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Imaloserbabysowhydontyoukillme
Adjioev01
BriBriTheShyGuy
The flat earth society is meeting here today, saying happy little liiiiiiiieesss
heingericke
Papakeecha
First global warming, now flat earth? What's next...
orangatuan
The flat earth society has members all around the EDGE of the globe.
justherefortheshitposting
Like 80% of the Flat Earth Society are just trolls. Poe's Law in action, guarantee this one knew what he was saying.
sulfuratus
Anyone wanna join the hollow world theorists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth
niferca
Bad Religion!
was actually listening to them on my way to work today, although it was sinister rouge.
U6jv5X3TbvUE
You can still have a flat, round surface. This isn't nearly as savage as everyone seems to think.
Fuzzygumdrop
...Flat Earth Society is the name of my father-in-law's band. I wonder....
crustlord666
uwantsomelightlyfriedfishfillets
Fuck I love this gif!
iamyd
ELKronos
Exactly! Something can be both flat and round.
JupiterJedi
At first he was like
But then he was like
Sionas
You played yourself you dumb dumb
TheInnovationofEverydayObjects
Is it more correct to say half a dozen then it is to simply say six? I have always wondered this. Maybe I am just not sarfistercated enough.
RightHandedMan
It's a group you join when you just need to be apart of something that you can get into an argument about
InsanoFlexYourHero
Montego1987
Phalkor
How do they explain Alaska being next to Asia? They think that not only do we make up strange science but we can't follow a compass?
There should be a college course that teaches you how to disprove/prove controversial beliefs and then let you make your own decision.
TheFoxCouncil
There was at my Uni. 'Making Rational Decisions in an Irrational World'
gunterleeds
Flat earthers generally believe that the earth is a disk, with the north pole in the center. So basic geography still sorta works in the 1/2
2/2 northern hemisphere. South of the equator though, east/west distances would have to be significantly longer than they really are.
DrSparken
... except it'd be *more* broken in the northern hemisphere. Canada would be smaller than any definition of Europe.
AdmJota
It's almost as if they don't all take it entirely seriously.
jackster1212
Yes, on the top and the flip side.
JShaver4112
IKnowWhereSydBarrettLived
Put a quarter in ya ass, cos you played yourself.
slagath0r
THIS IS SO GOOD ILL USE IT
DidSomeoneSayFree
That's called.. congratulations, you played yaself
AgDrumma07
Fukken saved.
Fatherdoodle
And if you don't like it then hey F you
brianpmcmillan
In the animal kingdom, they call it presentin'.
BrontTheGoodBoy
I just may have to use that. With your permission, of course.
KtotheUZGandaUn
Not his original quote. Ask Big Daddy Kane for permission.
To be fair, I nicked it from the Beasties.
CompletelyIrrelevantGIF
How can I make this my wallpaper?
ghostanom
http://windowsable.com/how-to-set-animated-gif-as-background-wallpaper-in-windows-10/
EnderEagle9
I love your comments.
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
goldenshiningfinger
I remember when this was s thing back when @IrrelevantGif was an imgurian
Katinthebox
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider then that." - George Carlin
Placeboy
Problem is everyone thinks they're in the smarter half.
Ruswal
Could it be... Satire?
LookAtThisPhotograph
The, flat, earth, society, has, members, all, around, the, globe.
WinSlowpoke
IF you assume that gravity breaks space geometry -- and assume that space geometry is flat, but curved by mass, earth is technically flat...
cousteau
What about Earth's core? There's less gravity down there yet its curvature is larger.
What if you perceive the core as the bottom of the gravity well, the apex of the percieved curvature, where you're pulled in all directions?
No, I don't mean the center, I mean the inner core, a solid ball 1/5 the radius of Earth (i.e. 5x more curved) but with less than 1/2 grav
Btw, TIL gravity actually increases as you get closer to core. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/EarthGravityPREM.svg
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
My mom and grandmother jumped on the flat earth train. It's incredibly infuriating, and kind of serious.
DarkUranium
I know a "physicist" who's a flat earth theorist. And I don't mean the holographic principle, either.
HighSlayerRalton
I feel you. My mother is similarly... bananas.
missboring
My mum, aunt and cousin have jumped on it also .....
gitared
The internet is a dangerous place for older people.
LegitTeddyBears
Well you can always just show them the shadow the earth cast apon the moon, or measure shadows at the same time in two far apart places
JohnFloorwalker
Well, if they knew Trig you could show them that the measurements of a round earth are essential for using GPS.
themexicanwave
Have you asked her how the moon is illuminated?
Self illuminated.
Ask her why the moon, no matter it's changing position in the sky, is always lit in the exact direction of the setting sun.
If that makes sense...?
It does. She doesn't have an answer. She doesn't have one for why the moon is upside down at the South Pole either. haha
Go see a large body of water, where it goes to the horizon. Nothing else. Take a picture. Print out picture. Get ruler. 1/?
Draw a straight line, where the water meets the horizon on the center of the page. Have her explain why the sides dip in a curve. 2/2
ScourgeOfAges
"It's because the camera lens is curved." I've seen this response before. :(
Because light floats, that's why it's called light. The reason we see a ship's shell disappear is that light rays are curved.
See? You can make up stupid arguments for virtually anything!
TrijezniMujo
You mean they're serious about it? I thought flat earth society was satire!?
No, there are people that legitimately believe in flat earth. There is a lot of 'evidence' paranoid people can't disprove.
WhereDidILoseMyPants
Look up coast to coast am (it's a pretty cool radio show if you like other views) on YouTube the host is incredulous of the guy
It's not satire? That's advanced levels of stupid.
TheSecondPiewackit
Tila Tequila, from what I remember.
technicalfool
Poe's Law applies. Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from genuine kookery.
icameinlikeafeckingball
It’s satire in some cases, and the idea that people all believed in a flat Earth until Columbus is a complete myth, but despite that (1)
there are somehow also people who genuinely believe this. (2)
dekket
How does it feel to be a descendant of that? Seriously, I'm asking coz I wanna know, not be a dick.
I am SO embarrassed and ashamed, but I'm torn because my mum is my best friend and is actually really intelligent (at least she was..)
Well. It's stressful, knowing people I'm extremely close to can be so paranoid. It honestly makes me distrustful of them, because I don't-
feel confident that they would make the right decisions in a time of crisis, because their views are so dependent on paranoia.
rauntree
My mom divorced my step dad because he got into flat earth BS. There was some other reasons too but that was the final straw for her.
Evergrey
Do you happen to know who they are voting for, if Americans?
Eehh. No one. They're kind of like-minded with most people; both candidates suck. They were rooting for Bernie.
That's weird since Bernie was into education, hah!
luckyflavor23
Well that's kinda rude to the four elephants and giant space turtle carrying the weight of our big flat planet
borgmaster
I mean sure the world is round but if you think ill believe its a ball dont make me laugh. Wed just fall off of it.
dandelion22
I too am a fan of Terry Pratchett. Well played.
I thought it was turtles all the way down?
Mychainsolightwhenabreezerollbymanitfloat
Sick theory reference bro, your theory references are out of control, everyone knows that.
njullpointer
I'm not really sure what to say to people who believe this shit when Im in darkness skyping my family who arent, other side of the world.
reux
"Then you are lost!"
georgecore
Holy crap, you must have fallen over the edge! (O-O)
maybe that sense of impending dread is just the worry what'll happen when we hit bottom?
I dropped my upvote over the edge, hopefully it'll reach you.
DadJokesaretheBest
How do they react when you try to show them otherwise? How do they think the sun works in relation to the flat earth?
Kleinstlebewesen
i don`t get that. we can see it from space! Please stay safe, they must be lunatics
mattbru77
Of course, if you take images of a sphere, you get a flat disk. but from different angles we would see different continents.....
Cereaza
Oh, they didn't go to space. That's just CGI.
Ohh, they're harmless. It's an unfortunate mix of uneducated and paranoia. They're easily taken advantage of by false information.
but those are the dangerous people
To technological advancement, maybe. They aren't violent, unemphatic or ignorant to livelihood. Just misguided.
stja
Awimachinegun
But...you could still see the sun from anywhere on earth. Unless, of course, the earth was curved in some way...
xanthio
What you're attempting to do here is apply logic. I don't imagine that will get you very far with flat-earth types.
That's pretty interesting. Now can anyone show me the flat earther theory for how the ocean water doesn't fall off the edge?
HappyDog271
Periodic boundaries.
ActuallyThatsWrong
AHAHAHAHA XD Molecular dynamics ftw
theglassdragoon
iirc it's because the edge of the world is sloped up or some shit like that
Aerolfoz
The heck do you go around the world then. Go from murica and end up in australia.
missbelled
Wait until they start saying it's because we live IN the sphere and the Sun's at the center. Seems the ... "logical" progression from there.
xRoyalWolfx
... So sloped earth, not flat.
The ice keeps it in.
That's got me LOLing for real. I'm in a crowded bar atm. People stare at me...
Damn. You got me again. I guess there is an explanation about everything. Wait do they think the sun is flat too?
almostsomething182
And apparently gravity isn't real. They think we're all accelerating upwards at a constant 9.8 m/s^2
dam76
not completely wrong. spacetime is warped by gravity and we are accelerating upwards unless we rest "free-falling"
Upstartpotato
oh I get it so we aren't actually falling but the ground is just catching up. according to that then.
But different things free fall at different speeds, unless in a vacuum where we'd never stop accelerating.
But how does that work with the sun rising in the east and setting in the west?
twozerooz
Of all the problems and holes with the flat earth theory, you pick something that isnt actually an issue.. *face palm*
*Isn't an issue in Europe, cos it's on the middle of the disk. In Japan (literally named ‘the land of the rising sun’ cos it's in (1)
It is an issue. The sun won't set in the flat earth theory since they will in fact appear smaller as they go farther away.
My mother seems to have a rebuttal for everything. She's a bit of a conspiracy theorist, and unfortunately any proof from NASA is wrote off.
It's to the point that unless I can provide my own evidence, and not one from a famous scientist, she wont believe me. Too paranoid.
RedDwarfIV
Build a Foucalt Pendulum. Use it to demonstrate your lattitude on the globe by the way it swings.
shmekie
And she gets to vote this fall
Exactly the same as my mum, she says NASA have brainwashed everyone into the Earth being spherical... pretty sure it was accepted to be ...
... a globe before NASA even existed, but there you go
SomeOneYouMayKnowOrNot
Get two sticks, a ruler, and a plane ticket. Plant the stick firmly in the ground, and measure the length of it's shadow at noon. Go 1/2
Directly North/South of where you are (the farther, the better), and repeat. Using some Trigonometry, you can prove that the angle 2/3
But how does she explain the shorter days in winter and the days in Alaska where the sun doesn't go down all day? Ask her for us
luposlipaphobia
Yes this please!
She says she doesn't know, but it is something she will look into. She's not the sort of person to scream NUH UH YOU'RE WRONG when -
If you're not too far north/south, you can see the ISS with the naked eye. 1/
If you can somehow track it with a telescope, any half decent light-bucket reflector scope will let you make out the panels, structure, 2/
We have seen it before. She believes it was just a satellite, and the live feed is fake. :)
Imaloserbabysowhydontyoukillme
Adjioev01
BriBriTheShyGuy
The flat earth society is meeting here today, saying happy little liiiiiiiieesss
heingericke
Papakeecha
First global warming, now flat earth? What's next...
orangatuan
The flat earth society has members all around the EDGE of the globe.
justherefortheshitposting
Like 80% of the Flat Earth Society are just trolls. Poe's Law in action, guarantee this one knew what he was saying.
sulfuratus
Anyone wanna join the hollow world theorists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth
niferca
Bad Religion!
BriBriTheShyGuy
was actually listening to them on my way to work today, although it was sinister rouge.
U6jv5X3TbvUE
You can still have a flat, round surface. This isn't nearly as savage as everyone seems to think.
Fuzzygumdrop
...Flat Earth Society is the name of my father-in-law's band. I wonder....
crustlord666
uwantsomelightlyfriedfishfillets
Fuck I love this gif!
iamyd
ELKronos
Exactly! Something can be both flat and round.
JupiterJedi
At first he was like
JupiterJedi
But then he was like
Sionas
You played yourself you dumb dumb
TheInnovationofEverydayObjects
Is it more correct to say half a dozen then it is to simply say six? I have always wondered this. Maybe I am just not sarfistercated enough.
RightHandedMan
It's a group you join when you just need to be apart of something that you can get into an argument about
InsanoFlexYourHero
Montego1987
Phalkor
How do they explain Alaska being next to Asia? They think that not only do we make up strange science but we can't follow a compass?
Phalkor
There should be a college course that teaches you how to disprove/prove controversial beliefs and then let you make your own decision.
TheFoxCouncil
There was at my Uni. 'Making Rational Decisions in an Irrational World'
gunterleeds
Flat earthers generally believe that the earth is a disk, with the north pole in the center. So basic geography still sorta works in the 1/2
gunterleeds
2/2 northern hemisphere. South of the equator though, east/west distances would have to be significantly longer than they really are.
DrSparken
... except it'd be *more* broken in the northern hemisphere. Canada would be smaller than any definition of Europe.
AdmJota
It's almost as if they don't all take it entirely seriously.
jackster1212
Yes, on the top and the flip side.
JShaver4112
IKnowWhereSydBarrettLived
Put a quarter in ya ass, cos you played yourself.
slagath0r
THIS IS SO GOOD ILL USE IT
DidSomeoneSayFree
That's called.. congratulations, you played yaself
JupiterJedi
AgDrumma07
Fukken saved.
Fatherdoodle
And if you don't like it then hey F you
brianpmcmillan
In the animal kingdom, they call it presentin'.
BrontTheGoodBoy
I just may have to use that. With your permission, of course.
KtotheUZGandaUn
Not his original quote. Ask Big Daddy Kane for permission.
IKnowWhereSydBarrettLived
To be fair, I nicked it from the Beasties.
CompletelyIrrelevantGIF
BrontTheGoodBoy
How can I make this my wallpaper?
ghostanom
http://windowsable.com/how-to-set-animated-gif-as-background-wallpaper-in-windows-10/
EnderEagle9
I love your comments.
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
goldenshiningfinger
I remember when this was s thing back when @IrrelevantGif was an imgurian
Katinthebox
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider then that." - George Carlin
Placeboy
Problem is everyone thinks they're in the smarter half.
Ruswal
Could it be... Satire?
LookAtThisPhotograph
The, flat, earth, society, has, members, all, around, the, globe.
WinSlowpoke
IF you assume that gravity breaks space geometry -- and assume that space geometry is flat, but curved by mass, earth is technically flat...
cousteau
What about Earth's core? There's less gravity down there yet its curvature is larger.
WinSlowpoke
What if you perceive the core as the bottom of the gravity well, the apex of the percieved curvature, where you're pulled in all directions?
cousteau
No, I don't mean the center, I mean the inner core, a solid ball 1/5 the radius of Earth (i.e. 5x more curved) but with less than 1/2 grav
cousteau
Btw, TIL gravity actually increases as you get closer to core. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/EarthGravityPREM.svg
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
My mom and grandmother jumped on the flat earth train. It's incredibly infuriating, and kind of serious.
DarkUranium
I know a "physicist" who's a flat earth theorist. And I don't mean the holographic principle, either.
HighSlayerRalton
I feel you. My mother is similarly... bananas.
missboring
My mum, aunt and cousin have jumped on it also .....
gitared
The internet is a dangerous place for older people.
LegitTeddyBears
Well you can always just show them the shadow the earth cast apon the moon, or measure shadows at the same time in two far apart places
JohnFloorwalker
Well, if they knew Trig you could show them that the measurements of a round earth are essential for using GPS.
themexicanwave
Have you asked her how the moon is illuminated?
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
Self illuminated.
themexicanwave
Ask her why the moon, no matter it's changing position in the sky, is always lit in the exact direction of the setting sun.
themexicanwave
If that makes sense...?
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
It does. She doesn't have an answer. She doesn't have one for why the moon is upside down at the South Pole either. haha
Katinthebox
Go see a large body of water, where it goes to the horizon. Nothing else. Take a picture. Print out picture. Get ruler. 1/?
Katinthebox
Draw a straight line, where the water meets the horizon on the center of the page. Have her explain why the sides dip in a curve. 2/2
ScourgeOfAges
"It's because the camera lens is curved." I've seen this response before. :(
cousteau
Because light floats, that's why it's called light. The reason we see a ship's shell disappear is that light rays are curved.
cousteau
See? You can make up stupid arguments for virtually anything!
TrijezniMujo
You mean they're serious about it? I thought flat earth society was satire!?
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
No, there are people that legitimately believe in flat earth. There is a lot of 'evidence' paranoid people can't disprove.
WhereDidILoseMyPants
Look up coast to coast am (it's a pretty cool radio show if you like other views) on YouTube the host is incredulous of the guy
TrijezniMujo
It's not satire? That's advanced levels of stupid.
TheSecondPiewackit
Tila Tequila, from what I remember.
technicalfool
Poe's Law applies. Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from genuine kookery.
icameinlikeafeckingball
It’s satire in some cases, and the idea that people all believed in a flat Earth until Columbus is a complete myth, but despite that (1)
icameinlikeafeckingball
there are somehow also people who genuinely believe this. (2)
dekket
How does it feel to be a descendant of that? Seriously, I'm asking coz I wanna know, not be a dick.
missboring
I am SO embarrassed and ashamed, but I'm torn because my mum is my best friend and is actually really intelligent (at least she was..)
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
Well. It's stressful, knowing people I'm extremely close to can be so paranoid. It honestly makes me distrustful of them, because I don't-
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
feel confident that they would make the right decisions in a time of crisis, because their views are so dependent on paranoia.
rauntree
My mom divorced my step dad because he got into flat earth BS. There was some other reasons too but that was the final straw for her.
Evergrey
Do you happen to know who they are voting for, if Americans?
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
Eehh. No one. They're kind of like-minded with most people; both candidates suck. They were rooting for Bernie.
Evergrey
That's weird since Bernie was into education, hah!
luckyflavor23
Well that's kinda rude to the four elephants and giant space turtle carrying the weight of our big flat planet
borgmaster
I mean sure the world is round but if you think ill believe its a ball dont make me laugh. Wed just fall off of it.
dandelion22
I too am a fan of Terry Pratchett. Well played.
HighSlayerRalton
I thought it was turtles all the way down?
Mychainsolightwhenabreezerollbymanitfloat
Sick theory reference bro, your theory references are out of control, everyone knows that.
njullpointer
I'm not really sure what to say to people who believe this shit when Im in darkness skyping my family who arent, other side of the world.
reux
"Then you are lost!"
georgecore
Holy crap, you must have fallen over the edge! (O-O)
njullpointer
maybe that sense of impending dread is just the worry what'll happen when we hit bottom?
georgecore
I dropped my upvote over the edge, hopefully it'll reach you.
DadJokesaretheBest
How do they react when you try to show them otherwise? How do they think the sun works in relation to the flat earth?
Kleinstlebewesen
i don`t get that. we can see it from space! Please stay safe, they must be lunatics
mattbru77
Of course, if you take images of a sphere, you get a flat disk. but from different angles we would see different continents.....
Cereaza
Oh, they didn't go to space. That's just CGI.
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
Ohh, they're harmless. It's an unfortunate mix of uneducated and paranoia. They're easily taken advantage of by false information.
Kleinstlebewesen
but those are the dangerous people
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
To technological advancement, maybe. They aren't violent, unemphatic or ignorant to livelihood. Just misguided.
stja
Awimachinegun
But...you could still see the sun from anywhere on earth. Unless, of course, the earth was curved in some way...
xanthio
What you're attempting to do here is apply logic. I don't imagine that will get you very far with flat-earth types.
DadJokesaretheBest
That's pretty interesting. Now can anyone show me the flat earther theory for how the ocean water doesn't fall off the edge?
HappyDog271
Periodic boundaries.
ActuallyThatsWrong
AHAHAHAHA XD Molecular dynamics ftw
theglassdragoon
iirc it's because the edge of the world is sloped up or some shit like that
Aerolfoz
The heck do you go around the world then. Go from murica and end up in australia.
missbelled
Wait until they start saying it's because we live IN the sphere and the Sun's at the center. Seems the ... "logical" progression from there.
xRoyalWolfx
... So sloped earth, not flat.
stja
The ice keeps it in.
dekket
That's got me LOLing for real. I'm in a crowded bar atm. People stare at me...
DadJokesaretheBest
Damn. You got me again. I guess there is an explanation about everything. Wait do they think the sun is flat too?
almostsomething182
And apparently gravity isn't real. They think we're all accelerating upwards at a constant 9.8 m/s^2
dam76
not completely wrong. spacetime is warped by gravity and we are accelerating upwards unless we rest "free-falling"
Upstartpotato
oh I get it so we aren't actually falling but the ground is just catching up. according to that then.
almostsomething182
But different things free fall at different speeds, unless in a vacuum where we'd never stop accelerating.
icameinlikeafeckingball
But how does that work with the sun rising in the east and setting in the west?
twozerooz
Of all the problems and holes with the flat earth theory, you pick something that isnt actually an issue.. *face palm*
icameinlikeafeckingball
*Isn't an issue in Europe, cos it's on the middle of the disk. In Japan (literally named ‘the land of the rising sun’ cos it's in (1)
gitared
It is an issue. The sun won't set in the flat earth theory since they will in fact appear smaller as they go farther away.
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
My mother seems to have a rebuttal for everything. She's a bit of a conspiracy theorist, and unfortunately any proof from NASA is wrote off.
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
It's to the point that unless I can provide my own evidence, and not one from a famous scientist, she wont believe me. Too paranoid.
RedDwarfIV
Build a Foucalt Pendulum. Use it to demonstrate your lattitude on the globe by the way it swings.
shmekie
And she gets to vote this fall
missboring
Exactly the same as my mum, she says NASA have brainwashed everyone into the Earth being spherical... pretty sure it was accepted to be ...
missboring
... a globe before NASA even existed, but there you go
SomeOneYouMayKnowOrNot
Get two sticks, a ruler, and a plane ticket. Plant the stick firmly in the ground, and measure the length of it's shadow at noon. Go 1/2
SomeOneYouMayKnowOrNot
Directly North/South of where you are (the farther, the better), and repeat. Using some Trigonometry, you can prove that the angle 2/3
DadJokesaretheBest
But how does she explain the shorter days in winter and the days in Alaska where the sun doesn't go down all day? Ask her for us
luposlipaphobia
Yes this please!
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
She says she doesn't know, but it is something she will look into. She's not the sort of person to scream NUH UH YOU'RE WRONG when -
technicalfool
If you're not too far north/south, you can see the ISS with the naked eye. 1/
technicalfool
If you can somehow track it with a telescope, any half decent light-bucket reflector scope will let you make out the panels, structure, 2/
ihadtochangemyusernamebecauseIdrawpornasaliving
We have seen it before. She believes it was just a satellite, and the live feed is fake. :)