"Boomer Sooner" ?
That's what I was thinking. Another guess would be crewman on a nuclear sub, but he'd already said he was flight crew in the Air Force.
Sorry, not from Oklahoma.
Oh, well.
Funny, my username I chose is "boomer". Wonder why? Because I was a boom operator on a KC-135 tanker aircraft.
Ah! You should have kept us guessing. I was running out of ideas.
You appear to know the truth from your own eyes so why are you here?
Are you here to understand why people believe in a flat Earth, from which you can easily get answers to from the many topics posted over the years.
Or
Are you here to basically add to the attempted ridicule and intimidation techniques employed by like-minded people?
If you want my input on you, I'd say you're doing your global friends a bad turn by spewing what you're spewing.
He probably
doesn't want your input on him, but, nah... no worries, scepti. He's fine. Spewing is what
you do.
It seems to me he's sharing his own observations (that's very Zetetic, remember?)
I've flown to 49,000 feet in the same craft as you and saw the Earth as flat.
Funny you've never mentioned this before. Didn't think of this until he brought it up?
I've witnessed rockets go into the air and land in the ocean which were supposed to be going into space. I witnessed 5 of these.
Uh huh.
boomer, if you've lurked here much you're probably familiar with our friend and prolific
poser poster sceptimatic. We can add these empty claims to
"I spent six months in Antarctica" (which he then spent pages and pages denying he said) and "I have 13 academic credentials" (
which he tries to deny he said). Then there are the money, cars, houses, cameras, models, and laser experiments, too.
Am I telling lies?
Most likely.
Anyway, back to boomer's original question, several proponents of the flat-earth idea cite biblical passages as reasons for their claims, but by no means all of them. It seems likely that many, if not most, of the non-biblical pro-flat-earth posters are involved just as an exercise in "what if" and don't really believe it. Some, however, really do seem to think they're on to something that nearly everyone else in the world has missed, which makes them feel smarter than the average bear. It takes all kinds to make a world.
Next month I will be flying down to Baikonur, Kazkhstan to see the next Soyuz rocket launch who will be carrying 3 astronants to the ISS. I'll get a chance to come within 25 feet of the rocket a few days before it launches. I am going to hold up a sign that says "round earth" with the Russian Soyuz rocket in the background. So look for my post in about 5 weeks.
Awesome! Expect comments like the standard "obviously fake" after you post it.
Would you be able to set up a camera that films uncut footage beginning with the astronauts entering the rocket until launch and the rocket disappearing in the sky. Most flat earthers say that public launch events uses miniature rockets and deny the scale to the rest of the environment and the crew entering. This would prove to them that the launches are not faked.
Nothing will "prove" the launches are not faked to people whose attitude is "my mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts." They'll claim the whole video was created in Photoshop(!) or something.
Have a safe trip, boomer.