The world is flat

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I learnt today that there are 'flat earthers' who seriously believe the conspiracy theories of a flat planet rather than a spherical one.
AIBU to think you can't fix stupid? Or is that too harsh?

llweji you can make a magnetic field with magnets though....I assume the alien filled hollow earth wasn't made by natural processes alone!

Why would the aliens even want to live there?

You would expect a refractive index based reflection of sound waves off the internal surface, but of course if the aliens were smart enough they could hid that, invisibility cloak style.

They like freefall, but hate the radiation levels in space?

I'll stick with the Flying Spaghetti Monster, then. It sounds more realistic.

I dare anyone to prove it doesn't exist.

I've seen pictures of it on youtube so no quibbles from me!

Nothing would fall of the edge of a flat world because of gravity.

I would've thought that there is less gravity at the edge/s as they are further away from the center, where most of the gravity is.

"Oooh and I have a Flat Earth medallion!"

Natsku are you sure its not secretly a globe?

steam there is less gravity at the edges, but only by a factor of 2 or so (very approximately)

The disk shape means that over most of the surface the field is pretty constant, but it does drop off as you move closer to the edges...but its still pretty big!

The direction of the pull would be an issue, which is definitely biased towards the non-space direction...to walking over the edge would feel a bit like climbing over mount everest but will less gravitational pull.

But it will still take a decent sized rocket to get off the surface at the edge, and there would be no falling to be done.

But gravity isn't uniform on the Earth.

Physicist speaking.

Does anyone that the UN is secretly in charge of the "Flat Earth Society", after all their flag shows a flat earth?

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Point 1 don't use Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it.

Point 2 some people think the matrix is a closer grasp of what we currently live in.

hmm...now I'm worried there might be more gravity at the edges...crap I am actually going to have to work this out now!

bloke maybe you can work out the gravity from a uniform thick disk then....I will be in trouble if I do that instead of getting the dinner on.

In other news, a chain will fall faster than g under several conditions including, if one end is on the ground, or if one end is held suspended.

It's bonkers and you're dead right OP, you can't fight stupid.

I worked with a woman with whom I got on well until one day she tells me she belongs to a church (like Seventh Day Adventists) and totally believes god made the world in seven days. I'm an atheist so sort of hmm'd until she added that the earth is 6,000 years old. As an amateur geologist I balked at that, preferring to believe scientific evidence that it's nearer 3.5 billion years. When I mentioned this she looked at me as if I was mad. I asked her where she thought the fossils I dug up on weekends came from? God put them there apparently It was then I realised you can't argue with stupid.

Flat earthers should be herded into a spaceship and made to live in orbit for a year.

Natsku are you sure its not secretly a globe?

Its definitely flat!

Flat earthers should be herded into a spaceship and made to live in orbit for a year.

After they got back they say that they were tricked & never actually left earth and were living in a simulator type ride.

steam there is less gravity at the edges, but only by a factor of 2 or so (very approximately)

You mean that in some places is 9,8 m.s-2 and in others it's 19,6 or 4,9?

I'm not sure if this thread makes me happy about human nature, or extremely, extremely depressed!

I had previously thought that all Flat Earthers were like natsku, doing it for a laugh, didn't actually believe it, but no. Apparently I thought too highly of my fellow human

Couldn't get through that other thread linked earlier - the Creationist on there was the exact mixture of persistent, wordy, goady and slippery that makes me grind my teeth into a powder. Aren't they always, though?

Apparently I thought too highly of my fellow human

Sadly, it's a statistical fact that 49% of the population are below average intelligence. There's a whole lot of dumb out there.

This is not going well for me because in my question of research I am uncovering more bizarre theories.

Another one out there is that we are just some computer simulation almost like the Matrix. Just a game on a hard drive.

In my quest! Quest quest quest. Not question. Damn auto correct.

So like how thick would a flat earth be? Because you start digging down and that prevents it being flat doesn't it more kind of cylindrical. Then what about volcanoes what holds the Molton rock?

If there is still gravity but a flat earth where is the centre of mass you are being pulled towards?