And nobody thinks about the poor turtle that has to carry the earth around.
The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Theory
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Watch the video by CoolHardLogic I posted earlier.
He gives a good summary of the bollocks and how the flat earthers try to rationalize it.
^There is no spoon er I mean sun....
I somehow feel like you missed my point, as you seem to be trying to disagree by saying the same thing I was saying. Which is fine. We're both geniuses, and I declare victory.
If this whole thing really is just a big troll by people who know better, then shame on them. 
I believe that those with higher intellectual capacity have a moral obligation to act as responsible and guiding "big sisters/brothers" to the intellectually impaired, instead of deliberately misleading them with blatant misinformation that they will blindly follow, for the purposes of a massive practical joke.
Kor
I believe that those with higher intellectual capacity have a moral obligation to act as responsible and guiding "big sisters/brothers" to the intellectually impaired, instead of deliberately misleading them with blatant misinformation that they will blindly follow, for the purposes of a massive practical joke.
Kor
Monsters are usually the things that are most likely to kill and/or eat you. So there are any number of sea creatures that could be considered sea monsters. Add in a bit of embellishment or panic-borne exaggeration, get the story told by numerous people who add in their own refinements, and that's how the stories get passed along.
If the world was really flat, the cats would've knocked everything off it by now.
^No, auntiehill is absolutely correct about this. Cats just do things like that. There are some places in my apartment where I never put anything above floor level. It's just going to end up there anyway.
It's also about having a sense of mastery--of empowerment. Frances Cress Welsing wrote some awful things.
If you think you are right and the educated are in the wrong--it creates the hubris of the trailer park--and that is a real thing too.
Something else I don't understand is if they don't believe in space where do they think earth is located? Do they think the entire universe is just a flat surfaced Earth? Kind of reminds me of the TNG ep "Remember Me" were Crusher's fake universe eventually became nothing more than the Enterprise with nothing outside of it.
Jason
Jason
I haven't read the link so perhaps shouldn't comment. However I can understand a childlike belief that the Earth is flat because we don't have the everyday perceptions of it being otherwise. However one of my favorite possession is a globe. Better than a map. Can't imagine Star Trek with flat little tablet planets everywhere..
Even children understand why sailing ships disappear beyond the horizon or where the sun goes once you explain it to them.
What children do not grasp (same as flat earthers) is the sheer scope of the Earth.
It is so ginormously freaking huge it just blows the mind.
Even if it's one of the smaller planets of the solar system.
Also gravity. They just don't understand how it works, because they lack the concept of what spacetime and a gravity well is.
A pretty good visualization is this, but even this requires the mental jump to a higher dimension to make sense of it.
I think some people just can't do that.
What children do not grasp (same as flat earthers) is the sheer scope of the Earth.
It is so ginormously freaking huge it just blows the mind.
Even if it's one of the smaller planets of the solar system.
Also gravity. They just don't understand how it works, because they lack the concept of what spacetime and a gravity well is.
A pretty good visualization is this, but even this requires the mental jump to a higher dimension to make sense of it.
I think some people just can't do that.
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Science loving communist!!!
Well, it's the largest of the system's four (known) rocky planets, with the highest gravity of any (known) world with a solid surface. (I qualify it because of the possibility of a superterrestrial Planet 9 out beyond the Kuiper Belt -- and who knows, possibly more undiscovered worlds way out there on the borderland of Sol.)
One of those people is Scott Adams, who has a frankly laughably stupid notion about gravity.
http://www.insolitology.com/rloddities/dilbert.htm
I threw my copy of The Dilbert Future into the recycling bin. I didn't want to give it to a charity shop in case someone's brain became infected with its memes.
Okay, that's a self-contradictory idea on the face of it. If the idea is that things are just getting closer to each other because they're enlarging to fill the space between them, then what he says about the space between them expanding to keep the planets at the same distance cancels that out.