Flat Earth Society has members from all around the globe.
Just to point out that, despite what a lot of people strongly believe, the Moon does not move in the sky at the same speed as the Sun. So they both can be visible at once, or neither.
Well that solar eclipse I just saw would be very hard to explain if they did 🤣
Guess that could be just the government 🤣
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some people just came out and said they don’t believe in eclipses.
But the number of people that believe you can’t see the Moon during the day is enormous.
Until you see a 24 hour sun in Antarctica.
AWWWW SHIT !
CHECKMATE PLANEBRAINS!
And eclipses are fake news, and in Greenland the sun never sets all year
How do they explain airplanes taking the same time to go around a northern fixed-latitude ring and a southern fixed-latitude ring?
They have two excuses.
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Wind is pushing the planes/boats faster on the south side so they can cover more distance faster.
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They (IE: NASA or the jews or whoever “they” are today) are lying to you on how long it takes to travel on the south side. It’s a cover up, man.
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Was going to say… It’s not rocket science
The sad thing is that that’s still more sane than what they actually believe.
I was about to say that. Isn’t it something like “it just randomly travels from left to right in mid-air, but due to optical illusions it’s not visible 100% of the time”?
Something about dark energoe bending the light in a way that everything looks like the earth is round or something I don’t really know or understand it and frankly I don’t want to.
How do they explain the moon
“Clearly, the moon is fake and gay”
obligatory “gay” btw
Hey, I wrote my PhD Thesis on Gay Moon Theory.
“The Moon was created by Islamo-Communists to make Hot Blooded Americans go to sleep!!”
The moon is a sticker on the sky which is a big glass dome with holes in it. Or something like that, honestly they’re not really very consistent.
So, they aren’t exactly a monolith, different folks have different ideas. But generally speaking, they beleive all celestial bodies are basically spinning above us. I know they consider the sun to be actually really small and shockingly close to the surface. Generally the idea is the antarctic is the rim of the disk, with a giant ice wall that keeps the oceans in. Gravity is an illusion caused by the Earth constantly accelerating upwards.
What I gather from these types of conspiracy theories is a kind of logic like “what if reality is exactly as simple as it seems prima facie,” and then from that they make all kinds of pseudo-empirical conjectures based on a anecdotal reasoning.
There’s nothing wrong with going out into the weeds with your thinking and doubting everything, for a bit (as a treat). But they seem to fail to realise when their hypotheses are actually far clunkier than the established science, so they just stay out there on the fringes of reason getting wilder and more unhinged.
PS and probably there’s some racism or antisemitism driving the whole thing, even if they don’t see it.
How do they explain seasons, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, lunar phases, tides, polar nights, polar days, etc?
When you are stupid about one thing on purpose, you can be stupid about everything.
You believe in the moon? 😭🙏
now you’re thinking with portals!
There’s a guy in my town that has a massive “THE EARTH IS FLAT” sticker on the back of his car. Every time I see him I keep hoping it’s a troll, but I live in Missouri so it wouldn’t surprise me if he actually believes it.
the moon is a man made satellite base for robot pigeons, D’uh.
Well hold on. I may have just woken up, but, if earth were a disc, couldn’t the disc just be rotating and or flipping?
Edit: I am slightly more awake now and had a laugh. What if the underside of earth had stuff down there? And what if you could get down there somehow? And what if the ground were just continuous? I feel like gravity is important here. Fuckin flat earthers, man.
What if the underside of earth had stuff down there?
That’s where you get a lot of the real 🤯-tier pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
Dinosaurs and lizard people are down there. Nazis and Communists are down there. Mole people. Atlantis. The Garden of Eden. The sky is the limit.
Lmao jfc, they might as well say the undesirables
Yeah, that’s how I’ve seen them describing near-equator orbits more than once. (Back when the entire thing was an internet joke, the models were very funny.)
It’s polar orbits they have an issue with.
I’m significantly more awake and just realized this is a shitpost. The human mind is an interesting thing.
Do you still have evidence of the old posts or any of the old models of how orbits work?
There’s a comment in another thread here with a video.
This is because flat earthers don’t understand anything about science or physics or basic common sense and as a result believe the most insane things.
They spend their entire time trying to come up with increasingly convoluted ways that a flat earth could work, rather than just accepting that the simplest explanation is that, in fact, isn’t flat. Their explanation for why you can’t see mount Everest from the top of any reasonably high hill anywhere else on earth, involves throwing out all scientific thinking back to Aristotle and starting again, don’t believe in geometry or infinitely parallel lines.
According to flat earth supporters, if the earth were moving in any way at all you would feel it. Since we don’t feel any motion obviously the earth is stationary
This is why airplanes and trains are also stationary for most of the trip.
The more flat earthers talk the dumber it gets
Finally, something that makes sense. Maybe they’re right after all. /s
This might be also the way how the sun orbits according to them
Flat earth theory is that earth is a pancake (must sit on turtles all the way down) where north pole is at center and antartica on the edge.
They say that sun and moon just make circular patterns above the pancake, but that is still impossible as the sun and moon would still always be visible if it is just further away from your spot, and the sunrise/sunset dynamic can no longer happen. Even if you change it to a dome shaped pancake, to get some hiding of the sun, then southern hemisphere no longer has predictable daytimes.
Diehard Discworld fans I see…
Umm… No. There are tons of totally flat disc shaped objects that look mostly the same except have different sized bites missing because of that giant baby in the sun, and they all drift by one at a time.
The baby can’t grab them to finish eating because it doesn’t have arms. Just that giggling face.
