Is Earth Actually Flat?
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Published 2014-12-04
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LOTS OF COOL LINKS BELOW!
Flat Earth gravity simulation by Yeti Dynamics: youtube.com/user/yetipc1
Kansas flatness study: (the pancakes used in the study were from IHOP): www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kan…
the flatness of other states: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/sci…
"The Meaning Of It All" by Richard Feynman: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Meaning-All-Richard-Feynman/d…
“The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten”: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pig-That-Wants-Eaten/dp/18470…
related Vsauce video, “Is Anything Real?” • Is Anything Real?
Minutphysics “TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round” • TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth ...
Good satirical series about how the Earth IS flat: • Video
What if Earth was a cube?
possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/if-the-eart…
www.askamathematician.com/2011/05/q-what-would-ear…
gizmodo.com/how-gravity-would-be-different-if-the-…
curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=421
MYTH of the round Earth:
scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/21/who-di…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
Earth is round:
datagenetics.com/blog/june32012/index.html
www.wired.com/2011/06/how-to-estimate-the-radius-o…
web.archive.org/web/20100331205903/http://orfe.pri…
Varrazano bridge: www.ljhammond.com/phlit/2012-06c.htm
Varrazano spelling controversy: www.huffingtonpost.com/roseanne-colletti/verrazzan…
Flat Earth Society:
theflatearthsociety.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies
Wilbur Glen Voliva:
blog.modernmechanix.com/5000-for-proving-the-earth…
stevelyons.ca/projects/flat-earth-manifesto/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Glenn_Voliva
theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=6179…
Flat earth map (one theory): www.earthnotaglobe.com/library/Flat_Earth_Society_…
Poe’s Law:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
literallyunbelievable.org/
Science is always provisional and theories are never conclusively proven:
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundam…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/14…
Asimov on being “more wrong”: chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.…
Occam’s Razor: plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/
Newton’s flaming laser sword: philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_…
Other razors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_%28philosophy%29
relativistic length contractions:
I really liked this one: faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/SpecRel/F…
www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/specrel/lc.cfm
www.askamathematician.com/2011/01/q-why-does-loren…
Earth and cosmic ray perspective:
www.reddit.com/comments/97gak/in_the_reference_fra…
i.imgur.com/nfDHQ.jpg
wolfram contraction simulator: demonstrations.wolfram.com/RelativisticCar/
Susan Haack: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundherentism
1996 election NYT crossword:
www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/01/nyt-election-day-…
cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/2/…
All Comments (21)
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"It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person" -Leopardo DiCaprio
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If the earth was flat we would see slimes everywhere
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The irony of the flat-earth conspiracy is that they don’t trust NASA and the government, but if NASA and the government said “ok ok it’s flat, you got us.” They’d all of a sudden believe them?
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I like how he pointed out that a flat disc would collapse back into a ball under its own gravity, and how most things in space are round. There's plenty of objects out there, but the moons of Mars will suffice to demonstrate this point: Both moons are too small for their gravity to force them into a spherical shape, but Phobos being the larger of the two, is somewhat closer to being spherical than Deimos.
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If the earth is flat why does my life keep going down hill
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Being stupid is like being dead. It's only painful for others. - Ricky Gervais
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8 years later and this is still the most comprehensive demolition of the flat Earth hypotgesis.
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I did some calculations, and apparently if earth was accelerating at 9.8 meters per second upwards continuously since its creation, we would now be moving at 46,390,012,920.204950586 times the speed of light.
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If you asked a German If the earth is flat 7:55
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“Is the earth flat?” Micheal: “yesn’t”
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If the Earth is flat, we could just move to the bottom side Boom, global warming solved
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I still wonder how flat earthers think the Japanese attacked pearl harbor
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When you roasting flat earthers and suddenly someone puts a bag over your head and you hear "take him to the edge"
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The flat earth society has members all around the globe.
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Simply ask a flat earther why Polaris is not visible from the Southern Hemisphere and why the Crux is not visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
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People new to the theory might want to check out HG Tudor’s series of videos, “Why do narcissists believe in conspiracy theories?”, released yesterday. It provides an excellent analysis of the psychology of the flat earthers.
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47k flat earthers.
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Mom: Hey dinner is ready. Michael: Or is it?
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I am overwhelmed(Obviously, in a bad way) about how many people actually believe that Earth is flat. It’s just… sad. “Gravity is just a theory.” “Read the bible. ____” “Vsauce is such a liar.” “Show me a image of a REAL Earth.” “NASA is lying.” sighs
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If the earth is flat, what would happen if we dig down too much? And why does it get hotter the further we dig down?
