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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The Reason Flat Earth Theory is Rediculus!
« on: March 17, 2014, 11:32:39 AM »
You can't even spell ridiculous (sorry, had to jab ya there lol).
Ok, in all seriousness this whole flat earth thing is entirely new to me. I head about it in a song by Bad Religion but didn't know it was a real thing until today. So I've been looking over all the threads and models and I can't believe everyone is making this as complicated as they have. In today's day and age with all of our modern conveniences and vehicles this should be incredibly simple to physically prove. I've read how people think photos from space are fake, and perspectives are distorted, etc, and I can understand people who don't believe things unless they see it with their own eyes, so why not get a group of equally mixed FE's and non FE's and take a boat/plane trip out to the great Antarctic wall and see for yourselves. Either they ALL see the wall with plenty of time to turn around our they ALL end up on the opposite side of the planet because the looped it. Or maybe on a smaller scale compare distances between two southern points on a globe AND on a flat earth model. Determine how long it would take to fly from one point to the other at a constant speed. Even if there are variables like wind or weather those two distances should vary so greatly on both maps that it would be simple to determine which map is correct. These aren't physically impossible options, even if cost is a factor both parties could split costs. I'm sure if this was their big chance to prove their argument once and for all they'd be willing to chip in.
I can completely see why both camps feel the way they do about their stance. I mean if the Earth were round then a plane flying straight would start to gain altitude and eventually fly into space because the Earth curves downward being a sphere. Also we always see the same face of the moon, so by flat earth logic then the moon must be flat as well.
Conversely if the world were flat then it would be daytime in the entire world at more or less the same time but it would never be daytime at one end of the earth and dark at another. If the sun is above a flat earth then it would light up the whole square to some degree. It also doesn't explain how far you'd have to dig before you fell through the other side, or what's even on the other side in the first place.
Theories and beliefs are all fine and good but I keep seeing laypeople throw out this theory and that law just trying to out intellect each other but the only way to get definite proof is to just go out and do it. See for yourselves. it either is or isn't flat and that's the only way for even the most close minded person to know for sure. They may not like the answer but that doesn't mean its wrong. Until then everyone should just shut up and stop trying to create converts, just live your life, think as you will, because when we die it won't matter if the earth is flat, round, double helix, or a pimple on a dog's ass.
Ok, in all seriousness this whole flat earth thing is entirely new to me. I head about it in a song by Bad Religion but didn't know it was a real thing until today. So I've been looking over all the threads and models and I can't believe everyone is making this as complicated as they have. In today's day and age with all of our modern conveniences and vehicles this should be incredibly simple to physically prove. I've read how people think photos from space are fake, and perspectives are distorted, etc, and I can understand people who don't believe things unless they see it with their own eyes, so why not get a group of equally mixed FE's and non FE's and take a boat/plane trip out to the great Antarctic wall and see for yourselves. Either they ALL see the wall with plenty of time to turn around our they ALL end up on the opposite side of the planet because the looped it. Or maybe on a smaller scale compare distances between two southern points on a globe AND on a flat earth model. Determine how long it would take to fly from one point to the other at a constant speed. Even if there are variables like wind or weather those two distances should vary so greatly on both maps that it would be simple to determine which map is correct. These aren't physically impossible options, even if cost is a factor both parties could split costs. I'm sure if this was their big chance to prove their argument once and for all they'd be willing to chip in.
I can completely see why both camps feel the way they do about their stance. I mean if the Earth were round then a plane flying straight would start to gain altitude and eventually fly into space because the Earth curves downward being a sphere. Also we always see the same face of the moon, so by flat earth logic then the moon must be flat as well.
Conversely if the world were flat then it would be daytime in the entire world at more or less the same time but it would never be daytime at one end of the earth and dark at another. If the sun is above a flat earth then it would light up the whole square to some degree. It also doesn't explain how far you'd have to dig before you fell through the other side, or what's even on the other side in the first place.
Theories and beliefs are all fine and good but I keep seeing laypeople throw out this theory and that law just trying to out intellect each other but the only way to get definite proof is to just go out and do it. See for yourselves. it either is or isn't flat and that's the only way for even the most close minded person to know for sure. They may not like the answer but that doesn't mean its wrong. Until then everyone should just shut up and stop trying to create converts, just live your life, think as you will, because when we die it won't matter if the earth is flat, round, double helix, or a pimple on a dog's ass.