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plastikb0y
Is this real? I mean actual adult human thoughts shared wittingly? Can we have some kind of cull?
Coko4
Sionas
Is this what happens when you drop out after or during middle school
GadenKerensky
This is what happens when you get dropped on your head as a baby.
ThePrimrose
No, this is just willful ignorance. Denying all proof and facts,
goodguyC
I had a long argument with a flat earth guy here on Imgur... he definitely thought he was more educated than the rest of us 'sheep'.
GadenKerensky
These people are seriously dumber than a bag of hammers.
FaxCelestis
Malleum sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio!
Thecogwheel
I would say they're dumber than snake pants and dimmer than a burnt out light bulb
GadenKerensky
Well, those are at least useless.
DOAFP
Dumber than a box of hair.
LucyJohnson231
That's unfair to hair
DOAFP
Got lost in the stupid forest.
LucyJohnson231
That's offensive to trees
FernandoRumdebum
Dumber than a bag of smashed arseholes is my goto
LucyJohnson231
Sir I'll have you know that I am an asshole and I find that very offensive, a lot of smarts goes into being an asshole thank you
FernandoRumdebum
Ha it's actually literal, like a bag full of the anuses of people, smashed
LucyJohnson231
Yes, I am aware, it takes smarts to push out poop in a way so it doesn't land on the balls
Zultharr
That is unfair. Hammers are useful and have helped accomplish many great things.
GadenKerensky
Point taken.
two2two2
And nothing is expected of hammers
Bearhugger70
Au contraire. If I pick up a hammer, I fully expect it to be capable of hammering things. That's a whole lot of expectation right there.
Zultharr
Did you just apply a sterotyped role-model to a usefluid tool?
Bearhugger70
Maybe.
ElysiumLeo
Oh my god i thought this was satire. People actually believe this still???
TeslasMustache
I can understand a healthy dose of skepticism, but all of this is explained with science and they are actively ignoring it.
thundercactus
I think it's more like extreme feminism where there's more people posting satire than serious content.
Squossifrage
*again. Modern flat-earthism originated less than 200 years ago and didn't really catch on until maybe 10 years ago.
Goodmerlinpeen
I wonder where they think satellites go after the edge of the earth.
OhBen
You imagine their worldview wrong. They loop above the disc: http://s29.postimg.org/x7xpsw1fb/76a250fd141682111040797474_700w_0.jpg
minipancho94
so according to that, the sun would rise in the rest in south america, or if it magically turned off, then the shadows would still be wrong.
ShearWind
...this is based on the assumption that the sun and moon are the same size and in a...binary system?
TheBigReveal
I've read that the whole system is relatively complex to account for all the stars and seasons and moon phases and such.
theAmbiguityIsKillingMe
How do they account for the length of the shore of Antarctica being much smaller than necessary for their model to be true?
ManicDepressiveMuffin
If you believe any of these, I will automatically assume braindamage and retardation.
Poketroid
I think OP is secretly a flat earth follower....lol
butflaps
I'm more of a flat earth follower follower, for my daily dose of massive cringe
NeverConfusedForNaught
I am then a flat earth follower follower follower by browsing this site.
luckoftheirish
Do you have a source? Could you bring us to a page where morons debate this sort of nonsense?
TresusIbor
OP is like Boris with binoculars following them around and eating popcorn.
brainstream
Think of how stupid "the average person" is, and realize that 50% of the population is dumber than that. (G. Carlin) Scary!
ojisama
Sorry, didn't notice you standing there, must have been the perspective.
PoopFrosting
whoa hold on these guys might be onto something
lnsaneWolf
Is the Internet even real? Have you ever touched or mesured some internet in your hands? Wake up people! /S
slightlyhotcontents
I uh... I just...
ParaBailarLaBamba
I met a guy on Tinder. He was perfect. Until he told me he believed the Earth was flat. I had to let him go....
Mavgurian
"Yeah .. hit me up if you wanna fuck again, but just between you and me ... I think it is really hot to not talk before, during or after .."
ParaBailarLaBamba
Or ever.... and no, I didn't meet him in person.
SaffronTeabagPierogi
"Let him go....from a high cliff....into a lava pit."
ParaBailarLaBamba
Yeah, totally didn't do that.... *squints eyes and looks at the horizon*
HarryGillen
Same happened to me with a real life girl who believed in the 9/11 conspiracies
ParaBailarLaBamba
You mean, THEY AREN'T REAL??? Jk
Mewmus
eh, apples and oranges IMO
debunker
Yeah .. ignoring science in favour of conspiracies is a deal breaker for me too.
Pharya
Come to think of it that'd be a really good tactic to stop seeing someone you weren't that into, y'know. Tell 'em you're a flat-earther
ParaBailarLaBamba
I might use that tactic in the future....hmm....
TeslasMustache
Unless the person is also a flat-earther and then believes constantly tries to talk to you about it.
ParaBailarLaBamba
That would be a plot twist right there.
ambassadorspock
http://imgur.com/wwphrZs.jpg
kilboa
The more I read stuff like this the harder I find it to believe they are not just trolling. They have to be trolling right?
uzerok
They must be the most dedicated trolls on this planet. Should probably play poker and become millionaires.
Kircala
i. i might have died inside a little from this. i didn't believe there were internet using people out there that think like this.
thesmelge
I don't believe in flat earth, but I also don't know the answer to a few of these. Like the light beams through clouds one...
thundercactus
With clouds, it's mostly refraction. Where the light hits the edge of the cloud, it changes direction. Because clouds are water, not solids.
thesmelge
Wait, why did I get downvoted because I don't know a scientific reason for something?
AverageEverydayPeasant
Because Google.
thundercactus
photons don't travel in a straight path. Put a cardboard tube in front of a flashlight, the light still leaves in a cone shape.
didntshootthedeputy
1) I have always wondered, how are the continents positioned on the disk according to flat earthers? Is Japan on the other side of the disk
didntshootthedeputy
2) to the US? If so, how did Pearl Harbor happen? Or is Eurasia to the left? If so, why do flights to Europe go east and not west? How is it
OhBen
No. Flat Earthers believe continents are arranged like this: http://truthfall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/un-united-nations-flag.jpg
didntshootthedeputy
Ok, it's hard to tell but wouldn't that still put Japan really far away from Hawaii?
didntshootthedeputy
3) supposed to look like that doesn't contradict something like that?
thundercactus
Because actually measuring the distance by boat would require work. And they don't do work. Far easier to just sling about wild theories.
GadenKerensky
Some of these people believe these countries don't exist.
didntshootthedeputy
Which countries? You have a source?
GadenKerensky
I don't have a source. And I'm not going to go looking up bullshit.
shredder134
one of my coworkers tries to convince me on a weekly basis that the earth is flat.
gingerbreadwitch
Ever asked where the edge is?
shredder134
not yet. his big thing is there is a wall around the south pole made of ice and you can't get there
cousteau
...jokingly?
shredder134
nope.
cousteau
Is he/she aware that there are fucking photos of it? And, like, you can just travel around it?
shredder134
he "knows" that all of those photos are faked.
Myboobssmelllikepeaches
I had to stop reading these because I don;' want to soak up any stupid juice
unimaniac
I was disappointed when i realized i gave up so close to the end
geekstergifs
You all are victims of group think. After 2 years of looking into this topic i can assure you its true. We are victims of a great conspiracy
xtsnx
Yeah my brain is struggling to comprehend the stupidty of the Flat earth people... i mean fuck me, their arguments... are just... stupid
pedrohed
Yip me to. I felt myself getting angrier the more I was reading.
TheRealWhaleLord
"Water always finds it's level" I lost it.
BecauseCanadian
Agreed ... But I also fear that I won't have a valid response if anyone asks me these in person. ... Must educate myself
Walatalalaw
Never "ever" go full retard
Fairdinkums
Oh no i read the whole thing now look at me!
NeverConfusedForNaught
I laughed so much I became hoarse.
Omny
What would be the point of covering up the fact the earth is flat? Are desk globe manufacturers more powerful than I thought?
dagg3r
Basically stopping everyone from going out and claiming land. Also to say over pop is bs
TeslasMustache
How would there be more land and people with a flat earth?
ThatOnePolarBearOnTheLeft
You're just a shill for Big Cartography!
foxearredasshole
The globe mafia killed my uncle.
mlogan
Illuminati. Trying to control us. Seriously, some believe this.
tetracycloide
To create a prison without walls, can't you read?
ExpertWhale
As opposed to the flat earth, which is a prison without walls.
WhiteKnight124
To keep us from....leaving earth? Since that has gone so well
borgmaster
If I wanted to leave earth in the 1500s id just walk off the side but now if I want to leave I need a spaceship and shit tons of money.
CodeWarrior
According to one of the above it was because they didn't want to have to answer all those questions. Easier to create a giant fucking lie.
bipocni
Gullibility test. If they can get people to think the earth is round, they have some idea what else they can get people to believe.
futureman3000
Big Globe is more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
HarryGillen
You're just being fed lies by the mainstream media which is bought and paid for by the globe manufacturing corporations! Wake up people!
CreepyPhlox
God damn desk globe lobbyists!!
FckyourselfSarah
These people are also voting.
died0
For whom do they vote? Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
hankdogg
That line scares me more than finding out the call is coming from inside the house.
plastikb0y
for Donald 'Dicksplat' Trump
TheGhostofElizabethShue
If they believe in a conspiracy of this magnitude they're probably staying home.
LeahShine88
triflersNeedNot
One of them is a candidate.
CirclejerqueDuSoleil
*VP candidate, but close enough
Wombatfisher
Wait, what??
CirclejerqueDuSoleil
Mike Pence: Christian theocrat, rabid homophobe, anti-evolution, climate change denier, thinks abortion drugs are dangerous (they're not) /1
CirclejerqueDuSoleil
And, best of all, he actually thinks that smoking tobacco will not eventually kill you.
ThePrimrose
That is scary, and the thought of them raising children is terrifying
Nu773r
Thats why trump won! :)
Vhiyur
Luckily a lot of kids don't follow their parents, but some do as well.
ItWasCool
Know whats even more scary? The unintelligent are the ones that reproduce the most
ThePrimrose
Its like humans are slapping evolution in the face
LitteralyHitler
We've been doing that for ages. Screw evolution. We'll engineer our own bodies! With blackjack and hookers!
AntoniusBlock33
Maybe evolutionary mechanism just don't work these days, because you don't need to be intelligent or strong anymore to get fed and procrate
AntoniusBlock33
And i am glad they do, because 99% of flat earth posts are satire and that shows a minimum amount of intellect and literacy.
EngineerZero
It's scarier to think that they're breeding
RandomImgurian
Thank god there are so few of them.
benedictcucumbersnatch
Have these people never seen a ball?
Carger
They have seen a ball and they can't grasp the fact that an earth-sized ball would seem flat to anyone on the surface.
thundercactus
Grabs basketball, puts thing on it, spins ball, thing flies off. I JUST EMPIRICALLY PROVED THAT GRAVITY IS IMPOSSIBLE. flat earther science
icommentbutdonotreply
All of these were answered during junior high and high school science classes.
snuzzled
You mean jr high and high school BRAINWASHING classes! ...sorry, I really did try to say that with a straight face.
WaffleCopters
BuT tHATs How THe GOvernmenT and THe SecRet soCieties BrAinnWash Peopleeeee!
IMadeThisAccountForButts
BTHAT HTHGO TTHSR CBAWP? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY ARE YOU KIDNAPPED
SecondSince
And there we see the problem. Flat Earthers either didn't go to school or were so dumb they didn't understand science. Or willfully ignorant
Ant4N
"The liberals have taken over the education system"
imadethisaccounttotellyouthis
I didnt read the title, and started mentally nswering the questions posed with logic and science, got about half way, and realized my mistke
moxymox
Was... was the mistake arguing with pixels?
cradik
Bro, I did the same thing... I was like hmm, then I started seeing brainwash and 666.
mizmoose
My IQ just dropped 30 points. Where ARE the edges if the world is flat? This has puzzled me for at least 20 minutes.
butflaps
These guys believe that Antarctica forms the edge of the earth. There's a massive ice wall there
thundercactus
something something magnetic poles
Enoan
So, how do they explain the sun disagreeing below the horizon?
mizmoose
holy crap. these people might be more delusional than the lizard people people.
Mewmus
in a similar fashion....I honestly think the universe is spherical in nature, like being on the surface of a ball, you can go in any 1/?
Mewmus
direction without ever finding an end or edge, and that would also explain how it is that the galaxies are ever expanding without 2/?
Mewmus
any seen force doing it, its the universe itself expanding, not the galaxies themselves. like dots on a balloon, when the balloon is 3/?
Mewmus
being blown up, the dots themselves don't move, but the space in between them is getting larger and larger 4/4
AwesomeName
Stop it, you're making me wonder how they explain seasons!
Enoan
Earth tilt is 23 degrees. Not 66.6 as they claim, that would mean all of the US and most of Europe would be in tropics.
TheHelleri
The level of willful ignorance these people exhibit is astonishing.
NeverGetsTheNuke
Wait was this post about the election?
Rambo006
3 unlike the anti-vaccers and other conspiracy theorists who always assume government and elites are evil and out to get them.
FutureRetroism
I didn't read the title and was so confused for a second. I'm just going down the list thinking, that's wrong, so is that, what are these?
Rambo006
2 even though they don't get it right, they still try to use stuff they learned about science and they are inquisitive about the world.
Rambo006
They are no where close to being right but I must say that out of all the crazies I sympathize with falt-earthers more than others because 1
Rambo006
4 They usually just want to understand how the world works. And that's not a bad thing. Even if it makes them look intellectually challenged
SpecimenSpiff
If they wanted to understand, they'd listen to people who do.
butflaps
These people ARE the ones who think it's all a government conspiracy, that we're being told that the earth is a sphere when it's not.
Rambo006
Of course they do. It's not their main message though. The main message is always about observable phenomenon that anyone can relate to.
Rambo006
4 Simply because you can't fight them all. I always tackle anti-vaccers in social media for example but these guys I usually leave be.
Rambo006
2 I'm fully aware that they are crazies. Make no mistake. Just not the kind that bring back preventable diseases or accuse the gov of 9/11
Rambo006
3 We live in a world with so many different kinds of crazy that I've found it helpful to separate the benign form the malignant.
TheHelleri
The problem is that they fall victim to the mere exposure effect, the flaws of inductive reasoning, and they have strong confirmation bias.
TheHelleri
They are not genuinely curious about how the world works. hey believe they have it figured out. And they use half truths to justify delusion
Rambo006
We all come to think we stuff figured out we really don't. Half-truths are part of being human. I agree they are among the worst humans.
TheHelleri
True. But reasonable people can admit to being wrong lol.
TheHelleri
If they were intellectually honest they would take reasonable correction and amend their views. And eventually they would end up...
TheHelleri
at the same level that any one who did well in high school science class is at. But they don't. Because they don't want to.
Rambo006
They're just not among the worst of the worst. Because they ask questions most people can answer for themselves and better.
Rambo006
Agree entirely, same goes for all conspiracy theorists. There's no saving that. I just find them slightly better than the worst of them :)
thedeg
I cant take this seriously. All the science is in imperial.
Pharya
Of course it is. Why would it be in metric? Anyone who understands or works with real sciences does so with the metric system.
thedeg
Squossifrage
bannyd
as an educated american, i've been signing every petition to change over to metric for YEARS lol
thedeg
You're doing us all a favor!
Mykronoid
Never "ever" scientifically proven... Surely these are all trolls... There can't REALLY be that many flat earthers, right? Guys? Please?!
TeslasMustache
Tbf, it sounds like there isn't a consensus on how gravity works. It makes sense in our life, but things like black holes break the law (1)
TeslasMustache
But I'm not a scientist. I just enjoy shows that talk about this stuff. Someone probably can explain more or correct me (2)
SaltismySugar
Some use it as a philosophical exercise though, they don't really believe the earth is flat. The real ones are few than you'd think.
KnowerOfNothing
I think some of them are just having fun, but there are actual "normal" people that believe in this.
butflaps
I'm afraid there really are!
favdumpthrowaway
Anytime you have to think to yourself "there can't be people like this, can there", there are.
KlaatuVaradaNicto
HAHAHA yeah. I love these crazy peeps. "Gravity has never been proven" LOLZ! So good. Flat Earthers obviously don't read much.
williamvanauger
look up the armoured skeptic on flat earth. yes they are that dumb. one thought go pro was trying to lie to people about the worlds shape.
supraman2turbo
Whatever brainwashed pleb the earth is a giant rubix cube.
Sasanian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
ChloeRed
I love that with the right stuff you can prove this near my house. Bridge with 2 vertical towers, so due to the distance apart..
ChloeRed
the tops of the vertical towers are further apart then the bases.
Pharya
That isn't really proof of anything by itself. The towers could be built on uneven ground.
ChloeRed
I do hope you have a degree in civil engineering to backup the idea of building bridge towers 155.5 metres high on uneven ground.
Pharya
You are saying that the towers are infallible, that there is no realm in which it is possible they are on uneven ground. That is incorrect