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Wait, do those bona fide idiots reject gravity, too? I mean explicitly. Or, would they think the goats would stand perpendicular to the rim?
JFC, I hadn't considered this before. So, the Earth is flat, because it looks flat from the ground, and down is down because it is. But the moon disc faces the Earth, which means it must be perpendicular to the Earth so "down" is local, but it's not gravity? Is that it? Or, the Moon is spherical, but Earth isn't? If there's gravity, then what is on the other side of the Earth? Lemme guess, some bizzaro-world, alternate dimension?
Wow.
When I first heard about flat Earthers, I was certain it was parody, to the point that I didn't realize it wasn't for years afterward. It's just so fucking ridiculous.
Kudos to the one guy I heard of that realized it was all bullshit when he saw the Earth from high up. It takes courage to admit you're wrong about something so fundamental, but he owned up to it.
I contend that it WAS a parody, but then peopl being people, took it seriously and now there are ACTUAL people who believe this shit
It was probably just Epstein testing his psychology knowledge, to see if he can make people believe literally anything.
And so he did.
This image is a parody of flat earth created by someone the flat earthers would call a globularist.
There are two “real” flat earth models. One is similar to this image, but the earth is encased in a dome on which the celestial objects ride. There is no outer space in this model, so there is no “other side” of the earth (or side walls for goats to tramp around).
The other model is an infinite plane. Like the first model, the North Pole is in the center and Antarctica forms an ice wall around the perimeter of the known earth. The government doesn’t want you to know about the lands beyond the wall, so they push the round earth lie.
As far as gravity is concerned, flat earthers often do reject the theory because it doesn’t fit well into their models. Some believe the earth is constantly accelerating upward at 1g, explaining the force we feel. If this is the case, we will exceed the speed of light after only 30 million years! Good thing the earth is only a few thousand year old.
There was a time when young-Earth evangelicals were the craziest people around the internet...
That’s table stakes today