Posted on 06/30/2018 11:50:32 AM PDT by Simon Green
There's a growing number of people who seem to think the world is, in fact, flat.
But it gets better. They also insist that Australia is actually just one big hoax.
According to a viral Facebook rant, the entire country (and presumably the 24 million people that live there) is completely FAKE.
The idea resurfaced at a recent gathering of so-called Flat Earthers in Birmingham recently where over 200 people came together to confirm to each other that the Earth is nothing more than a giant pancake.
The origin of the "fake Australia" post started on Reddit back in 2017 and was written by a Shelley Floryd. But it appears to be back in the minds of the spherically-challenged at the moment.
"Australia is not real," the rant begins.
"It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again.
"It's a coverup [sic] for one of the greatest mass murders in history."
Moreover, the post reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong".
Hilariously, the pilots are apparently all in on it - and have just been flying you to parts of South America all these years.
Flat Earth theories have been shot down by just about everyone capable of rational thought, but the theory is still enjoying a current resurgence.
Over 200 conspiracy theorists gathered at a hotel in Birmingham for the UK’s first Flat Earth Convention.
The convention, which took place over three days, saw nine speakers take to the stage to explain their theory as to why the Earth is flat.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Wearing something.
When you were in Australia, how visible were Polaris and the Big Dipper? :-)
That is still guided, and allows for level flight. It just that it takes more time to do course corrections.
They weren’t - we saw the Southern Cross. Now then, tell me why the flags of Australia and New Zealand are similar but different.
I don’t know. Never really paid that much attention to them. I would like to go to either and see a completely different sky.
Dear Mr. Flight Instructor from Israel,
Do you have to keep pushing the nose of your aircraft down to maintain continuous altitude and to compensate for the curvature when the aircracft isn't on auto pilot?
Can you see the curvature along the X axis when you're following/flying the Z axis?
I check anyway.
The New Zealand flag is missing one star. Guess which one?
You should be proud. You've just shown anyone/everyone following this conversation that you're a complete moron.
The guidance is GPS and is applicable only against fixed, land targets with known GPS coordinates. Useful guidance is not possible against moving land targets or aerial targets due to the extreme speed of the projectile.
Congratulations! Well done.
Here's a link for you. I humbly submit that it's more entertaining, and quite relevant under the circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk
Yet, curiously, you don't say anything about his photo analysis, which was my whole point.
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I guess all those aircraft pulling SAC Alert in Darwin were figments of the flight crews’ imagination.
The Flat Earthers are no crazier than Men thinking they’re Women or vice versa.
Hang on, I am not nor was a pilot.
When I said I flew in and out several times, I was appointed a COMSEC courier and flew back and forth on the weekly USAF C-141 flight from Woomera to Hickam AFB Hawaii several times.
I call anyone who says Australia isn’t real full of it, but that’s all.
I do believe the Earth is spherical so yes, those who says it’s flat are crazy in my opinion.
Sue me.
kosciusko51, yes, I saw the Southern Cross, the star Canopus, and a host of brilliant stars in the sky arranged in constellations I never saw before. In the very dry desert air of the Outback, the stars are very prominent. The first thing I noticed was Orion was upside down!
They're part of The Conspiracy.
:-)
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