Flat-earthers? Do they know what they're talking about?

[IDrinkaRum]

(Didn't think this was a social woe, it was more general in nature, I think, but if this is in the wrong place, please move MODS. Thank you!)

Is the earth really flat? Or round? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm)

There are some people out there who still think the earth is flat.

[AFPheonix]

Yep, people will try to rationalize anything away. Hell, there's still an awful lot of people who believe in a literal 7 day creation and 6000 year old earth despite metric tons of evidence to the contrary.
I can't say that I'm too surprised.

[friendofjimmyk]

Oh my goodness. I read that article. I needed a laugh this morning.

However, I suppose I can see where we have all just accepted what we have been taught about the earth being round without questioning it. My thing is - what the frik is the point?!?! It's round. It's flat. Who cares? It sustains life - OUR life - get on with it.

[Talon]

Oh of course, naturally the scientists and photos from the moon are a grand conspiracy.

Why? What could anyone possibly hope to gain from such a mass deception?

I think this "belief" is just a security blanket to make them feel "special", that they've got some great secret the rest of the world isn't privy to.

Whatever, at least they're not lobbying to have flat-earth-ism taught in schools. They're nuts, but harmless nuts.

[IDrinkaRum]

I think it was Sawyer Brown (American Country & Western singing group) that had a song that went:

We never walked on the moon/Elvis ain't dead/you ain't going crazy/It's all in your head.

Everything is a conspiracy. Don't you know that? :)

[Slytovhand]

When I first heard about the Flat Earth Society, I was given the impression that they didn't actually believe the Earth was flat, but was about what those guys were saying - don't merely believe everything you hear, and investigate things with a liberal dose of intelligence and rationality.

I didn't really think they believed it as fact... but then, strange beliefs in the face of logic, science and rationality is pretty much standard for humanity....

Slyt

[Bloodsoul]

I've seen the curvature of the earth. That's all the proof of a globular earth I need.

...sides, what would we find on the other side?

[AFPheonix]

Furthermore, their diagram of what a flat earth would look like would be easily disproved by marking out straight line distances across Antarctica.
Also, the science behind plate tectonics and a lot of other geological phenomena would be rendered pretty null by a flat earth. It just flat doesn't add up.


Ha ha, I made a funny.

[Seshat]

Not to mention all the pilots and sailors who are OBVIOUSLY in on the conspiracy, and NEVER actually do round-the-world flights or cruises.

Right? Right?

[Slytovhand]

I've seen the curvature of the earth. That's all the proof of a globular earth I need.

...sides, what would we find on the other side?

Four Elephants and a Turtle.... :D

[Dark-Star]

Religious books always say odd things, and there are still some isolated people left in the world. But flat-earthers have *nothing* to defend themselves with except willful ignorance.

[PepperElf]

Four Elephants and a Turtle.... :D

YES!

heh you beat me to it :D