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Now, I wouldn't call them all unintelligent; I've seen Flat Earth people entirely capable of complex processing and lateral thinking, etc. But.., whoa boy, when you poke around, you discover that they are sporting various broken spots, gross and subtle. People who just have bugs in their code.
I've looked at and reviewed pretty much every argument floated by the official Flat Earth Society website, (for those who have not, you should give it a few hours to visit sometime). Though it's been a couple of years now, each time I go back to see what's new on offer, I come away sadly unimpressed. I keep hoping there will be some staggering new paradigm-shifting item to blow my mind! Wouldn't that be just the coolest thing ever? "What.., wait a moment. Really??" -Well, besides perpetual motion being a real thing. That would be wonderful! But no. There isn't a single item presented by the Flat Earth Society which isn't a hopeless mess of plainly faulty logic. The eight year-old boy in me is always disappointed. I'll just have to make due with real magic and real wonder and real miracles. Like spirits and UFOs and comet impacts and such. (Rocks from space! Think about that!)
But anyway... there's also Trolls.
The Flat Earth stuff isn't put forward just by young souls who were once 2D mammals for whom the Earth really was, for all intents and purposes, flat ...
Not just logically impaired people who have trouble with deduction and concepts of measurement and general physics...
Not just crazy people who have other kinds of more pressing critical impairment.
Not just stubborn people who reject on principle.
But ALSO trolls; those who just like to poke to get a reaction.
The C's call these people, "Organic Portals" and described engaging with them in terms of being irresistible, almost like (paraphrasing) an addictive behavior.
I've always wondered if they eat the energy they suck from people themselves, or if they just get a percentage on commission as it makes its way up through the rest of the milking machine?
But yeah.., at this point, you can pretty much navigate the social landscape by keeping tabs on who believes what in which way. Nobody is going to change their mind at this point. The Great Sorting has largely taken place and what we're left with are the gleefully stubborn, the hopelessly stupid, and the pastorally bovine.
Dr. Seuss should have written a book about it. (Did he?)
What happened when people tried to present proof of rocks that fell from the sky ... well they were ridiculed, called morons and retards
apocryphal, but:
Another proof that was willingly accepted, by these "mentally superior" globists, is the cartoon of a car floating in space
There don't appear to be any calculations nor observations of "flatland" worlds.
If I understand your argument, I am the pool table, see all the planets, which by observation and calculations, can determine size and distance, and they appear to be round. Ok, understood.
Since the earth appears to be a planet orbiting around the sun, as the other planets are, why am I a pool table?
Big deal. Just because a basketball can look flat is no proof that any other flat-looking object is automatically a sphere.
That is very poor logic.
More importantly, the mean-spirited insulting comments in this thread prove that main-stream brainwashing has eliminated all manner of polite discourse on this matter.The vituperation here should be amazing but sadly is instead expected, and shows that people are not even willing to discuss matters calmly and without resorting to ad hominem attacks.
There's obviously no use in even putting forward any observations or thoughts for discussion, as people immediately go into knee-jerk reaction mode and start spewing nasty words at their fellow humans instead of embracing the imagination that leads us to new discoveries and new understanding.
These people don't seem to be interested in questioning, they don't seem to be curious about all the anomalies and problems with the heliocentric model.
Science is about questioning EVERYTHING -- evidently, that doesn't apply here.
Question everything except scientific dogma and theories ... doesn't sound so catchy does it
The very successful ongoing psyop is the one that pigeon-holes a collection of memes as being associated with FE .. a idea that we all seem to have been pre-conditioned to ridicule.
This article panders to that psyop .. it's as infantile as several others have been ....
I'm as much a Flat Earther as I am a Russian bot
1. Build a sundial
2. Get a telescope. Jupiter is VERY visible from the ground.
3. Build your own camera (since FE claims ALL camera manufacturers are "in on it" and send it up in a balloon. Some kids did the balloon part fairly recently but used a manufactured camera so OBVIOUSLY it was one of the "defective automatic fish-eye when taking pictures of earth from space kind."
I haven't spent any time investigating the FE claims as I find them mostly hilarious.
- All governments have a treaty prohibiting the revelation that the earth is flat? When have you known more than a few governments to agree about ANYTHING?
- All camera makers & the fish-eye thing is about the same. The science behind making lenses is hundreds of years old. If all cameras were modified in some way I would think someone with a PhD in optics might have spilled the beans by now.
I've read several FE comments on this site that mention "I've done the experiments." (One day, when I'm REALLY bored I may search for the experiments they're talking about.. but it's likely someone has debunked them already.) In any event if you're going to truly "do some science" then you'd have to test the null hypothesis and see if there is data that suggests that the earth actually IS round. All the FE commentary I've seen seems to suggest that the anti-hypothesis is never tested.
(While not terribly successful I did attempt to minimize the "mocking tone.") ;>
Students film breathtaking curvature of Earth using high-altitude weather balloon: [Link]
"We've proven the reliability of the payload electronics and tracking methods, the payload returned in perfect condition, that's a lot to say for something that's been to 23.6km and plunged back to earth at over 44.7m/s. The tracking also worked perfectly, we are indebted to the amateur radio community for helping us to set up the tracking equipment."
The team is planning future launches aiming to test the full sensor and advanced navigation systems which time constraints prevented them from launching on the first flight. With the control electronics proven they consider their chances of success to be high.
The image is a hopeless misrepresentation of any of the many approved NASA variations
A map use to be good enough, now it has to be a totally out of scale map on a globe
Sorry but it'd just been on and it annoys me - t looks like indoctrination to me
(1) The world practically rotates with a linear velocity of 1000mph at the equator, why aren't the stars at night moving, whizzing by?
For those willing to go through the math of it, if the linear velocity at the equator is 1000mph, imagine what the end-of-sight velocity at Alpha Centurai will be. Alpha Centurai is the nearest brightest group of stars to Earth. It is also 4.37 light years away. Yet, we can see stationary stars blinking at us, at nights.
(2) Earth is in space. Space is a vacuum. Where does Earth get its atmospheric pressure of 15 psi, 1 atmosphere? From whence comes its air?
Easy questions for the experts to answer!
Shalom
No wonder he came in on that White Privilege article and said 'forget facts, let's have a subjectivity party!'