I'm obsessed with flat earthers

Lately, I've been completely enthralled by the existence of people who genuinely believe the Earth is flat. Like, how are there seriously THIS many people who can't comprehend basic math and observation? It's seriously insane to me and I can't help but obsessively watch videos of these people trying to explain why they believe Earth is flat and I don't know why it's so intriguing. I guess just the scope of how large this group is has been something I simply can't wrap my mind around. Now it's my goal to meet one of these people in real life to disprove their terrible logic with elementary-level education. Which, this desire somewhat makes me think I'm being a jerk, but I'll also be potentially helping someone not look crazy in their future (If I could even convince them, which based on my "research," seems unlikely), so I'm fine with it. I don't know why this is a blog, but I felt weird about my obsession, so I thought I'd share, lol.
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Apathetic_Discord
"This argument just makes non-sense" is a nonsensical comment. ;)
Also, it's a blog comment debate...you know, to encourage communication and debating. That's how debates work...you debate things.
 
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Apathetic_Discord
On topic though, what exactly is their argument for travel?
Say, if the world was a flat plane, that means that one end doesn't connect to the other, so what is the argument for say, flying West from the UK and still reaching Russia?
Is it teleportational magic?
 
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Lucifer666
@Apathetic_Discord I asked this same question on page 3 or so. Turns out they literally think the pilot drives back round in a circle/u-turn. As if that wouldn't have a noticeable impact on flight duration :unsure:
 
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@lucifer666
Oh I see. Then I think maybe they should be paying just a little bit more attention to the flight they're on.
I mean if they pay enough attention to the horizon to think it infinitely continues on, then I would hope they're at least observational enough to notice a plane doing a full 180...if they can't even observe that then...god help them.
 
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leon315
BUT you guys are debating about thing like either round or square, isn't obvious??

when debating obvious thing makes sense?? cauz things are already out there just go and see it urself.
 
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bitjacker
It is a bit like religion. Maybe they like negative attention, so best to not feed into the delusion.
 
plasturion
@AaronUzumaki no it's about small undefinded white triangles. Some people say that's only clouds, but it looks like snow on a top of mountains, so who knows. It would be nice to send for example a nikon p900 with infrared filter into a stratosphere baloon, and check how far visibility goes. I gues there are some limitations becouse of law of perspepctive and atmosphere has own propieties of height and light propagation. But I woudl like to see some record.

And here another one interesting document how to measure brightness of the firmament and a near-sun halo using a photometer. https://youtu.be/AblCdGIRHdw
 
TotalInsanity4
Well uh

That was a little bit painful to watch, especially those "gotcha!" clips at the end

So @plasturion can you explain to me what that experiment was originally meant to be showing? Were they trying to prove the Earth is flat, or were they using that as a "close-enough" assumption condition considering one couldn't exactly run computer simulations in 1957? Because let me tell you, despite making the assumption that air resistance doesn't exist for a lot of our high school gravity and propulsion experiments, I can assure you that it sure as hell does; it just adds complications to the equations that, on a small scale, only negligibly affect the outcome
 
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plasturion
I didn't study this stuff much, I guess It's about how light operate in the atmosphere, not much about flat earth here, only mentioned, but I just like the fact that some scientific documents in alternate way can sounds much better than a borring high precision big numbers story.
 
plasturion
I didn't read that document ok, I hope someone else can use it well, lol. I try to say that documents with "firmament" word sounds like poem, that's all.
 
Apathetic_Discord
The thing about science is, they try to make it as precise as possible, and for good reason. Who wants to be part of, say, heart surgery where the chances of it succeeding are offset by the fact that it's all unfounded theory based on something with Zero factual evidence?
 
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TotalInsanity4
"Firmament" is just a slightly outdated way of saying "Earth." I'm guessing it was an attempted direct translation, given that it appears that the experiment originated from Russia
 
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OK, you guys did it.

I am now a convert to Cube earth society. Because it definitely exists and the earth is definitely cubic.

Earthquakes happen because someone is trying to match colors, but they realize that earth isn't a Rubic's cube and bang it on the wall with frustration.
 
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