Flat Earthers and what to do with them

Nice little bit of comic sans hiding at the bottom

Looking at that map of the so called flat earth, a couple of pages ago, with the route that the boat could take:

How come I can fly from Australia to South America on a plane in far less time than from Australia to the UK?

But the sticker is curved not flat!

The Antarctic circle is about 17,662 kilometres long IRL, while the Arctic circle is roughly 16,000 km...
Flying around those circles will take approximately "the same" time, how would Flat Earthers explain that?

Forum frame sticker right there!

(Possibly with a little editing)

Yeah, but you can't know what you don't know. i.e. You can test for your own bias only to a point. All your blindspots are belong to us

Better to use energy understanding (rather than being understood).

Conspiracies as thought exercises are healthy as fuck!

The idea haemophiliacs were routinely given infected blood for years — would have been a conspiracy theory until recently. The same for the status of the sub prime mortgage markets etc.

#pretzeltheory
#hollowearth
#snownazis

And trolling.

The government is trying to hide the flat earth, we established this earlier with the fact that they shoot anyone who comes close to the giant ice wall that holds all the water into the disc world. Duh. They probably force the planes to fly slower to keep up the illusion. Wake up sheeple.

See my earlier comment about the greeks and the earth not being spherical at all.

As I already said, skepticism is good. Flat-earther's and the like aren't skeptics - quite the reverse.

Ok, that's rather uncharitable. Entering discussion in good faith is the only way. You have to initially presume it's skepticism, before making judgement.

Alex Jones with "turning the frogs gay" is a great example of mass hubris. Everyone took the piss, wrote about the sorry state of his mind and societies chosen conspiracy 'news' etc ... turns out he was right. Atrazine levels were elevated and frogs were switching gender.

Your time line on that story is bizarre. It's not some story be ploughed a lonely furrow on. Worries about that class of chemical aren't new and he was no trailblazer for them. He just grabbed at a shred of information he heard about and added it to his pile, along with the idea the UN is breeding children for organ transplant on Mars and a thousand other random things, some of the accidentally factual.

Intellectual rigour is important to me. I never dismiss a question out of hand, no matter how odd the source. But there's only so much time you can waste on the irrational thought patterns of the conspiracy freaks. They may occasionally ask an important question that nobody else has asked - but actually they do that very rarely. Genuine skeptical like old Fred Hoyle are not found in their ranks.

Timeline? The point of the story is the hubris. You show signs of suffering from it.

Jones didn't add to the MarsSpaceChildren story. That was mentioned by a guest, he mentioned yeh, classified space programs have existed yada yada. Other 'news' outlets make up the rest, nasa made a statement snowballing the whole thing. That's right, Alex Jones was embarrassed by a crazy theory.

Ironically in this instance the timeline does matter.

You show signs of suffering from it.

And there I went making the mistake of editing to explain, only to find this shit.

You added a 2nd para full of humble shit. Now I look like an angry conspiracy theorist / Alex Jones fanboi.

Yes, you really do.

Who'd have thought The One Show would have caused so much consternation? ;)

uWotm8?^

(different Alex Jones)

I did. It's really easy to call someone dumb and try to re-educate them. So I tried to appeal to their inquisitive mind (conspiracy theorists diehard web trawling) and suggest some other questions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3TgVv4h7Xd3y89N73XZ5z5p/subatomic-science-10-things-we-know-and-don-t-know-about-the-fabric-of-the-universe

And I got this message back!

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I needed a rofl-copter. What's even better is that since then I'm now onto 'chemtrails' and geoengineering (we're covering the 'globe' in chemicals to reflect the sun's light and this is poisoning the planet). The irony. Apparently this is evidence of chemtrails. Posted by Thai Airways itself. There seems to simply be an inability to understand basic science. So much energy wasted in the pursuit of answering questions about non-things.

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^^incredible, thanks for the lol.

What I don't understand about flat earthers is that for all other conspiracy theories there is an obvious benefit or profit for the corporations or governments running the scam.
who is gaining anything from saying the world is round, or are they just lying for the sake of it?

Globe sellers

Its just a resentment of government. They're lying to you to control you. To hide the truth. Thats what governments do. Etc etc.

Please ask him how magnets work