The Flat Earth Society

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http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=1324.0

W1z4rd has posted this link a couple of times, but it has never been discussed or laughed at, yes maybe it's not worth discussing, but is funny as hell.(maybe should post it on the "funniest joke thread")

A couple of funnies:

Q: "Why doesn't water run off the Earth?"

A: There is a vast "ice wall" that keeps the water where it is. This explains why you can find a vast plane of ice as you travel southward. The wall is roughly 150ft high. In the McIntyre model, however, the height of the wall increases further as one moves toward the edge of the world.
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Q: "How come the travel time by air from South America to New Zealand, via the polar route, is SHORTER than the travel time going North first and then South again?"

A: The airline pilots are guided by their GPS. Remember that satellites do not exist. The replacement data given from pseudolites deliberately throwing distorting all the paths to make it the flights take different times. The curvature of these paths can add or subtract great distances without the overall turning being obvious to someone traveling it.
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Q: "When traveling in a straight direction, you will always reach the same point on the globe from where you started. How can this happen if the world is flat?"

A: You need to have evidence for this to be true. Also, define "straight." Remember, the northern point on the compass is pointing toward the center of the Earth. If you follow your compass due east or due west, ending up at the same point you started from, you have just gone around the world in a circle. Thus, circumnavigation is possible on FE.
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Q: "If you go directly south won't you eventually fall off the edge of the Earth?"

A: Yes, you will. In order to use this fact as proof you need to record a video of someone flying directly south around the world without falling off the edge. Furthermore you need to prove that your navigational equipment allows you to travel directly south without deviating.
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Q: "What about satellites? How do they orbit the Earth?"

A: Since sustained spaceflight is not possible, satellites cannot orbit the Earth. The signals we supposedly receive from them are either broadcast from towers or any number of possible pseudolites. However, temporary space-flight is possible.

Q: "What is underneath the Earth?"

A: This is unknown. Most FE proponents believe that it is generally composed of rocks. Please note that in Hinduism, the Earth rests on the back of four elephants and a turtle.
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Q: "NASA and other world space agencies have pictures of the Earth from space, and in those pictures the Earth is clearly a globe; in this day and age, hasn't it been proven beyond any doubt that the Earth is round?"

A: NASA and the rest of the world's space agencies who claim to have been to space are involved in a Conspiracy to keep the shape of the Earth hidden. The pictures are faked using simple imaging software.

Q: "Are you saying NASA had Photoshop in the 1960s?"

A: Of course not. Back then the pictures taken were of far lower quality and were likely produced using analog means.

Q: "Why has no one taken a photo of the Earth that proves it is flat?"

A: Only those connected to the Conspiracy have access to heights from which the shape of the Earth can be discerned. Also, nobody has been to the edge of the Earth and lived; conditions on the Ice Wall get increasingly treacherous the further you get out, and navigation methods become unreliable that far south. It is also possible that the Conspiracy is guarding the edge to prevent people from getting too close to the truth.

Q: "How did NASA create these images with the computer technology available at the time?"

A: NASA did not send rockets into space; instead, they spent a fraction of their funding on developing increasingly advanced computers and imaging software to cover their lies.
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Is there anyone on this forum that perhaps believe this tripe??
 
What's there to laugh at? The Earth is 6000 years old, flat and rests on 4 elephants on the back of a giant turtle, and from there it's just turtles all the way down.

The GPS is just a conspiracy designed to make money, as is gravity, wind, the laws of thermodynamics, the speed of light, the cosmological constant, absolute zero and a few other things. :D

Seriously though, these guys are class-A whackjobs.

Edit: Or the best trolls ever...
 
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Jab said:
Do they say what the purpose is of this grand conspiracy?
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Yes they do:D:D:

Q: "What is the motive behind this Conspiracy?"

A: Although their main objective can only be speculated upon, the most favored theory is that of financial gain. In a nutshell, it would logically cost much less to fake a space program than to actually have one, so those in on the Conspiracy profit from the funding NASA and other space agencies receive from the government.

Q: "If you're not sure about the motive, why do you say there is a conspiracy?"

A: Well it's quite simple really; if the Earth is in fact flat, then the space agencies must be lying when they say it isn't.

Q: "No one could possibly pull off such a conspiracy successfully."

A: Actually, they could.
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This is awesome! Ha. Everyone is lying, and the earth is flat. But they do believe in special relativity. :)

Q: "Aren't the accelerating Earth models flawed? Wouldn't planes crash into the Earth as it rises up to them?"

A: No. By the same argument, we could ask why planes do not crash into the Earth as they accelerate down towards it. The reason a plane does not crash is that its wings produce lift: when the rate of acceleration upwards equals that of gravity's pull downwards, lift causes the plane to remain at a constant altitude.

The same thing happens if the Earth is accelerating up. The plane is accelerating upwards at the same rate as the Earth, which means the distance between them does not change. Therefore, the plane stays at the same height and does not crash.

Q: "If the Earth's acceleration is constant, wouldn't it be traveling faster than light eventually?"

A: The equations of Special Relativity prevent an object with mass from reaching or passing the speed of light. Due to this restriction, these equations prove that the Earth can accelerate at a constant rate forever in our reference frame and never reach the speed of light. Click here for an in depth explanation.
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Do all these wackjobs meet every now and then to discuss this, and to make this up, I would really like to meet some of them
 
I pasted this link because blunomore and marine1 think that the moon landings were faked, so I showed them a place where everyone thinks like they do :D
 
For those who don't understand the isotopes of Anglo-Saxon humour: the Flat Earth Society is an intentional joke, and they real chuckle at those people who take them seriously. Of course everything on their website will say "this is no joke" - it's a form of irony.
 
Arthur said:
For those who don't understand the isotopes of Anglo-Saxon humour: the Flat Earth Society is an intentional joke, and they real chuckle at those people who take them seriously. Of course everything on their website will say "this is no joke" - it's a form of irony.
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Then these guys have to much time, really
 
One of the smartest people I know is part of the FE society. He joined for a laugh but even his business card states that he's a member.
 
evilstebunny said:
One of the smartest people I know is part of the FE society. He joined for a laugh but even his business card states that he's a member.
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These are smart people, they have an answer on EVERYTHING lol
 
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Skywalker42 said:
These are smart people, they have an answer on EVERYTHING lol
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My Sons Old School "Felixton College" had a member of the flat earth society give a lecture at the start of the school year approximately 10 years ago. Very entertaining evening.
 
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