The Earth is flat?!

[Deleted member]

I was just reading through random Internet stuff and found something called The Flat Earth Society. They believe that the Earth is a disc. I'm sure that you have many problems with the theory, but I will address the main one, "What about the space missions and satelites?" The Flat Earth Society says that every space mission, every satelite picture is fake. First of all, why would every country on Earth want to hide the "truth"? Secondly, saying "It's fake" is not a legitimate argument! If I was a defense attorney, when my client was presented with evidence that made him look bad, could I just say "Its fake" and get him off? Thirdly, if the Earth is a disc, then why do we have seasons and sunlight in different areas (not to mention air travel)? These people are plain ignorant!

500 posts smash apprentice!!

 

[urdailywater]

I wouldn't take them seriously. It's probably a troll site kind of like PokeRevolution or whichever site it was that attracted people that actually believed Pokemon existed.


Either way, don't waste your breath with people like that if they're gonna be ignorant.. (or trollish)

 

[Kri3o]

Never believe what the internet says.

 

[The furosious robot has left]

why don't they try themselves? grab a jet and test this! if you go strait and end up in the same country, the earth is round.

then again, they are probably scared they will "fall off"

 

[Deleted member]

I'm nearly positive it isn't a troll site, considering it was founded in 1956, before the Internet existed.

 

[Mr.Bazerkus]

I remember my teacher saying the idea the earth is flat is a misconception
very few people even in the past thought the earth was flat. They knew it was round

 

[Kri3o]

why don't they try themselves? grab a jet and test this! if you go strait and end up in the same country, the earth is round.

then again, they are probably scared they will "fall off"

Ha learned the samething in history class that ppl back then actually believed this.

No one had the Zelda "Unfailing Courage".

 

[IWontGetOverTheDam]

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[GoldShadow]

The Flat Earth Society has been around for quite some time now, and they legitimately believe the Earth is flat.

Although this is nothing new, they never fail to entertain.

 

[1048576]

Willfully ignorant people piss me off more than anybody else. I don't expect you to read up on quantum mechanics or something, but can you at least try reading a book or an article once in your life.

If you want to be ignorant, keep your misguided opinions to yourself. You are not entitled to share them if you can't back them up.

 

[Kri3o]

The Flat Earth Society has been around for quite some time now, and they legitimately believe the Earth is flat.

Although this is nothing new, they never fail to entertain.

Ha only the ppl who never looked at the logic of this believed it.

For those ppl who believed, HOW THE **** CAN EARTH BE FLAT!

 

[M@v]

Thats why the voyager.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
^this plane

....took off in one direction, and after several days, came back and landed in another. How? Because it flew around a a round planet, called Earth.

-dont believe everything you see on the internet.

 

[MBreeto]

they probably also worship the flying spaghetti monster. All you have to do is show them a tall sail boat sailing over the horizon. In fact, you don't have to show them anything, you just ignore them

 

[Niiro]

Holy crap, I'm reading sphereland and flatland right now. This is so weird. The earth is not flat though.
/random spam

 

[rhan]

The Earth IS flat!

I seen people fall off into space. Real ****.

 

[kirbywizard]

I just laughed really hard in my mind after reading that

 

[Darkslash]

These guys are real just the like Holocaust deniers. They won't believe something that will shatter their world, even if its for the better.

 

[Deleted member]

What I don't get is, why go through all this trouble? Just to piss off 7 billion people?

 

[MBreeto]

What I don't get is, why go through all this trouble? Just to piss off 7 billion people?

yes, and probably just because they can. Scientologists believe in whatever it is exactly they believe in because they can. Or they're a brilliant community of trolls o.o

 

[paledragon64]

DOING IT FOR TEH LULZ

Once again, picture in your mind a round world. Now imagine that there are two people on this world, one at each pole. For the person at the top of the world, (the North Pole), gravity is pulling him down, towards the South Pole. But for the person at the South Pole, shouldn't gravity pull him down as well? What keeps our person at the South Pole from falling completely off the face of the "globe"?

I laughed SO HARD...this is just silliness.

 

[Fly_Amanita]

Clearly gravity only works in the "down" direction.

 

[Skrah]

Hahaha man they really must have denial issues

 

[Flamingo]

Just to be the advocate of the Devil.

Why wouldn't the leaders of countries say they have the power when they haven't? It is a display of power, and a proclamation of world superpower. If a few countries were in on it, nothing pronounces dominance then being able to travel where another country doesn't have the access to.

 

[paledragon64]

Clearly gravity only works in the "down" direction.

If you examine the universe in its entirety, you will notice that it is shaped like a bowl, and all of the planets are slowly moving down towards the bowl's lowest point. Eventually they all squash together and explode, creating a big bang that restarts the game, and then you have to watch the intro all over again.

 

[thesage]

In the Efimovich model, the planet Earth is supposed to be a large, spherical shaped ball of rock flying through space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. But how could the Earth continue to move at the same speed for as long a time as the "round Earthers" say that it has existed for; namely, several billion years. If outer space were a vacuum, then there would be no problem. But space is not a vacuum, it is instead filled with ether. The earth would have to have been pushing its way through the ether for all those billions of years. Shouldn't it have slowed somewhere along the line? What would keep the Earth from grinding down to a stop at some point on the Efimovichian timeline?

Sounds really compelling. Everybody knows space is filled with ether.

@Paledragon: our universe is expanding right now, not collapsing. That'd be a bad thing.

 

[paledragon64]

In the Efimovich model, the planet Earth is supposed to be a large, spherical shaped ball of rock flying through space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. But how could the Earth continue to move at the same speed for as long a time as the "round Earthers" say that it has existed for; namely, several billion years. If outer space were a vacuum, then there would be no problem. But space is not a vacuum, it is instead filled with ether. The earth would have to have been pushing its way through the ether for all those billions of years. Shouldn't it have slowed somewhere along the line? What would keep the Earth from grinding down to a stop at some point on the Efimovichian timeline?

Sounds really compelling. Everybody knows space is filled with ether.

@Paledragon: our universe is expanding right now, not collapsing. That'd be a bad thing.

I'm sure you believe all the other lies the scientists are telling you, too! ololololololololololololololololol

 

[Skrah]

LOL! Dude there's no friction in space, because its just what its name implies. SPACE!

 

[Takumaru]

Has no one played final fantasy or tales of _______? They PROVE that the earth is flat! What happens when you reach the end of the world? You just appear on the other side of the world, duh! You don't need a round planet for that.
/obvious

 

[Eor]

It started out a serious organization, but now the website is predominantly just guys who aren't trolling, but are testing how good they can debate

 

[Bowser King]

DOING IT FOR TEH LULZ



I laughed SO HARD...this is just silliness.

Pretty sad how people deny things that have been proven. Especially something as dumb as this >_>

EDIT: Ohhhh.....I see. Still, I think there's a better way of testing that (example= DH).

-Bowser King

 

[Teran]

In the Efimovich model, the planet Earth is supposed to be a large, spherical shaped ball of rock flying through space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. But how could the Earth continue to move at the same speed for as long a time as the "round Earthers" say that it has existed for; namely, several billion years. If outer space were a vacuum, then there would be no problem. But space is not a vacuum, it is instead filled with ether. The earth would have to have been pushing its way through the ether for all those billions of years. Shouldn't it have slowed somewhere along the line? What would keep the Earth from grinding down to a stop at some point on the Efimovichian timeline?

Sounds really compelling. Everybody knows space is filled with ether.

@Paledragon: our universe is expanding right now, not collapsing. That'd be a bad thing.

No, no you're utterly wrong.

Space is filled with Great Aether

 

[MyCurse4Life]

Are we still talking about the earth being flat? Im sorry but didn't people already have this issue 500 years ago?

 

[chuckyj100]

wow so if i go to sarah palin's house i will fall in space awesome that is my next experiment lol

 

[Skrah]

There's no friction in space silly.

 

[Smudge]

I found that website once, It made me lol so hard I dare not go back incase I explode from laughter.

I've never seen so many narrow minded idiot on one site, it was classic.

 

[Deleted member]

wow so if i go to sarah palin's house i will fall in space awesome that is my next experiment lol

Maybe while you're falling you can get a nice look at Russia
Why did you bump this back up?

 

[PraKirJaq]

Have these kiddos seriously not flown on a plane? Do they not wonder how they can travel across the Pacific and Atlantic without falling off? Do they seriously ignore that going East or West will put you back in the same place?

By now, I'm honestly thinking they're putting on a show.

 

[Shy Guy 86]

IMO I think that the Earth has some flat lands in it, which fuse together to give a ball-like shape.

 

[MBreeto]

^kinda like a sphere made of hexagons o.O? i'm confused

 

[kigbariom]

I am part of this society and I do believe the Earth is flat.