This might be also the way how the sun orbits according to them
Flat Earth Society has members from all around the globe.
How do they explain the moon
How do they explain seasons, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, lunar phases, tides, polar nights, polar days, etc?
When you are stupid about one thing on purpose, you can be stupid about everything.
So, they aren’t exactly a monolith, different folks have different ideas. But generally speaking, they beleive all celestial bodies are basically spinning above us. I know they consider the sun to be actually really small and shockingly close to the surface. Generally the idea is the antarctic is the rim of the disk, with a giant ice wall that keeps the oceans in. Gravity is an illusion caused by the Earth constantly accelerating upwards.
“The Moon was created by Islamo-Communists to make Hot Blooded Americans go to sleep!!”
“Clearly, the moon is fake and gay”
obligatory “gay” btw
Hey, I wrote my PhD Thesis on Gay Moon Theory.
The moon is a sticker on the sky which is a big glass dome with holes in it. Or something like that, honestly they’re not really very consistent.
Well hold on. I may have just woken up, but, if earth were a disc, couldn’t the disc just be rotating and or flipping?
Edit: I am slightly more awake now and had a laugh. What if the underside of earth had stuff down there? And what if you could get down there somehow? And what if the ground were just continuous? I feel like gravity is important here. Fuckin flat earthers, man.
What if the underside of earth had stuff down there?
That’s where you get a lot of the real 🤯-tier pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
Dinosaurs and lizard people are down there. Nazis and Communists are down there. Mole people. Atlantis. The Garden of Eden. The sky is the limit.
Lmao jfc, they might as well say the undesirables
This is because flat earthers don’t understand anything about science or physics or basic common sense and as a result believe the most insane things.
They spend their entire time trying to come up with increasingly convoluted ways that a flat earth could work, rather than just accepting that the simplest explanation is that, in fact, isn’t flat. Their explanation for why you can’t see mount Everest from the top of any reasonably high hill anywhere else on earth, involves throwing out all scientific thinking back to Aristotle and starting again, don’t believe in geometry or infinitely parallel lines.
Yeah, that’s how I’ve seen them describing near-equator orbits more than once. (Back when the entire thing was an internet joke, the models were very funny.)
It’s polar orbits they have an issue with.
I’m significantly more awake and just realized this is a shitpost. The human mind is an interesting thing.
Do you still have evidence of the old posts or any of the old models of how orbits work?
There’s a comment in another thread here with a video.
According to flat earth supporters, if the earth were moving in any way at all you would feel it. Since we don’t feel any motion obviously the earth is stationary
This is why airplanes and trains are also stationary for most of the trip.
The sad thing is that that’s still more sane than what they actually believe.
I was about to say that. Isn’t it something like “it just randomly travels from left to right in mid-air, but due to optical illusions it’s not visible 100% of the time”?
Something about dark energoe bending the light in a way that everything looks like the earth is round or something I don’t really know or understand it and frankly I don’t want to.
There’s a guy in my town that has a massive “THE EARTH IS FLAT” sticker on the back of his car. Every time I see him I keep hoping it’s a troll, but I live in Missouri so it wouldn’t surprise me if he actually believes it.
Was going to say… It’s not rocket science
Just to point out that, despite what a lot of people strongly believe, the Moon does not move in the sky at the same speed as the Sun. So they both can be visible at once, or neither.
Well that solar eclipse I just saw would be very hard to explain if they did 🤣
Guess that could be just the government 🤣
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some people just came out and said they don’t believe in eclipses.
But the number of people that believe you can’t see the Moon during the day is enormous.
Until you see a 24 hour sun in Antarctica.
And eclipses are fake news, and in Greenland the sun never sets all year
AWWWW SHIT !
CHECKMATE PLANEBRAINS!
How do they explain airplanes taking the same time to go around a northern fixed-latitude ring and a southern fixed-latitude ring?
They have two excuses.
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Wind is pushing the planes/boats faster on the south side so they can cover more distance faster.
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They (IE: NASA or the jews or whoever “they” are today) are lying to you on how long it takes to travel on the south side. It’s a cover up, man.
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the moon is a man made satellite base for robot pigeons, D’uh.
The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Engineers said the moon rocks were too volatile to experiment on. Tested on 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill. Still, it turns out they’re a great portal conductor.
- Cave Johnson
This is a Triumph.
The more flat earthers talk the dumber it gets
Finally, something that makes sense. Maybe they’re right after all. /s
Unfortunately, it’s way dumber than that
The north pole is the middle of the map and the moon goes in circles like the sun. The incredible brightness of the sun is not visible after it’s passed
visibly over the horizonround in a flat circle and neither is the moon. It is not explained how the sun goes definitively down over the horizon from one geographical perspective and up into the sky from another based on this flat disk.Oh it is explained, though, but not consistently. I have heard explanations of that the light refraction makes the sun look lower when it moves away, to a point where its visibility is hidden by the horizon, like a mirrage of the sky. Another explanation is that the surface of the earth isn’t flat, but bulges slightly, like a dome, making the sun disappear behind the dome every day. I’m sure there are more explanations as well.
The thing about flat earth theories is that they always have an answer for whatever you throw at them. They are so committed to their idea, that they will invent reasonings on the spot which become more and more convoluted - often in conflict with other parts of their theory.
My favorite part about their map is that, among the many other ways to test the Earth is round, they could just fly from Joburg to Perth or Sydney on a private charter plane, and when the flight time isn’t 37 hours, it would only be possible on a globe.
I saw an animation once where the sun sort of dipped and peaked above and below the world disc horizon. Total mental gymnastics
Ah yes the sun the thing which famously isn’t always shining on some part of the globe
It’s called perspective and the vanishing point /s
I’ve also heard a fucking flat rectangle theory.
The world is one big ikea table.
The explanation is that light is affected by gravity to a much greater degree than in conventional physics.
You believe in the moon? 😭🙏
The moon is a lie.
that’s amore
When the moon is a lie and the flat earthers cry, that’s amore.
When the sun really shines, flat earthers ask why, that’s amore.
They are ding, ding-a-ling-a-lings
ding-a-ling-a-lings and you’ll sing, “stupid fella”
Brains are dead, flippy-flippy-fled, flippy-flippy-fled
contracted rubella.
dude, did you bash that out extemporaneously?
Yes.
mad skill
😁 I once wrote a parody of the pokemon theme song as the theme song for my world of warcraft guild.
We’re gonna be, the very best,
Like no guild ever was,
Downing raids is our real test,
getting gear our cause.
We traveled across the realm,
farming far and wide,
crafting potions for the raid,
and nobody died.
warcraft guild!
OH, It’s you and me
maybe we’ll PVP
Warcraft guild!
It’s the song we sing
while we’re raping the lich king.
warcraft guild!
we’re all on vent,
Trash mobs we circumvent.
Gear for me and gear for you,
WARCRAFT GUILD!
Birbs aren’t real.
But then how do we get delicious cheese ?
The moon is a transparent light source.
You might be asking yourself how does a transparent object generate it’s own light? Well let me explain: trust me bro.
Well let me explain: trust me bro.
You sold me!
Not sure if you were aware of the meme, but I was making a portal reference, as in “the cake is a lie.” The image looks the same as the portals in the video game “portal.” The original context of “The cake is a lie” was to convey the message that a reward is being used to motivate Chell, the player character of Portal, without any intent of delivering. It was my attempt at making fun of flat earthers. I do believe the earth is round, that we orbit the sun, that the moon orbits earth, and that the moon landing was real.
Oooo Kay.
Not sure why you found it necessary to explain the joke.
But like you I am also making fun of flat earthers.
I guess I misinterpreted the intent of your comment, like you might have thought I was a flat earther. My bad.
Can’t land on a lie.
I wonder are there flat earthers who are also simultaneously NOT moon landing deniers? Or is that like a prerequisite.
Not sure if you were aware of the meme, but I was making a portal reference, as in “the cake is a lie.” The image looks the same as the portals in the video game “portal.” The original context of “The cake is a lie” was to convey the message that a reward is being used to motivate Chell, the player character of Portal, without any intent of delivering. It was my attempt at making fun of flat earthers. I do believe the earth is round, that we orbit the sun, that the moon orbits earth, and that the moon landing was real.
Yeah I played Portal.
Was just trying to add something to the conversation.
Also I didn’t downvote you. Not sure why whoever did that.
People are entitled to their fact based opinions. Maybe it just didn’t add much to the conversation. Life is amazing when you give negative fucks like I do.
now you’re thinking with portals!
