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Old 01-26-2016, 04:20 PM
 
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It's called the flat earth society, if anyone is opened minded enough even as far fetched as it sounds, YouTube has a lot of videos with people who actually experiment and have some compelling evidence to support a Flat Earth. and like the other poster said, those images of the earth from the ISS and such are composites, even NASA has admitted to that. Just saying...
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Old 01-26-2016, 04:38 PM
 
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This is turning into a real life pop culture feud. He is out to prove the Earth is flat. I am starting to wonder if this is just a publicity stunt. As they say in Hollywood..Any publicity is good.
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Old 01-26-2016, 04:54 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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..and yet, these people have a huge following.
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Old 01-26-2016, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Yakima yes, an apartment!
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Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, better known as BoB, American rapper and music producer, believes that the Earth is flat, according to recent tweets from his account.

'I didn't wanna believe it either': Rapper BoB insists the Earth is flat | Music | The Guardian
Well it is...When you print a picture of it that is...
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Old 01-26-2016, 05:55 PM
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not that I am on board, there are many (high iq) folks that are.. its not just dumb rappers who believe the earth is flat...
It's gaining acceptance at a pretty rapid pace. Rob Skiba speaks on it here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHicELhlAFo
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Old 01-26-2016, 06:03 PM
 
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Fun stuff!


I have to admit, The UN Flag-the same as the "Flat Earth Society"- has me intrigued.
That is actually a pretty good, albeit subtle argument for a spherical Earth. The Southern continents simply don't have the shape they're shown as having on the UN flag, because like all cartographic projections it's an approximation - you cannot show the surface of a sphere on a flat surface without distortion. The only way to make our observed topological data match reality is by mapping them on a sphere.

(Devil's advocate: They could be mapped on the inside of a sphere with ease. But they aren't. Because shut up, that's why!)
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Old 01-26-2016, 06:36 PM
 
Location: When you take flak it means you are on target
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YCFS

Ya can't fix stupid.
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Old 01-26-2016, 06:59 PM
 
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It's called the flat earth society, if anyone is opened minded enough even as far fetched as it sounds, YouTube has a lot of videos with people who actually experiment and have some compelling evidence to support a Flat Earth. and like the other poster said, those images of the earth from the ISS and such are composites, even NASA has admitted to that. Just saying...
You can fly around the world. Hence, the world is round.

I mean...what more evidence do you want. Magellan did it in the 18th century with just a compass and a dinghy...that someone in 2016 could question whether the world is round just seems absurd to me.

There is zero compelling evidence in support of a Flat Earth. None.
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Old 01-26-2016, 07:49 PM
 
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And people are actually believing this foolishness...

He says that airplanes travelling in a straight line would end up in space if the Earth weren't flat... What? I guess he doesn't know what gravity and escape velocities are...
There is a huge thread about this on DAVIDICKE.COM/forum and I do not know how it could possibly be true!!!!!

HOW CAN A PLANE FLY ROUND THE WORLD AND END UP @ THE SAME POINT IF THE EARTH IS FLAT??


This is totally bloody stupid and just a diversion from MORE IMPORTANT THINGS!! (The coming collapse,etc)
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Old 01-26-2016, 08:08 PM
 
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At one oft the hose links there's a picture of that they think. It's hilarious. Basically, there is a big wall guarded by NASA around the edge of a disk. Inside that disk is a ring, which is Antarctica, the very centre of the disck is the north pole. Points to anyone who can find their explanation of how a kilometre is the same and takes the same length of time to travel at 85 degrees north and 85 degrees south. If the earth were a disk with the north pole at the centre, it would take many times longer to circumnavigate the world at 60 S than at 60 N.

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It's called the flat earth society, if anyone is opened minded enough even as far fetched as it sounds, YouTube has a lot of videos with people who actually experiment and have some compelling evidence to support a Flat Earth. and like the other poster said, those images of the earth from the ISS and such are composites, even NASA has admitted to that. Just saying...
ROFLOL
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