Posted on 05/13/2018 3:38:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When asked that question, flatties never provide a straight answer. You'll get some of the weirdest evasions you ever heard.
Try asking them to explain why we see the phases of the moon. Same thing.
“Try asking them to explain why we see the phases of the moon.”
That’s easy. The moon is flat also but it stands on its end vertically and spins like a coin. LOL
Willful stupidity on display. Harmless now, who knows in the future.
I understand that there is no evidence that Flat Earth was ever a widely accepted believe. Evolutionists used it as a straw man argument to ridicule their opponents.
It’s likely that there are more people who believe in Flat Earth today due to internet conspiracy videos than there ever were in the past.
well played
I think you'll be proven wrong. Where's Columbus' fourth ship?
Actually the name of the 4th ship was “The Saucy Saracen”. Her crew didn’t sail over the edge, they started the first Sandals resort in the Bahamas.
I read Ars Technica as often as I read FR. It definitely is quite left-leaning. The discussion threads are echo chambers where dissenting opinions are shouted down.
The discussion thread on this particular article is full of folks straining to not offend the flat earth pricks
Yes, they are us but, the opposite. Occasionally one falls through a hole and winds up on our side when deep oil rigs, mines, and children “digging to China” go too far. If you ever meet one you can identify them by their stubby little goatees and pointy eyebrows.
More recently though, the flat earthers Im seeing are either much better actors or they actually seem to believe this stuff.
Because its "a conspiracy" they always seems to get lumped with or at least implied that they are part of the conservative movement. I have to wonder if as of late these new flat earthers arent some kind of effort to try to make us look bad.
On it’s way out of the solar system?
Morningstar?
My question was an attempt at a Liberal’s premise. ;)
While flat-Earthers seem to trust and support scientific methods, what they don’t trust is scientists, and the established relationships between “power” and “knowledge.”
Can’t argue with that..........................
BUT, it means different things to different people. I actually agree with liberals some times, but very much disagree on the HOW of addressing the problem.......
bump for that most excellent graphic.
The “flat earth” conceit is equivalent to the idea that the earth is round but the radius is infinite. The really funny thing is that the ancient Greeks estimated the diameter of the earth quite well.<b><font color=red></sarcasm></font></b> The “Flat Earth theory” myth refuted: De mensura Orbis terrae (hey, it’s a learned treatise from the Middle Ages - what, you thought it would be written in modern English???).
We are heavily biased by the geographical knowledge we grew up learning, and can’t unknow. But if you think about it, Columbus’ westward voyage got desperately short of supplies before making landfall. Imagine what would have happened to it if there had been no land between the Canary Islands and Asia!! The conclusion is that if you were in Queen Isabella’s court and had a reasonably good estimate of the diameter of the earth, you would have told the queen that his proposal was a suicide mission, doomed to toal loss of ships and crews.
It wasn’t that the people Columbus sought to sponsor his expedition thought that the earth’s diameter was infinite, and rejected it on that basis - it was that Columbus’ proposal grossly underestimated the diameter of the earth. It wasn’t prudent counselors who were wrong, Columbus’ proposal itself was wrong - and internally inconsistent. It was inconsistent in that since both his point of origin and his point of destination were in the Northern Hemisphere (and all knew it, especially Columbus himself) the Great Circle Route would not have run straight west but would have arced very much toward the north.
I asked because I wanted to know where you were coming from
A true scientist deals in data. The fact that you currently have SJW diddling the data is not about power or knowledge. It is about lying
Okay, I'll bite. Assuming you're implying Columbus had a fourth ship that fell off the edge of the earth, then the ship would be wherever water goes that falls off the edge of the Earth.
Where does the water go that falls off the edge of the earth?
Where does replacement water come?
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