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.
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Call ghostbusters!
“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.
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.
Yes, but the latter circle keeps running aground.
Not if you maintain your distance.
You will definitely pick that up on radar and if you run into that you shouldn't be captaining a ship.
What? Brought back into view with a camera? How exactly does a camera do that?
Of course NASA cant reveal this stuff otherwise the real secret about the moon could get out. Flat earthers know the truth about the moon. We didnt 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.
Hey, it makes just as much sense as Flat Earth.
“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.
Here's a nice photo of the clearly spherical Earth taken during Apollo 8:
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.
Not sure about the edge of the universe, but I hear there is a very nice restaurant at the end of the universe.
Shorter not smaller. Try that with a ball and a single light source.
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.
“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.
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
Because the moon is ball.
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