"...without doing the research to check it out."
That's rich coming from the flat earth people
Here's some research. Why not travel up 50000 feet, look around and tell us what you see?
Man with a science degree really, truly believes the earth is flat
By Tilly Gambarotto - The Mirror
A conspiracy theorist from east London has outlined his far-fetched view that the earth is actually flat.
India-born Safvan, 23, is a bilingual science graduate who holds some rather outlandish views about our planet.
He is part of growing online community that rejects conventional wisdom that the earth is round - much to the bemusement of everyone else.
The masters student says he first realised that the world was flat when he was 18 and studying the properties of water.
"Water couldn’t curl into a ball like that," he told MyLondon . "Even with gravity it's impossible."
"I have done my research for a very long time," he said.
Safvan explains that if the size of the earth is what scientists say it is, then there must be a certain amount of curvature in the globe per mile.
With that amount of curvature, it should be impossible to see the Chicago skyline from the opposite side of Lake Michigan.
"That's a really famous example in the flat earth conspiracy," Safvan explained.
Like many flat earth theorists he uses YouTube to further his knowledge on the subject.
"YouTube is the main thing. A lot of people are turning to flat earth because of YouTube."
Safvan believes that Antarctica is not at the bottom of the world and is actually the whole way round.
That means at the edges of the world, the seawater is held in by a giant wall of ice.
"Why do you think only researchers are allowed to go there?"
He appeared stumped when asked why no flat-earther has ever just taken a boat to go and see it for themselves.
According to him, the Illuminati - a mythical secret society of global financiers and politicians - is responsible for keeping people in the dark.
"John F Kennedy - he used to talk about the Illuminati. And Michael Jackson."
"In JFK's last speech he spoke about the 'people who control the world'."
He believes NASA is an multi-billion dollar hoax designed to convince people that the earth is spherical, and in addition, he also thinks that the moon landings were faked.
He said: "They can send Neil Armstrong in space in 1969. Why don't they send people to the moon in 2019? Why don’t they send astronauts towards the moon right now?
"The photos from space are CGI."
Safvan claims that the video of the moon landing was removed from NASA's website when people started to catch on.
A common aspect of flat earthism is that subscribers are often religious and Safvan is no different.
He believes God created humans and the theory of evolution was invented to encourage atheism.
"We were not monkeys," he said, "If we were not made by God, then why are we the only animals on earth who can reason?"
The fact we are taught geography with a globe from a young age shouldn't stop us from realising the truth, Safvan says.
People think i t’s crazy you know, most other people mock us," he said.
"They make us seem like fools or stupid. I don't care about such things.
"Normally after two or three conversations they start to understand."
"There’s a lot of people getting into flat earth in London," he adds.
Perhaps one day the history books praise the genius of flat earthers who realised the truth.
Unfortunately for Savfan, today is not that day.
"I think I’m lucky to have realised," he says.
Well, having a college degree makes you smarter than everyone else..... it must be true. We should only be learning from people like this and AOC.
Hal-9000 (03-29-2019)
I'm going to start with the water and type slowly..
"Water couldn’t curl into a ball like that," he told MyLondon . "Even with gravity it's impossible."
"That means at the edges of the world, the seawater is held in by a giant wall of ice."
Go ahead, make a ball of water there Copernicus, I'll waitOriginally Posted by Hal-9000
I'm going to start with the water and type slowly..
"Water couldn’t curl into a ball like that," he told MyLondon . "Even with gravity it's impossible."
"That means at the edges of the world, the seawater is held in by a giant wall of ice."
I can sum up the problem with the flat earther conjecture in two sentences the guy wrote above:
"That means at the edges of the world, the seawater is held in by a giant wall of ice."
"Why do you think only researchers are allowed to go there?"
They postulate part of their theory and then use an unsubstantiated piece of logic in an attempt to support it. If only researchers can visit the edge, how does he know this bit of information? He's never been there.
pssssst, boats and planes travel all over the world
#11 How Does A Ship Circumnavigate on a Flat Earth?
Whether the Earth is sphere, or flat and round, circumnavigation is not an issue here. Think of a needle going around on a record player.
“Circular sailing no more proves the world to be a globe than an equilateral triangle. The sailing round the world would, of course, take very much longer, but, in principle, it is exactly the same as that of the yachtsman circumnavigating the Isle of Wight. Let me give a simple illustration. A boy wants to sail his iron toy boat by a magnet, so he gets a basin, in the middle of which he places a soap-dish, or anything else which he may think suitable to represent the Earth, and then fills the basin with water to display the sea. He puts in his boat and draws it by the magnet round his little world. But the boat never passes over the rim to sail under the basin, as if that were globular, instead of being simply circular. So is it in this world of ours; from the extreme South we can sail from East to West or from West to East around it, but we cannot sail from North to South or from South to North, for we cannot break through intervening lands, nor pass the impenetrable ramparts of ice and rocks which enclose the great Southern Circumference.” -David Wardlaw Scott, “Terra Firma” (68)
“A very good illustration of the circum-navigation of a plane will be seen by taking a round table, and fixing a pin in the centre to represent the magnetic pole. To this central pin attach a string drawn out to any distance towards the edge of the table. This string may represent the meridian of Greenwich, extending due north and south. If now a pencil or other object is placed across, or at right angles to the string, at any distance between the centre and the circumference of the table, it will represent a vessel standing due east and west. Now move the pencil and the string together in either direction, and it will be seen that by keeping the vessel (or pencil), square to the string it must of necessity describe a circle round the magnetic centre and return to the starting point in the opposite direction to that in which it first sailed.” -Dr. Samuel Rowbotham, “Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe!” (226)
"Think of a needle going around on a record player."
No, no I won't think of it that way
You're all lunatics.
Just because you can't wrap your head around scientific fact
This is truly the ultimate ridiculousness..
Hal-9000 (04-02-2019)
Just because you can't wrap your head around scientific fact
Pony (04-18-2019)
flat earthers - *people* with *brains*
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