Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

Damn, I was hoping for something better than this, although Legit Question was the only interesting troll (a few of the other ones, like ansnsnnssnnssnsnsnansn and bad wigins' contributions have also been funny if less serious).

Also, here's a pretty entertaining video on the subject all of this led me to. Good stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs

Ask a commercial pilot, especially from Australia or New Zealand what they think. I asked two - both say Earth is not a globe and that Antarctica is a big mystery

thank God a phd!

please give me the data for the diameter of the sun and it's surface temp so we can prove these sucker wrong!

Holy guacamole!!!!!!! This thread has me questioning everything I was taught about our planet. Surely someone can argue for the globe theory, no?

Reading this thread is like watching a 16-seed beat a 1-seed. I did not expect this at all

wait I just reliazed you said your from the southern "hemisphere"

pretty sure phds from there don't count

sorry if I am being a dick but it's true :(

Flat Earth PhD wrote:

You are a very loyal sheep to NASA aren't you, supposed physicist. There are simple refutations to your so called "proofs" the Earth is round. The scales that show weights according to your gravitational theory are just another piece of NASA's cover-up. We flat earthers know better than to use scales that are programmed to make you gullible rounders actually believe in gravity. You claim that the Earth rotates. How come as I am sitting down now I'm not dizzy? Easy. I'm not rotating. Finally, I live in the Southern Hemisphere, but haven't fallen off the bottom of the "globe" yet. Put a quarter on the bottom of a globe model and it will fall straight off, yet here I am, sitting undisturbed, proving you wrong.

Good try, but you're going to need more advanced physics than that.

+1

might be rojo wrote:

Legit question wrote:

I'm still standing and will take on anyone. So bring it on, globalists. Later....

I already asked you several questions in regards to your proposed alternative theory of concentric orbits of the sun and moon over a flat Earth. You chose to ignore these questions, either because you did not see them, because your theory fails to reconcile them, or (most likely), the website that you are copying all of your posts from has failed to reconcile them.

Even with a lack of direct observational evidence, which the "globalists" have provided, as well as several repeatable experiments, any acceptable theory should be able to reproduce all observed phenomena. Your proposed theory fails to do so, as will any attempts to create a "flat Earth" model.

Patience, might be Rojo. Not ignoring you or anyone. Relaxing after my run and late dinner....

Fact is, no one who lives in the Southern Hemisphere believe that the earth is a globe. The flat earth map makes more since. Sorry, I am not smart guy but I know bs when I see it

Flats are winning wrote:

As a bystander who has read the entire thread, the globe people haven't even presented an argument

Then you weren't paying attention, I already explained concisely how gravity proves them wrong. The fact that things are being pulled south makes perfect sense on a globe. There is less land in the southern hemisphere because most of them fell off before the water on the bottom froze and stopped the leak.

But it is completely illogical on a flat Earth. If Antarctica goes all the way around the edge then it would fall down. That's how ice is - you can't stack the stuff. Even in places where it's always freezing like the Himalayas, the ice flows down no matter how much you dump on top. But ice can form under things indefinitely, up to 10 miles long. The only explanation for Antarctica is that it is a long icicle at the bottom of Earth.

Further observation supports this. There is no other ice cap on Earth except where it can't fall down, i.e. on top in the Arctic. And it is not very high.

A physicist wrote:

Damn, I was hoping for something better than this, although Legit Question was the only interesting troll (a few of the other ones, like ansnsnnssnnssnsnsnansn and bad wigins' contributions have also been funny if less serious).

Also, here's a pretty entertaining video on the subject all of this led me to. Good stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs

You see this guys, he attempted no argument to my proofs and just called me a troll instead of presenting evidence. Typical from a globalist.

PhD I have calculated the sun to be 100 miles in diameter.

Does this sound correct?

I am setting up a 16 core simulation at 4.3 GHz to calculated the radius next.

Thank in advance.

MikeRoss BAA wrote:

You guys aren't even trying...

http://imgur.com/h21YZoQ

From your own video.

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6995124&page=2#ixzz3ySe3tMkT

/thread

Wait, do Flat Earthers think that Antarctica is just ice or is there land as well?

ansnsnnssnnssnsnsnansn wrote:

PhD I have calculated the sun to be 100 miles in diameter.

Does this sound correct?

I am setting up a 16 core simulation at 4.3 GHz to calculated the radius next.

Thank in advance.

Don't bother with the 16 core simulation, did you really think NASA leaves computers untouched?

To calculate the radius you use E=mc^2 + pi r^2. You already have accurately calculated the sun's diameter (its 100.000000000000000000000000000000003 miles to be precise, you must have forgotten about the refraction). plug in 2.718 for E, the m is 100 miles, and the c is 300,000 meters per second. pi is 22/3 and r is what we're solving for.

2.718 = 100.000000000000000000000000000000003*300,000^2 + 22/3 *r^2

we get r = -1107823.41881 miles

(no coincidence this is much different than what NASA says)

Flat Earth PhD wrote:

ansnsnnssnnssnsnsnansn wrote:

PhD I have calculated the sun to be 100 miles in diameter.

Does this sound correct?

I am setting up a 16 core simulation at 4.3 GHz to calculated the radius next.

Thank in advance.

Don't bother with the 16 core simulation, did you really think NASA leaves computers untouched?

To calculate the radius you use E=mc^2 + pi r^2. You already have accurately calculated the sun's diameter (its 100.000000000000000000000000000000003 miles to be precise, you must have forgotten about the refraction). plug in 2.718 for E, the m is 100 miles, and the c is 300,000 meters per second. pi is 22/3 and r is what we're solving for.

2.718 = 100.000000000000000000000000000000003*300,000^2 + 22/3 *r^2

we get r = -1107823.41881 miles

(no coincidence this is much different than what NASA says)

Neither of you guys are funny. Leave the work to LQ who is funny.

Flats are winning wrote:

As a bystander who has read the entire thread, the globe people haven't even presented an argument

Holy smokes! There were thousands of solid arguments here, and now they're gone! There's only one explanation. That flat earthers are in full control of Letsrun. Maybe the whole internet! You can't trust anything in this thread anymore.

Bart Rutan wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The tip of South America/Cape Horn looks to be the closest to the ice wall. (Unless there is an island south of Cape Horn).

Correct! (round of applause)

Now where do you think the fictional South Pole is relative to that?

There is no South Pole on the flat earth model. On the globe model the South Pole would be on the bottom of the ball.

This must be a troll but in the case that it is a legitimate statement I will provide a solution.

The reason that you don't feel dizzy all of the time is that your movement is relative to the Earth. In other terms, due to the intense gravitational attraction, you are pulled to the planet and act as a piece of it, rotating at the same speed. Thus, because you and everything around you is rotating there aren't any side effects.

The quarter on the globe is easily the worst point ever. The reason a quarter doesn't fall off the Earth is because gravity attracts it to the globe. Gravity propagates from the earth similar to light from a spherical lightbulb, in all directions. This means that regardless of your respective hemisphere, you and every other object of similar mass will experience the same attraction to the earth, preventing you from falling off the earth. The reason the quarter falls off of the southern hemisphere of the globe is because the attraction to the earth below the globe is far more powerful, thus the quarter falls to the ground. The same thing would occur if you flipped the globe over and made the north pole perpendicular to the ground.