I am not worried, I am happy! At least you can see what the FEers have to put up with sometimes. They end up getting discouraged and leaving forever usually. We can all be on the same side, regardless of our FE/RE position, we can be on the side of the forum and each other.
I'm in total agreement with what you say here
Space Cowgirl. I also appreciate the fact that your comments make sense, and aren't simply character assassinations—like a few made by other flat earthers I could name. I also enjoy your touches of lightheartedness that you often project in your comments. It would actually do well for the forum if a few more of your unimaginative, pedantic flat earth peers took themselves a little bit less seriously.
And yes; I also agree that mature, meaningful debate from both "sides" in these sorts of forums can make or break the forum. I'm fed up with people such as
sceptimatic and
Charles Bloomington and
Vauxhall repeatedly posting crude personal insults about round earthers, and/or constantly derailing threads with their puerile, off-topic comments. I actually enjoy (here—when it occurs) the thrust and parry of a good debate, and fortunately the majority of sane posters from both "sides" keep that debate largely on track.
I'm also concerned (and a little embarrassed) by the number of round earthers who make the same mistakes—demeaning flat earthers' intelligence and repeatedly posting childish put downs—rather than responding with credible and/or viable evidence as a direct rebuttal of a flat earther's particular claim. It's not a good enough argument for a flat earther to say to a round earther "you're a brain-damaged retard; the Apollo Missions never occurred" or, conversely, for a round earther to do the same sort of thing.
A couple of months back, I posted my proposal for a flat earth model (the Moebius band enclosed with a toroidal atmospheric sleeve) and was surprised at how little comment it drew. I was attempting to give a round earther's notion of how a flat earth could possibly be constructed in the universe, and still explain a feasible astrophysical model based to a large degree on the current flat earth planar model. I can only assume that too many flat earthers wrote it off, as they (falsely) assumed I was simply taking the piss. Which I wasn't.
Back on topic. I'm still awaiting a response from any flat earther answering a few questions about their allegations for the existence of several "flat earth astronauts" such as their names, nationalities, mission designations, dates and locations of launches etc. I also asked for any links to photographic images these guys would surely have captured, and suggested that these images would demolish the round earth model in one fell swoop—and prove the veracity of the flat earth model.
Thus far, none of this supporting information has been forthcoming. Why is this? Do you believe that there have been "flat earth astronauts" in space at some time
Space Cowgirl?