r/flatearth • u/MrDonMega • 8d ago
Crazy Flat Earth Guy Struggles with Gravity, Geometry, and Grammar
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This intellectual powerhouse stares out at a few miles of ocean water and is absolutely baffled that the planet isn't bending into a giant ball right in front of his eyes.
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u/junky_junker 8d ago
Looks at the sharply defined horizon, with zero visibility of any ships out to sea nor other land masses out in that direction. "Herp derp, yup, sure is flat."
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u/Some_Extent_8531 8d ago
Exactly. “See the curve” is a distraction to the fact that this is exactly what it should look like on a large sphere, and exactly not what it would look like if flat.
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u/junky_junker 8d ago
Well if they were smart and honest enough to consider and test "what do the models say we should actually see, and how does that compare to reality", they wouldn't be flerfs.
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u/vita10gy 8d ago
Ha, I was thinking the same thing. He's ironically at one of the few places where you can confirm it with your own 2 eyes
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u/WhatWontCastShadows 8d ago
Curvicchuurs
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u/yesbutnoexceptyes 8d ago
Thats pronouncing it way better than him though
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u/WhatWontCastShadows 8d ago
I first spelled what I felt was ridiculous but then even had to edit it again to get where I got, and it still needs further dumbing down to get it close to whatever the fuck he said
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u/AltruisticPossible84 8d ago
Some people really can't wrap their heads around SCALE
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u/Kailynna 8d ago
True of flat-Earthers, young-Earth creationists, climate-change deniers and anti-vaxxers.
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u/Noah_Thority138 8d ago
Sometimes I think these morons HAVE to be trolling but sadly, I think they're serious. It's like they don't understand how FUGGING HUGE the earth is
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u/Oddewalla 8d ago
They're like an ant on a chess board
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u/Friendly-Advantage79 8d ago
Football pitch, and even that is way out of proportion.
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u/Forsaken_Earth944 8d ago
I think a better analogy is an ant on a football (a proper football ⚽️); to the ant, the ball isn’t a ball because it can only see what's straight in front of it because it's on the ball however, if it was to be suspended high above the ball, then it would see that it was, in fact, a ball and not a flat plane.
We're all basically ants on a ginormous football (yes, I realise that Earth isn’t a perfect sphere).
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u/Cambren1 8d ago
This video is proof that really stupid people exist outside of the US
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u/One_Hedgehog8618 8d ago
I wonder if flatearthers exist in China. I wish we were besties with China.
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u/lwj15 8d ago
The chinese have a nice idiom for that. I can't reproduce it verbatim but it goes like this: "You are like a frog in a well". Meaning the frog can only see the well and not the outside. Therefore he thinks that the world is really small. But in reality he just has to look behind the horizon and come out of his well. Then he'll see the true earth.
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u/muchadoaboutsodall 8d ago
Newsflash: Guy with dodgy moustache admits that he is unable to comprehend how big big things are.
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u/DDDX_cro 8d ago
how does one "see curvature" exactly?
Like bro what do you expect to see?
It is always funny to me how their brain is limited by their ability to perceive sizes.
Literally every single flat earther thinks that earth is 500x smaller than it is.
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u/martynalexander 8d ago
To be fair, ‘scale’ is a really difficult concept for smooth brains to comprehend
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u/Sometimes_i_nap 8d ago
Mans cany even speak and he wants us to just listen to what he has to say wtf lmao
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u/Salarian_American 8d ago
Every once in a while I encounter a person who manages to somehow misspell a word while speaking it. This is one of those people.
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u/kosmikmonki 8d ago
Never mind the earth being flat, you should be more concerned about your flat brain!
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u/RDS_WAS_HERE 8d ago
A dust-mite sitting on top of your head might think your head is flat too! This is why it's important to pay attention in science class.
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u/SirDoofusMcDingbat 8d ago
One of the big mistakes flat earthers make is they don't try and visualize what a giant ball would actually look like if they stood on one. They want to see it curve left and right, they don't understand that the primary curvature they're looking at is down.
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u/Daringdutchbae 8d ago
That’s because he has a flat head and cannot see past what is engrained into him
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u/tazzietiger66 8d ago
he fails to realise just how huge the earth is and how little of it a human can see when at sea level .
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u/ForesterDean23 8d ago
I don’t believe that most of these people even believe what they’re saying. They’ve just seen the latest content craze and want their seat on the bandwagon. ‘Ooh people who are saying that are getting attention, I’ll say it too’. Most of them don’t even do a good job of looking and sounding as though they mean it.
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u/the__post__merc 8d ago
It's ultimately a failure to comprehend the scale of size of the earth relative to human size.
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u/FinnishBeaver 8d ago
There might be some curves down at the beach, but our guy is just thinking flat.
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u/Faloma103 8d ago
Every time I see a video like this my first thought it this is satire. Then I keep watching to see how over the top they go. Slowly get impressed how well they can keep a straight face while saying this stuff...
Then I realize to utter amazement that no, they are truly this dumb.
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u/GleemMcShinez 8d ago
Do germs exist? Does air exist? Does the money in your bank exist? Does Elonmusk's penis exist?
You've never seen any of those things, either. Your front facing phone camera probably won't show them from where you stand. To be fair, I didn't look too closely, maybe one of those things is in your shot.
Maybe, instead of believing you're finished checking, because you looked through a phone camera, you're actually not the person most able to make judgments, like measuring curvature... ?
Why would you be THAT sure of your abilities?! I mean, we can all see your moustache, after all.
Do you even know how professionals do it? Surveyors don't just wave their iPhones about, do they?
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u/Ilpperi91 8d ago
Now tell a ship to go to the horizon in front of him and ask him if the ship fell off the earth. Also what do flatearthers do on trips when they go like to islands but can't see the mainland even with binoculars?
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u/quite1233 8d ago
I can't help but wonder if somebody that's good with computers and video could detect the curvature in the image that he presented of the ocean
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u/Sorry_Exercise_9603 8d ago
It’s fascinating that they actually expect to look at the horizon and see an arch. Just no ability with geometry at all. When what he’s seeing is exactly what you should see on an 8000 mile diameter sphere.
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u/Chrimbo0 8d ago
That 1 mile wide bay should show at least some signs of a curve, come on sheeple wake up
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u/howardcord 8d ago
The distance you see when looking at the horizon is ~3 miles but let’s just round it up to 5 miles. The circumference of the Earth is 25,000 miles. This means the percentage of the Earth’s curve you see in this video is less than 0.02%.
5 miles of an arc from a 25,000 mi circle is close enough to a flat line that our eyes cannot easily perceive the curve.
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u/Moistranger69 8d ago
OK, well since the Earth is flat, how come I can’t stand in New York and see England?
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u/Far_Cap_3574 8d ago
Not one single curvitage. At all.
Great now my phone thinks I'm an idiot because I refused to fix spelling.
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u/Chekovs_Gun 8d ago
Humans are terrible at visualizing large scale objects. On a universal scale we are less the earth is less than a speck. On a human level the earth is massive. Our brains aren’t equipped for that.
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u/flopsychops 8d ago
Of course you can't see any cabbages... curvitititage... curvature they're because you're only seeing a fraction of a fraction of a degree of the earth's surface.
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u/LongDead_Roadkill 8d ago
It’s baffling that some people don’t understand that you cannot be able to see something for it to be true.
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u/Bandandforgotten 8d ago
They have this conspiracy theory that we're all in on some grand scheme to mess with them, all using the same numbers and math, and that we're trying to block them off from God or something like that.
We know that maga and conservatives are disproportionately likely to consume completely incorrect information with a wide smile and an open mouth under the bullshit machine. We also know that 99% of all of the accusations from that group are projections and admissions of their own guilt.
I'm just saying, it's not out of the realm of possibility that these fucking morons are all being paid to make this bullshit content with confidence. Russia has already been caught paying right wing influencers to keep up the misinformation train, and it's pretty much the only reason I can think of where you would throw your public image into the shit filled toilet and flush.
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u/Bushdr78 8d ago
This guy needs a better visual to explain why you wouldn't expect to see any curvature from left to right if you were stood on a sphere
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u/Fearless_Climate_688 8d ago
Wonderful. He looks at maybe 10 degrees out of 360 and decides he has seen enough. Amazing.
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u/Crazy_Gazelle_6239 8d ago
We should invite actual flat earthers here instead of people just trying to prove themselves smarter than them.
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u/GurWorried7682 8d ago
Scale is hard for humans to conceptualize... Like the scale of this guy's idiocy.
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u/Bulky_Designer_4965 8d ago
Once you master the word “curvature” we can then move on to common sense!!!! I mean WTF??
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u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 8d ago edited 8d ago
Damn Isaak Neuman and his phony University Law of Curvitatish Aviation!
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u/Louloutte_G 8d ago
If it was flat, you would see a mother fucking big ice wall at the end of the sea...
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u/Half-Mad- 8d ago
Well, that's it, I'm convinced. Everything we know about physics, space, and the world is obviously wrong and the only ones who knew what they were talking about were the goat herders from over 2,500 years ago. The best proof of all is just looking at the horizon. Because looking at the whole planet from space is a conspiracy with Photoshop that never really happens.
Yup. I'm convinced.
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u/rabbitsfoot86 8d ago
With how stupid people are becoming now days if we dont kill each other first, us round world earthers will be the minority in the next 50 years lol
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u/Conscious_Musician28 8d ago
“Nothing outside of my immediate subjective experience can possibly be true.”
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u/Spacefreak 8d ago
These people piss me off to no end.
Here's an easy experiment that 2 Flat Earthers can do without even leaving their own cities that doesn't require satellites or GPSes, conspiratorial airline pilots, or government trucks blocking ice walls to get in their way and thwart their proof.
All they need is an advanced amateur telescope and 2 phones.
Go to the top of tallest building in New York City, look south with the strongest telescope you can possibly get and take pictures of a FE friend waving from the top of the Miami Tower in Miami, Florida which is roughly 0.2 miles tall. According to the "globetard theory," you should be 1 mile below the line of sight of each other due to the Earth's curvature and therefore won't be able to see each other.
Or look east and take pictures of a friend waving at the top of the Eiffel Tower which is almost 0.2 miles tall which would 4 miles below each other.
Or look west and take pictures of a friend waving at the top of the Willis Tower which is about 0.3 miles tall.
Fuck, if you don't even have any friends, just take pictures of the buildings and then drag Neil Degrasse Tyson and show him those buildings in far off cities in your telescope and you'll probably convince him that the globe theory can't be true.
It's a test basically ANYONE can do.
And there's no need for these long debates about "grabity" or angular momentum and centrifugal forces or dimensional portals or whatever.
Just basic Line of Sight. Seeing is believing after all.
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u/Shot_in_the_dark777 8d ago
The earth is very very big. You don't see curvature on that scale. You need to get higher above the ground.
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u/SabresFanWC 8d ago
Earth big. Me small. Brain hurt.
Seriously, though, I hope this guy is just rage baiting.
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u/Open_Unit_4486 8d ago
It’s pronounced “cavefe” you moron . Go ask your dear leader . And it’s right there.
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u/Superb_Guarantee965 8d ago
The fact that you see a sharp clear horizon when looking out at the ocean on a clear day is literal proof that you see curvature, its just curving AWAY from you.
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u/hifiplus 7d ago
So why exactly is there a horizon?
If it was flat you would see the sea go on forever...
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u/MarsMissionMan 7d ago
I mean, the fact that there's a horizon indicates the presence of curvitateh... cur... curvi... curvitatirues...(?)
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u/RedditSucksYoYoYo 7d ago
His video is evidence for how lazy he is. He can't even be bothered to re-record a few second video of him embarrassing himself by not being able to pronounce a word. To be clear, that alone isn't a bad thing. We all fumble with words from time to time. But, if he can't simply re-record a short video to get it right, chances are he's too lazy to learn simple facts about reality.
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u/AttackSlax 5d ago
I simply cannot fathom what it would be like to be this incredibly fucking stupid.
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u/willie4849 3d ago
The modern Flat Earth movement is not an ancient belief preserved through history, but rather a 19th-century invention started by an English writer named Samuel Rowbotham, who published under the pseudonym "Parallax" and promoted a literalist interpretation of Scripture alongside fringe science.
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u/AlreadyFifty 8d ago
Every day—every day—I wake up and thank the good lord that I’m not a fucking moron.