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Title: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Crouton on March 05, 2019, 11:22:48 PM
It's called behind the curve. It's an hour and a half long and it stars mark Sargeant.

Okay. So I hope this isn't crap.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Son of Orospu on March 06, 2019, 12:24:32 AM
I'll have to see if I can find it tomorrow.  Sergeant is not a spokesman or representative for this forum or the Flat Earth Society; however, he is often entertaining and makes some points.  I will try to watch this documentary. 
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 06, 2019, 12:36:19 AM
I saw it a month ago. It's interesting. All I'll say is that it's worth checking out. We can talk after you've seen it. It's worth the $5.99 for sure. Super curious as to the FE perspective here about it.

I will say, super not psyched how the society here was not included. It's all flash and glam with these YT 'stars'. If it bleeds it leads I guess.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2019, 12:45:39 AM
It's called behind the curve. It's an hour and a half long and it stars mark Sargeant.

Okay. So I hope this isn't crap.
I've not seen the video but there is this official trailer:

Behind the Curve - Official Teaser Trailer

And plenty of extracts, "starring" Bob Knodel's so-called "proof of the earth's rotation" and Jeran Campanella's "evidence of curvature".

Bob Knodel & His Ring Laser Gyroscope Experiment
by FlatEarth.ws
         
Jeranism proves the globe..; "That's interesting"
by The Plane Truth
And the "YouTube Flat-Earth Community" is not happy and how!

Bob Knodel of globebusters is a LIAR and a SATANIST and getting THE BOOT Beyond Flat Earth!
by Awake Souls
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Unconvinced on March 06, 2019, 03:49:23 AM
Seen it.  Thought it was pretty good, although I’m sure some others will strongly disagree.

Love the title.  I wonder if they told the participants what they were going to call it?
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rvlvr on March 06, 2019, 07:51:13 AM
I, too, am quite interested to hear what FE here thinks of the documentary.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Crouton on March 06, 2019, 08:03:24 AM
20 minutes in, then I passed out, not the films fault.

Not looking good so far. It's more of a puff piece on Mark Sargent. It's well produced at least. I hope the rest of the film is different. Ideally I'd like to see coverage of all the major personalities, the societies(including this one obviously), the opposition and the science.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Username on March 06, 2019, 12:46:47 PM
I like Sargeant personally, especially in the talks I've had with him. I'll likely see it, though I won't be happy about it as I'm sure they did not treat us fairly - especially given Bishop's scathing review.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Danang on March 06, 2019, 06:32:43 PM
Resistency against Universal Acceleration is more political than scientific.

The Flat Earth Society is an open place to any alternative ideas, UA has the right place to demonstrate its reliabilities.

All science entities are against FES or UA, including some 'mainstream' flatearthers, with their 'prophets'.

It's understandable. :')
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Danang on March 06, 2019, 06:39:53 PM
Resistency might be political, might be just due to bad presentation of something actually teriffic.
Without newly found the breathing earth theory, it's hard for UA to convince the people.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2019, 09:37:14 PM
I like Sargeant personally, especially in the talks I've had with him. I'll likely see it, though I won't be happy about it as I'm sure they did not treat us fairly - especially given Bishop's scathing review.
If you like Mark Sargent then you'd better put him straight on the flat-earth map.These are hardly the things a flat-earther would be doing. Mark Sargent asks whether we've even heard of Al-Biruni ::).
You might tell Mark that of course WE have. Al-Biruni is regarded as the "father of geodesy".
And geodesy is the part of surveying that measures large regions of earth, like whole countries, and proves the earth cannot be flat.

In this video Bob the Science Guy goes into more detail on Mark's misguided map ideas:

Mark Sargent 'Flat Earth Clues' Part 3
                                              by Bob the Science Guy

That video also shows how expertly Mark Sargent quote mines his references.

The title of this little extract from the Muslim Times shows how Muslims regard Al-Biruni and a couple of his drawings:
Quote from: ZIA H SHAH
Al Biruni: One of the Greatest Pioneers of Science (https://themuslimtimes.info/2012/01/01/al-biruni-the-great-pioneer-of-science/)
The early Muslims duplicated the technique of Eratosthenes, to measure the circumference of the earth, 200 years before Al Biruni. But, that technique had a basic flaw. Al Biruni came up with a better idea, to measure the circumference of the earth, based on trigonometry.


           (https://themuslimtimesdotinfodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lunar_eclipse_al-biruni1-e1365410091459.jpg)
An illustration from Biruni’s Persian book. It shows different phases of the moon.
Here is more on Al-Biruni's Measuring the earth's radius 1000 years ago (https://www.thinkib.net/mathhlsl/blog/19923/measuring-the-earths-radius-1000-years-ago)

So maybe Mark Sargent was ignorant of Al-Biruni’s beliefs and work but many others were well aware of the evidence he provided for the Globe.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 06, 2019, 10:11:04 PM
It's not just unfair treatment. Behind the Curve contains fraud in how it depicts the Jeran experiment. If I had the power to submit announcements on this website I would write one for this website as well, with a title of "Behind the Curve: Scientific Fraud". Netflix is bringing many people into the discussions and they just need to know.

That is clearly not how the experiment went down. It is pretty pathetic that they would need to resort to fraud to support their model.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2019, 10:57:40 PM
It's not just unfair treatment. Behind the Curve contains fraud in how it depicts the Jeran experiment. If I had the power to submit announcements on this website I would one for this website as well, with a title of "Behind the Curve: Scientific Fraud". Netflix is bringing many people into the discussions and they just need to know.

That is clearly not how the experiment went down. It is pretty pathetic that anyone would need to resort to fraud to support their model.
So would you care to show how Jeran Campanella's experiment did go down?

I would not be so brash as to claim that Jeran Campanella's experiment proved the earth a Globe. All it did was to give one piece of evidence and there could be other explanations, even anomalous refraction as flat-earthers like to claim.
And Bob Knodel's 15°/hour "drift" on his $20,000 gyroscope is again only one piece of evidence.

In haven't seen the whole video and quite possibly the production team did "cherry pick" their takes - as the media does.
Mark Sargent, however, does exactly the same thing in his "clues" videos where he "cherry picks" (and worse) his way through the "History of the Globe".
He goes within a whisker of claiming that Copernicus introduced the Globe when Copernicus did nothing of the sort!
Long before Copernicus, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, the Venerable Bede, Al-Burini and Johannes de Sacrobosco wrote of the Globe.

But back to "Behind the Curve": In each case, the most telling thing was Jeran Campanella's and Bob Knodel's reaction to the results.
That seemed to be "That's interesting, umm .  . . . . . " let's cover it up and hope no one notices.

But whatever you say, look at what one Flat-Earth YouTuber has to say about Bob Knodel:

Bob Knodel of globebusters is a LIAR and a SATANIST and getting THE BOOT by Awake Souls.

And the reaction from other flat-earthers:

Jeranism And Globebusters You Are No Longer A Part Of This Community Your Out by Question Everything
They are the words of Flat-Earthers. Don't take any notice of the evidence - just shoot the messenger.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 06, 2019, 11:08:00 PM
From the tfes.org main page:

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On the Jeran experiment itself, we can only characterize its depiction in the film as clear scientific fraud. We read the following from an account of a self-proclaimed Round Earth proponent who was present at the event (https://www.reddit.com/r/flatEarth/comments/7sc4w5/about_the_cringiest_thing_youll_see_today/dt5gzyr/) [ archive link ] :

"In about 10 tries, with the light held waist-high at 17 feet above water we never clearly saw it through the center panel hole. On one of the attempts, maybe the fourth of ten, we clearly saw it when Enrique lifted it over his head. On that one, Jeran asked him to raise it and lower it a few times, and it would appear when Enrique raised it and vanish when he lowered it. That was the "gasp" moment. Jeran said, "that's interesting." I noted it was the prediction for a round Earth. When they repeated the whole procedure, it did not happen again. I suggested having Enrique move from side-to-side a bit when occluded by the panel, in case it was lateral alignment that was off. Jeran accepted the suggestion, but it made no observable difference."

Of about ten observations, the fourth observation was the only one where the event occurred, and the only one which was published in the documentary. Nine of the ten trials did not see the event. The above description of inconsistency suggests the presence of curving light rays in the experiment—refraction. The manner in which the experiment was portrayed in the film by the producers further suggests dishonesty. Had the results of all ten trials been honestly presented it would have, assuredly, been a far different segment.

The documentary does not show the times the event did not occur. Misrepresentation of that nature is called scientific fraud.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rvlvr on March 06, 2019, 11:18:58 PM
The documentary does not show the times the event did not occur. Misrepresentation of that nature is called scientific fraud.
I have to agree here.

Fair is fair no matter the subject.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 12:51:08 AM
From the tfes.org main page:

Quote
On the Jeran experiment itself, we can only characterize its depiction in the film as clear scientific fraud. Well read the following from an account of a self-proclaimed Round Earth proponent who was present at the event (https://www.reddit.com/r/flatEarth/comments/7sc4w5/about_the_cringiest_thing_youll_see_today/dt5gzyr/) [ archive link ] :

"In about 10 tries, with the light held waist-high at 17 feet above water we never clearly saw it through the center panel hole. On one of the attempts, maybe the fourth of ten, we clearly saw it when Enrique lifted it over his head. On that one, Jeran asked him to raise it and lower it a few times, and it would appear when Enrique raised it and vanish when he lowered it. That was the "gasp" moment. Jeran said, "that's interesting." I noted it was the prediction for a round Earth. When they repeated the whole procedure, it did not happen again. I suggested having Enrique move from side-to-side a bit when occluded by the panel, in case it was lateral alignment that was off. Jeran accepted the suggestion, but it made no observable difference."

Of about ten observations, the fourth observation was the only one where the event occurred, and the only one which was published in the documentary. Nine of the ten trials did not see the event. The above description of inconsistency suggests the presence of curving light rays in the experiment—refraction. The manner in which the experiment was portrayed in the film by the producers further suggests dishonesty. Had the results of all ten trials been honestly presented it would have, assuredly, been a far different segment.

The documentary does not show the times the event did not occur. Misrepresentation of that nature is called scientific fraud.

I read Bryan Olson's account (the person you quoted) a different way. The "When they repeated the whole procedure, it did not happen again. I suggested having Enrique move from side-to-side a bit when occluded by the panel, in case it was lateral alignment that was off. Jeran accepted the suggestion, but it made no observable difference." meant that when they repeated the test again at 17', even with the suggestion of moving the light laterally, that it still didn't show. Not that they repeated raising the light up 23' again and didn't see it. Seems it was only on one attempt did they raise the light up, #4, and that's the one that is in the movie with the "Interesting..." quote.

And to date, I don't think Bob or Jeran have published anything regarding the two experiments other than just talking about them. No actual video evidence or otherwise. That seems to be, in part, what has some of the other YT FEr's freaking out about. Maybe if they did publish the results from the experiments, this would all be cleared up. But under intense pressure, they have not, that I can find.

And as to "scientific fraud", the film is not an FE documentary, but a documentary about FE'rs. It was never intended to be "sciencey".

All in all, none of what is in the movie is that compelling other than showing that these YT FE 'stars' are kind of knuckleheads and perhaps not real truth seekers afterall.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Unconvinced on March 07, 2019, 01:11:16 AM
From the tfes.org main page:

Quote
On the Jeran experiment itself, we can only characterize its depiction in the film as clear scientific fraud. Well read the following from an account of a self-proclaimed Round Earth proponent who was present at the event (https://www.reddit.com/r/flatEarth/comments/7sc4w5/about_the_cringiest_thing_youll_see_today/dt5gzyr/) [ archive link ] :

"In about 10 tries, with the light held waist-high at 17 feet above water we never clearly saw it through the center panel hole. On one of the attempts, maybe the fourth of ten, we clearly saw it when Enrique lifted it over his head. On that one, Jeran asked him to raise it and lower it a few times, and it would appear when Enrique raised it and vanish when he lowered it. That was the "gasp" moment. Jeran said, "that's interesting." I noted it was the prediction for a round Earth. When they repeated the whole procedure, it did not happen again. I suggested having Enrique move from side-to-side a bit when occluded by the panel, in case it was lateral alignment that was off. Jeran accepted the suggestion, but it made no observable difference."

Of about ten observations, the fourth observation was the only one where the event occurred, and the only one which was published in the documentary. Nine of the ten trials did not see the event. The above description of inconsistency suggests the presence of curving light rays in the experiment—refraction. The manner in which the experiment was portrayed in the film by the producers further suggests dishonesty. Had the results of all ten trials been honestly presented it would have, assuredly, been a far different segment.

The documentary does not show the times the event did not occur. Misrepresentation of that nature is called scientific fraud.

Nope.  Scientific fraud or scientific misconduct relates to the publishing of professional scientific research, aka papers submitted for peer review.  YouTube videos, TV documentaries, books, etc are not bound by these rules.  That's why you can pick up a book or watch a video claiming any old bollocks, and the only recourse is for someone else to try and "debunk" it with their own material.

In the end we have the word of the documentary makers vs Jeran and some bloke on reddit.  We'll probably never know exactly what happened, and that's exactly why real science is done with a more formal structure.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: rvlvr on March 07, 2019, 01:27:29 AM
In the end we have the word of the documentary makers vs Jeran and some bloke on reddit.  We'll probably never know exactly what happened, and that's exactly why real science is done with a more formal structure.
This is true, too. More visibility into what happened would be nice if it is claimed we only saw one side of the thing.

Still, the playing field should be even for all participants.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 02:01:53 AM
In the end we have the word of the documentary makers vs Jeran and some bloke on reddit.  We'll probably never know exactly what happened, and that's exactly why real science is done with a more formal structure.
This is true, too. More visibility into what happened would be nice if it is claimed we only saw one side of the thing.

Still, the playing field should be even for all participants.

I don't think the intent of the doc was ever to present an even playing field. Nor should it. That's what we would like. But we are biased, hence being here. The intent was to do a character study on some of the key people that are outside the norm and why. How do they live and breath this? What are their motivations? What are their losses, gains as being a part of this? 

It has nothing to do with presenting 'evidence' one way or another. Just who are these fringe thinkers that are a part of a wave that are a part of memes in modern culture. The premise is simply, how in the 21st century can one believe something that 99% of the world probably snickers at - It makes for a compelling narrative. It's certainly not about 'proofs' one way or the other. But to those of us who look for proofs, we see it in a different light. From both sides.

Take the doc for what it is and for what it is certainly not. What Jeran and Knodel did was simply stumble into something that they were probably told by producers what would be an even handed examination of their influence and esteem in the movement and instead were shown up to be kind of hacks which they are.

That said, I can think of of a handful of folks across these two forums that would have served the FE movement's POV infinitely better than those depicted in the doc.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 04:06:33 AM
So it's not scientific fraud because it wasn't a scientific documentary or was "supposed to present an even playing field"?

Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Unconvinced on March 07, 2019, 05:09:48 AM
No.  It’s not scientific fraud, because documentaries aren’t science.  They can be about science, to varying degrees of accuracy.

And your only evidence of deception is anecdotal evidence from Globebusters and some guy on the internet. 

The documentary claims the other takes which allegedly had different results weren’t filmed.  You don’t actually know if that’s true or not.  I don’t know either.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 11:45:01 AM
Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.

It's no more fraud than The Bishop Experiment.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 12:31:18 PM
Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.

It's no more fraud than The Bishop Experiment.

Wrong. It is the same water convexity experiment that has been performed for over 150 years, by Rowbotham, this society, and by people all over YouTube, who report seeing no convexity at such distances and further.

Evidence has been provided that BTC's depiction of the experiment was fraudulent, and you have no words other than to double down on your support of fraud with "well, how about THIS". You apparently are unable to justify the fraud that takes place in the film. Pretty terrible that anyone would continue to support it.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: markjo on March 07, 2019, 12:36:49 PM
Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.

It's no more fraud than The Bishop Experiment.

Wrong. It is the same water convexity experiment that has been performed for over 150 years, by Rowbotham, this society, and by people all over YouTube, who report seeing no convexity at such distances and further.
What about the countless other people all over YouTube who do report seeing convexity at such distances?
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 12:42:18 PM
Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.

It's no more fraud than The Bishop Experiment.

Wrong. It is the same water convexity experiment that has been performed for over 150 years, by this society, and by people all over YouTube, who report seeing no convexity at such distances and further.

Evidence has been provided that BTC's depiction of the experiment was fraudulent, and you have no words other than to double down on your support of fraud with "well, how about THIS". You apparently are unable to justify the fraud that takes place in the film. Pretty terrible that anyone would continue to support it.

Actually, wrong. It is the same water convexity experiment that has been performed for over 150 years, by this society, and by people all over YouTube, who report seeing no convexity at such distances and further. Wallace won the wager.

Evidence has not been provided. Evidence would be Knodel & Jeran publishing the results of the experiments. 

I feel the same way about The Bishop Experiment: Pretty terrible that anyone would continue to support it.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 12:47:21 PM
What about the countless other people all over YouTube who do report seeing convexity at such distances?

That's fine. Rowbotham reported sinking as well in some environments, which is why the Bedford Canal and it's narrow passageways was selected.

No one is calling those people liars. Rowbotham calls into question the validity of Aristotile's first proof that the earth is a globe based on the inconsistency of the effect.

It is fairly well established that people can and have seen further than what RET should allow.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: inquisitive on March 07, 2019, 12:48:02 PM
Fraud is fraud. It was depicting a scientific subject. The subject was dishonestly presented. It seems pretty sad and desperate that anyone would need to resort to, or defend, fraud to support their position.

It's no more fraud than The Bishop Experiment.

Wrong. It is the same water convexity experiment that has been performed for over 150 years, by Rowbotham, this society, and by people all over YouTube, who report seeing no convexity at such distances and further.

Evidence has been provided that BTC's depiction of the experiment was fraudulent, and you have no words other than to double down on your support of fraud with "well, how about THIS". You apparently are unable to justify the fraud that takes place in the film. Pretty terrible that anyone would continue to support it.
Links to recent experiments please. Seriously, you can't explain satellites or the path of the sun.

Fairly well is not proof.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 12:52:00 PM
Now we are talking about satellites? What does that have to do with the fraud in the documentary that you guys are spreading all over the place? It is fraud and you guys should just own up to it.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: inquisitive on March 07, 2019, 01:00:01 PM
Now we are talking about satellites? What does that have to do with the fraud in the documentary that you guys are spreading all over the place? It is fraud and you guys should just own up to it.
Experiment details please.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 01:06:53 PM
What about the countless other people all over YouTube who do report seeing convexity at such distances?

That's fine. Rowbotham reported sinking as well in some environments, which is why the Bedford Canal and it's narrow passageways was selected.

No one is calling those people liars. Rowbotham calls into question the validity of Aristotile's first proof that the earth is a globe based on the inconsistency of the effect.

It is fairly well established that people can and have seen further than what RET should allow.

What should RET allow? It's fairly well established that all 8 billion of us can and have seen sunrises & sunsets, appearing top down and disappearing bottom up, something that FET doesn't allow.   

Now we are talking about satellites? What does that have to do with the fraud in the documentary that you guys are spreading all over the place? It is fraud and you guys should just own up to it.

Evidence of fraud would be Knodel and Jeran publishing their full and complete experiment results. They have yet to do so even after intense pressure from the FE community. I wonder why that is.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 03:39:59 PM
Bob says that he never touched the device and Jeran says that the Behind The Curve documentary team was given the role of documenting the whole experiment with video and then they refused to provide him with a copy.

Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 04:23:51 PM
Bob says that he never touched the device and Jeran says that the Behind The Curve documentary team was given the role of documenting the whole experiment with video and then they refused to provide him with a copy.



I don't think it matters whether he touched the device or not. He seemed to speak with tremendous knowledge of the device and about the experiment itself. He sure seemed like an authority in the movie.

And Jeran, all words.

Both could provide evidence but choose not to even when pressed by the community.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2019, 06:24:35 PM
Bob says that he never touched the device and Jeran says that the Behind The Curve documentary team was given the role of documenting the whole experiment with video and then they refused to provide him with a copy.



I don't think it matters whether he touched the device or not. He seemed to speak with tremendous knowledge of the device and about the experiment itself. He sure seemed like an authority in the movie.

And Jeran, all words.

Both could provide evidence but choose not to even when pressed by the community.

What are you talking about? We do have evidence that the depiction of the experiment was fraudulent.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Stash on March 07, 2019, 06:33:37 PM
Bob says that he never touched the device and Jeran says that the Behind The Curve documentary team was given the role of documenting the whole experiment with video and then they refused to provide him with a copy.



I don't think it matters whether he touched the device or not. He seemed to speak with tremendous knowledge of the device and about the experiment itself. He sure seemed like an authority in the movie.

And Jeran, all words.

Both could provide evidence but choose not to even when pressed by the community.

What are you talking about? We do have evidence that the depiction of the experiment was fraudulent.

If you think evidence is just Jeran & Knodel just saying things were taken out of context, then you don't know what evidence is.

Knodel won't even talk about the RFG experiments in specifics and Jeran won't even talk about the flashlight experiment in specifcs. I see no evidence.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Danang on March 07, 2019, 06:52:00 PM
Sunrise and Sunset at the same time  8)

Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Username on March 07, 2019, 09:10:49 PM
It's not just unfair treatment. Behind the Curve contains fraud in how it depicts the Jeran experiment. If I had the power to submit announcements on this website I would write one for this website as well, with a title of "Behind the Curve: Scientific Fraud". Netflix is bringing many people into the discussions and they just need to know.

That is clearly not how the experiment went down. It is pretty pathetic that they would need to resort to fraud to support their model.
Write one up and I'll post it here and on our facebook page.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: markjo on March 08, 2019, 06:18:22 AM
Bob says that he never touched the device...
But Bob did say that the results obtained by the people that did touch the device were a serious problem for FET.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Username on March 08, 2019, 07:36:13 AM
These new guys don't have the decades of experience of round earthers fucking with them like we do. Its too bad they hate us so much, as their ignorance at times does more damage to our cause than any 'controlled opposition' ever could.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: Unconvinced on March 08, 2019, 11:09:40 AM
Bob says that he never touched the device and Jeran says that the Behind The Curve documentary team was given the role of documenting the whole experiment with video and then they refused to provide him with a copy.



Wow, Bob’s defense is total bollocks.  Here’s just the immediately obvious points:

1. He claims “no scientist in the history of mankind has ever ever ever ever measured the Earth’s rotation or motion”.  Complete crap. 

Rotation was first measured directly by Foucault’s pendulum in 1851 (although not particularly accurately, due to friction).  It’s more accurately measured today by, guess what- a ring laser or fiber optic gyroscope.

The Earths motion around the sun is measured (indirectly) by stellar aberration, stellar parallax, etc.

Hard to believe Bob isn’t aware of this, so I’m going to call it a blatant lie.

2.  “Ballers” aren’t “desperate” enough to rely on Flat Earther results.  FECore are not in possession of the world’s only fiber optic gyro, there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of the things in out in the world.  All people are doing is pointing out that FECore got the same results as everyone else.

3.  Bob explained straight to camera the purpose and result of the gyro test, and then was filmed telling someone that releasing the results to the flat earth community would be bad.  What did he expect to happen?  He has no one else to blame.
Title: Re: Flat earth on netflix! EEEEEEEEEE!
Post by: SpaceCadet on March 08, 2019, 02:29:02 PM
What about the countless other people all over YouTube who do report seeing convexity at such distances?

That's fine. Rowbotham reported sinking as well in some environments, which is why the Bedford Canal and it's narrow passageways was selected.

No one is calling those people liars. Rowbotham calls into question the validity of Aristotile's first proof that the earth is a globe based on the inconsistency of the effect.

It is fairly well established that people can and have seen further than what RET should allow.

But no one has ever seen as far as a flat earth should allow.
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Post by: psionicinversion on March 09, 2019, 02:27:35 AM
every experiment that a flat earther does is scientific fraud because there isnt a single experiment that can ever be designed to prove a flat earth because the earth isnt flat. lies and deception is the only outcome of any experiment a flat earther can do until they realise and accept the earth is round
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Post by: Smoke Machine on March 10, 2019, 01:40:43 AM
It isn't a case of scientific fraud. Firstly, none of the participants are scientists. Secondly, the participants in the experiment are practicing group think, tunnel vision, and confirmation bias. They aren't deliberately trying to deceive.