• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    What is the flat earth theory on orbits. How do they explain satellites staying up? Or do they think satellites are fake?

  • osanna@lemmy.vg
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    23 hours ago

    so, uhh, in flat earth theory, what exactly is underneath the earth? Where does the water go in the ocean? is there some kind of glass wall holding the water on top of the earth? JFC, people are fucking stupid.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
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      18 hours ago

      The interesting thing about flat earthers is that you can throw 10 of them in a room and they are most likely to not agree with one another. The “crazier” ones believe that we fly through space on a disk that is held up by 4 elephants on a giant turtle. The more “normal” ones believe it’s a huge dome/soundstage. It varies from dome to ice wall and so on. At the end of the day, nothing makes sense at all, but to them, neither does a globe.

  • huppakee@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    I call fake, many images have shown the world is not a perfect circle but more of a rectangle, example:

    Map of the earth

  • bryndos@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Fake, there’s no land at the edge.

    Its a big waterfall and the elephants beneath snort it up their noses and squirt it back up top so that it falls as rain.

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      2 days ago

      Also, because we experience gravity, we know there must be a giant thruster on the underside of the earth. I know people love the elegant simplicity of a giant earth coin floating in space but it just doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny.

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          2 days ago

          I have no patience for single-turtle hypothesists. What would it even push against? It doesn’t make sense. Now, if it were an infinite stack of turtles, each pushing against each other an infinitesimal amount, it could generate a constant 9.8m/s^2, so I don’t think we can rule out the many-turtles hypothesis. But I still think the simplest explanation is the most likely, and that is a giant rocket booster.

          Unless… a single turtle had four rocket boosters instead of flippers… that could work. Hold on, I need to diagram this out with some red yarn.

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            1 day ago

            The turtle is omnipotent and omniscient so therefore he can simply will it to be. He has no need of man’s rockets or the thoughts of men doubting him.