Do they really think the earth is flat?

"The space agencies of the world are involved in an international conspiracy to dupe the public for vast profit," says Mr McIntyre
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What profit?
 
Eff you, I'll derail this as much as I like!

Quite frankly I figured that we were allowed to be critical of people who held obviously false opinions, such as "The World is Flat" or "Other people's money belongs to me" or the all-time favourite "People should die when I say"
 
Mr Davis, a 25-year-old computer scientist originally from Canada, first became interested in flat earth theory after "coming across some literature from the Flat Earth Society a few years ago".
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Firstly, sorry Microsoft, its not denial, Vista is just shit, no amount of propaganda short of making a legally binding promise to provide hot and clean hookers with every copy is going to sell it now, move on.


Secondly, lol at the flat-earthers.

Your ancient ancestors (at least the sailors) knew the Earth was round before even a single person made a hypothesis on the world that didn't involve some gods tears or shits or incest or something.



I say its time for the flat-Earthers and their inferior brains to move on, I mean were in a time and age where we have big massive super-colliders under Switzerland and France ready to discover the Higgs Boson and other exotic particles to fill in the last gaps of some theories in physics, I think any argument about the Easrth being flat is probably more to do with mental disease then any rational argument.
 
Im sorry, but anyone who now thinks the world is flat is depressed of the mind, we have ****ing photos showing that its round for christ sake. Imbeciles.
 
I have in my mind the idea that this must be an elaborate hoax or parody on creationism of some sort or a method of making sceptics go batshit crazy just to make them look silly. The very idea that the ancients though the earth was flat isnt historically accurate by any means and is actually quite a recent idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_mythology
The Myth of the Flat Earth or Flat Earth mythology refers to the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical. During the early Middle Ages, many scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.

According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of “flat earth darkness” among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth’s roundness as an established fact of cosmology." David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers also write: "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference."

In 1945 the Historical Association listed "Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception" second of 20 in its first-published pamphlet on common errors in history.
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The first accounts of the legend were traced to the 1830s. In 1828 Washington Irving wrote the work of historical fiction The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. The book was confused by many as providing an actual historical account of Columbus' life. As a recourse to make his romance more compelling, Irving "...invented the indelible picture of the young Columbus, a 'simple mariner,' appearing before a dark crowd of benighted inquisitors and hooded theologians at a council of Salamanca, all of whom believed, according to Irving, that the earth was flat like a plate." There was indeed a meeting in Salamanca, but Irving's account for what happened there was entirely fictional.
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Wtf? They can go outside and look and see the Earth curve. :sleep:
 
Only one thing you can do when there is this much stupidity

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If Stern is active we pull off about 3 threads daily that make out a couple of Americans to be stupider than that guy. And then I see people stupider than this all the time.
 
some people, actually a whole shitload of people believe the universe was created in 6 days I dont see why flatearthers are more ridiculed...both pov's are equaly stupid and obvious to anyone with even a modicum of intelligence
 
Indeed, and it wasn't till the second day till God created the Sun, which he made the heaven and the earth in the dark. To me...that's much more impressive.
 
lol ..maybe he had one of those miner helmets with a light?


it's confusing because if god is a burning bush then where the hell did the bush come from if there was no earth to grow it on,? burning bush my eye!
 
how could it be a vagina if god hadnt created vaginas yet? vaginas sprung forth from Adam's rib so it's unpossible!
 
Shift said:
Im sorry, but anyone who now thinks the world is flat is depressed of the mind, we have ****ing photos showing that its round for christ sake. Imbeciles.
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Photoshop ftw.
 
got to watch an Extras marathon last weekend ..I too am a fan of gervais
 
A group of people who believe in something that makes NO sense and they can't prove it and following blind faith. Sounds like religion!
 
CptStern said:
got to watch an Extras marathon last weekend ..I too am a fan of gervais
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Extras is fun, but it doesn't beat The Office. Some of the comedy on that show goes beyond anything else seen on the screen.

"Nothing ever changes by staying the same... quite literary."
 
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