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Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right.
Live Science ^ | 3/22/2019

Posted on 06/19/2019 11:08:33 AM PDT by Gamecock

Organizers of an annual conference that brings together people who believe that the Earth is flat are planning a cruise to the purported edge of the planet. They're looking for the ice wall that holds back the oceans.

The journey will take place in 2020, the Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) recently announced on its website. The goal? To test so-called flat-Earthers' assertion that Earth is a flattened disk surrounded at its edge by a towering wall of ice.

Believers in a flat Earth argue that images showing a curved horizon are fake and that photos of a round Earth from space are part of a vast conspiracy perpetrated by NASA and other space agencies to hide Earth's flatness. These and other flat-Earth assertions appear on the website of the Flat Earth Society (FES), allegedly the world's oldest official flat Earth organization, dating to the early 1800s.

Whether or not the FEIC cruise will rely on GPS or deploy an entirely new flat-Earth-based navigation system for finding the end of the world, remains to be seen.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; feic; fes; flatearthsociety; itsatroll; whataretheirfrnicks
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To: Jonty30

Call ghostbusters!


81 posted on 06/19/2019 5:15:33 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Sioux-san

“it just those wacky Christians who believe this? “

That’s the idea of this hoax. Smear conservatives as lunatics. Equate not buying global warming or other leftist proposed Eco disasters with flat earth.

I read further and see you are quite insane or else one of the hoaxers.


82 posted on 06/19/2019 5:21:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Gamecock
Its been decades since l last saw a reference to Deros. Thanks for the reminder.
83 posted on 06/19/2019 6:34:40 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Gamecock
Whether or not the FEIC cruise will rely on GPS or deploy an entirely new flat-Earth-based navigation system for finding the end of the world, remains to be seen.

All you have to do is record the orders to the helm.

Keep the land to port and if you always steer to starboard you're going in a circle.

If you keep the land to port and you always steer to port you get a different circle.

84 posted on 06/19/2019 8:07:05 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Yes, but the latter circle keeps running aground.


85 posted on 06/19/2019 8:12:05 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr
Yes, but the latter circle keeps running aground.

Not if you maintain your distance.

It's a pretty high ice wall!

You will definitely pick that up on radar and if you run into that you shouldn't be captaining a ship.

86 posted on 06/19/2019 8:23:46 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: dp0622
So many believe in “man made climate change”

Yep. I am beginning to believe Brawndo is real and Idiocracy is a documentary.
87 posted on 06/19/2019 8:40:20 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: itsahoot

What? Brought back into view with a camera? How exactly does a camera do that?


88 posted on 06/19/2019 9:48:45 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Sioux-san
“However, NASA could shut it all down if they had the proof everyone thinks they do. How about some actual photos of the spherical earth if we actually did go to the moon 240,000 miles away or Mars at 35 million miles. “

Of course NASA can’t reveal this stuff otherwise the real secret about the moon could get out. Flat earthers know the truth about the moon. We didn’t land on it because the moon is made of cheese. The moon was once a giant cheeseball sitting in the middle of the flat earth.

89 posted on 06/19/2019 10:08:52 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Hey, it makes just as much sense as Flat Earth.

90 posted on 06/20/2019 12:24:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: libertylover
That's what I always want to know when they talk about the edge of the universe.


91 posted on 06/20/2019 7:51:46 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: itsahoot

“No they haven’t...”

Yes, they have. There are countless videos on youtube devoted to addressing every point they bring up, both by scientists and laymen.

“Show me any place in the universe that an object produces a shadow smaller than itself”

Sure. Go measure the length of your shadow ten minutes before or after noon, then compare it to your height. It will be smaller.


92 posted on 06/20/2019 7:55:25 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DouglasKC; Sioux-san
Re: digital photography and photos of the Earth, there actually are real photographs of the Earth from the moon, since they did take film cameras with them on Apollo missions.

Here's a nice photo of the clearly spherical Earth taken during Apollo 8:


93 posted on 06/20/2019 8:04:31 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: philman_36

Really, to prove their Flat Earth hypothesis, all they need to do is start sailing east or west along the Equator without turning. If they eventually hit the artic or antartic, then their hypothesis is proved. If they stay on the equator and never reach the arctic, then their hypothesis is disproven.


94 posted on 06/20/2019 8:06:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Svartalfiar

Not sure about the edge of the universe, but I hear there is a very nice restaurant at the end of the universe.


95 posted on 06/20/2019 8:08:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Sure. Go measure the length of your shadow ten minutes before or after noon, then compare it to your height. It will be smaller.

Shorter not smaller. Try that with a ball and a single light source.

96 posted on 06/20/2019 10:25:12 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: precisionshootist
What? Brought back into view with a camera? How exactly does a camera do that?

Go look at them and see for yourself, then you will know. Of course it may be that the light bends over the horizon by gravity and all you need is cool telescope to see forever.

Ever look down a railroad track? We are limited on what we see by many factors but perspective is a big one.

97 posted on 06/20/2019 10:31:36 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot

“Shorter not smaller”

Shorter IS smaller, just smaller in only one dimension. Unless your shadow is getting wider at the same time it is getting shorter, then shorter=smaller.

“Try that with a ball and a single light source.”

Why? I’ve already given you the example that you asked for. You just want to move the goalposts now.


98 posted on 06/20/2019 12:35:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

The signs leading up to it say ...

Next stop is the last stop;
Moebius this ain’t.
Shop around then take back home
the shaving soap of saints.
Burma Shave


99 posted on 06/20/2019 1:14:47 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Boogieman
Why? I’ve already given you the example that you asked for. You just want to move the goalposts now.

Because the moon is ball.

100 posted on 06/20/2019 2:08:49 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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