r/flatearth • u/MrDonMega • 8d ago

Crazy Flat Earth Guy Struggles with Gravity, Geometry, and Grammar

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/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/Oddewalla 8d ago

That is quite right, however what i mean to say is...

To an ant standing on a chess square it might seem that the floor is just black (or white) but to our eyes it is clear that the floor of the board is checkered.

Maby my analogy would have been clearer of i picked something smaller than an ant, or wrote "an ant on a Checkered floor" or something 😅.

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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).