The Earth is Flat!

[Jonci]

Well....I dont actually believe so, that would be silly.
But certain people do, and i dont seem to understand why, Humans have been into space and seen the earth round yet people continually.

I found a website which "attempts" (and i use that in the loosest sense) to explain why the round earth theory is wrong. Here is a sample from it

Spoiler

3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!
We know the Earth is flat because the Bible tells us so. But for those of you skeptical, close-minded types that flat out refuse to accept the overwhelming Biblical evidence, I have designed some experiments you can do at home that will show you, before your very eyes, that the world is indeed flat, and not spherical as some crazy scientists proclaim. It's amazing how many people blindly believe in a spherical Earth, without ever having seen it for themselves! I intend to change that.


1) Jump!
Now, scientists claim that Earth is spherical and rotating at a speed of between 700-1000 miles per hour, depending on your latitude. This is a very high rate of speed. You can disprove this nonsense by simply jumping up as high as you can. Really, it's that simple. What happens when you jump? You come straight down to where you were. But, if the Earth were indeed spinning at such a fast speed, wouldn't you land hundreds of feet away?

If you were to stand in the flat bed of a truck going 75 mph, and jump straight up, what would happen? You wouldn't fall straight down. You would fall out of the truck. That's because trucks move, the Earth doesn't. This experiment proves the Earth is fixed in space and doesn't move.


2) Blow!
Since if the Earth is supposedly a sphere, it naturally comes to assume what would happen to people below the equator, like in Australia? Since they are underneath the sphere, wouldn't they fall off? This is where scientists come up with mumbo-jumbo like "gravity" and "centrifugal force" to explain away their theories. So, the scientists want you to think that because the earth is so much more massive than people or things, that people will naturally "stick" to the bottom of the earth because of gravity.

This can be disproved very simply. Get a balloon and inflate it as big as possible. It will be a spherical shape. Now, take a piece of paper and try to rip, tear, or cut the tiniest speck of paper possible. This paper represents a human being, much smaller in mass to the balloon, which represents the Earth. Now try and place the small piece of paper to the underside of the balloon. What happens? It falls off!

That's right. Even though the balloon is so much bigger in mass, it cannot hold the tiny paper. So if the Earth was a sphere, no one could live below the equator because they would fall off.


3) Get High!
Ok, this one you really can't do at home, but you can do it out in the world. Stand on the ground and look around you. What's the farthest you can see? Maybe it's a building, tree, or mountain. Now, find some place very close to it where you can get a much higher vantage point. (This also works if you're on a jet and about to take off.) Notice how in the higher place you can see much farther? You can see more of the world the higher you get. This shows the world is flat because the higher you go, the easier it is to see over obstacles. At the same time, it shows the world cannot be spherical. Because if the world was curved, the far distance would forever remain out of view because of the Earth's curvature. It would eternally be over the horizon.

If the Earth was a sphere, it would not matter how high you went, you would still see the same thing. Since this is not the case, the Earth is flat.


These experiments are all confirmed by creation scientists as being 100% accurate. If you're skeptical of the flat Earth, why don't you do these experiments so you can see truth with your own eyes.

From: http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?s=b73fcaf65a852019c3f841bc6107956b&t=45427

Now for discussion, does anyone on the Escapist believe the Earth is flat or how to prove either theory correct without a shadow of doubt.

Damn you. Had me read that whole thing before you put the link that it came from a joke site.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Landover Baptist is a joke. It's a satirical site making fun of super-devout Christians.

This

I thought for a while that LOB was real, but I soon caught on.

I already assumed the arguments given in the article are just idiotic and I hoped it was a joke else I would a little more faith in humanity.

 

[sp86]

Poe's Law. No matter how outrageous a manufactured belief is, there is someone who holds it in earnest.

 

[strobe]

Lies!!! the earth is flat these tests prove it beyond all doubt. Go on test them yourself they all check out. It makes perfect sense. Who you going to believe a bunch of highly trained scientists with so called "evidence" or a group of religous man with god on there side?

I just shook my head when I read this. I'll believe the people who know which "there" homophone to use...

Pretty funny comment and beats the many repetitive ones but still.

Oh yeah and the bulging isn't that slight according to my geographer/geologist friend. Apparently the beaches in Ecuador are further away from the centre of the Earth than the peak of Everest. Could check it; not going to.

 

[e102ewan]

If you're in a train and you jump than you land at the spot where you jumped so that theory about why we should move because the Earth is spinning complteley falls apart.

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

Landover Baptist Church is an example of Poe's law and it's almost indistinguishable from fact. If you want the real idiots, find them here:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

I think this can be safely solved by sending everyone who believes in such an idea to space and make them orbit the Earth at least once. That or give the Earth a spin on Google Earth.

This.

Why has no-one else mentioned these buggers?

 

[sageoftruth]

Satirical or not, there was a forum I found once that had people who genuinely believed it. The entire forum was for people who believed in a flat Earth. They were all people who hadn't been outside of their towns/villages and thought books were just the government's way of trying to brainwash you.

 

[Rathcoole]

Lies!!! the earth is flat these tests prove it beyond all doubt. Go on test them yourself they all check out. It makes perfect sense. Who are you going to believe a bunch of highly trained scientists with so called "evidence" or a group of religous man with god on their side?

I just shook my head when I read this. I'll believe the people who know which "there" homophone to use...

Fixed. I am usually pretty careful with my words. Oh well nobody is perfect.

 

[steph01a]

You mean it's not flat???

 

[HuCast]

I like the jump part, because the Earth is so large that the 1000mph isn't really enough to effect us xD...


Unless we could perform a single one hour long jump...

And I like your answer...even IF that stuff would work-just a second in the air would let you land 0.27 miles away from the place where you jumped and that should be enough to show that the earth rotates/moves.

 

[The Heik]

snip-tastic

Well that is really quite an infuriating post by the Reverend, even if it is satire, because somewhere in the world there is someone who is crazy/stupid/devout enough to consider it true.

But this is about proving it wrong, and I have not only a simple but ancient method of proving the Earth's spherical nature.

When you look at a ship coming over the horizon (hint) you will at first only see the crow's nest, then the sail, then finally the main hull of the ship. If the world was flat, then you would see all of the ship all the time, and not only that, but on a clear day you would be able to see the port they came from if it was in line of sight.

But you can't, hence the world is round.

 

[Angus565]

lol thats pretty epic. although i think there still is some ACTUAL flat earthers somewhere in the middle east, i'm not sure how they defend their argument, but probably something like that.only in a sexy accent.

I don't know about you guys, but if someone read this to me in a sexy accent I would believe them.

 

[Agent Cross]

Landover Baptist Church is an example of Poe's law and it's almost indistinguishable from fact. If you want the real idiots, find them here:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

I think this can be safely solved by sending everyone who believes in such an idea to space and make them orbit the Earth at least once. That or give the Earth a spin on Google Earth.

This.

Why has no-one else mentioned these buggers?

Those guys are nothing but trolls. All you have to do is search their history with the word "troll" and there you go. Ask them to shoot an arrow straight up in the air and stand there. PROBLEM SOLVED! One way or another. XP

 

[Alon Shechter]

Even Jesus is doing a fucking Facepalm.

 

[Uncreation]

Landover Baptist is a joke. It's a satirical site making fun of super-devout Christians.

Yes, and there have already been a lot of threads about them here. But there are always more people who have not found out about them or caught on.

 

[YukoValis]

I admit the post looks very fake, made up just for laughs.. but I have this small worry that's it can be real. That people actually believe the earth is flat. The comments on that page don't do much to ease said worry.

It's so easy to figure out the world is round just by looking at the phases of the moon. The shadow is always round, never a small slit, never flat.

 

[Azdron]

Problem is that they think "I can't believe people are this stupid" and don't really follow that thought to it's logical conclusion.

Unfortunately, Most of us CAN believe people can be that stupid. And I for one am able to believe people are EVEN dumber than this. From whence comes much of this threads conflict. If we could have a little more faith in our fellow man this would be immediately recognized as the joke it is and be hilarious. Instead its a disturbing satire of an uncomfortable truth that sits malignant in society. Also, everyone fails Physics forever.

 

[Nouw]

It is satire but that idiocy and trolling is something that we hardly see anymore. Let's just put that 'theory' down forever shall we?

 

[shreedder]

their are people who still believe the earth is the center of the earth.