http://io9.gizmodo.com/hugh-jackman-didnt-know-wolverines-were-real-animals-un-1795397482
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 May 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Here's a good headline to counter:
Austin Didn't Know Australians Were Real Robots Until After He Started Reading The Internet
― Austin, Monday, 22 May 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
Did the actor playing Hugh Jackman know Australians weren't real before he began playing one?
― jmm, Monday, 22 May 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Now you're just being silly.
Of course he did.
― Austin, Monday, 22 May 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Oh my god, this was in the related stuff on that Indy 100 link:
https://www.indy100.com/article/flat-earth-conspiracy-theorist-spirit-level-plane-prove-curvature-7746121
Fucking excellent.
― Austin, Monday, 22 May 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
I must admi t I'm not quite sure what motivates these folk s
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
Quest for truth iirc
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 16 June 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
everybody wants to feel special
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 June 2017 07:56 (six years ago) link
mainly it's the belief that the earth is flat iirc
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
Is it tied in some way to the bible or Yesus?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
wikipedia sez at least partially:
Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884). Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy, which he later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles (4,800 km) and the "cosmos" 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Earth.[7] He also published a leaflet titled "The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!", which argued that the "Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture"[8] (see Biblical inerrancy).Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace.[9][10][11] Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.[12]After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was "the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation". The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century.[13] A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901–1904, edited by Lady Blount.[14]
Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace.[9][10][11] Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.[12]
After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was "the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation". The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century.[13] A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901–1904, edited by Lady Blount.[14]
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
flat earthers, hollow earthers, sun-orbits-around-the-earthers, i love 'em all
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
how could i forget young-earthers
Is it tied in some way to the bible
not really, i am reading 12th century Biblical commentary and even in that they are lolling at flat Earthers too
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
There was an idea that the Earth must be flat or the water wouldn't flow to California.
Found it odd that my Philosophy lecturer in turn found it odd that there would be an idea that the earth might be flat before shown to be otherwise. You need an awareness of distance to come up with parallax and other proofs don't you. If you're going by sight as far as you can see stops before you register curvature.
Though the idea of a round globe heavily predates Columbus, contrary to what you hear in Primary school.
Australia takes its name from the idea of a counterweight continent to balance out the great landmass in the north dunnit? Not sure when the idea of Terra Australis first appeared though.
― Stevolende, Friday, 16 June 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/images/fb3f2d1e814190100a4ae401b1660d5b/tenor.gif
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
I mean if you say to them" ok maybe the earth is flat" so what? what happens next? teh rapture?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
just wondering what is keeping flat Earthers from embracing other antiquated worldviews. like you would think there would be a revival of Galenic/Humoral medicine. "fuck big pharma, they are hiding the truth about black bile"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
antivaxxers aren't too far off that level of delusion really
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
Columbus miscalculation was based on an underestimation of how wide the circuumference of the earth was which i think was based on a Ptolemaic calculation.I don't think people trusted massive ocean voyaging though Columbus is supposed to have followed in the wake of a cod fishery fleet. I think the discovery of the New World had a lot to do with fishing. First long term European settlements had to do with providing shelter for fishermem then provided shelter for people fleeing Europe.
& of course the Vikings had been out that way way before him, as had the Malians and the Chinese.
― Stevolende, Friday, 16 June 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
I just fell like asking"what is below flat earth? eternal dirt?
so gravity is not a force towards the centre of massive objects its just a "down" force?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
dude the earth is round but we are on the inside surface, plz keep up
― mark s, Friday, 16 June 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
or actually down
I got told that there was thought to be a force called gravity in philosophical thought way before Newton defined it. So could be a pre-Newtonian idea of the concept.
― Stevolende, Friday, 16 June 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
mid third century BC, calculated the circumference of the Earth to within a few percentage points of error
― pray for BoJo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
THE MOON IS A POTATO
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBneRdJVoAAs118?format=jpg&name=large
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 16 June 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
o shit
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
I heard about that Egyptian dude on a r4 program once, pretty astonishing work was that.
― calzino, Friday, 16 June 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
Could this be the secret of the Freemasons!?!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
my father-in-law's a mason and i'll be seeing him this weekend - i'll press him for details and let u know
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/28ipbes.png
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
'is knowledge truth?'
makes u think
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
the fully costed masons
― mark s, Friday, 16 June 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I was thinking earlier today of how airline routes prove a globe-shaped earth only to find out that there are MULTIPLE sites devoted to showing that they demonstrate a flat earth.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
https://aplanetruth.info/2016/12/03/commercial-air-flights-on-a-flat-earth-work-perfectly/comment-page-1/
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVgzk3tbl0
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
"20,000 volts running through it"
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
my problem with all these flat earth conspiracy videos is that they're all like 20 minutes long, c'mon, give me the good stuff in two minutes like the illuminati folks do
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 16 June 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
not that surprising that flat earthers aren't keeping up with the times, tbf
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
the sun just goes around in a circle above flat earth? what the f holds it in place?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
duct tape iirc
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
wait they also think the sun orbits the earth?
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Unfortunately it looks like RT has deleted the much-mocked op ed Sam Gerrans did for them last month suggesting that a round Earth is hoax / conspiracy.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
da plane pour moi
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
The earth is indeed flat, dull, stale, boring, lifeless...
― jmm, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
what the f holds it in place?
gravity/centrifugal force/big bang/celestial spheres take your pick of terminology
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
So do they think that all planets are flat or just Earth? Or do they not believe in any other celestrial bodies, do they indeed think that 'stars' are in fact stars as in the five pointed shapes?
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Friday, 16 June 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
I think they think the universe is a dome above flat earth
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 16 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
also unclear on what exactly the motives of the perpetrators of this hoax are
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
this guy's channel is ummmm pretty good. this one's got some ASMR vibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRjxQIYOj4
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
I have never seen the back of my own head with my own eyes, whose to say its there at all, I am skectipal.
― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 November 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
We are in the version of 2001 where Dave just pees on the monolith while flipping it off.
― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
i need some good sincere pro flat earth memes for a project (the more "sciency" and professional looking the better) - plz help??
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
I sometimes think the more "sciency" and professional looking ones are likely to be spoofs.
― nickn, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
That "suez canal has no locks" is a crackup. How does he think the ocean works!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 February 2019 05:17 (five years ago) link
https://steemitimages.com/DQmRRNjWxx4aZtyo24GsmuQEW9FAZsKjzcRttsCR3tem9TA/FB_IMG_1506536175486.jpg
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 28 February 2019 07:58 (five years ago) link
https://goo.gl/images/FaJ7c6
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:15 (five years ago) link
Wait, what is the flat earth explanation for night and day? In the above model, wouldn't it be sunny 24 hours a day?
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
light switch
― j., Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gpC4NVG.gif
seems plausible
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
So the sun is a directional light source. Fascinating!
― nickn, Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Kinda want to employ Karl to turn that into my next music video (just turn earth and sun into records)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
Waitamo, if that gif was accurate the sun would rise in Sydney before Melbourne.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
another question. according to the flat earth model, are the Sun and the Moon also flat?
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
Sun and the moon are on sticks coming out of the North Pole IIRC.
There’s a great flat earth documentary on Netflix right now. The funniest bits are the flat earth scientists who go out to disprove that the earth is round and keep getting clowned by physics and reality.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
A pictorial representation of the sun:
https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_1bf07f64-ee93-47c3-bb44-222992c638f9?wid=48&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg
― nickn, Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
Lol, hueg and not so hueg. It's a paradox!
I'll spare a drop of cheap scotch for limo driver, daredevil, and flat Earth conspiracy theorist Mike Hughes, who sought altitude on a DIY rocket to prove all prior geographers, navigators, physicists, space scientists, rocket pioneers, astronauts and modern world travellers wrong.
DAREDEVIL 'MAD' MIKE HUGHES DEAD AT 64 ...Fatal Rocket Crash Landing
― tetragrammaton in vain (Sanpaku), Sunday, 23 February 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
Dead Pool 2020
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 23 February 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
whatever the opposite of "daredevil" is that's how i "self-style"
― mark s, Sunday, 23 February 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
He certainly dared the devil
― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 February 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
the flat earth claims yet another victim
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 23 February 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
Good thing he didn't manage to crawl round to the underside, he'd have fallen off (is that what these clowns believe?)
― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 February 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
turtles all the way down mate
https://moviecomicswhoswho.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/splintercomics2.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 23 February 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
the video of the crash is quite distressing - looks like the parachute deployed on take off and then fell off, so once the rocket hit the top of it's rather steep arc, it just hurtled back into the ground at like 300 mph
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 23 February 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.536370043.3007/flat,550x550,075,f.u60.jpg
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Sunday, 23 February 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
:) otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 23 February 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
Not to get too tin hatty, but this sounds like the work of Big Spherical to me. Possibly in collusion with Big Darwinism. Watch your backs, my climate change denying brethren, Big Global Warming will sneak skin cancer into you when you least expect it.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 February 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the rocket launch, said Hughes, 64, was killed.“It was unsuccessful, and he passed away,” Stakes told The Associated Press. He declined further comment.
“It was unsuccessful, and he passed away,” Stakes told The Associated Press. He declined further comment.
This is what they call in the scientific community a "lose/lose."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 February 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
What a hill to die on. Desert, in this case.Mantle?
― the punk wars are over and prog rock won (Matt #2), Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
man the lengths the Globies will go to silence the opposition, you hate to see it
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
not even the best Mad Mike ffs
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
This comic was in today's funny pages, in one of those weird coincidences.https://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2020/02/23
― ☮️ (peace, man), Sunday, 23 February 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Had no idea they were already using neural networks to generate newspaper strips. It really does look almost like something a human made!
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 February 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
At any rate, this should really be a celebration of someone who died doing what he loved: engaging in reckless activities with the stated purpose of proving something deeply stupid and the implicit purpose of committing messy suicide.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 February 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
I don't have the data to back it up, but I feel like the overlap between flat earthers and Darwin award winners is pretty sizable.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Sunday, May 21, 2017 12:23 PM (two years ago)
Prophetic.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 23 February 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
whut
https://www.inverse.com/article/21098-flat-earthers-trees
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 January 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link
The flat-earth nonsense about 40 mile tall trees in that article is just a clickbait lead-in for a longer discussion about deforestation and loss of old-growth, climax forests. The proposal that 'in the Big Picture they aren't all wrong' is just the segue to keep you reading about the author's real concerns. He hopes you won't notice that he stops talking about the flat-earther idiocy that fetched you in and you'll imbibe some environmental awareness. It is a stupid rhetorical gambit that won't work nearly as well as the author hopes it will.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 13 January 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link