People Still Believe The Planet Is Flat

[JirinPanthosa]

The 6000 years thing came from an analysis of the bible tracing back things that happened on known dates up through the begat tree counting backward in time.

People choose the knowledge that makes them happy over knowledge supported by facts all the time. Especially if they're older and the thing they believed was communal general knowledge for most of their lives. The 6000 years thing is more understandable than still believing the world is flat. To prove the world is more than 6000 years old you need to use science that is not plainly observable with the naked eye. To prove the world is round you just need to go around it, which is not that hard to do now with airplanes and lots and lots of people have done it. You'd have to basically think that all the millions of people who have physically traveled around the world are lying to you in a massive conspiracy to trick you into sailing off the edge of the Earth.

 

[Magellan]

Be fair. I can not confirm the world is round. I died before I even made it around the globe

A lot of American being young Earth creationists doesn't really surprise me that much. It seems odd, but it's part of a religious belief. With that much history behind it you can kind of understand the willful disregard of evidence.

Whats disturbing is that according to Wikipedia "4% of registered voters (+/- 2.8%) believed in David Icke's ideas" about Lizard people controlling the world in elaborate conspiracy. That's a lot of people, and a very

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Be fair. I can not confirm the world is round. I died before I even made it around the globe

A lot of American being young Earth creationists doesn't really surprise me that much. It seems odd, but it's part of a religious belief. With that much history behind it you can kind of understand the willful disregard of evidence.

Whats disturbing is that according to Wikipedia "4% of registered voters (+/- 2.8%) believed in David Icke's ideas" about Lizard people controlling the world in elaborate conspiracy. That's a lot of people, and a very

It certainly is...

 

[trekkiedane]

I thought we were all riding around on top of a giant turtle? Didn't I hear that someplace?

Actually, it's turtles al the way down!

 

[ihno]

The bad thing about conspiracy theories is that it's easy to get them but it's difficult to get rid of them again. They're very comfortable because they always explain everything so you're always the smartest of all people.

And with the internet you can always find people who think alike and so you lose the contact to the real world and get the wrong impression that everybody thinks like you do.

And if I read things like "there is no moon" it seems there is no limit in stupidity. Oh well, the internet makes the smart ones smarter and the dumb ones dumber.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Query Logic. It's a wonderful (read: horrible) thing. You only find what you look for so if you're only looking for tinfoil hat ideas you'll find so many of them that it'll make you believe they're mainstream.

 

[ihno]

Are we through with the moon thing?

I have another question. Why does master Bra'tak from Stargate wear an alu-hat? Ever noticed?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Are we thought with the moon thing?

I have another question. Why does master Bra'tak from Stargate wear an alu-hat? Ever noticed?

To stop all the G'ouald mind control signals of course.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Don't forget the whole 'Brainwashed alien souls cause our negative emotions' thing. And on South Park, Earth is just one big reality show and aliens are eagerly watching the drama.

We should have a contest to come up with the most ridiculous but somehow convincing conspiracy theory.

Earth is stuck in a time loop. It really was created by an all powerful God 6000 years ago, only in every loop, a species becomes scientifically advanced and creates time travel, but they also destroy their world in the process, so they go back in time trying to change the outcome. In some of them, lizards became the dominant species, that's why all the dinosaur bones. Some of the iterations lasted as little as 2000 years, some as much as a million years. That's why carbon dating makes things appear to be much older, some people brought entire cities back with them in some cases. We are on the 2753th iteration of the time loop.

There are two survivors from the very first loop who managed to make themselves immortal. One is trying to end the loop by preventing the destruction of the world, and one is trying to end the loop by destroying the world before time travel can be invented. From our mythology they have adopted the names 'Cain' and 'Abel'. We must do what we can to make sure Abel is the final victor. Cain can take on any face he wants and has taken many forms throughout history. Some say he may have been Adolf Hitler.

 

[Redfern]

"...and the Hugo Award for 2016 goes to Jirin Panthosa! How about a great round of applause!"

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Don't forget the whole 'Brainwashed alien souls cause our negative emotions' thing. And on South Park, Earth is just one big reality show and aliens are eagerly watching the drama.

We should have a contest to come up with the most ridiculous but somehow convincing conspiracy theory.

Earth is stuck in a time loop. It really was created by an all powerful God 6000 years ago, only in every loop, a species becomes scientifically advanced and creates time travel, but they also destroy their world in the process, so they go back in time trying to change the outcome. In some of them, lizards became the dominant species, that's why all the dinosaur bones. Some of the iterations lasted as little as 2000 years, some as much as a million years. That's why carbon dating makes things appear to be much older, some people brought entire cities back with them in some cases. We are on the 2753th iteration of the time loop.

There are two survivors from the very first loop who managed to make themselves immortal. One is trying to end the loop by preventing the destruction of the world, and one is trying to end the loop by destroying the world before time travel can be invented. From our mythology they have adopted the names 'Cain' and 'Abel'. We must do what we can to make sure Abel is the final victor. Cain can take on any face he wants and has taken many forms throughout history. Some say he may have been Adolf Hitler.

That's so good I'd love to see you write all this down and do a book .. That is just too good not to expand.

 

[Dryson]

Rapper says he has proof that the Earth is flat.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/entertainment/rapper-bob-earth-flat-theory/index.html

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Rapper says he has proof that the Earth is flat.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/entertainment/rapper-bob-earth-flat-theory/index.html

Did you tell him that bicycle wheels, steering wheels, and eyeballs are round and that cars can drive in circles? I feel like he needs someone to talk to him on his level to convince him of the error of his ways, and that you are just the man to do it. No rapper left behind, Dryson.

 

[Tosk]

I don't know why anyone would believe that lizard people run the world. Everyone knows they're actually space ghouls. They live, we sleep.

SLEEP. CONSUME. MARRY AND REPRODUCE. HONOR APATHY. NO THOUGHT.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Why can't the world be triangle shaped, like a Toblerone, a nice big chocolate Toblerone.
MmmMmMmMmMMMMMMmMmmMmM.

 

[Skellington]

The K.O.:

http://www.rsvlts.com/2016/01/28/r-...c-and-knowledge-on-rappers-flat-earth-theory/

 

[auntiehill]

The K.O.:

http://www.rsvlts.com/2016/01/28/r-...c-and-knowledge-on-rappers-flat-earth-theory/

BOO-YEAH!!
"And by the way, this is called gravity!"

I am officially in love with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

 

[Redfern]

Did Tyson actually use the "F bomb"?! Not that I blame him when faced with this kind of idiocy.

We definitely have this generation's science advocate!

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[publiusr]

Forget rap battles, just duct tape the flat earther to a Falcon rocket--and let him see for himself.

Oxygen line optional.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

SLEEP. CONSUME. MARRY AND REPRODUCE. HONOR APATHY. NO THOUGHT.

Side note: I always thought it was kind of weird that some of the signs in They Live actually showed things like MARRY AND REPRODUCE. Uh, what's wrong with that? We don't do those things, there's no more human race.