They think the sun works like a spot light. I’m not kidding. It’s the dumbest shit
In their own gif they need to make the light the sun puts out oblong which makes no fucking sense and there’s no explanation as to why you can’t always see the moon.
It’s so stupid it’s embarrassing to even debunk them.
The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.
HOOO BOY,
that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.
I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.
Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world
We at sh.ijust.works can proudly claim that we out-hexbeared the hexbears. They defederated from us before we did from them.
Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.
Why did we ever put lead in gasoline? Now I have to live in this reality.
But why lead? The creator even knew it was toxic and still allowed it to be used.
So the world is flat so we can’t fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.
But the sun, moon, stars and planets don’t fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?
It’s great to read, as is most fantasy.
I’m trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is… magnets???
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Idk.
They’re magic, they can do anything.
shouldn’t have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my “personal” ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, “oWnEd tHe LiBs” content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, “silver nitrate”, and trump hat bs.
Hell yeah, siphon that money out of them
Every time you see one of those ads is one time that someone else won’t see it
Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?
Wouldn’t you sort of expect that in a spotlight-style moon?
I say sort of, because what you’d actually expect, at least if I’m picturing it correctly, is that the moon would be rotated by about 130°. To be fully upside down you’d want to be off the coast of South America. And even then it’d be a rotation of 180°, which is not the same as a reflection.
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It would be trivially easy to disprove it if it were worth the money to load them onto a plane and circumnavigate the globe in multiple directions, showing that there is no “wall of ice” and you always end up back where you started eventually. But it’s not, so they can continue to be idiots.
One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.
Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or “refraction”. Images from space? CGI.
At one point a flat earther launched himself into “space” with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.
How do they think eclipses work? I couldn’t see any mention of that on the page.
But wouldn’t that mean for the weeks approaching an eclipse you’d not have a moon at night because it was so close to the sun that it was up during the day?
Wow, you outsmarted Flatearthers. Impressive.
As a passenger on an aircraft, how is it I can see the curvature of the Earth?
Quite simply, you cannot…
It is likely that those claiming to have personally visually discerned curvature from an aeroplane are experiencing a form of confirmation bias.
Oh, ok then
Ignoring that ancient mathematicians were able to calculate the size of the earth with pretty good results, considering their “world spanning empires” are what we’d consider regional now.
Also that you can literally watch a ship come over the horizon, seeing it’s sails first before the body actually moves into view. If the earth were flat the entire thing would be visible the entire time.
You can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.
The ships thing, they explain that away with “sea mountains”…I wish I was kidding…
But I thought water always found its level, that’s why they think water will just flow off a round earth because they fundamentally do not understand gravity or basic, high school, physics.
They also point out that passenger aircraft don’t fly above 60,000ft, only to ignore footage from other types of aircraft ascending above the stratosphere and clearly showing the globe
They’re just lying to themselves, doing mental gymnastics, or whatever you wanna call it. Thus no point in arguing with them
Can’t they take something straight to check if it’s confirmation bias?
Like hold up a ruler or something against the curve?
They did. Can’t remember the name of the documentary done flat earners made but the used a flashlight and two boards with holes in them at x distance and said if the earth is flat they should see the light through the hole. They couldn’t until they lifted the board up confirming the earth isn’t flat. Still had to make up bs to explain it though I think.
It’s “Behind the Curve”. They do a few experiments, which all prove the Earth is round, but the flat earthers just keep designing more experiments whenever their last one fails.
I wasnt a flat earther before, but now I am a lamp-sunner
