people still think the earth is flat

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:47 pm

theonehungakid wrote:
Ashley wrote:
gwa wrote:Whats the Ice wall?
Probably the unpassable terrain on the edge of the earth - like in a computer game.

You cannot pass this unless you enable noclip mode.
idspispopd???

hahahaha brilliant!

Man this thread delivers!!!!
It is not fuckin flat, that makes no sense what so ever!
Wonder if the ice wall believers have heard of an airplane.....guess not!

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:35 am

badger wrote:that's a really interesting read. i already knew about flat earthers from doing a level religious studies and was under the impression that the argument for it was purely bibical due to a quote in the bible that refers to "the four corners of the earth" meaning that it must be flat; but that article seems to suggest otherwise. it made far more sense that flat earth theory was based on christian fundamentalists blindly accepting a mis-quoted passage from the bible than it being a secular theory. it's just mind boggling to think that people can still believe it

Here is something that might blow your mind. Psalms 103 verse 12 "As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us."

That would suggest that the world IS round because the first part is illustrating that there is an infinite amount of space between the east and west since if you keep going east you will just keep going east and never reach the west. It wouldn't make sense any other way. If you said as far as the north is from the south it wouldn't work either as if you keep going north eventually you will be going south.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:46 am

i think its amazing that in some parts of the world you can actually see the curvature of the earth!

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:20 am

deamonds wrote:i think its amazing that in some parts of the world you can actually see the curvature of the earth!

Like where? ontop of a mountain?

blizzardmusic · Post by **blizzardmusic** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:56 am

deamonds wrote:i think its amazing that in some parts of the world you can actually see the curvature of the earth!

that has to be bollocks.

caeraphym · Post by **caeraphym** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:03 am

deamonds wrote:i think its amazing that in some parts of the world you can actually see the curvature of the earth!

In an aeroplane, or some amazing beahes, or up a mountain.
A tower block in clapham

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:03 am

BlizzardMusic wrote:
deamonds wrote:i think its amazing that in some parts of the world you can actually see the curvature of the earth!
that has to be bollocks.

Next time youre by the coast, take a ruler and place it in front of your eyes so it "rests" on the sea horizon. You can see the curvature as it dips at either end of the ruler!

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:13 am

im sure i can find a better one than this aswell...

ill keep looking

caeraphym · Post by **caeraphym** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:13 am

fliPPo wrote:so I assume the Sun has giant shutters on it to keep half the world in darkness all the time?

makes sense to me.

I'd like to see them wriggle out of that one

blizzardmusic · Post by **blizzardmusic** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:17 am

deamonds wrote:

im sure i can find a better one than this aswell...

ill keep looking

to be honest, that doesn't really show curvature, it just shows slant to me.

fair enough, you might have better eyes than me

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:19 am

BlizzardMusic wrote:
deamonds wrote:

im sure i can find a better one than this aswell...

ill keep looking
to be honest, that doesn't really show curvature, it just shows slant to me.

fair enough, you might have better eyes than me

yes i forgot the world slants in some points, then dips back out again..

fooishbar · Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:10 pm

BlizzardMusic wrote:
deamonds wrote:

im sure i can find a better one than this aswell...

ill keep looking
to be honest, that doesn't really show curvature, it just shows slant to me.

fair enough, you might have better eyes than me

there's curvature as well as slant, but that doesn't really mean anything. it's just a result of the particular lens + camera setup.

(not a flat earther; not now, not ever.)

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:14 pm

I have seen other photos where it is really distinguished, amongst others..

Your right though, its defo not flat

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:47 pm

You can see it slightly here

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:49 pm

And here...

OR WAS THEY ALL TAKEN BY THE SAME GUY?!!

fooishbar · Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:49 pm

deamonds wrote:I have seen other photos where it is really distinguished, amongst others..

this isn't proof that rosegarden in helsinki is almost spherical (it isn't), but just that someone's used a really wide-angle lens.

put it this way, you're trying to project a panorama on to something flat. if you want a 4:3 image at the end of it, distortion ensues.

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:50 pm

the second flick is cracking ash.

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:54 pm

fooishbar wrote:
deamonds wrote:I have seen other photos where it is really distinguished, amongst others..

this isn't proof that rosegarden in helsinki is almost spherical (it isn't), but just that someone's used a really wide-angle lens.

put it this way, you're trying to project a panorama on to something flat. if you want a 4:3 image at the end of it, distortion ensues.

The iceberg isnt curved though, so how do you explain that?

people still think the earth is flat

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