Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

You are flat out lying. You don't know the first thing about Antarctic travel. There are civilian expeditions there all the time. Christ, they've runs marathons on Antarctica.

And by the way, what is the circumference of this mystery world supposed to be? Why did this guy you worship sail 60,000 miles in a circle and how was he able to do that without stopping for rations in the 1700's?

40 pages and this thread is still going. I thought the globe proponents would have won this handily, nope. LQ continues to put up a great fight. Some people's minds have been changed and if that's the case, then LQ won. Best thread of 2016, thus far.

Ross was. He was just too lazy to keep looking for a spot to climb the sheer wall. As soon as someone tried it proved no barrier at all. He just needed to actually get off his ship. A ship can't climb a cliff.

" The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly 487,000 square kilometres (188,000 sq mi) and about 800 kilometres (500 mi) across: about the size of France).[1] It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 kilometres (370 mi) long, and between 15 and 50 metres (50 and 160 ft) high above the water surface. Ninety percent of the floating ice, however, is below the water surface."

How concerned are you that a terrorist group could get their hands on a nuke, sail to the wall, and set it off, virtually ending earth as we know it? I hope they don't hear about our flat earth or we could be screwed.

Wow, just wow wrote:

You are flat out lying. You don't know the first thing about Antarctic travel. There are civilian expeditions there all the time. Christ, they've runs marathons on Antarctica.

And by the way, what is the circumference of this mystery world supposed to be? Why did this guy you worship sail 60,000 miles in a circle and how was he able to do that without stopping for rations in the 1700's?

Expeditions, marathons require approval and close monitoring.

Captain Cook's provisions from Wikipedia:

Provisions loaded onto the vessels for the voyage included 59,531 pounds (27,003 kg) of biscuit, 7,637 four-lb pieces of salt beef,14,214 two-lb pieces of salt pork, 19 tuns of beer, 1,397 imperial gallons (6,350 l) of spirits 1,900 pounds (860 kg) of suet and 210 gallons of 'Oyle Olive'. As anti-scorbutics they took nearly 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg) of 'Sour Krout' and 30 imperial gallons (140 l) of 'Mermalade of Carrots'. Both ships carried livestock, including bullocks, sheep, goats (for milk), hogs and poultry (including geese). The crews had fishing gear and a water purification system was carried for distilling sea-water or purifying foul fresh-water. Various pieces of hardware (such as knives and axes) and trinkets (beads, ribbons, medallions) to be used for barter or as gifts for the natives were also taken aboard.[11]

Wow, just wow wrote:

How concerned are you that a terrorist group could get their hands on a nuke, sail to the wall, and set it off, virtually ending earth as we know it? I hope they don't hear about our flat earth or we could be screwed.

Nah, they rather rape white women and control the world, not end it.

Legit question wrote:

answer me troll wrote:

So there is a transparent barrier of glass above Earth that has never broken due to meteorite collisions over billions of years. How did it get there? What natural processes could possibly even have a shot at creating this non-moving, airtight glass dome?

I would be genuinely impressed if you can provide a reasonable explanation.

If not, just ignore my question like all the other ones that disprove your "argument."

The meteors are under the barrier. Simple.

Ok, that was an attempt, but you didn't answer

1. How did it get there

2. Why no meteors crash into it.

Tell me more about this barrier. Is it a dome? A really tall cylinder? Is the sun, moon, and entire solar system inside? (I assume so since all the meteors are inside.) What specifically is it made of? Ziploc?

Or of course you could just ignore me

answer me troll wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The meteors are under the barrier. Simple.

Ok, that was an attempt, but you didn't answer

1. How did it get there

2. Why no meteors crash into it.

Tell me more about this barrier. Is it a dome? A really tall cylinder? Is the sun, moon, and entire solar system inside? (I assume so since all the meteors are inside.) What specifically is it made of? Ziploc?

Or of course you could just ignore me

Idk. I would leave that to the scientists and NASA to figure out, but I don't trust NASA.

Expeditions and marathons on Antarctica require close approval, but I thought there was no Antarctica. Just a ring of ice surrounding our flat earth. The Antarctic marathon actually starts or finishes at the exact GPS location of the South Pole if I'm not mistaken. How do we explain that?

rekrunner wrote:

As an aside, I can't believe that in order to buy into flat-earth, we have to dismiss gravity as a myth.

While the FE knuckleheads here do that, it isn't necessary. All your blathering about Newton only begs the argument that Einstein proved him wrong and that gravity doesn't really exist, since it is just curvature of space.

A smart FEer would say that the roundness apparent on the Earth is really just the curvature of the space around it. Much like looking at it through a fisheye lens, the Earth is flat but it can look curved when viewed through space. That could be extended to the moon, the sun and all the other planets too. If you landed on them they would also look flat.

That's what I would say if I were a FEer, but in fact both Einstein and Newton are bunk. Gravity is real and has one overall direction, south toward the bottom of the universe. Anyone who doesn't believe the universe has a bottom is using cracked metaphysics. Everything in a finite 4-dimensional universe has a top and a bottom, a front and a back, a left and right side, a beginning and an end.

snsnsnsnsns wrote:

In other words, moving 200 miles in any direction on the earth shouldn't result in the sun completely disappearing.

But have you actually ever been to the north pole?

Legit question wrote:

answer me troll wrote:

Ok, that was an attempt, but you didn't answer

1. How did it get there

2. Why no meteors crash into it.

Tell me more about this barrier. Is it a dome? A really tall cylinder? Is the sun, moon, and entire solar system inside? (I assume so since all the meteors are inside.) What specifically is it made of? Ziploc?

Or of course you could just ignore me

Idk. I would leave that to the scientists and NASA to figure out, but I don't trust NASA.

"It's invisible, no one's seen it, there's no pictures of it, it's scientifically impossible, but I know damn sure it's there!"

Wow. Dozens of pages and it took me two posts to show this troll is full of horse sht.

answer me troll wrote:

Legit question wrote:

Idk. I would leave that to the scientists and NASA to figure out, but I don't trust NASA.

"It's invisible, no one's seen it, there's no pictures of it, it's scientifically impossible, but I know damn sure it's there!"

Wow. Dozens of pages and it took me two posts to show this troll is full of horse sht.

As is this troll from NASA:

NASA's Robert Simmon (aka Mr. Blue Marble) admitted in 2012 that NASA's photographs of the whole Earth from space (from 1972 to 2012) were fake and based on "people's expectations":

"Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people's expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble."

- NASA's Robert Simmon,

Try again.

How planes fly over our flat earth:

"If the Earth was a sphere, airplane pilots would have to constantly correct their altitudes by dipping their nose downward to account for the curvature of the Earth. At a normal cruising speed of 500 mph, a commercial airplane pilot would would have to repeatedly dip the nose of the plane downwards and descend 2,777 feet every minute or the plane would quickly fly into space. Airplane pilots never perform this action. Gravity doesn't solve this problem because gravity could supposedly pull the entire plane down but could not pull the nose downward more than the rest of the plane. So, even if gravity could somehow keep the plane at the same altitude around a spinning ball, the nose of the plane would eventually be pointing towards space.

Again, this can be tested yourself - get on a small airplane and level it out in the air and pay no attention to the horizon as you just maintain that exact same angle. After about 45 minutes, if the spherical model is correct you should have to make a correction of nearly 6,000 feet to return to the same altitude; instead you will remain perfectly level with the ground.

Submarine captains say the same thing - they make the submarine level and maintain that angle for hundreds if not thousands of miles and never accidentally launch out of the ocean due to a failure to consider curvature."

This so called "South Pole" is a spot that people are permitted to visit and photograph and take videos. People are only allowed to see what they are allowed to see. The land mass that you sheep think is Antarctica is not. Please don't tell me, but but but "we have satellite pics of our blue marble". I already showed you that NASA lies.

This guy wrote:

snsnsnsnsns wrote:

I think that I am one to something with the dark matter . . . .

At most this only touches on obscuring the Sun to explain night time. It won't help with the daytime. As long as the Sun is up and visible, it's visually round and it's about 0.5 degrees diameter, no matter where it's viewed from. At 3000 miles away, you can bend it, fold or shine it anyway you want but it won't get it to hold it's shape and size for everyone who can see it.

Jupiter is well up in the eastern sky. If you've got a decent pair of binoculars, you can pick out the 4 major Jovian moons as they're all in view. Europa is sitting all alone on the eastern side of Jupiter. Io is the one just west of it, close to the disk. Then Callisto and Ganymede are paired off further to the west. In 3 hours Io will disappear in Jupiter's shadow. The moons visually change position by the hour, their orbits are very short due to Jupiters strong gravitational pull. Time to start packing it up. Bag it all outside before I bring it in, keeps everything clean and dry. Nights like this in winter are a rarity up here, mild and perfectly clear.

My last post of the night:

Our beloved conformist scientists say that the Sun is 93 million miles away with a diameter of 864,938 miles. On the other hand, the Moon is 238,000 miles away with a diameter of 2,159 miles. However, the Sun and Moon just happen to appear as the same size from our perspective on Earth. What are the nearly impossible odds of this occurring? Or is it more likely that the Sun and Moon are just about the same size circling over a flat Earth? Again, the flat Earth model seems to be the better and simpler explanation. It seems that the distances and diameters of the Moon and Sun were only invented to fit the accepted model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eizwrSK4UP8

Goodnight globalist sheep, baa baa.

Legit question wrote:

As is this troll from NASA:

NASA's Robert Simmon (aka Mr. Blue Marble) admitted in 2012 that NASA's photographs of the whole Earth from space (from 1972 to 2012) were fake and based on "people's expectations":

"Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people's expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble."

- NASA's Robert Simmon,

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/RSimmon.html

Try again.

Wow, quote mining. Are you new to the conspiracy thing?

Here is a question to( from the site):

"Name: Robert Simmon:

Title: Lead Data Visualizer and Information Designer

Formal Job Classification: Senior Program Analyst

Organization He Works For: Code 613, Climate and Radiation Branch, Earth Sciences Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate"

"What is the coolest thing you’ve ever done as part of your job at Goddard?"

and Simmon's answer:

"The last time anyone took a photograph from above low Earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere (one side of a globe) was in 1972 during Apollo 17. NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites were designed to give a check-up of Earth’s health. By 2002, we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire Earth. So we did. The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.

I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. We never thought it would become an icon. I certainly never thought that I would become “Mr. Blue Marble.”

We have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and, for 2004, we made a series of monthly maps."

Where do you get an admission of fraud from that?

This is also why blimps must travel so slow and why birds cannot fly for more than 24 hours.