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The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us
narcberry writes "The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: 'Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration — where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars — no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat? Wrong. Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the 'conspiracy' that the Earth is round.'"
Cue the Turtles
Dual Century Programming: Yeah I know
You just wait until we adjust the curriculum to reflect reality.
The roundists have been spreading their lies for far too long.
And time is cubic!
Would you like a slice of toast?
Personally, I believe the earth is flat. I also do believe that the Internet is a myth. The Internet was created in an instantaneous moment when an Eliza program on a BBS gained self-recognition. What you read, right now, is really just this Eliza application that is creating exactly what you want to see. Since the software has gained so much knowledge, it is giving you the impression that you're actually talking to others, when in fact you're not.
The dilemma is whether or not I am real, or if I am just another creation of Eliza, the creator of all things web. You should be impressed that Eliza has taken such a strangehold on your life: forums do not really exist other than your own posts, and neither does FTP or ssh. All are just creations that Eliza has performed for you, and only you.
Makes you change your stance on how much time you're spending on slashdot with "us," doesn't it?
From the Flat Earth Society Forums:
"News: The Flat Earth Society forums are back up! I apologise for the downtime. The problem has been resolved and won't happen again...."
Far from the several thousand kilometres of flat earth, comes the slashdot effect. Expect downtime again.
How does believe the earth is flat make you feel?
SCA is just LARPing, only slightly more insane.
If you can't immediately [fnord] see it happening under your nose, it must be a [fnord] conspiracy. Flat earth, evolution, black holes, nanotechnology... all conspiracies.
I piss off bigots.
The earth is round, just like a pancake.
Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that Flat Earthers have the ability to get laid?
I have written a truly remarkable program which this sig is too small to contain.
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The Earth is flat, just within a curve space. Oh snap! Did I just blow your mind!
Sometimes I wonder if the creationists are an elaborate parody too. Have you ever heard their arguments?
I believe that the we're the ones who're living on the inside of the earth. The outside of the earth doesn't really exist though; instead what regular science considers to be the centrepoint of the earth is actually the very edge of the universe. Although if I bother reading your link a similar proposal is discussed there (attributed to Martin Gardner), but my link's to the site of a guy titled the Wizard of New Zealand, so it's probably more reliable than Wikipedia.
Look out!
Flat and round earthers can live together in harmony. The earth is both flat and round. Just like a pizza.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
This flat earth nonsense is easy to disprove. Just get an illustrated bible and look at Genesis. The Earth is clearly round in many modern editions that I have seen. They'd probably get around it by claiming that those versions of the bible were reinterpreted by human beings and different from other versions of the bible. Yeah right, that logic would prove that every existing bible is false. But that's just how whacky a flat-earther can be.
Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.
I love these guys because they will never, ever admit to the joke
It's like going to a Star Trek convention and talking to someone dressed up as Spock. He will never, ever, break character for the entire weekend.
Maybe not even after going home but that's between him and his mother.
Pffft! That's nothing. There are still 9/11 Truthers left! And they believe that fire can't melt steel!
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
The current land-speed record is a fraction over mach 1. Admittedly, this involved a bus only insofar as said bus provided a means for journalists and mechanics to reach the site, but it does mean that the tire argument alone is insufficient. The current land-speed record for a television journalist is over 300 mph, but he did indeed suffer a tire blowout. His survival and continued career, despite massive head injuries, does however prove that you don't need brains to be a TV celebrity.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Okay, but let's see this in the perspective of a flat earth as they call it. In fact the earth isn't flat our round(ish). It has it's own unique dimensional system. The Round Earth theory is made by the New World Order government (USA, 'former' USSR, China, Japan and the EU) after they discovered this Earth-specific dimension system.
This system is so complex, it's ungraspable for most of mankind, but that would lead to the realization by us proles that we're not as smart as we think we are, reducing our level of self-confidence to that of the non-NWO countries (the cheap labour slaves). So they invented the Round Earth theory by providing (manipulated) pictures of a round earth, all made by combining photo's taken from hot air balloons. Steve Fossett had a big role in this project, but about one year ago he had some personal issues with some of the conspiracists and he threatened to write a book about the true shape of the earth.
They also provide 'pictures' of other round planets, just to let us believe that there are more round planets and that it's a perfectly normal thing for a planet to be round.
But as I said, the truth is as good as ungraspable. There are all sorts of complexities involved. The teleport from one end to another, for example. It prevents people from falling off the earth (but it also (still) prevents us from knowing what's underneath the earth). It's easily exploited to cross the pacific ocean from Japan to the USA, for example. This teleport-thing also makes it possible to strenghthen the Round Earth theory.
And what to think of the amazingly complex gravitational system that puts us on the earth and manages to move the sun, moon and stars in predictable yet complex ways? They just recently started to understand this system and made use of it to place satellites in 'orbit' without falling down (how else do you think that satellites always stay on the same place? By moving just exactly as fast as the earth? Impossible. They're just hanging there in the flat, static sky).
It's exactly those people that managed to analyze the inner workings of the teleport and made their own teleports and placed them in populated areas around the world, calling them 'Airports'. They attached bird-like wings to the buses that bring people to the teleports, just to make them believe they were going to fly through the air. In fact, the plane doesn't come off the ground, it's just replaced with a laser projected version while the real bus ('plane') is taxied to the teleport to be teleported to another 'Airport'. The windows are in fact hi-res screens. The current system is still pretty slow though (but a lot faster than boats and trains!), but in the future it will allow us to be teleported to anywhere in the world in seconds. Maybe even with a pocket 'aeroplane', but that won't be released to the public before they find a way to masquerade it as something that fits in the Round Earth theory.
Oh, and btw, the Flat Earth Theory is made by the same conspiracists, just to give the non-believers something else to believe in.
No, the lunar eclipse happens when God plays frisbee and the frisbee flies across the disc moon that floats above our discworld!
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Science and Religion ARE compatible!
They've been around for a while now though; shouldn't they be at least Middle-Aged Earth creationists by now?
Would you like a slice of toast?
I was talking to a hard core Mormon neighbor the other day when he started to pressure me to his views, at which point I smacked him with fact. his response was to quote Nietzsche, "Faith is not wanting to know what is true." in support of his ridiculous beliefs. The only appropriate response I could think of was to grab my crotch and proposition him, worked like a charm, now they cross the street when they see me.
People want to be stupid and believe fantasy, it helps them cope with things that are beyond them, look at the 9-11 truth movement. Anyone, even Scientists, who try to shield their beliefs or theory's from scrutiny should be instantly slapped.
And the fossils are like pepperoni slices that God topped his pizza with to test our faith. It all adds up.
I think I have found in you a kindred spirit!
P.S. Wanna fuck?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Jezza, is that you?
Flappinbooger isn't my real name
That is certainly no surprise. A large part of the people who work in IT support are the kind of people who confuse familiarity with computers with intelligence.
There is no light. The Sun sucks dark. In fact it sucks dark so hard that the friction of the dark moving to the Sun causes the Sun to be very hot. The flow of dark towards the Sun interrupted by the Earth causes the side of the Earth away from the Sun to accumulate dark, thus causing Night. As the Earth rotates the dark caught on the night side can then be pulled off, this causing the absence of dark known as Day.
What we call light bulbs are truly dark suckers as well. That is why light bulbs are hot, just like the Sun. When a light bulb is full of dark and won't suck dark any more, it cools off. If you look in old light bulbs you can even seen the accumulation of dark.
Dark is also heavier than water. This can be seen in the oceans where the deeper you go the darker it gets.
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Are you suggesting we all live on a disc? And what carries this disc? Next, you'll say something ridiculous like "the disc is balanced on the back of four elephants who in turn are carried by a giant turtle".
That's so silly I bet you couldn't even write a good fantasy story about it.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
So God is a cat? Why, now everything makes so much sense!
using the bible to disprove the flat earth theory is like using spaghetti monsters to disprove unicorns.
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