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?

So how did the idea of "Drop Bears" come about?

Here are a few gems from my DP:

He actually thinks that "blood is blue until it hits air". Fucking weirdo, what does he think happens when they take blood? Into a vacuumed syringe? Give me strength.

Dinosaurs didn't exist - apparently there is no evidence. I'm not sure what he thinks all the fossilised Dino bones are. Or heard of Charles Darwin. I despair.

Australians got their accents from years of trying not to get sand inside their mouth.

I hope our child inherits my brains.

Legend/myth not idea.

"When you see the sun and the moon in the sky together in the middle of the day, have you ever wondered what the folks in Australia can see??
If we have the sun and the moon, what the hell have they got in their sky when they are underneath us?"

One of mothers favorite pro flat earth arguments.

Er, has she never been outside on a moonless night?

I was dating a guy who announced that the earth was flat. He argued how could it be round if he could see the tip of Blackpool tower from miles away. I stopped seeing him shortly after.

WellThat I'd take you up on that offer if I wasn't so scared of falling off the edge of the planet

Finland isn't real either, it's a conspiracy between the Russians and Japanese. It's all sea where Finland supposedly is, and for reasons, it was made up so the Japanese could go whaling without being hassled. The big clue is in the name you see FINland.

This theory was literally made up, but some people actually subscribed to it!

I do love a Batshit CT though, my current favourites are the Denver Airport ones rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denver_Airport_conspiracy_theories

He actually thinks that "blood is blue until it hits air"

Perhaps in his formative years he misunderstood when told about differences between oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood. He may also have seen some diagrams of white corpuscles in action. Or watched Fantastic Voyage and thought it was a documentary

My husband's ex-boss was a flat earth creationist. He worked for a fairly small company and ex-boss employed pretty much everyone from his church so the place was full of them.

We all went out on a work dinner once and although DH warned me, I was flabbergasted.

They all sat around discussing these mad theories. I made the mistake of uttering 'but what about dinosaurs?' And they launched into a lecture about how they're are a conspiracy, carbon dating is a conspiracy, etc, etc.

I kept my gob firmly shut when they started on about how the earth is flat and that NASA are fooling us all.

I mean, why would they bother?

It still baffles me, 15 years later

52% of Brits believe the moon landings were a hoax. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/moon-landing-celebrates-47th-anniversary-8446862.

I am inclinded to go with the hoax theory - so many things are so questionable. The astronauts presented "moon rocks" to heads of states - on analysis these turned out to be petrified wood. It does make you wonder about NASA.

Which is the most ridiculous theory - the earth is flat or a beardy guy in the sky controls everything? While I do believe that planetary bodies are spherical, the flat-earthers do make some interesting points which could be discussed intelligently but obviously not on this site where most comments about everything are sarcastic, rude or scattered with swear words.

Do you believe everything government bodies like NASA tell you? Is it just a coincidence that the moon and the sun look exactly the same size during an eclipse even though they are different sizes and difference distances away from the earth? Why can you sometimes see the moon and the sun at the same time? How can water cling to a curve? Would photos of earth taken from the moon, if enlarged, show buildings in Australia hanging upside down? Why don't aeroplanes, as they fly, continually dip to follow the curve of the earth? Why has Antarctica, a continent rich in minerals, not been exploited by big business? Do ships disappear over the horizon or just go out of sight of the naked eye? If you use a telescope can they be seen again? If the earth travels round the sun why can you mostly see the same constellations?....and so on.

By all means ridicule something if you have all done your research first and can give a sensible answer rather than just the , 'They are all stupid' mantra.

quizqueen Everything you queried there has a perfectly sound and scientific answer based on observation, experimentation, documentation and results verified and reverified by further observation etc etc. How come I can hold up my hand and block out the sun from my vision? Does that mean my hand must be the same size as the the sun? Google some science lesson re distance and perspective of different sized objects. Google gravity. No one here has the time or the obligation to give you basic science lessons, if you don't understand the principles that doesn't mean the facts aren't facts and rather some convoluted govt conspiracy.

All those questions have perfectly reasonable answers though quizqueen. We can remark upon the phenomenons and wonder at the vastness and beauty of the earth and solar system which created them and ask and answer questions of course. But there isn't really a whole lot to intelligently discuss when it comes to alternative answers surely?

I think that "Flat Earthers" are a shadowy Gov't. organisation.

Do they have an explanation for the seasons? Equatorial temperatures vs pola climates etc?

It's a bit hard to have an intelligent conversation with someone who thinks if you zoomed in on Austrailia in a photo taken from the moon that the fucking buildings would hang upside down.

"It's a bit hard to have an intelligent conversation with someone who thinks if you zoomed in on Austrailia in a photo taken from the moon that the fucking buildings would hang upside down."

Appalling language and spelling.

SnowBalls, medical "experts" have been wrong about a lot of medical issues.

For example, it used to be common for medicine students to examine the corpses of women who died of childbed fever and then stick their dirty hands up the vaginas of women who had just given birth. The connection between that and massively high death rates of women was considered a superstition.

Arrogance and idiocy have not gone away.

Being worried about vaccination, wifi and mobile phones and health effects that cannot be measured by one individuum, and that the industry has a LOT of motivation to cover up in the latter two cases, is very much different from believing in a flat earth.

The question to ask is always: Who would profit from deceiving the whole world about this?

I suppose the moon landing could have been faked to get funding, but I am rather more worried about wasting so much money on what is essentially showing off than about that money being actually wasted on something else.

There are even people who believe the universe was created by, and is controlled by, an invisible male cosmic force, that demands that all humans worship him!
Yet if you question them, they insist you can't prove that it isn't true, so it must be real.

This is hilarious.

All interesting questions that quiz queen raises to be fair. And although there are explanations it does challenge the brain so that's good.

The thing I can get past though is why nobody has fallen off yet. That's the big I can't understand?

I have a friend who is massively into anything conspiracy theory like. Some are hilarious others not so much. Off the top of my head:
Chemtrails
Flat earth
Lizard royalty
Anti vax
new world order
Free masons being behind nearly everything
False flag events with actors
Fluoride
Fema camps
Smart meters.
There's more probably.
He also believes that anything on TV is false news but if some randomer posts it on YouTube it must be true.
You can't reason with him - if you disagree it is because you aren't 'awake'.
I switch off or occasionally mention Denver airport.

Buildings hanging upside down, and wondering how we don't fall off.

Comedy gold.