Flat Earthers and what to do with them

Shocked, m’lady

FTFY

You surely are not crediting Snowden with exposing the Five Eyes consortium that everyone has known about dince the 1950s?

Facts are so boring. Tinfoil hat conspiracy theories are much more interesting.

Jeez.

sh'ocked

If you take a series of pictures of the moon during a lunar eclipse...

You see a nice flat circle?

How does that mesh with their dozy explanation for there is always sun over some part of the earth, I wonder? Not sure I want to go find out.

Yeah I don’t really get what they think that proves.

But then that’s true of most FE ‘proof’

Obviously another sun underneath, which we can't see because the Earth is in the way...

Ah, no, this is being touted around as anti-FE, on the basis that this shows a round silhouette of the Earth and always does. But I just checked and Flat Earthers seem to believe that there's a mysterious "shadow object" floating around out there and sometimes getting between the sun and the moon. https://www.space.com/43086-flat-earthers-explain-lunar-eclipses.html

I don't know the source of that image but gut feeling is that it's wrong, and no spiraling is going on. Someone's just composited them in to a circle for some odd reason. Also the contrast is way higher, cameras can't easily capture the light and dark bits at the same time, which already implies severe photoshopping.

I think what you get is more like this, a straight line:

I don't really think any of this proves or disproves anything else

So the moon might not be flat after all? Sad face :(

And Current thinking is it’s not made of cheese :-/

Re-posting this from the memes thread. Can’t believe people think this shit is funny like it’s some joke @Harry

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Brazil's flat Earthers to get their day in the sun: A first-ever conference in São Paulo will mark a high point for a theory that has thrived under the far-right President Bolsonaro.

Like Britain and the United States, Brazil is seeing a revival of flat Earth theory: 7% of the population – 11 million Brazilians – believe that the Earth is flat, according to the polling firm Datafolha. The poll noted believers were more likely to be religious or poorly educated.

That's extraordinary & scary.

Well, maybe the Earth is flat in Brazil. How would we know, since we live so far away?

That's a fair point. I'm quite liking the idea that only certain countries are flat, need a fun name for this theory.

On that note, I guess people from Norfolk might be more (or rather less) inclined to take the same viewpoint.

Sounds like you're off on a tangent to me...

It's all a bit of a slippery slope.

It's all going down hill.

didn't take long to descend into puns, did it?

Some of them did fall a bit flat though.

This shit is all so two dimensional.

"The Earth is flat", discus.