Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

The REAL COEBRA wrote:

If the Earth is not a sphere then why are there winds?

God farting.

nobody said the moon was fglat

Legit question wrote:

If you flew from the tip of Argentina or Chile over Antartica, over the South Pole then what?

You head south until you start going north again. Richard Byrd flew over the South Pole in 1928. Old news.

The crash of an Air New Zealand sightseeing plane into Mount Erebus(also known as the wall at the edge of the Earth to Flat Earthers) eliminated air travel over Antarctica.

Too many conditions that make flying risky. People prefer the option of more rapid response to air disaster, even if futile.

If the Earth is flat, how thick is it and what is on the bottom?

Kevin Barbaro wrote:

So when I look at the moon am I seeing a giant dinner plate?

Yes. That's why we see only one side of the moon.

That one flat side keeps facing us.

You still don't understand this at all. You are assuming that there is a force in space that pulls all things down, similar to gravity on a planet. No such force exists. North is up and south is down on a map of earth because that's the way the earth's magnetic field exists and for no other reason.

Your tennis ball analogy isn't proving anything because anyone who did that experiment would be standing on earth, where there actually is a force pulling it downward. In space that rule doesn't apply because there is no "down" or "up" and no external force pulling matter in either direction. All directions in space are relative to other objects. It's very hard to imagine this since we have lived our entire lives with definite up and down directions and constant gravity, but it's true.

Are we speculating only the earth is flat and all the other planets are orbs.

Carl Sagan explaining how people figured out the earth is round thousands of years ago

There is also this

Mankind has known the earth is a sphere for thousands of years. Ships sailing to the horizon slowly sink into it until they disappear below it. Things like refraction and the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere make it possible to see things that would be beyond the horizon on a perfect sphere.

half the story wrote:

Are we speculating only the earth is flat and all the other planets are orbs.

Not necessarily flat, but not a globe. More oblate

There is absolutely no proof, not one photo that the Earth is a globe

Bart Rutan wrote:

big SNL skit wrote:

THIS. Not the argument, but the fact that someone on here knows who Rutan is and what the Voyager did was worth getting on here.

Thanks, most people just know me as 'the guy who killed John Denver".

A grateful nation thanks you for your service.

This is Earth. It is a massive oblate slab. Round it is, sphere it is not.

http://whotfetw.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

Living in Australia, you realize when you fly that there is no way the earth is a sphere. There is no way to explain why it takes twice as long to fly to South Africa than Spain

There is a North Pole, there is no south pole. that is a lie

My mind is blown. I didn't realize how manipulated those images from space were

Please explain how a lunar eclipse occurs within the flat earth theory.