Flat Earthers and what to do with them

Definitely chilling in Antarctica.

Flat earth theory is ridiculous.

Hollow earth theory is ridiculous.

What, however, is entirely true is INFINITE CONE SUN THEORY!

http://razstar.brinkster.net/goaste/infiniteconesunsocietystatement.html

2 The flat base of the Cone Sune is finite, obviously. Also it is 1,000,837,382,289,000,000,000,182,001 light years in diameter

That final 1 is very important

Hahaha, oh wait, this gets better

4 Inside the Infinite Cone Sun are an infinite number of slightly smaller Infinite Cone Suns

Yeah, because otherwise it'd seem like a made up approximation.

I'll pass on the love, thanks!

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).

I think your latter point is the most important, with other fake remedies, people will beg, steal, and borrow to afford them, even though they are a waste of time, but with crystals the relative low cost of trying them almost makes them have no harm. However, I think the risk with that is the longer they are in a sphere of influence, the more likely people are to believe in their (non-existent) power, and the risk of someone trying crystals instead of seeking help from a real doctor grows. That is unacceptable, and there are plenty of flat earth style believers in this quackery who are trying to stop people taking real medicine and trust their lives in fucking crystals.

I had an Uber driver that was a "scientist", and he was working for these guys.

Gave me his business card and invited me to Doncaster for a weekend of lectures... Got him to drop me round the road from my house so he didnt know where i stayed, it was the longest taxi ride of my life.

The Infinite Cone Sun was created 373,299,293,383,374,557 years ago, on a planet inhabited by warmish space oxen. Their race was destroyed by a war

Riiiiight

14 The moon is also an infinite cone. During a solar eclipse, it stops being infinite for the duration of the eclipse

Convenient

18 The Chairman of The Infinite Cone Sun Society is Ron Bowers. In his spare time, Ron Bowers hunts ghosts

Naturally

He has to get a separate colleague to bust them.

Supernaturally

If you think Flat Earthers are bad, just wait until you meet some Round Earthers.

Man alive that is bad, even for you!

Hahaha. Awful.

5 The Infinite Cone Sun was created 373,299,293,383,374,557 years ago, on a planet inhabited by warmish space oxen. Their race was destroyed by a war

Specific on the time line but the space oxen are only 'warmish'

My mate Binesh believes. Utterly. Not flat earth though.

In case you haven't worked it out, the page is intended to be silly.

Stick them all on a boat and set sail from LA and head West stopping off at a number of recognisable destinations along the way, passing over the North of Australia, Cape Town and then South of the Falklands. Then sail back up the West coast of South America back to LA. Thus proving the world is in-fact a sphere.

If the world is indeed flat then they will undoubtedly sail straight off the edge and swiftly meet their disc lord maker (or whatever it is they believe in). Alternatively we could just maroon them all on Antarctica and see how long they last, or you know, just kill them in the face with fire.

Sort of like this trip?
What would that prove?

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That the world is a disc obvs, jeez

It can't be flat because the cats would have pushed everything off the edge

I just came here to post this as the only rational response and I'm glad that its already been made

The other, slightly more useful response I'll add is to plug my favorite book;
The Universe: from Flat Earth to Quasar
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universe-Earth-Quasar-Isaac-Asimov/dp/038001596X

It explains in fairly simple logic, the step by step deduction that gets you from flat Earth to 60s Science. It gets a bit complicated past Hubble and the 30s, but up till then it is really straight forward (considering), and a great read

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.

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.

Did any of them wave at you? See, it's all fake!

#CSB time I saw 2001 at Somerset House a number of years ago, and entirely coincidentally the ISS passed over head as the scene of the shuttle docking with the space station played, was pretty great timing!

I would imagine they (crystals) could also act as a gateway drug of sorts - people get desperate because of a disease, and think "oh, they're cheap, what's the worse that could happen ...", but that false hope+belief could easily transfer over to harder drugs in terms of quackery

much rep

I loved this book as a kid, so you'll have a hard time persuading me the earth isn't flat: