Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

dkkh wrote:

I always thought it was strange that passenger planes don't fly over antartica. It could be proof that is doesn't actually exist in the manner of thinking of the earth as a ball. Santiago to Sydney over antartica would be the quickest route yet we never take it.

They say antartica is also 12,000 miles in perimeter but old exploration ships would clock 300,000+ miles to traverse it. Something's a little fishy there.

Not quite, maybe. Unless there's some aviation short cuts that have to do with the earth's rotation or jets streams, you'd miss Antarctica by ~820 miles flying from Santiago to Sydney. I could easily be proven wrong though since I really know nothing about air travel. I'm just connecting dots on a virtual oblate spheroid.

-Some dude bored on Google Earth

The so-called “South Pole” is simply an arbitrary point along the Antarctic ice marked with a red and white barbershop pole topped with a metal ball-Earth. This ceremonial South Pole is admittedly and provably NOT the actual South Pole, however, because the actual South Pole could be demonstrably confirmed with the aid of a compass showing North to be 360 degrees around the observer. Since this feat has never been achieved, the model remains pure theory, along with the establishment’s excuse that the geomagnetic poles supposedly constantly move around making verification of their claims impossible.

Can anyone here mathematically prove the earth is round?

Legit question wrote:

coach deez nuts wrote:http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse5.html

Ummm, what were you saying dumbf*ck?

"Correction for water height can be left out". I stand by my previous statement. Try again.

Something being negligible doesn't mean it doesn't exist moran.

Maths wrote:

Can anyone here mathematically prove the earth is round?

Yes, because the circumference can be determined using the simple equation:

C=2Ï€r

If it were flat, this equation would not hold true.

A couple examples with ships in the Antactic area:

During Captain James Clark Ross’s voyages around the Antarctic circumference, he often wrote in his journal perplexed at how they routinely found themselves out of accordance with their charts, stating that they found

themselves an average of 12-16 miles outside their reckoning every day, later on further south as much as 29 miles.

Lieutenant Charles Wilkes commanded a United States Navy exploration expedition to the Antarctic from 1838 to 1842, and in his journals also mentioned being consistently east of his reckoning, sometimes over 20 miles in less than 18 hours.  

Practical distance measurements taken from “The Australian Handbook, Almanack, Shippers’ and Importers’ Directory” state that the straight line distance between Sydney and Nelson is 1550 statute miles. Their given

difference in longitude is 22 degrees 2’14”. Therefore if 22 degrees 2’14” out of 360 is 1550 miles, the entirety would measure 25,182 miles. This is not only larger than the ball-Earth is said to be at the equator, but a whole 4262 miles greater than it would be at Sydney’s southern latitude on a globe of said proportions.

When the Rutan Vogager flew around the World in 9 days where did it actually go?

Legit question wrote:

the actual South Pole could be demonstrably confirmed with the aid of a compass showing North to be 360 degrees around the observer, .

How would a compass actually do this?

Bart Rutan wrote:

When the Rutan Vogager flew around the World in 9 days where did it actually go?

Answer your own question. No one is saying that places do not exist. These places are just not on a sphere. It would be quite easy to travel to his destinations over a 9-day period and never travel over a globe. For the 20th time on this thread, consult the map on the UN flag.

What you people do not realize is that curvature has nothing to do with the earth being a spherical globe. The flat earth is obviously not totally flat. Someone else mentioned a Pringle, but it is more like what might be inside of a snow globe. There can be altering terrain, but at the end of the day, we are living on a relatively flat, circular surface that is covered by an atmospheric dome. The atmospheric dome's density increases heavily towards the surface of earth, and it will keep all ice runoff on the surface. We are not in danger of losing people over the edge. In fact, the glacial ice on the outer rim of Earth is partially made up of atmospheric content, meaning that you'd have to climb very high on ice mountains to ever reach a point where the atmosphere would allow an object through, and at that point it would likely vaporize you before it would let you "fall off" the edge. Falling off the edge of our flat earth is just as silly as what you might think the chances of falling off your global earth might be.

If earth was a ball there are several flights in the Southern Hemisphere which would have the quickest, straightest path over the Antarctic such as from Santiago, Chile to Sydney, Australia.

Instead of taking the shortest, quickest route in a straight line over Antarctica, all such flights detour all manner of directions away from Antarctica instead claiming the temperatures too cold for airplane travel!  Considering the fact that there are plenty of flights to/from/over Antarctica, and NASA claims to have technology keeping them in conditions far colder (and far hotter) than any experienced on Earth, such an excuse is clearly just an excuse and these flights aren’t made because they are impossible.

I love how all of the globalists are referencing "pictures of the Earth" taken by NASA and posted to the internet as proof that the Earth is round. Like everyone is posting their own pictures from space on Instagram. Hello people...? The government kind of has a locked down monopoly on space pictures, and they aren't going to let you see what they don't want you to see.

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That is pretty funny, but argumentum ad passiones is never a respected way to debate a topic. It also typically means that you are in the wrong...

Bart Rutan wrote:

When the Rutan Vogager flew around the World in 9 days where did it actually go?

He circumnavigated a circle.

"The best way to know if you truly have an open mind is to be able to question a belief system that has been ingrained in you your entire life."

NASA controls all satellite images to us, why? Why can't Google launch their own telescope? They certainly can afford it, same goes for Apple. They both have multi-billions of dollars in their corporate war chests. The answer, they're not allowed. Even SpaceX is controlled and monitored by NASA. Elon Musk doesn't have free reign to do what he pleases with his rockets and ships. He has to toe the line.

coach deez nuts wrote:

Legit question wrote:

"Correction for water height can be left out". I stand by my previous statement. Try again.

Something being negligible doesn't mean it doesn't exist moran.

Water doesn't curve either, Moran.

The flat earthers are in good company with Rapper B.o.B and Tila Tequila.

http://observer.com/2016/01/tila-tequila-truly-believes-the-earth-is-flat-and-wont-stop-yelling-about-it-on-twitter/

http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/neil-degrasse-tyson-takes-on-bobs-flat-earth.html

Legit question wrote:

"The best way to know if you truly have an open mind is to be able to question a belief system that has been ingrained in you your entire life."

NASA controls all satellite images to us, why? Why can't Google launch their own telescope? They certainly can afford it, same goes for Apple. They both have multi-billions of dollars in their corporate war chests. The answer, they're not allowed. Even SpaceX is controlled and monitored by NASA. Elon Musk doesn't have free reign to do what he pleases with his rockets and ships. He has to toe the line.

You're kidding, right? There are hundreds of privately owned satellites in orbit around Earth.

In fact, if the Earth wasn't a sphere, it would be impossible for these satellites to be in orbit. Here is a great starting point for learning how satellites orbit Earth:

Hahahahaha.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the worlds biggest troll. All he does is sit around and tweet about how dumb people are. Why do you think NASA hired him?