Yeah, after arguing with one of the "popular" ones a few months ago I just realized they have a few screws missing.
I tried to bring up magnets and earth's polarity and the dumbass said " the magnetic field is positive in the center and the edge is all negative."
And I think the guy that was with him on the stream said that magnets aren't real and that a compass is us misinterpreting a different force as a magnetic force.
I just can't even think. This guy came up with something that not only was testable with a fucking fridge magnet, but also that makes literally no sense.
Edit: Just went to a flat earth forum to read about how they would react to the new SpaceX launch, one of the mods posted a picture of the earth and the tesla roadster in response to someone who didn't know what happened, where the earth is shown almost completely, and the only continent visible is Africa right smack dab in the center. I giggled.
Edit2: am reading about how they think we stay on* the ground without floating away, top response was universal acceleration, so we are constantly getting* flung through space faster and faster. By their math we are traveling at a magnitude of light speed that is difficult to even write on paper.
Edit: repeated instead of giving the other guy's response.
If scientific knowledge was a modular language built on ever smaller pieces, flat earthers would be the ones who didn't learn the letters or their pronunciation but are intent on discovering the meanings of entire novels. They can't resolve their quest without stepping away from it to learn the basics, yet they refuse to step away until they're finished with the larger task.
Fact: If you take a real compass and put it side-by-side with a homemade compass in an experiment, they'll both point in the same direction. This is because the government controls all water molecules and every metal that's pointy enough to work as a compass needle.
To believe in a flat earth, their minds must be so sealed off against contrary ideas and other authorities, experts, and sources of information that they might as well be wearing an airtight bag over their head.
Life is just too fucking short to actively feel anything about these kind of people. As long as they're keeping to themselves and not pushing it onto others (like insisting that it's taught at schools or something) that aren't interested then good for them.
Id like to see someone think the earth is flat, and then slowly start thinking well maybe its shaped more like a contact lense, and eventually just end up back at sphere.
Don't worry. I was told never reaching the edge by walking in a straight line is possible because north is the center. So you go around the equator in a circle on a disk because we orient with a compass to the north. What about orientation to the south? These people are retarded.
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u/bubbleberry1 Feb 07 '18
Looks like a flat disk to me.
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