Flat earth

Only once a year?

Saw that and couldn’t decide if they were genuine or some U.S. citizens had discovered they can do irony and were taking the piss.

A “disc” ? Wow !

I thought it was a square.......”the four corners of the Earth....”

Five Live interviewed one of the blokes from this organisation on the radio last night.

He claims we live in a sort of snow globe - a flat disc (obviously quite a deep disc) enclosed by some sort of barrier. The antarctic wraps around and keeps all the water (oceans) in. He didn't actually say what shape it is.

The entire space programme is a fiction from US / USSR to keep the true story quiet.

They say that since this is true, the whole thing was created by some other (clearly) external force / deity / race.

Bonkers?

Gavin I also listened on five live to it and did think the presenter was quite easy going about the flat earth views.

It does seem a bit far fetched to me - but who knows ?

Um, we do know.

JamieWednesday posted:

Um, we do know.

I certainly hope so, otherwise the spherical trigonometry I learnt and practiced whilst studying Astronomy at University was all for nothing. 

Hang on a minute though, I'm pretty sure I haven't used spherical trigonometry since I left University, so perhaps it was a waste of time after all, and after all it was a long time ago? 

Maybe it was all a con trick and Terry Prachett was right all along?

Seriously, like you, I reckon that quite a few of the people in the interview may indeed have discovered irony. However, there are almost certainly an unfortunate few, possibly those who rely on Breitbart, Trump or Wikopedia, (sorry Richard) who genuinely do believe.  

Do I dare also broach the subject of the 6000 year old earth vs the 4.5 million year old earth?

Is the flat earth 6000 or 4.5 million years old?

I read somewhere that the Flat Earth Society has members all over the globe.

intothevoid posted:

I read somewhere that the Flat Earth Society has members all over the globe.

I'm sure it does.

There's two sides to this flat earth theory...............

Scientists and cyber philosophers have put up the speculation that our complete understanding of reality is none other than virtual programming by some higher intelligent aliens. We and what we know is some ultimate hologram confection.

Perhaps a flat earth dome paperweight for some high ranking super being.

This reminds me of the Alternative Prospectus written by students, at my university. Under the entry for the Geography Dept there was a cartoon of a lecturer welcoming a first year. On the desk sat a globe. It was a cube.

I suppose the theory could provide a definitive answer to one of life's great questions...

Do I dare also broach the subject of the 6000 year old earth vs the 4.5 million year old earth?

Is the flat earth 6000 or 4.5 million years old?

I think you mean 4.54 +_ 0.5 Billion years for the age of the Earth

Steve

Yes, I did mean ~4.5 billion years, not million. 

Slip of the keyboard (or the brain).

Of course, I could always start a new cult centred around a 4.5 million year old earth.

By the way, does anyone live on the other side of our flat Earth? I guess that's a daft question - they would simply fall downwards, wouldn't they?

Hmack posted:

Yes, I did mean ~4.5 billion years, not million. 

Slip of the keyboard (or the brain).

Of course, I could always start a new cult centred around a 4.5 million year old earth.

By the way, does anyone live on the other side of our flat Earth? I guess that's a daft question - they would simply fall downwards, wouldn't they?

We all do !

Gravity acts upwards on us ! It's the Earth's gravity that acts downwards - 'cos it's heavier !

...........oh !

....and the Universe IS  flat.

It got flattened at the last Big Bounce.

Don Atkinson posted:

Hmack posted:

Yes, I did mean ~4.5 billion years, not million. 

Slip of the keyboard (or the brain).

Of course, I could always start a new cult centred around a 4.5 million year old earth.

By the way, does anyone live on the other side of our flat Earth? I guess that's a daft question - they would simply fall downwards, wouldn't they?

We all do !

Gravity acts upwards on us ! It's the Earth's gravity that acts downwards - 'cos it's heavier !

Ah, but do those in the Flat Earth believe in the laws of Gravity?

Surely our conventional laws of gravity would be incompatible with the concept of a flat earth, otherwise the flat earth would very quickly become a sphere, and we can't have that, can we?

Hmack posted:

Don Atkinson posted:

Hmack posted:

Yes, I did mean ~4.5 billion years, not million. 

Slip of the keyboard (or the brain).

Of course, I could always start a new cult centred around a 4.5 million year old earth.

By the way, does anyone live on the other side of our flat Earth? I guess that's a daft question - they would simply fall downwards, wouldn't they?

We all do !

Gravity acts upwards on us ! It's the Earth's gravity that acts downwards - 'cos it's heavier !

Ah, but do those in the Flat Earth believe in the laws of Gravity?

Surely our conventional laws of gravity would be incompatible with the concept of a flat earth, otherwise the flat earth would very quickly become a sphere, and we can't have that, can we?

....it would be a complete "balls-up"..........

....science would never be insane again

http://www.sciencealert.com/ma...-prove-earth-is-flat

I wonder if the flat-earth people believe the sun is flat as well.  In fact, is anything truly spherical?  It's all very confusing.  The fact that anything at all exists, from atoms with Naim written on them, flat or otherwise, to supernovas, defies all logic known to humankind.  The existence of matter cannot be explained.  The shape of it is less of a mystery, though perhaps is perspective dependent.  Those debating whether the earth is flat need to start thinking out of the box, and find something deeper to really keep them awake at night. 

SongStream posted:

I wonder if the flat-earth people believe the sun is flat as well.  In fact, is anything truly spherical?  It's all very confusing.  The fact that anything at all exists, from atoms with Naim written on them, flat or otherwise, to supernovas, defies all logic known to humankind.  The existence of matter cannot be explained.  The shape of it is less of a mystery, though perhaps is perspective dependent.  Those debating whether the earth is flat need to start thinking out of the box, and find something deeper to really keep them awake at night. 

you mean like "bottomless pits", "black holes" and "ghouls"