Flat-earther reaches 1875 feet in home-made steam rocket

[Camikazi]

Has nobody told him he can very easily just buy an off the shelf high altitude weather balloon and send his own equipment and cameras up on it to 120,000 feet?

Not that he would also understand of course that you need a wide angle to see the obvious curve even at this relatively low altitude but hey.

Last I heard they believe that camera lenses are created to have the curve built in at high altitudes.

 

[captaincranky]

Last I heard they believe that camera lenses are created to have the curve built in at high altitudes.

Look, you and I know the "truth". The earth is flat and that's all there is to it.

In fact, Greenland really is as big as it appears on a flat map, because the earth is flat.

The only way the earth can be made to appear spherical, Is by taking pictures of the moon, and then having digital artists render the supposed, "round earth's" features onto them. And even then, how can you really prove the moon is nothing more than a flat disc? You can't, so there..

Even if the US lunar landings had actually happened, (which of course, they didn't), you'd see that, the closer you got to the moon, the flatter it gets.

Then too, the moon's rotational period is exactly the same as its orbital period around the earth.

Thus, unlike "Stormy Daniels", it never lets you see its backside on camera.

 

[Bubbajim]

Elon Musk thinks we may be living in a computer generated reality, like in the Matrix movie. That's more lame than flat-eathers IMHO

I have to disagree - one we have multiple definitive proofs to show that it's wrong, the other is philosophically impossible to disprove. Life being a simulation is a way more interesting idea than the ridiculous idea that the world is flat.

 

[Igrecman]

I have to disagree - one we have multiple definitive proofs to show that it's wrong, the other is philosophically impossible to disprove. Life being a simulation is a way more interesting idea than the ridiculous idea that the world is flat.

I'd like to see the computer(s) that can simulate every event happening simultaneously in the whole universe since the beginning of time.
Yes Flat-Earthers are wrong of course, because every large celestial bodies are forced by gravity to be round, so why wouldn't the Earth be round too. Anyhow, every theory about the universe are pure speculations until it can be proven by mathematics. The most brilliant scientists have been working hard to find a "theory of everything" that could explain everything about anything that exists and unify every laws of physics. However after more than a century, still nothing. We may need several centuries until we understand all of the laws of quantum mechanics and lots of other weird stuff we don't even know about yet.

 

[Bubbajim]

I'd like to see the computer(s) that can simulate every event happening simultaneously in the whole universe since the beginning of time.

Part of the beauty of the idea is that you wouldn't need to simulate every event happening simultaneously in the universe, because you'd basically just be simulating one person's subjective experience, thus only having to simulate what it's like to exist in a universe where events happen simultaneously. I've never seen two blackholes collide, but apparently it happens, but instead of programming in all the conditions in the simulation to have blackholes collide, simply have the information that they do collide be part of my simulation. Simples!

 

[SBKenn]

So Elon Musk needs to grab one of these Flat Earthers and send them up for a free trip AROUND the earth with the express caveat that they must write a review when they land. That should be the end of it then?

Even if they saw it with their own eyes, they would find some excuse for it not showing what they wanted it to show.

 

[NahNood]

"Flat-earther reaches 1875 feet in home-made steam rocket" -- Yeh but is he any smarter now.