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Flat Earth General / Re: Official Flat-Earth Expedition Fundraiser Thread!

« on: April 27, 2015, 08:38:39 PM »

Interesting. If I get any extra money, I might actually donate. It would be rather amusing if you discovered that the world actually was round.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: What did the founders of The Great Conspiracy fear?

« on: April 27, 2015, 05:43:49 PM »

Many of the Flat-Earthers seem to believe that it was all made up so that space programs could save money by pretending to go to space rather than actually doing it. This obviously makes no sense whatsoever even if they ignore what you just pointed out: that ancient people figured out the Earth's roundness long before us.

Unless all that history was just made up by NASA.

...Yeah, I'm starting to think that it would have just been easier and cheaper for the NASA conspirators to just admit that the Earth was flat in the first place.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Weather balloons and other public ventures

« on: April 26, 2015, 03:16:10 PM »

Damn. I have obviously failed in my fact-checking.

After a bit of searching, however, I found a couple of videos which appear to have non-fish-eyed footage:

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My invitation to you to launch your own weather balloon (with a camera without fish-eye) still stands, as does my question about circumnavigation.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: round earther derailing

« on: April 26, 2015, 02:20:16 PM »

Yes, I do so hate it when my discussions on ridiculously implausible conspiracy theories are derailed by pesky nonbelievers giving me evidence against my "theories".

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Flat Earth Debate / Weather balloons and other public ventures

« on: April 26, 2015, 02:11:10 PM »

One thing that has always bugged me about the Flat Earth theory is the fact that, in the theory, no ordinary citizens know that the Earth is flat. I have no idea how this can be, considering many normal people have attached cameras to weather balloons, let them go, and recovered the footage. StratoStar (http://www.stratostar.net/) is a lovely company which sells high-altitude weather-balloon-launching kits. If you're really interested in finding out the truth about the Earth's shape, you can buy one. Or you can just DIY: it costs only about $150 to buy all of the materials needed.

Here, now, are some other videos of ordinary people launching weather balloons to the edge of space and recording footage of a round Earth:

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I think that's enough to prove my point. I would also like to take this opportunity to inquire about the tens of thousands of people who have flown around the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#References).

Of course, though, NASA is bribing and/or threatening all of these people and faking the footage to cover up their conspiracy, which by this point would be more expensive than actual space travel. Obviously.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Why haven't "common people" discovered this yet?

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:12:46 PM »

Okay, so. You've probably heard some variation of this argument before, but I've never seen an answer, so here it is.

If the Earth is flat, why haven't ANY pilots or seamen or anyone flown or sailed off the edge of the Earth or into the Great Ice Wall or whatever? The government's reach isn't that vast. Not all pilots and boatmen work for the government or airlines. Many sailors and pilots beyond the reach of the government would have found the edge long ago.

Also, many, many people have sent up weather balloons with cameras and seen the curvature of the Earth. Anybody can do this. Why don't you do it yourself?

Please don't say anything like "NASA BRIBED DEM ALLZ," because that's a heck of a lot of people to bribe. I'd like a rational answer, not cries of conspiracy.