Flat Earth

I've got the opposite problem: find myself increasingly seeing the "passage" of day and night as rotation of this sphere we're on, and the seasons as this journey our axis-tilted sphere follows, around yon distant fusion reaction. When I was younger I didn't think like this, saw it more traditionally.

Strange too, the proliferation of youtubes on the premise: we couldn't have managed this all on our lonesome, there must have been alien intervention.

 

i'm beginning to see the passage of time as seconds instead of hours.

 

I am surprised educated people even waste time on this.

 

I was going to mention time, but thought I better reign myself in. It's the one thing that really blows my mind.

 

You are getting beyond most of them, and won't be able to drag most of them into considering all these things. Those that could do so, are generally not on that side.

Most of what I've read from them was back in the hardcopy and usenet days, and haven't looked again since websites were created. And I spent much more time digging in to the young earth than the flat earth arguments.

 

The launch failed. This idiot thinks he can prove the earth is flat by taking pictures of the desert from an altitude of only 1,800 feet.

Flat-Earth Rocketeer Fails to Launch (Again)

 

Maybe just being the jester?

 

In other news, this launch succeeded:

Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - BBC News

 

Only 1800 feet? The lazy bum. Many of us climb much more than that as ordinary day hikes to local peaks.

 

Actually, this guy's attempt is even more stupid. He's launching from an area of the desert that's already at 1,000 feet so he will only be 1,700, not 1,800 feet above the ground he plans to photograph.

Even worse, the Sheep Hole Mountains, just a few miles away from where he is trying to launch, rise to over 4,000 feet with many of the peaks providing an unobstructed view out over the desert he is planning to see.

Note: I live about 150 miles from Amboy and drive by it quite often. That area has a lot of hills and peaks; it is far from flat. The "flat-earthers" would be better served launching over Kansas, Nebraska or Florida.

 

Can we launch all the Flat-Earthers?

 

Will there be enough room on the rocketship to more than 20?

 

Yes, please. And keep them in orbit until they come to their senses. Flat Earthers are one of the few times I lose all respect and think: "How can you be so stupid?"

 

Can't most consumer grade drones climb around 2000 feet? They can carry cameras and do the photographing without the stupidity and wastefulness of this idiotic attempt. The amount of resources he is spending can surely be better spent on a small drone carrying a camera. But I guess reason and rational thought is not part of the equation here.

 

Again, maybe these guys are just having a lark?

 

Yeah, but the video, and all space videos don't convince them. Besides, they also don't know what a Tesla is. And if they did, they wouldn't believe in them.

 

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Well, the moron finally launched himself to an amazing altitude of 1,875 feet. Apparently, even though he didn't even clear the height of the local mountains so he could see the horizon, it reassured him that the earth is indeed shaped flat like a Frisbee and not spherical. Still not sure how he could reach that conclusion logically since he made no attempt to go around it.

Flat-earther blasts off in homemade rocket in bid to reassure himself world is shaped 'like a Frisbee'