Flat Earth

[Salty Booger]

There was once a popular belief that the Earth was flat, that had we sailed too far, our ship would fall over the edge.

I haven't anything to add. I guess it's a reminder that things are not always as scary as they might seem.


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[Sunstone]

My tummy was once flat. But then I converted at middle age to the round tummy theory.

 

[Salty Booger]

My tummy was once flat. But then I converted at middle age to the round tummy theory.

I went from a six-pack to a pony keg.

 

[ChristineM]

My tummy was once flat. But then I converted at middle age to the round tummy theory.

Hubby has what is kindly known as a dropped chest

 

[ChristineM]

There was once a popular belief that the Earth was flat, that had we sailed too far, our ship would fall over the edge.

I haven't anything to add. I guess it's a reminder that things are not always as scary as they might seem.

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Remember, the flat earth society has branches all over the globe

 

[Sunstone]

Remember, the flat earth society has branches all over the globe

I'm sorry, Christine, but that joke fell flat with me.

 

[Salty Booger]

Remember, the flat earth society has branches all over the globe

I think they are trolling. That's my personal opinion.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

There was once a popular belief that the Earth was flat, that had we sailed too far, our ship would fall over the edge.

I haven't anything to add. I guess it's a reminder that things are not always as scary as they might seem.

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That whole flat earth thing has been around for a while. In fact, it seems it has come full circle.

 

[Sunstone]

That whole flat earth thing has been around for a while. In fact, it seems it has come full circle.

Am I the only one who is disturbed by their circular arguments?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Am I the only one who is disturbed by their circular arguments?

Well, they have to do that to level the playing field and keep their views edgy.

 

[exchemist]

There was once a popular belief that the Earth was flat, that had we sailed too far, our ship would fall over the edge.

I haven't anything to add. I guess it's a reminder that things are not always as scary as they might seem.

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This has not been the view of the educated people in society since about 500BC.

Though, since there was no mass education until quite recently, in historical terms, it may have been a popular misconception.

Any sailor would have realised the sea is curved.

 

[danieldemol]

Any sailor would have realised the sea is curved.

Believing the earth is curved is not the same as believing it is spherical necessarily though.

 

[exchemist]

Believing the earth is curved is not the same as believing it is spherical necessarily though.

That's true. Though a spherical earth was the view among at least some philosophers by the time of Pythagoras in 500BC and Eratosthenes got as far as measuring its circumference in 300BC. A spherical earth was the view by the time the Ptolemaic system came to be devised, which was the model in use through the Middle Ages.

 

[Father Heathen]

Remember, the flat earth society has branches all over the globe

Cut from the same cloth as evolution and climate change deniers.

 

[ChristineM]

Cut from the same cloth as evolution and climate change deniers.

There's one born every minute,

 

[Father Heathen]

I think they are trolling. That's my personal opinion.

As you've demonstrated, there are a lot of people who vehemently resist scientific literacy, so the existence genuine flat-earthers isn't far fetched.

 

[ChristineM]

Ok, i have just been out to top up on essentials, milk, bread etc because for some reason the shops are closed for a couple of days. During my return i got a puncture, just my luck, at least it wasn't raining. Pulled over, was kneeling down to fit the jack in position when another driver passes, shouting through his window... "Il est plat en bas seulement" (translated = It's only flat at the bottom).

Yes it's and old one but it lightened my mood.

 

[Audie]

Am I the only one who is disturbed by their circular arguments?

There has to be something in here about Mercator squaring the circle

 

[PureX]

As you've demonstrated, there are a lot of people who vehemently resist scientific literacy, so the existence genuine flat-earthers isn't far fetched.

There was a documentary on these flat Earth proponents on Netflix a while back. It was pretty interesting. There seems to be some sort of psychological thing going on. A kind of paranoid logic trap that causes people to be attracted to these weird alternative realities and to fight to maintain them. They NEED to be the 'rare visionary' that sees through the mass delusion that everyone else has fallen for.

In the documentary a group of these flat Earthers set out to PROVE the Earth was flat using a laser experiment. (They are that convinced that they're right.) And, of course, the experiment proved exactly the opposite. Yet they would not accept the results of THEIR OWN experiment. They insisted that it had somehow gone wrong, or been misinterpreted, and they began inventing possible "errors" to account for their own experiment's results. It was pretty interesting. They just couldn't accept being wrong about it. They were so deeply invested in the idea that they had the "real" knowledge while everyone else was deceived.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

There was once a popular belief that the Earth was flat, that had we sailed too far, our ship would fall over the edge.

I haven't anything to add. I guess it's a reminder that things are not always as scary as they might seem.

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Amd if the world was flat then cats would have knocked almost everything off the planet by now.