So some rapper who calls himself B.o.B. is on GoFundMe trying to raise money to launch satellites to prove the world is actually flat (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41399164).
One more piece of evidence that it's time to go extinct and let the dolphins have a go, we've completely wasted our sentience.
Well, he won't get any money from me. I wish him success in his quest, though, since if the world really is flat we'd best find it out soon, or our satellites may fall down!
When I was a kid we rigged up a recording to a radio of a "newsman" announcing that scientists had discovered the world to be actually flat. The guy we were fooling with believed it, too! We laughed and laughed.
When his satellites return pictures of a round earth, he'll just claim those satellites were hacked.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 26, 2017, 11:17:43 AM
Well, he won't get any money from me. I wish him success in his quest, though, since if the world really is flat we'd best find it out soon, or our satellites may fall down!
When I was a kid we rigged up a recording to a radio of a "newsman" announcing that scientists had discovered the world to be actually flat. The guy we were fooling with believed it, too! We laughed and laughed.
Isn't it ironic that you were right?!
Yeah - just lucky, I guess. And we didn't even need satellites!
Quote from: Sorginak on September 26, 2017, 11:18:51 AM
When his satellites return pictures of a round earth, he'll just claim those satellites were hacked.
How does that work, exactly? Won't the satellite prove, from several perspectives, at least an obloid spherical Earth?
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Quote from: Sal1981 on September 26, 2017, 03:55:51 PM
How does that work, exactly? Won't the satellite prove, from several perspectives, at least an obloid spherical Earth?
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Not if you chose to not 'believe' it.
Bobby-boy can believe what he likes. Science doesn't care.
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I think it's a fucking great idea. I mean, jiminy fuckin cricket...peeps who believe the world is flat will eat up photo shop and con boy?.....Cha-ching!!
Perhaps I should do the same, then a month after acquiring the funds I'll link my frivolous supporters to NASA's website. Easy way to get $$$.
I would very much love to see his reaction on seeing a satellite photo of the Western Hemisphere and another satellite's photo of the Eastern Hemisphere. Logically, he'd have to deduce that the Western and Eastern Hemispheres are on different sides of the flat Earth, and that some sort of edge must exist in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the eastern edge of the Atlantic. It'd be really easy to charter a cruise through this "edge". That or take another photo from a different region, which would show that this alleged edge doesn't exist. That evidence alone would be enough to falsify the idea of a flat Earth.
Quote from: Sal1981 on September 26, 2017, 03:55:51 PM
How does that work, exactly? Won't the satellite prove, from several perspectives, at least an obloid spherical Earth?
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Roundness is over-rated anyway. It was proven by the crew of Magellan's expedition (he didn't make it home).
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 26, 2017, 10:41:54 PM
I would very much love to see his reaction on seeing a satellite photo of the Western Hemisphere and another satellite's photo of the Eastern Hemisphere. Logically, he'd have to deduce that the Western and Eastern Hemispheres are on different sides of the flat Earth, and that some sort of edge must exist in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the eastern edge of the Atlantic. It'd be really easy to charter a cruise through this "edge". That or take another photo from a different region, which would show that this alleged edge doesn't exist. That evidence alone would be enough to falsify the idea of a flat Earth.
Politics proves that the Earth is flat (at least politically). I am still waiting for the politicians to fall off that edge ;-)
Shoot him into space, let him take a look for himself.
Then leave him up there.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 27, 2017, 08:07:25 AM
Shoot him into space, let him take a look for himself.
Then leave him up there.
Yeah, let him watch the flat earth spin under him until his brain cells that died earlier finally surrender.
Won't he be surprised to find out the Earth is really shaped like an artichoke!?
He'll be like "Oh. damn, the world isn't flat at all - it's shaped like a fookin' artichoke!"
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 29, 2017, 04:21:35 PM
Won't he be surprised to find out the Earth is really shaped like an artichoke!?
He'll be like "Oh. damn, the world isn't flat at all - it's shaped like a fookin' artichoke!"
Break out a colossal dipping bowl of hot lemon butter in that case, I know what artichokes are good for!
Artichokes have heart!
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 29, 2017, 08:03:33 PM
Artichokes have heart!
And like a Mayan, I like to reach in and rip it out--and eat it! With mayo, of course.
7 Ways to Prove the Earth Is Round (Without Launching a Satellite) (https://www.livescience.com/60544-ways-to-prove-earth-is-round.html)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 30, 2017, 08:51:16 AM
7 Ways to Prove the Earth Is Round (Without Launching a Satellite) (https://www.livescience.com/60544-ways-to-prove-earth-is-round.html)
What is proof? But yes, there was evidence even in ancient times, and the Celtic druids did believe (not know) that the world was roundish.
Quote from: Baruch on September 30, 2017, 09:46:19 AM
What is proof? But yes, there was evidence even in ancient times, and the Celtic druids did believe (not know) that the world was roundish.
The reality is that intelligent people from medieval times have known the world is round/spherical. Anyone who doubts it today enough to waste money checking it is really too dumb to deserve having any money beyond subsistence to begin with.
I suspect that actual Flat Earthers and Hollow Earthers are just contending sects of Dischordianism. Think Dada, but for geography ;-)
Quote from: Baruch on October 01, 2017, 04:26:48 PM
I suspect that actual Flat Earthers and Hollow Earthers are just contending sects of Dischordianism. Think Dada, but for geography ;-)
It is easier to think of them as just plain idiots...