The Earth Is Flat

This was good for a few laughs! I couldn't make it the whole way through though.

http://youtu.be/h5i_iDyUTCg

 

I wonder if the creator of the video considers the testicles on that ape to be flat as well...

EDIT: would have been more fitting if I'd said balls instead of testicles, given the title of the video... Oh well.

 

Wow!
guy seems to be forgetting about gravity, the atmosphere and a whole lot of other stuff.

 

Lately, I've been seeing more people announce that they believe the Earth is flat and it's a bit concerning to me.

 

I predict that there is some line of longitude or latitude on earth that if you pass through it, you will be in outer space. The earth only seems to be curved because quantum gravity warps our eyeballs to see flat planes as globes and lines as flat planes. This line is at the Bermuda Triangle, where planes and ships disappear into outer space.

 

:yikes: Earth is the original infinity pool!

 

well one way to prove it would be to simply take a journey across the planet and end up back at your starting point. If the Earth is flat, then in theory that would not be possible.
as far I know, that has already been done numerous times.

plus from a high vantage point you can very easily discern the curvature of the planet.
where the fuck do these morons come from??????

 

maybe in some other universe, where the mountains and forest go on forever in all directions.
in this one the earth is round, its humans who are "flat".

 

If you circumnavigate the globe, it only seems that you end up where you started from. Really there are seven identical "Earths" all lined up. So you would have to circumnavigate the globe seven times to get to the end.

 

Yeah this makes me slightly worried for the future...

 

Don't worry about the future. Some guy on youtube says the future doesn't exist and gave 200 reasons.

 

The earth is really flat here in pancake country.

 

It's actually more than flat. There's an indent. If the edge crumbles you peoples all go swimming in the North Sea!

 

The video is a good exercise in listening to truther explanations which are faulty yet may sound convincing when not bothering to analyze them. Various groups use such explanations for propaganda purposes, such as 9/11 truthers, anti-vaccine truthers, biological evolution denialsts, HIV/AIDS denialists, holocaust denialists, moon landing denialists, and Elvis Is Still Alive enthusiasts.

Such propaganda tactics have seeped into the nutrition and weight management circles in recent years, and they work great for selling books that 'challenge the conventional wisdom'. Dissident writers and bloggers such as Diet Doctor, Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, Zoe Harcombe, Jimmy Moore, and Michael Eades have formulated conspiracy-flavored twisted explanations of diet to promote a personal agenda. Examples include 'carbohydrates spike insulin and make people fat'; 'exercise makes people hungry and fat'; 'the current obesity problem was caused by Ancel Keys in the 1950's'; 'the obesity problem was caused by American researchers not listening to the German doctor Gustav von Bergmann in 1908'; 'the obesity problem was caused by people in the 1860's not taking seriously the diet of William Banting'.

 

You know the phrase digging a hole for yourself? We do it literally on a national level Although to be fair only the north and west will be really soaked. That's the parts we claimed from the sea and/or dug all the peat soil out and burned it in our stoves for centuries

 

Turtles all the way down

 

Is not...

 

Turtles and some elephants... or a big snake? Hmm earth looks round here:

 

If it's flat how come I live on a hill?

 

Artificial. Made by aliens (of course).