Are you a flat earther ?

[torridon]

Thanks to the Internet, belief in a flat earth is growing, apparently.

The 2017 Flat Earth International Conference in the US has just finished :

https://fe2017.com/about/

Nasa have been lying to us for years it would appear.

No, really.

[Shaker]

I suspect almost all of the alleged growth isn't real but based on the cachet that attends belonging to such a self-evidently absurd group - IIRC Patrick Moore was a member of the Flat Earth Society for a while on this basis.

[Enki]

This is absolutely genuine. I know a person who is a good birder and bird photographer. Indeed, some of his photos you may well have seen. He is also a member of the flat earth society, and, when talking to him once on a sea watch, he actually told me that if the earth actually was curving away from us, how come the oceans didn't actually drain away from the land we were standing on through the force of gravity? I was so astonished by this question that I simply went on counting the kittiwakes and auks that were passing, realising that anything I might have said would have gone so far over his head that it might well have rebounded off the sun.

[Walter]

This is absolutely genuine. I know a person who is a good birder and bird photographer. Indeed, some of his photos you may well have seen. He is also a member of the flat earth society, and, when talking to him once on a sea watch, he actually told me that if the earth actually was curving away from us, how come the oceans didn't actually drain away from the land we were standing on through the force of gravity? I was so astonished by this question that I simply went on counting the kittiwakes and auks that were passing, realising that anything I might have said would have gone so far over his head that it might well have rebounded off the sun.

in some cases I don't think its a matter of education, its more a case of some people are just born STUPID !

[Walter]

also , it has become big business on YouTube with film makers receiving ad revenue . They have latched onto a market of hundreds of thousands of , mainly poorly educated , religious ,anti establishment ,youngish AMERICANS 

[floo]

Surely nobody really believes the Earth is flat?

[Shaker]

Surely nobody really believes the Earth is flat?

I agree - it does seem fantastically implausible.

[Walter]

I agree - it does seem fantastically implausible.

but true!

[Shaker]

The Greeks twigged a spherical Earth thousands of years ago when they watched ships sailing away from them toward the horizon and the top of the mast disappearing last. How do the flatties explain that one away?

ETA: Detailed but worth a read: http://tinyurl.com/ya2zljna

[Anchorman]

Where are the elephants?
Where's the Turtle?

We need chelanauts to investgate.

[ekim]

Here's the evidence...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdHmzPhuoF8

[floo]

Mind you, there is one poster on this forum, who just might believe the Earth to be flat. Like the moon landings, they may attribute the round Earth scenario to be devised by those who wish to pull the wool over our eyes!

[Walter]

this is so amusing 

https://youtu.be/L5sHm04nWMg

[Owlswing]

Where are the elephants?
Where's the Turtle?

We need chelanauts to investgate.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Sir Terry should have been given the Flat Eart Society Medal of Honour for his research and for his beautifully researched published works on the inhabitants of said Earth!

[Anchorman]

I wholeheartedly agree.

Sir Terry should have been given the Flat Eart Society Medal of Honour for his research and for his beautifully researched published works on the inhabitants of said Earth!

   



Millenium hand and shrimp!
Bugrit, that's what I say......

[Owlswing]

   



Millenium hand and shrimp!
Bugrit, that's what I say......

               - tries to catch breath and starts again         

[Shaker]

Remember: the only thing that flat-earthers fear is sphere itself.

[torridon]

 

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I suspect almost all of the alleged growth isn't real but based on the cachet that attends belonging to such a self-evidently absurd group - IIRC Patrick Moore was a member of the Flat Earth Society for a while on this basis.

Yes like the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.......which is a pasta-iche of religion.

[Shaker]

Yes like the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.......which is a pasta-iche of religion.

See my signature

[SteveH]

Remember: the only thing that flat-earthers fear is sphere itself.

[Udayana]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flat-earth-rocket-man-take-off-time-date-mad-mike-hughes-theory-a8068486.html

A man who suspects the earth is flat has built a rocket he hopes will launch him high enough to debunk one of the world's most fundamental facts.

Half a millennium of science isn’t about to get between 'Mad' Mike Hughes and his dream, and he's raring to go. The 61-year-old limo driver from California plans to launch over the weekend.

He built the steam-powered vessel using scrap metal and estimates it cost about about $20,000 (£15,000).
...

"I don’t believe in science," Mr Hughes told the Associated Press (AP). "I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction."

Nothing like seeing for yourself ...

[Anchorman]

"....half a millenia"?
More like two and a half millenia (and counting) since we first deduced that Earth was round.
Good to see America hasn't lost its' grasp on history.

[ippy]

Wasn't it something to do with a Greek bloke putting sticks in the ground, taking measurements of the shadows, some geometry and somehow was able to work out the circumference of the earth to within a few miles of the actual measurements we have made in today's times, like Anch has said thousands of years ago.

ippy

[Shaker]

Eratosthenes, ippy.