Is the World Flat? The Flatlander's theory..

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WeedFreak78

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How do flat earthers explain watching a ship come over the horizon? It doesn't appear and just get bigger, you see the top first, from any direction it comes. I remember watching the sunrise once, it came up right behind the sail and was back lighting it as it crested the horizon. They lined up perfectly for about 5 mins. Looked like it was on fire, but the colors were absolutely stunning. I've heard the argument about "if the earth was round we wouldn't have straight bridges, etc, they would have measurable drop over "X" distance."

I think they confuse parallel with straight. Gravity is going to act equally on all objects, including the measuring equipment if its calibrated at gravity. Your just measuring parallel to earths surface or gravity field. . Stop gravity from acting on said object, maybe it'll straighten out. But then if your measuring to the same points the object should seem curved. ..:eyesmoke: Let me guess, they don't believe in gravity.
 
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OddBall1st said:
Not only did it leave,...but it came back. It read NASA on it both times too. There`s some truth to NASA existing.
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I'm just throwing it out there, I try to keep an open mind. I'm pretty sure it was real. I'm not saying NASA doesn't exist. I'm saying some of it is BS and funds are redirected. That would be an easier one to stage and cover up and get a huge payout on. How many people can truly say and prove they were there? I know it's reaching , but I can only take their word for it. A health payoff, say a cushy govt pension, could get almost anyone to stick to a "harmless little story" for the rest of their life. It might have also been seen as a distraction from Vietnam for the govt. Maybe I'm just cynical, I wasn't even alive then so I can't really say. Too much stuff is smoke and mirrors nowadays, hard to figure out what's real and what's not sometimes.
 
Heisenberg

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"Recent studies have found that correcting false information often has little effect on changing beliefs. Discredited information continues to influence reasoning and understanding even after one has been corrected. The backfire and continued influence effects should be disheartening to those who think that the first step in arguing with those who base their beliefs on misinformation should be to get their opponents to see what the facts are. Correcting errors is pointless when dealing with people who attribute their own beliefs to principled, unprejudiced inquiry, while attributing the beliefs of those who disagree with them to bias and ulterior motives. But even if a person admits that those who disagree with him have integrity and are really seeking the truth, you are probably wasting your time providing data and facts that might change his mind if the claim you are trying to correct challenges his gut feelings and core beliefs."

http://59ways.blogspot.com/2012/04/continued-influence-effect.html
 
ttystikk

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WeedFreak78 said:
How do flat earthers explain watching a ship come over the horizon? It doesn't appear and just get bigger, you see the top first, from any direction it comes. I remember watching the sunrise once, it came up right behind the sail and was back lighting it as it crested the horizon. They lined up perfectly for about 5 mins. Looked like it was on fire, but the colors were absolutely stunning. I've heard the argument about "if the earth was round we wouldn't have straight bridges, etc, they would have measurable drop over "X" distance."

I think they confuse parallel with straight. Gravity is going to act equally on all objects, including the measuring equipment if its calibrated at gravity. Your just measuring parallel to earths surface or gravity field. . Stop gravity from acting on said object, maybe it'll straighten out. But then if your measuring to the same points the object should seem curved. ..:eyesmoke: Let me guess, they don't believe in gravity.
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The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, one of several onto Manhattan island in NYC, is a standard two tower suspension bridge.

The tops of those two towers are over a foot further apart than their bases because the earth is round.

ALL big suspension bridges do the same thing and engineers design for it, or they'd come up short on materials, lol

How would the physics even work for a flat earth?

And where the fuck is ODanksta, anyway?
 
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WeedFreak78 said:
I'm just throwing it out there, I try to keep an open mind. I'm pretty sure it was real. I'm not saying NASA doesn't exist. I'm saying some of it is BS and funds are redirected. That would be an easier one to stage and cover up and get a huge payout on. How many people can truly say and prove they were there? I know it's reaching , but I can only take their word for it. A health payoff, say a cushy govt pension, could get almost anyone to stick to a "harmless little story" for the rest of their life. It might have also been seen as a distraction from Vietnam for the govt. Maybe I'm just cynical, I wasn't even alive then so I can't really say. Too much stuff is smoke and mirrors nowadays, hard to figure out what's real and what's not sometimes.
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Well people really did believe the world was flat. In fact, longer than people now know it isn`t.
 
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