Multiply
Kage in the Making 👑
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2012
- Messages
- 12,839
- Reaction score
- 1,034
Holy shit I just found a gem! Lol
These dudes genuinely believe the earth is flat. I was watching some Vsauce(Yeah, I watch Vsauce) and I saw one of his more recent videos:
[video=youtube;VNqNnUJVcVs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs[/video]
At some point in the video, he went onto a forum of flat-earth believers and I could not believe it at all. I had to Google search this. Sure enough, after searching 'is the earth flat' the first result yielded some amusement. I present to you, The Flat Earth Society.
Now you don't have to visit the site yourself. I will put a few of their arguments from their FAQs section.
How do you explain day and night cycles of a flat earth?
I personally found this hilarious.
Ya'll can't refute this logic. The earth is flat until proven otherwise.
These dudes genuinely believe the earth is flat. I was watching some Vsauce(Yeah, I watch Vsauce) and I saw one of his more recent videos:
[video=youtube;VNqNnUJVcVs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs[/video]
At some point in the video, he went onto a forum of flat-earth believers and I could not believe it at all. I had to Google search this. Sure enough, after searching 'is the earth flat' the first result yielded some amusement. I present to you, The Flat Earth Society.
You must be registered for see links
Now you don't have to visit the site yourself. I will put a few of their arguments from their FAQs section.
How do you explain day and night cycles of a flat earth?
Day and night cycles are easily explained on a flat earth. The sun moves in circles around the North Pole. When it is over your head, it's day. When it's not, it's night. The sun acts like a spotlight and shines downward as it moves. The picture below illustrates how the sun moves and also how seasons work on a flat earth:
When the sun is further away from the North Pole, it's winter in the northern hemiplain (or hemisphere) and summer in the south. A more simplistic picture can be found below.
Why doesn't gravity pull the earth into a spherical shape?
The earth isn't pulled into a sphere because the force known as gravity doesn't exist or at least exists in a greatly diminished form than is commonly taught. The earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity. Imagine sitting in a car that never stops speeding up. You will be forever pushed into your seat. The earth works much the same way. It is constantly accelerating upwards being pushed by a universal accelerator (UA) known as dark energy or aetheric wind. This acceleration does not violate physics and according to Einstein's theory of special relativity, we can accelerate forever without reaching the speed of light.
There are also other theories of flat earth thought that maintain that the earth sits on an infinite plane, with the sun moving overhead. Gravity works much like it does in a round-earth model, and the earth will never form into a sphere because the plane is endless.
What does the earth look like?
As seen in the diagrams above, the earth is in the form of a disk with the North Pole in the center and Antarctica as a wall around the edge. This is the generally accepted model among members of the society. In this model, circumnavigation is performed by moving in a great circle around the North Pole.
The earth is surrounded on all sides by an ice wall that holds the oceans back. This ice wall is what explorers have named Antarctica. Beyond the ice wall is a topic of great interest to the Flat Earth Society. To our knowledge, no one has been very far past the ice wall and returned to tell of their journey. What we do know is that it encircles the earth and serves to hold in our oceans and helps protect us from whatever lies beyond.
Here is picture of a proposed, but certainly not definitive, flat earth:
You must be registered for see images
When the sun is further away from the North Pole, it's winter in the northern hemiplain (or hemisphere) and summer in the south. A more simplistic picture can be found below.
You must be registered for see images
Why doesn't gravity pull the earth into a spherical shape?
The earth isn't pulled into a sphere because the force known as gravity doesn't exist or at least exists in a greatly diminished form than is commonly taught. The earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity. Imagine sitting in a car that never stops speeding up. You will be forever pushed into your seat. The earth works much the same way. It is constantly accelerating upwards being pushed by a universal accelerator (UA) known as dark energy or aetheric wind. This acceleration does not violate physics and according to Einstein's theory of special relativity, we can accelerate forever without reaching the speed of light.
There are also other theories of flat earth thought that maintain that the earth sits on an infinite plane, with the sun moving overhead. Gravity works much like it does in a round-earth model, and the earth will never form into a sphere because the plane is endless.
What does the earth look like?
As seen in the diagrams above, the earth is in the form of a disk with the North Pole in the center and Antarctica as a wall around the edge. This is the generally accepted model among members of the society. In this model, circumnavigation is performed by moving in a great circle around the North Pole.
The earth is surrounded on all sides by an ice wall that holds the oceans back. This ice wall is what explorers have named Antarctica. Beyond the ice wall is a topic of great interest to the Flat Earth Society. To our knowledge, no one has been very far past the ice wall and returned to tell of their journey. What we do know is that it encircles the earth and serves to hold in our oceans and helps protect us from whatever lies beyond.
Here is picture of a proposed, but certainly not definitive, flat earth:
You must be registered for see images
I personally found this hilarious.
You must be registered for see images
Ya'll can't refute this logic. The earth is flat until proven otherwise.
