10 grand to anyone who can prove the earth is a ball

Are the other planets we can see from Earth also flat? Or is Earth just special because it is filled with morans and someone was hoping we would all just walk off the edge and die?

I think it hypocritical to look down on flat earthers. We have billions of ridiculous people who believe in a good without any proof and even change their life based on that. Thats crazy. not some people being stupid about a detail of the universe

czxczxczxc wrote:

why do people want it to be flat so much? wrote:

How would GPS satellites triangulate if the earth wasn't a round ball to orbit around? Seems you would get stupidly off GPS positions assuming satellites are orbitting in a circle around a round object but it was actually orbiting a flat object. Wouldn't gravity and weight be different too on a flat board and newton be the biggest schmuck as a result.

Satellites are fake.

What are those things you can see then? High flying fireflies?

Soooooo... wrote:

Are the other planets we can see from Earth also flat? Or is Earth just special because it is filled with morans and someone was hoping we would all just walk off the edge and die?

There are no "other" planets. There are just planets. And Earth is not one of them.

Educate yourself!

Jimmy Chonga wrote:

And anti-vaxxers are like the liberal version of flat-earthers.

Anti-vaxxers are not liberal, they are part of the anti-science movement which is all part of the alt-right/trump crowd of mouth breathers who cry “fake news” when confronted with facts.

so many people fall for obvious trolls

John Utah wrote:

so many people fall for obvious trolls

Almost everyone on this thread is a troll. Just having fun.

Sorry if you didn't pick up on that

duh2 wrote:

Legit question wrote:

How about you explain the globe without resorting to insults? You can't. Therefore, you lose.

Here you go -the earth is known to be roughly spherical as a result of all known and tested theory, experiment, and direct & indirect observations; no evidence has yet been verified to indicate a flat earth. This includes all the so-called anomalies that flat earthers parrot - water doesn't bend round a ball, etc. -which is the result of their lack of understanding. If you need any of the details, look them up - it's all online. There, now the onus is on you to prove it's wrong.

Read this, although you won't.

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-the-flat-earth-theory-14-ways-the-flat-earth-theory-is-false.t7148/

No. You need to prove a globe. Do it.

The earth is not a ball wrote:

Watch the video, CGI doesn't count.

Flat Earthers: Why are there no pictures of Earth from space?

Also Flat Earthers: All those pictures that show a round Earth are fake.

duh2 wrote:

duh2 wrote:

Tell me why half the world is in day and half is in night, if all countries are on a flat plane. Go on.

I see this and much else of flat earth idiocy has already been discussed:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-flat-earthers-explain-night-and-day?share=1

No, I see you again and again resort to insults. You refuse to do any research on Flat Earth and repeat the same questions that have already been answered on the previous threads.

YOU have a ton of explaining to do in order to justify your belief in a ball earth

The Flat Earth Movement is growing exponentially and it has also created new converts on LRC

We have 200 proofs that the Earth is not a spinning ball

We have laser tests to prove that bodies of water do not curve

The ball earth calculator of 8 inches per mile squared FAILS every single time

The horizon is ALWAYS at eye level which is only possible on a flat plane- where is the curvature?

NASA has been caught lying, yet you continue to believe them without question

Yelling out "Gravity" and showing us CGI/cartoons from NASA & the government space agencies is all you have- not good enough

REEEEEEEEEEEE GLOBEHEADS GET OUT

Logic:

Take a baseball, and put a bug on top of it. As the ball spins, the bug just continues to walk on top of the ball without falling off.

Now the bug has clinging abilities, so it can cling to the ball. However, that is how people basically walk on earth as it spins, but instead of clinging to earth , gravity keeps us on earth ( or on the ground).

Or take circular plate, and put a stick from end of the plate to the other, which would be its diameter. Now if earth were flat ( the stick representing a flat earth) , then a person would walk from one end of the stick to the other and fall off of earth. But if you put a person on the circumference of the plate, and have the person walk from end to end, they would never fall off. They would make a complete circuit from one end to another, like we do on earth when we travel from one end to another.

Think about it. It's like a track and field track. Runners start at a point and run back to the same point after completing the circuit. It would be impossible to travel FORWARD on a flat plane, where a person starts a one point and ends back at the same point. So it has to be a circuit or a circle.

Earth is a circle, a sphere, a globe, etc.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Logic:

- A person can not walk off the face of the earth, and infinitely free fall without hitting ground

- The moon is round. The sun is round. The other planets that we see through a telescope are round, so by that conclusion all planets in the our solar system are round.

- People have sailed from one end of the earth to the other, without falling off the earth. There was no end point, just a complete CIRCULAR voyage.

What do flat earth believers say is at the edge of the earth? Do they say there's some land encompassing all that water to stop it falling off the edge? Or do they say the water comes up against some invisible dome like structure? If it's the former, why haven't we sailed to the edge, hiked over that land barrier then climbed down over the edge to see what's under the earth?

Flat Earthers say that an ice shelf goes around the entire circumference of the er flat disk earth type thing.

The polar ice shelves are really one shelf. The conspiracy to hide this has been going on for three thousand years and only a few very intelligent people know.

Quite who benefits from knowing these secrets is another mystery.

Any flat surface can be seen as a sphere if you view it in non-Euclidean terms, and vice versa. The advantage to viewing the flat Earth as a ball is knowing how to walk a straight line. For example, you can walk along a line of latitude, and on the flat Earth you seem to be walking on a straight line parallel to the Equator. But in reality the lines of latitude aren't straight lines at all, indeed there are no straight lines on Earth that don't intersect the equator. This was proven during the Age of Exploration, when the Equator was discovered and then gotten sick of as the explorers kept running into it no matter which direction they went.

For similar reasons, magnetic north is never the same direction as north on a flat map.

This doesn't prove that the Earth IS a ball, but then again, if you can describe it with the same geometry, it kind of is. It could be flat but just with weird physics where straight lines curve astray and you can go off one end and appear on other end, like Pac Man.

Bad Wigins wrote:

there are no straight lines on Earth that don't intersect the equator. This was proven during the Age of Exploration, when the Equator was discovered and then gotten sick of as the explorers kept running into it no matter which direction they went.

Umm what?

Wrong. I insulted you in exactly one post. I'm happy to do it again though. You're an idiot *

Wrong. Clearly I went out of my way to look some of this nonsense up, by the fact I posted two links to reasoned arguments. Did you see them?

Wrong. How can you know whether I refuse to do research or not? Only if I state that I won't, or if I consistently fail to show evidence of research in response to repeated requests. Clearly I've done neither, but please show me evidence otherwise. Oh, evidence, sorry, not a strong point of the planar planet community.

The previous threads? On letsrun? I wasn't aware this had been discussed here before, but you seem to be. Why would I know about previous threads unless they're linked to in this one? Are you mixing me up with someone else?

There are no previous threads, that is a lie to fool the people and keep them in a subservient torpor. No-one has shown any credible evidence of previous threads, and what "evidence" there is is clearly faked. Have you seen them with your own eyes? Even if you have, it was a hallucination created by government mind control. #previousthreadslie

No I don't. You do. The explaining has all been done, the physics and maths all worked out. It's all out there. The Earth is round. If you disagree with established facts, the onus is on you to prove them wrong. And not just by saying physics is all made up and there's no such thing as maths.

When Einstein thought up relativity, that was a flat earth moment. He saw how the established picture of nature was wrong, and set out to prove his alternative idea described reality better. He didn't prance around on Youtube going "I reckon Newton was wrong, there's no absolute frame of reference, time is relative - but anyway, now, scientists, YOU have to prove to me Newtonian mechanics is true. Prove it, but not using any measuring instruments that can be faked or fancy mathematics that's only theory, prove it using only your own eyes and nothing else. And if you can't, then I get to claim I'm right". No, he worked away on his idea without, as far as I'm aware, posting to letsrun about his amazing idea when he was only halfway through, and when he'd completed his theory with all the workings out and everything, only then did he submit his idea to experiment, whereupon it passed with flying colours and the world agreed he was right, and here we are using relativity to do GPS and things. Have you heard of him by the way? Albert Einstein, you'd like him. But you won't have got this far in this paragraph or will already have posted "tl/dr", so never mind.

No, I don't, I really don't.

Like Islam and many other nonsensical beliefs. Growing popularity from a miniscule base does not imply correctness, or validity. Or wisdom. Or intelligence. It does imply fanaticism and herd behaviour though. Baaahh.

If I cared, I would ask you to justify your claim it's growing exponentially, in the strict mathematical sense, as opposed to just "growing". But I don't care if it is or not so I won't.

"Converts"? This is sounding more religous by the minute.

You seem to be trying to validate the pancake planet theory by popularity. "Growing", "new converts". Well, if you weigh the truth of an idea by its popularity, as you seem to be trying to do for earth flatness, then shouldn't you be in the globe earth camp? That's got many more believers in it, really, way more. So it must be more valid or correct or something, right, as you're claiming for this disc daftness?

No you don't. They're not "proofs". At all. Not even close. They're misunderstandings at best, or wicked lies otherwise. If they were proofs then you could use them to "prove" the earth is flat. But no-one has. Because they're not proofs. At all. Not even close. They're misunderstandings at best, or wicked lies otherwise. If they were proofs you could... um...

Who's "we"? The religion's faithful, the vaguely masonic wannabe secret society of FE? Or do you mean the royal "we" as in you?

Could you explain one of them to a layperson, in exhaustive detail, without looking it up, reading from the screen, etc. In other words, do you yourself actually understand one of these unproofs, let alone all 200, inside out? Or are they just hand waving and a bit of this and that?

No you don't.

Every time? It doesn't work even occasionally? Wow. Every time...

No it isn't, no it isn't, at the surface of the earth.

I can't conceive of a large, complex organisation that has never communicated an untruth, typically I would imagine for an understandable, possibly even a good, reason.

You've been caught lying. About the earth being flat. It isn't, that's simply a lie #flatearthlie

How do you know I do? You know, you've been making a lot of baseless, unwarranted assertions in this post. I've a good mind to come over there and punch you on the nose.

I currently believe the earth is roughly spherical, because of the evidence for it being so. I question everything (I certainly question you). If evidence were produced that overturned prevailing globe wisdom, as Einstein did, to the satisfaction of reputable clever people, then I would change my belief. It would be mad not to. It would be mad to believe in something that so clearly goes against all our current knowledge and most accurate models, for the sake of clinging on to an outdated, disproved idea from a past era, whether for romantic historical reasons, or as a protest against reputable clever people, or whatever, you know?

I didn't yell anything

I didn't say anything about gravity.

I didn't show you any CGI.

I didn't show you a cartoon.

I didn't show you anything from NASA.

I didn't show you anything from the government.

I didn't show you anything from space agencies.

I didn't show you anything from government space agencies.

I don't "have" any of those things, as I didn't do them. Again, are you mixing me up with someone else?

Oh, it's the end. Anyway, I hope you now see you were wrong about that flat earth idea you had. No hard feelings, we all go down the wrong path sometimes. Cheerio.

* You probably aren't an idiot at all, just someone who's got caught up in a wacky idea, or a troll. I just felt like saying it.

Legit question wrote:

The only satellites you see are on Google images and appear as CGI/cartoons. "We know satellites and people go around the world...blah, blah...."

Can a flat earth believer explain to me how satellite phones work if there are no satellites? Are they just normal cell phones and there are all these secret phone towers all over the earth? And it's a conspiracy by phone companies and the government to sell people expensive phones that they don't really need?

What’s sad is that people on this thread can’t even successful demonstrate the fact that the Earth is spherical.

Our education system is failing us.