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The truth is, the earth is flat and stationary/non-moving (video proof from independent people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OfbwhU5PQk). Why are the world's oceans perfectly horizontal and FLAT? We don't live on a fake ball earth spinning at a supersonic speed of over 1000 mph. NASA flood the internet and mainstream media with CGI images of a fake ball earth. We never went to infinite space, it doesn't exists. We never went to the Moon, and we never went to Mars, because they are NOT solid objects, they are celestial lights. Why can't we freely explore Antarctica and the North Pole? Because they don't want us to discover that there is more unexplored land that they never told us about in school (video proof from independent people: https://i.imgur.com/8nVlHKA.jpg)

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...just a hit & run troll. Remember our equivalent: NASALies?

Because the fact is, that's the only 'Truth' contrarians such as this... thing have: Lies.

Reality destroys 'Opinions': certainly those to the contrary.

The oceans aren't flat. You can literally see the curve of the horizon as you look out to sea. Likewise, you can see different constellations in the sky depending on what time of the year it is.

Why are the world's oceans perfectly horizontal and FLAT?

…They aren’t. Hell, you don’t even need NASA images of Earth from outer space to prove this, some photos taken from a high enough altitude clearly show a curving horizon. So, yeah.

AlaskaTH: “We live in a DEMOCRACY, don’t we? So noone gets to call ME stupid!! My conjecture is at least as valid as the so-called experts’ so-called knowledge!!!”

“Why are the world's oceans perfectly horizontal and FLAT?"

If they’re flat, why does the Navy put their lookouts as high as possible? I mean, why can you literally see more of the ocean from the top of an aircraft carrier than you can from the deck of a submarine?

Why can we see mountains before we see the foothills, even though the foothills are closer?

Bear Lake, border of Idaho and Utah. Standing on the beach on one side, you can’t see the beach on the other side. But if you climb up the shore a ways, you eventually can see the far beach, even though it’s now farther away.

Model this convincingly if you can.

Yeah, not going to watch a 1½ hour video of nonsense, thanks.

We don't live on a fake ball earth spinning at a supersonic speed of over 1000 mph.

I don’t know if they used this particular example in the video in question, but one thing they like to do is spin a wet object really fast and “see the water fly off? no oceans!” What they’re missing is that it’s not the speed, it’s the rate of rotation. The Earth completes a rotation every 24 hours, which is really slow. Your spinning object completes a rotation in a fraction of a second. There are some things where the actual speed of rotation matters, like how much it causes the equator to bulge. But the effect is very slight when it comes to counteracting gravity.

@Zinnia #160200

Not to mention that the Earth isn’t directly on the surface of an object with massively more gravity, like any example object they would use is

@Chloe #160179

Exactly!! I made up a joke (probably really stupid lol) about how the Twin Towers were actually destroyed by flat earthers because you could actually see the curvature of the earth from the top floors on a clear day.

@Yutolia #160211

Eh, makes just as much sense (if not more so) as most conspiracy theories pushed by those just as inane as flat earthers…

Explain the Coriolis effect and the satellites.

Why can't we freely explore Antarctica and the North Pole?

Because those are extremely hostile and even more extremely isolated from any help expanses where things can go awry even if you are a well-equipped and experienced expedition - let alone a total idiot who denies the fundamentals of geography!

And you're really preaching that nonsense on RationalWiki? Poe, perhaps? This reminds me of extreme reality denial like holographic universes and the "omphalos" doctrine where the universe might have been created yesterday but strangely with an impression of deep time that'd only be an illusion. To sustain such requires incredible ignorance of basic science. If you've really discovered something awesome and new questioning some important scientific tenets, relevant scientific journals exist for others to peer review and assess your material. It's obvious why you're using the propaganda method instead of the scientific method.

@Malingspann #160189

AlaskaTH: “We live in a DEMOCRACY, don’t we? So noone gets to call ME stupid!! My conjecture is at least as valid as the so-called experts’ so-called knowledge!!!”

Which sounds closer to populism, if they manage to really make enough people believe it or legally enforce doctrines, while denying all the contradicting evidence recalling to reality...

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A shot of power lines over Lake Ponchartrain in Louisana, USA. You can literally see the curvature of the Earth right there.

@TheKingOfRhye

When James May destroyed his nickname 'Captain Slow' by driving a Bugatti Veyron at Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track, which has a 5.5 mile straight where - despite being absolutely flat for obvious reasons, speed-wise - one can see the curvature of the Earth. Also:

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US Army/Marine gunnery crews of the M-777 Howitzer - while requiring a forward observation post to let them know of targets & determining hits of such - require calculations of trajectories of the 155mm rounds they fire which include wind speed, air temperature, and curvature of the Earth: omitting one of these factors guarantees they'll miss the target.

So when a former presenter of "Top Gear" can obliterate the Flat Headers' entire 'argument', those who operate a cannon made by BAe Systems erase such from existence.

When it comes to normal, sane people accepting facts, Contraritards' 'Opinions' don't stand a chance against Reality.

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