Flat Earthers and what to do with them

Is Terry Pratchet the high priest of Flat Earthers or Disc worlders :)

So is this taking over from creationists ?
Havent met a flat earther yet.

used to work for a creationist who belived nothing exisited pre-jesus or the old testament history timeline.
Pointing out that the Roman empire has massive pre-history, along with Egypt and China etc etc, and dinosaurs was just debunked as "wrong"
Apparantly Darwin in his later years admitted he was wrong over the theory of evolution and became a creationist.

Insufferable to work with, but easy to wind up........... fossils and dinosaurs aren't as old as your told :)

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There also seem to exist different opinions on some theories.
This site states that the earth is stationary and thus not accelerating at all, but also that gravity is a lie, "objects simply fall".
I don't know what is right or wrong anymore.

I blame Gwyneth Paltrow and David Wolfe. But mostly chemtrails, and the NWO.

So, does smoke from a wood fire, simply 'forget' to fall?

And helium, hydrogen and hot air balloons. Helium can get out the dome and escape the earth, though. We never get it back. Nothing else can do that. It's actually magic.

People always tell you not to look into the sun "because it's bad for your eyes". The real reason is so you don't spot that's it's obviously fake.

Bang goes one of my childhood truisms. Next you'll be telling me Morph isn't real and that you should always just say yes to drugs...

Yeah, we used to be able to see a Russian satellite pass over on the south coast in Hampshire.

The end of the video @Timbre posted seems to be suggestive of what might be going on. He goes all dewy eyed & says that if the universe is a big empty void then we amount to nothing whereas if we are in an enclosed (flat earth) system then we are it! The be all and end all (I'm paraphrasing) & humans do so love to think that they are (literally) the centre of the universe. So perhaps it's just people that simply cannot deal with their own insignificance (like most of the religious). What's baffling is that even the ancient Greeks with the technology of a stick in the sand worked out that we live on a sphere long before we had the technology to observe it/NASA/use it to bounce information off of satellites etc or indeed circumnavigate it.

https://video.vice.com/en_uk/video/10-qu­estions-youve-always-wanted-to-ask-flat-­earther/595b9e47d978e31b73496a2e

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You're an idiot shut up la la la la la I can't hear your stupid voice.

I remember the first time I watched the ISS zip by overhead, gave me a pretty amazing feeling thinking of the astronauts up there and the science it took to get them there.

and the science it took to get them there.

Rocket science? It is just a matter of propulsion. But as we know that gravity is #fakenews it is just a matter of projecting a dot onto the celestial dome. Not really that hard.

What puzzles me about the #fakenews round earth is why on earth so many people take so much time and spend so much money trying to persuade us of this fasehood. What do they gain by preaching these lies?

Laughing at the twats that believe? Like @Sumo said - not the first time. Wouldn't be too hard to trace the origins of the new breed of flat earther.

Going to be that guy

Why is this in general

Well whether the earth is flat or not is hardly miscellaneous or meaningless is it?

But it could be Classified.

Ask flat earthers to explain hills and mountains. Or is the earth not flat after all?

how has this flat earth thing gained momentum ? id never heard of a flat earther until very recently.

Surprising really, considering you live on the Flat Earth™

my Aunt is an anti-vaxer and sells crystals that 'cure' cancer

Sorry for the 5 page dredge but it's illegal to sell a cure to cancer. You can dob her in if you really want to fuck her off.

Ha I did not know that. I don't think she's saying it cures cancer per se, but she certainly thinks they cure most ailments and hawks them that way!

My wife is Assistant Director at a charity called Sense About Science so I learn about all the mad shit that people claim online and a lot of it makes it into the mainstream press, how untrue most of it is, and also sadly about how many cunts there are out there trying to make money off desperate families.

They've been trying to get eBay and Amazon to step up, at the moment if you see anyone selling anything like that on either of those platforms you can report it and they HAVE to take down the ad because it's been brought to their attention. A lot of people would prefer if eBay and Amazon pro-actively tried to stop people selling shit like that.

FlatEarthTheory < HollowEarthTheory.

Senior Nazis were interested in hollow earth theories in the 1930s. They sent three missions to Antarctica and captured the Noweigen bit. They setup a base, INSIDE* the hollow.

The Americans gave this theory enough credit that at the end of WW2 they sent a massive naval fleet down to fight the 50k unacounted for european Nazis that were going missing, possibly chilling, plotting and preparing for the 4th reich INSIDE* earth.

*Maybe

#tinfoilhat

My wife is Assistant Director at a charity called Sense About Science

Fantastic organisation. They do really great work.

The Lancet Oncology used to do a series called Quackery. The one on crystals was quite a fun read (this is probably paywalled, but in case you have access via academic institute).

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(14)70098-1/fulltext

Interestingly, the review was quite benign on the topic, given that crystals don't actually do active harm, like some other alternative therapies (although if it stops a person receiving proper treatment, that's not great).

However, despite the absence of evidence and the frequently grandiose claims of efficacy, the use of crystals is unlikely to cause the harm seen with other alternative therapies, such as mistletoe and aristolochia. Indeed, similar to many alternative therapies, the benefit is often derived not from the therapy itself, but from the holistic environment in which it is delivered.

I like to think of the earth as looping hollow tube.

#pretzeltheory