Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

Ridiculous wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The Nile river flows north and away from the equator.

Yes it does. But the Nile is a man made river created by the Egyptians over the course of hundreds, if not thousands of years. They made it to irrigate crops in the desert.

The Nile is natural and originates from Lake Victoria. Why are you making shit up? Lake Nassar is man made.

when did "making shit up" become a problem on this thread? Seems people have been doing that for quite a while now.

Legit question wrote:

Jumping back in. Why does NASA give a flying fuk about matching "people's expectations?" NASA should be concerned about being honest and forthright. The NASA guy admitted to creating a flat map and then wrapped it around a ball to match people's brainwashed expectations. Huh? Open your eyes, dude! You been deceived. Ok, goodnight. Will pick this up tomorrow.

This is what he was talking about. Its a flat map you can wrap around a ball to make a globe. The guy admitted to making a globe.

If I am a sheep then you are an ass.

What shape should a map be?

Not a pilot wrote:

In your own words then, high performance aircraft don't have to go through this trimming process. It looks to me that if this aircraft does not nose down on the globe, then it will gain altitude on the globe model. Correct? That is what it looks like logically. Assuming perfect calm and no wind.

No, it will not gain altitude. Flat flight for a plane will be perpendicular to the local gravitational field. As you move forward this will change and the plane's path will change accordingly. That's assuming no other complicating effects (which exist, and modern systems handle them with some ease).

Legit question wrote:

ridiculous wrote:

How do you flat earthers explain that all rivers flow toward the equator? This couldn't happen if the earth was FLAT.

The Nile river flows north and away from the equator.

All that talk about propaganda and then you repeat one of the biggest myths in history. I suppose you think the Egyptians were visited by aliens too, if they could make the Nile go backwards.

Again: how can a flat-earth model explain geo-synchronous satellites, and its predictable and measurable relation with the earth, sun and the moon?From the vantage point of the earth, geo-satellites are stationary -- every consumer can buy fixed-pointing antennas, and they can always receive a signal. We know from measurable signal delays, and the speed of light, the distance of the satellite from the earth is some 22,000 miles (at the equator), a distance predicted by estimating the mass of the earth, and the associated effects of gravity, in order to produce a stable orbit of once per day, to match the rotation of the earth.The satellites have earth sensors which must be disabled when the moon passes "behind" the earth, in order to not fool the satellite about the position of the earth. These turn off times are based on predictions assuming the moon is in a known orbit, some 238,900 miles from the earth.The satellites have batteries, to provide continuous service, when the sun passes "behind" the earth, placing the satellites in the earth's shadow. These shadows conform to a timetable that corresponds with an orbit of the earth around a sun, 93,000,000 miles away, and a globelike planet spinning on a tilted axis.Don't you have a youtube video that explains how a flat earth model accounts for these sun, moon, and geo-synchronous satellite observations? How can both the moon, and the sun, go "behind" the earth, with any flat earth model? In other words, the earth is in between the satellites, and the moon or the sun.

Legit question wrote:

My last post of the night:

Our beloved conformist scientists say that the Sun is 93 million miles away with a diameter of 864,938 miles. On the other hand, the Moon is 238,000 miles away with a diameter of 2,159 miles. However, the Sun and Moon just happen to appear as the same size from our perspective on Earth. What are the nearly impossible odds of this occurring? Or is it more likely that the Sun and Moon are just about the same size circling over a flat Earth? Again, the flat Earth model seems to be the better and simpler explanation. It seems that the distances and diameters of the Moon and Sun were only invented to fit the accepted model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eizwrSK4UP8

Goodnight globalist sheep, baa baa.

Legit question wrote:

Ridiculous wrote:

Yes it does. But the Nile is a man made river created by the Egyptians over the course of hundreds, if not thousands of years. They made it to irrigate crops in the desert.

The Nile is natural and originates from Lake Victoria. Why are you making shit up? Lake Nassar is man made.

It has been well documented that the reason the Nile flows north is because it is not a natural river. It was dug by man.

Try again. Now answer the question about how all rivers flow towards the equator. Can't happen if the earth is flat.

ridiculous wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The Nile is natural and originates from Lake Victoria. Why are you making shit up? Lake Nassar is man made.

It has been well documented that the reason the Nile flows north is because it is not a natural river. It was dug by man.

Try again. Now answer the question about how all rivers flow towards the equator. Can't happen if the earth is flat.

Wrong. Plenty of rivers flow north. Here's a partial list:

Athabasca Alberta, Canada, 765 miles

Bann Northern Ireland, 80 miles

Bighorn Wyoming and Montana, USA, 336 miles

Cauca Colombia, 597 miles

Deschutes Oregon, USA, 250 miles

Eel Northern California, USA, 78 miles

Erne Ireland and Northern Ireland, 60 miles

Essequibo Guyana, 600 miles

Fox Wisconsin, USA, 200 miles

Genesee New York, USA, 144 miles

Jordan Utah, USA, 45 miles

Lena Russian Federation, 2735 miles

Little Bighorn, Wyoming and Montana, USA, 80 miles

Magdalena Colombia, 1062 miles

Mojave Southern California, USA, 100 miles

Monongahela Eastern USA, 128 miles

New Virginia and West Virginia, USA, 255 miles

Niagara Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, USA/Canada, 39 miles

Legit question wrote:

ridiculous wrote:

Try again. Now answer the question about how all rivers flow towards the equator. Can't happen if the earth is flat.

Wrong. Plenty of rivers flow north. Here's a partial list:

I thought ridiculous was joking. Lots of rivers flow north. It has nothing to do with the earth being flat or curved. Do hills only slope down toward the south? Why in the world couldn't rivers flow north? That's as ridiculous as the baloney posted early on about how if the earth were spherical it would mean that water flows uphill.

ridiculous wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The Nile is natural and originates from Lake Victoria. Why are you making shit up? Lake Nassar is man made.

It has been well documented that the reason the Nile flows north is because it is not a natural river. It was dug by man.

Try again. Now answer the question about how all rivers flow towards the equator. Can't happen if the earth is flat.

Well documented? Prove it. Show me the documentation where it indicates the Nile was created by man. Must be very obscure, none of the references below say that.

ok sure wrote:

Legit question wrote:

Wrong. Plenty of rivers flow north. Here's a partial list:

I thought ridiculous was joking. Lots of rivers flow north. It has nothing to do with the earth being flat or curved. Do hills only slope down toward the south? Why in the world couldn't rivers flow north? That's as ridiculous as the baloney posted early on about how if the earth were spherical it would mean that water flows uphill.

Exactly! Rivers flow downhill. Explanation below:

We have got off topic. Let's get back to the main argument.

each of the rivers described above were actually created by NASA specifically to confuse the flat earth debate.

Of course none of the listed sites describe the originations of the rivers. NASA has had the site scrubbed to conceal their efforts.

Nice try. Now try again.

Legit question wrote:

Exactly! Rivers flow downhill.

and downhill = south.

Bad Wigins please stop posting

Legit question wrote:

We have got off topic. Let's get back to the main argument.

The one you have overwhelmingly lost? Maybe you can explain why it is 10:00 a.m on Saturday, February 6th in my location right now.

If the Earth is not a globe, why does the amount of daylight change during the year?

;) wrote:

If the Earth is not a globe, why does the amount of daylight change during the year?

FE'er are lunatics but that argument is weak. Of course they will say the sun moves farther away.

I'm surprised at the way the flat earth proponents have this hate on for NASA. I assume it's rooted in biblical scripture that reads as a flat Earth and trips on the bible thumpers that must support the word of god no-matter-what. It would make sense that NASA would be the most significant threat to religious dogma given that a) NASA people are mega-schmart b) tax dollars=politics=government=democrats.

Ironically, the flat earthers embrace the very technology they claim is based on lies.