The Flat Earther next door: These are the US states with highest share of conspiracy theorists, based on residents' internet search history

FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 25 August 2023 | MATTHEW PHELAN

[marktwain]

Just for curiosity, what do you think about the Hollow Earth theory?

[philman_36]

It's all part of the conspiracy ...

It's just trolling, not a conspiracy.

[philman_36]

Just for curiosity, what do you think about the Hollow Earth theory?

Nothing.

What do you think about the Hollow Earth theory?

[philman_36]

science ahead!

Bless your heart, you don't know the difference between science and scientism.

Why do you link to globe shills?

[cgbg]

Interesting article....

As usual the mass media and the mainstream scientists get overenthusiastic and blow it—but the article also shows how to properly test the issue:

https://beltoforion.de/en/flat_earth_debunking_gone_wrong/

[Magnum44]

Not to be a grammar cop, but it’s geography, not geology.

[marktwain]

When you're on a mountain do you look down to the horizon or does the horizon come up to eye level?

Neither. If the air is clear enough, the horizon expands, that is, the horizon moves away from you, if you are not impeded by terrain, say, with a mountain near an ocean. The higher you are, the further away the horizon is, limited by terrain.

Here is a simple geometric example of the phenomena.

[Magnum44]

[philman_36]

Thanks for proving my argument.

Corrected for fish eye lens.

Deception, if you don't know it's a lie!

[MD Expat in PA]

Bless your heart, you don't know the difference between science and scientism.

Why do you link to globe shills?

In other words, you want everyone else to click your links but don't want to watch mine or even attempt to debate the issue? This is why you flat Earth guys are ridiculed.

[x]

More of both, I’d say. Trying to understand earthquakes can take you pretty far into geology.

[Magnum44]

Well, that’s one reason anyway....

🙄

[philman_36]

Still just trolling, no proof of the globe.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/6jmgHfEzEkfx/

[marktwain]

What do you think about the Hollow Earth theory?

I think it is a twisted conspiracy theory based on misinterpretation of information presented by fallible humans.

However, a genius I knew was convinced of it. We all have our blind spots.

I suspect the "flat earth" is yours. Of course, the Earth looks flat locally. As you go high enough, you start seeing the curvature.

The curvature is easily measured with the instruments used in celestial navigation. Those instruments have been successfully used for centuries. They would not work on a flat earth.

As a surveyor, I am surprised you haven't read about the principles of celestial navigation.

[philman_36]

In other words, you want everyone else to click your links but don't want to watch mine or even attempt to debate the issue?

I've seen those Scientism shills. I don't need to see them again.

Debate seems to consist of scoffing, mockery and trolling.

[Magnum44]

[philman_36]

Explain to me how we can see further than mathematic
calculations show we are supposed to see?

[philman_36]

When people can’t defend the globe, BECAUSE IT CAN’T BE DEFENDED, they TROLL!

[Magnum44]

[philman_36]

As a surveyor, I am surprised you haven't read about the principles of celestial navigation.

As a surveyor I'm surprised you don't know this...

The London and Northwestern Railway forms a straight line 180 miles long between London and Liverpool. The railroad’s highest point, midway at Birmingham station, is only 240 feet above sea-level. If the world were actually a globe, however, curveting 8 inches per mile squared, the 180 mile stretch of rail would form an arc with the center point at Birmingham raising a full 5,400 feet above London and Liverpool. Adding the station’s actual height (240 feet) to its theoretical inclination (5,400 feet) gives 5,640 feet as the rail’s necessary height on a globe-Earth, more than a thousand feet taller than Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in Great Britain! ”
—David Wardlaw Scott, Terra Firma (1901)