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In case you don’t believe that a lot of people really, genuinely believe that the Earth is flat, just head on over to YouTube and search, ‘Flat Earth’.
Then listen for the sound of your jaw hitting the floor as thousands of ‘documentaries’ proving the Earth is flat pop up.
One of the ‘big’ subjects in Flat Earth theory is the eternal question – why has no one fallen off the edge? But a Flat Earth forum poster may have solved it, IFLScience reports.
The post, by Varaug, claims that Earth might, in fact, be a doughnut shape, and we’re walking around inside the doughnut.
Varaug wrote, ‘Logically, it is possible for a torus-shaped planet to form, so we cannot rule out the possibility that the Earth is shaped like a torus, and therefore the hypothesis must be considered as a potential model.
Varaug claims that the reason we’re not seeing the other side of the doughnut is that light bends around the curve of the doughnut.
He even has an explanation for why there’s night and day, ‘Lay a torch horizontal on a table and turn it on. Now, get a donut and place it on its side, with the hole perpendicular to the torch. The side that is illuminated by the torch is in day. Over 24 hours, the donut performs one complete revolution. Spin it halfway around, this signifies the passing of 12 hours. Now, the side that WAS in day, is facing away from the torch and is in night. The side that WAS in night, is now facing the torch and is in day.’
It’s not QUITE as out-there as another explanation proposed by Flat Earthers at a conference this year – that Earth actually ‘wraps around’ like a maze in Pac-Man.
Darren Nesbit says that this explains why people can travel continuously East to West without meeting a ‘wall’.
Nesbit says, ‘We know that continuous east-west travel is a reality. One logical possibility for those who are truly free thinkers is that space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect.’
Many Flat Earthers claim that there’s a huge ‘ice wall’ around the world, with the North Pole at its centre – but that’s clearly not far out for some of the ‘true free thinkers’.
Former England cricketer ‘Freddie’ Flintoff revealed last year that he was obsessed with a podcast called the Flat Earthers – and coming round to their ideas.
Flintoff described the ‘ice wall’ theory, saying, ‘The middle is the North Pole, around the outside is the South Pole which is like a big wall of ice. This is why all governments now have bases on the South Pole.’
Flintoff said, ‘If you’re in a helicopter and you hover why does the Earth not come to you if it’s round?
‘Why, if we’re hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling? Also if you fire a laser about 16 miles, if the world was curved, you shouldn’t be able to see it but you can.’
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God bless the internet imo.
Then listen for the sound of your jaw hitting the floor as thousands of ‘documentaries’ proving the Earth is flat pop up.
One of the ‘big’ subjects in Flat Earth theory is the eternal question – why has no one fallen off the edge? But a Flat Earth forum poster may have solved it, IFLScience reports.
The post, by Varaug, claims that Earth might, in fact, be a doughnut shape, and we’re walking around inside the doughnut.
Varaug wrote, ‘Logically, it is possible for a torus-shaped planet to form, so we cannot rule out the possibility that the Earth is shaped like a torus, and therefore the hypothesis must be considered as a potential model.
Varaug claims that the reason we’re not seeing the other side of the doughnut is that light bends around the curve of the doughnut.
He even has an explanation for why there’s night and day, ‘Lay a torch horizontal on a table and turn it on. Now, get a donut and place it on its side, with the hole perpendicular to the torch. The side that is illuminated by the torch is in day. Over 24 hours, the donut performs one complete revolution. Spin it halfway around, this signifies the passing of 12 hours. Now, the side that WAS in day, is facing away from the torch and is in night. The side that WAS in night, is now facing the torch and is in day.’
It’s not QUITE as out-there as another explanation proposed by Flat Earthers at a conference this year – that Earth actually ‘wraps around’ like a maze in Pac-Man.
Darren Nesbit says that this explains why people can travel continuously East to West without meeting a ‘wall’.
Nesbit says, ‘We know that continuous east-west travel is a reality. One logical possibility for those who are truly free thinkers is that space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect.’
Many Flat Earthers claim that there’s a huge ‘ice wall’ around the world, with the North Pole at its centre – but that’s clearly not far out for some of the ‘true free thinkers’.
Former England cricketer ‘Freddie’ Flintoff revealed last year that he was obsessed with a podcast called the Flat Earthers – and coming round to their ideas.
Flintoff described the ‘ice wall’ theory, saying, ‘The middle is the North Pole, around the outside is the South Pole which is like a big wall of ice. This is why all governments now have bases on the South Pole.’
Flintoff said, ‘If you’re in a helicopter and you hover why does the Earth not come to you if it’s round?
‘Why, if we’re hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling? Also if you fire a laser about 16 miles, if the world was curved, you shouldn’t be able to see it but you can.’
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God bless the internet imo.
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Flat out eating magical Earth mushrooms more like.
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Give nearly everyone in the world a computer and this is what happens.
There's so much made up rubbish all over the internet and a few million people who believe everything they read and don't have the intelligence or ability to filter the made-up or profiteering (where possible) nonsense out. There was a thread on this not long ago, and people on this forum who really believe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies Sums it up. |
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Did any of you catch the Dark matter hurricane last night it apparently passed us at 300 miles per second was too cloudy here
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study, I would imagine anyone on the other thread that said they believed the earth was flat was fishing
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I would resurrect it, but there's enough going on with the diabetes one
 just now.There were definitely a couple of adherents, they didn't seem like they were fishing, I suppose you COULD be right, but it didn't seem so. The man never went to the moon thread went on much longer and there were many believers of that one. I'm surprised it didn't keep running to be honest. Maybe if you have a couple of hours or more to spare, you might find it a vaguely interesting to run through. Crippen (of course) and Terry McCann are 2 of the several who run with the theorists. |
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so if the earths flat we have wasted millions of ponds on orbiting satellites
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And a few pounds.
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Do they think the Moon's a paper plate too?
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probably, best to ask them.
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Nobody caught the dark matter hurricane then?
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These mad ideas don't stand up to the most basic scrutiny.
If the earth is flat and we all manage to live on it then why would anyway say otherwise? What would be the point? As for the moon, there are some really insane theories about that being a space craft or a giant prison. Seriously bonkers stuff. |
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That IS bonkers.
We've known for years, it's made of cheese. |
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WHAAAAAAAT??? I thought it was a balloon.
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A hologram seemingly.
Money to be made in the conspiracy game. |
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There is, David Icke top of the tree. A professional conspiracy theorist.
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Gullible **** wits
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It is true....it always comes back to that most basic of questions - what in the world would be the point in covering up a flat earth, what would there be to gain, the flat earthers never even come up with an explanation for it
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identify the gullible with these theories.
imagine how much rhe snake oil salesmen will pay to advertise to these mugs |
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Like Trump and his voters you mean.
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stick a cookie on their computer see what other rubbish they open,
and start banging on about that, watch the dollars roll in... |
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It is a massive conspiracy by the globe manufacturing industry
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its ok northanlite spear and Jackson are launching a globe flattener.
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Facts manages to take a discussion about Flat Earth and Dark Matter into "Trump Bashing" territory in one single non-segway.
And the lefties say others on here are "obsessed"... |
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It's quite ironic that it's not a conspiracy theory to point out that conspiracy nuts make money by creating controversial clickbait youtube videos and coining in the clicks and advertising $$$ from Google, one of the biggest of big busineeses. The more controversial snd clickbaity the better, doesn't matter if it's true or not. Yet the gullible see their rubbish as a sort of underground "truth" exposing "facts" that "they" don't want you to know!
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And you manage to take a discussion about Flat Earth and get the word "Lefties" in.
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Oh my studyform, a main target of my observation, shows his total lack of self awareness once again.
You have to shake your head. |