have a chat on the phone with the UK time at 9:00 PM. I wonder how the LA peeps would react when they were told in no uncertain terms that it was night time.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:04 pm

Ah, right that explains it. Now we know why you never fly over the South Pole.

I just had a look at the South Pole on Go0gle Earth, there's something funny going on down there, its like a psychedelic cat's bottom. Obviously they have censored the ice cliffs, but why?

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:23 pm

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Barry Setterfield, an Australian physicist and astronomer

But then, since Australians are actually government agents trying to fool us ...

You can see where this is going, can't you?

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:54 pm

shiver wrote:

... That's assuming the galaxy is the right way up of course. ...

It is, but we're not.

Really!

If one views "north" as being 90° relative to a plane that is rotating clockwise, then our north (in our solar system) is actually south as far as the Milky Way is concerned. I.e. our solar system is upside down, putting Australia in the northern hemisphere of our galaxy.

There's no way of saying how the Milky Way is orientated on a universal basis since there is no point of reference.

Maybe if we finally find that huge turtle, we can just look at its feet to find out. Wink

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:07 pm

Can you imagine how frustrating it must be for these idiots to watch a movie like Star Wars where all of the planets are spherical? Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:18 pm

^^^ You just gave me a hilarious visual of George Lucas being inundated with angry letters from those people. Hah! Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:20 pm

@YW: *sigh* Typical Round Earth sheep. Rolling Eyes

FE FAQ wrote:

The other celestial bodies are not the earth. We don't regard the earth to be a "planet" in the classical sense. It is just a different type of body that formed differently.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:23 pm

Oh they're just disks, YW, or models meant to mislead us. You are obviously an idiot who hasn't read the FAQ.

My favourite quote on their forum is

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What makes you think logic is the right way to think about this?

Speaking of which, newdo's map does explain a lot, but hangon, the sun would never set, just come from a more oblique angle at some times of day.

Unless of course the Earth was curved and it went over the horizon, which means... I am clearly an idiot who hasn't read the FAQ.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:52 pm

Can a Mod please lock this thread? How would you like it if a flat Earther came here and told you that 419 was merely a filament of Shivers warped imagination and he had to retire because the joke wasn't funny anymore? Each to their own. Instead of trolling other boards why not do something useful? Oh, and by the way, the Earth isn't flat it's pineapple shaped.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:55 pm

Tommo Shanter wrote:

How would you like it if a flat Earther came here and told you that 419 was merely a filament of Shivers warped imagination...

Don't you mean figment? Laughing

Sorry, I just read that and found it kind of funny...

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

@ TBC I think Tommo meant what he typed
try Wikipedia

And he may have a point.
I'll leave now but If Australia doesn't exist I'll have to tell hubby he was living west of Croydon not Adelaide.
Where that puts New Zealand I dont know

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:12 pm

Tommo Shanter wrote:

the Earth isn't flat it's pineapple shaped.

It banana shaped. Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:25 pm

oh my god my brain hurts from reading that site.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:26 pm

^^^Given your obsession with bananas you might like this from the good old days of vinyl...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-OT8jU8GS4

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:29 pm

I'll check it out at home Tommo. I can't see anything from youtube or photobucket here at work.. those bastards.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:16 pm

Beautiful post packman. But I'm assuming that arguing with them would work just as well as arguing with a rock rolling down a hill. It wouldn't hear you or respond and it would just keep rolling on.

But then again at least the rock would eventually stop.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:27 pm

ronco wrote:

... a rock rolling down a hill ...

Hmm, according to them, the hill is moving *up* at 9,5m/s, so the rock will just be rising at a somewhat slower pace and not really going down.

Hey, flat-earth physics is fun! Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:44 pm

To be honest, just posting in there to "flame their flames", as Titania put it so nicely above, is tempting
...but then, I remember MikeHawk´s thread about trolling... Confused

sigh...

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