/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3235534]

Flat Earth Theory.


Could it be true?

[Anonymous No.3235541]

Most likely, you never know for sure

[Anonymous No.3235549]

only if half the people on earth are purposely lying to you about it and pending half their time falsifying evidence.

[Anonymous No.3235557]

>>3235549

FUCKING OZZIES

[Anonymous No.3235564]

don't be silly, everyone knows its doughnut shape

[Anonymous No.3235566]

More likely than the existence of a god

[Anonymous No.3235571]

>>3235549

[Anonymous No.3235572]

>>3235549

It wouldn't have to be half the people. Just airline pilots and shit.

[Anonymous No.3235589]

OK, I'll bite.

Explain timezones under a Flat Earth Theory.

[Anonymous No.3235597]

>>3235589

in air light only moves at about 1000 miles and hour

[Anonymous No.3235598]

>>3235589

What is there to explain? The sun passes over the Earth. If it's directly overhead me it can't be directly overhead you.

[Anonymous No.3235616]

if the ice melts, wouldn't the sea run off the flat earth?

[Anonymous No.3235617]

>>3235598

Why even bother responding to such a retard. He probably wouldn't get it anyways.

I hate how all these "scientists" think they can prove that the earth is round when clearly humans are just animals deriving knowledge from the limited amount of information we can process. Bunch of fucking retards if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.3235621]

[Anonymous No.3235624]

>>3235589
here, this explains, just learn the math, do the calculations and it will become clear
http://www.timecube.com/

[Anonymous No.3235644]

>>3235572

Almost every retard with a little money can book a flight on a plane and see the curvature of the earth for themselves.

Every retard can look through a telescope and see that every other large body in our solar system is a sphere. There is no reason to assume that earth is an exception.

>>3235598

You didn't think that through

[None !/oddSpacew No.3235645]

only if we're accelerating at <span class="math">9.81m/s^{2}[/spoiler]. It isn't possible that our earth is flat, as the sun shines of different parts at different times.

[Anonymous No.3235649]

2/10

[Anonymous No.3235662]

>>3235649

>2011
>doesn't understand the difference between a troll and a joke

[Anonymous No.3235675]

>>3235662
A joke on /sci/ begins: "Two e-positive c-coli were sitting at a bar..." not "Flat Earth Theory.", the latter of which is trolling.

[Anonymous No.3235676]

>>3235598
Explain different sizes of shadows at different parts of the world

[Anonymous No.3235696]

Hey OP, where did you get the line "teach the controversy" it sounds so familiar, i heard it many times before, remind me.

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3235707]

EARTH HAS 4 CORNER

SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY

TIME CUBE

IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

4 CORNER DAYS, CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH-

trollface.jpg

[Anonymous No.3235708]

>>3235696
it's an intelligent design slogan.

ofc those guys make evolution controversial by opposing so I say we follow their advice and teach evolution

[Anonymous No.3235712]

out of all the conspiracy theories, this one makes the least sense of all

if you assume the moon landings were faked, there was a good reason to cover it up
if you assume 9/11 was an inside job, there was a good reason to cover it up
if you assume the earth is flat... why the fuck would anybody care?

[Anonymous No.3235713]

>>3235675

>he doesn't know what trolling is
>laughingwhores.jpg

[Anonymous No.3235718]

>>3235713
See? Christians ARE dumber than everyone else on the internet.

[Anonymous No.3235719]

whats stops aircraft from flying off the edge.
thinking about why send rockets up when we could ust send them to the left or right

[Anonymous No.3235722]

>>3235644

>
Every retard can look through a telescope and see that every other large body in our solar system is a sphere. There is no reason to assume that earth is an exception.

HEY RETARD, HOW DO YOU SEE THAT OTHER "LARGE BODIES" IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ARE SPHERES?

WHAT BRILLIANT DEVICE DO YOU HAVE THAT LETS YOU SEE THE 3 DIMENSIONAL SHAPE OF A FUCKING PLANET INSTEAD OF A 2D CIRCLE????

Retard looks at a disk and cant explain it.

OMG flat AND round??!??!?!

[Anonymous No.3235728]

>>3235722
umm... because they rotate.

[Anonymous No.3235733]

>>3235534

[Anonymous No.3235735]

>>3235722

You are a moron.

[Anonymous No.3235739]

>>3235733

[Anonymous No.3235741]

If we are gonna teach flat earth, then we should teach expanding earth.

[Anonymous No.3235744]

>>3235739

[Anonymous No.3235748]

Why should I prove that the Earth ISN'T flat?

It's your job to prove it is flat.

[Anonymous No.3235749]

>>3235722
>You are this mad

[Anonymous No.3235750]

>>3235733
NASA photoshop those photos. They invented photoshop back in 1969 just to keep the lizard mens moon base secret.

[Anonymous No.3235754]

>>3235750
They also invented your computer.

[Anonymous No.3235772]

>>3235754

and you have to ask yourself why the Apollo Lunar Module had 4 seats for a crew of 3?
And why isn't there any mention of a 4th seat on any of the blue prints!? What are they hiding, who or what was that 4th seat intended for?

[Anonymous No.3235817]

>>3235772
What comes to mind is more of this:
That's quite the assertion. Do you have proof to back your assertion up? After all, the one making the claim need back it up using evidence.

[Anonymous No.3235836]

>>3235735

HEY SAMEFAG, INSULTED?

YOU SHOULD BE, BECAUSE YOU ARE IN FACT, NOT AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE.

>calling others retarded
>is himself retarded not to know that images in a telescope are 2D

YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY ORBIT A FUCKING PLANET TO KNOW FOR SURE THAT IT IS ROUND. WE CAN ONLY GUESS THEY ARE SPHERICAL FROM WHAT WE OBSERVE, BUT ANY AMOUNT OF ANOMALOUS EXPLANATIONS COULD EXPLAIN OUR OBSERVATIONS

[Anonymous No.3235843]

>>3235836

Never mind the fact that we have satellites space stations and moons orbiting around all over the place.

Just pointing out the flaw in your argument.

[None !/oddSpacew No.3235850]

>>3235836
Too obvious. Nobody *really* uses cruise control for cool.

[Anonymous No.3235860]

Eratosthenes and his trigonometric calculations

[Anonymous No.3235863]

>thread about Earth being flat
>/sci/
>turns into actual debate

[Anonymous No.3235864]

>>3235843
Orbits and space photos are just a Jew/Darwinist conspiracy and prove nothing. Teach the controversy.

[Anonymous No.3235867]

>>3235864
and your evidence?

[Anonymous No.3235870]

If the Earth was flat then gravity would either be uniform or it would be stronger in the "middle" if it was like OP's pic. Gravity is slightly stronger at the poles than the equate due to the shape of the Earth.

[Anonymous No.3235873]

>>3235863
>actual debate
Sure? I still hop all of this might be trolling.

[Anonymous No.3235877]

1) the shadow of the Earth on the Moon in a lunar eclipse is always a segment of a circle. The only shape whose shadow is always circular is a sphere.
2) as you travel north the pole star rises higher in the sky, as you travel south it sinks lower. This at least proves a cylindrical shape.
3) as ships sail off in the distance, no only do they appear to shrink, as expected, but the hull disappears before the mast and sails, proving some sort of curvature.

[Anonymous No.3235885]

>>3235843

Uh. Thats how we know that the EARTH and the MOON are round. CARE TO EXPLAIN HOW JUST BECAUSE THESE TWO ARE ROUND, ALL OTHER "LARGE BODIES" IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS ROUND?

[Anonymous No.3235890]

>>3235885
Mind explaining why only the earth and the moon are round and everything else is not?

Got some evidence to share that supports your claim?

[Anonymous No.3235897]

>>3235885

We've sent probes to orbit every planet in the solar system at least once.

[Anonymous No.3235898]

>>3235890

Not implying that the others arent spherical as well.

Im just pointing out the previous poster's claim that

>Every retard can look through a telescope and see that every other large body in our solar system is a sphere.

Thats some fucking good 3D scanning telescope you have there.

Not a flat earth proponent. Just someone raging at someone else for not knowing the difference between a sphere and a circle.

[Anonymous No.3235899]

>>3235890

It's not a logically valid statement. Even if you see 10 round planet, 100, 1000, 9001, there could still be a flat planet (from a logical standpoint). All it would take to bring the argument down is a single example. This is the problem with induction.

It would be better to say "Planets cannot be flat therefore all planets are round."

[Anonymous No.3235909]

>>3235899

>there could still be a flat planet (from a logical standpoint).

No, not anymore. That'd be a funky huge asteroid with a clear orbital field, but not a "planet".

[Anonymous No.3235913]

>>3235899
No...

You would have to prove that a flat planet could exist. If you could prove that an object of sufficient mass does not assume a spherical-esque shape then you would have disproven the laws of gravity.

Therefore, it is more logical to ask very simply "Do you have proof of it?" Than to assume that all objects are round.

[Anonymous No.3235916]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "FLAT PLANET" BECAUSE THE DEFINITION OF PLANET PRECLUDES NON-ROUND OBJECTS

[Anonymous No.3235917]

>>3235909

Talking about semantics doesn't invalidate what I said. What I said was true even if the reason all planets are round is that the definition of planet is something round. It's good to avoid purely inductive statements because they're harder to prove.

[Anonymous No.3235927]

>>3235917
L2 Gravity.

[Anonymous No.3235932]

>>3235885
due to gravity, all shapes attempt to become a sphere over time, the larger (rather, the more mass) an item is , the easier it is.

flat earth doesn't work unless the earth is somehow spinning so quickly that the centripital force exceeds the force exerted by earth's gravity.

[Anonymous No.3235929]

>>3235909

Why cant it be a planet.

It was obviously (fuck me if im wrong) derived from the word "plane".

A flat surface is the very definition of the word plane.

You can have a multi-layered plane for example, if a planet during its cooling period had spun so fast that it continued on from being merely pear-shaped (as we have now for lack of speed) to something almost disk-like.

It'd have all the features and layers of a planet, just be really really really flat.

[Anonymous No.3235946]

>Start flat earth thread as a joke
>Come back 2 hours later
>They are seriously discussing it

[Anonymous No.3235948]

>>3235929

>It was obviously (fuck me if im wrong) derived from the word "plane".

Well fuck you, because "planet" comes from the GREEK "planaō", meaning "I wander", while "plane" comes from the LATIN "planus", meaning "level".

[sage No.3235954]

please save /sci/

[Anonymous No.3235955]

>>3235929
*Fucks you cause you are wrong*

You told us to.

A planet (from Greek πλανήτης αστήρ) "wandering star"

[sage No.3235963]

this topic is retarded

[Anonymous No.3235971]

>>3235963

>I can't sage right.

[Belisaurius No.3235974]

Well if gravity warps space...

[Anonymous No.3235985]

>>3235963

Maybe a poorly disguised effort to bump?

The discussion here is relevant to /sci/ though.

Take a look at the stickied guide to /sci/, flat earth is part of it.

Anyway, its quite a silly discussion because nobody here is actually a proponent for flat earth. The debaters are just tearing themselves up on semantics and technicalities....

[Anonymous No.3235987]

>>3235971
don't know about nokosage

[Anonymous No.3236007]

>>3235955
Source of this pic? Tell me and i will admit to lying about living on the far side of the planet

[Anonymous No.3236016]

>mfw nobody ITT has managed to refute flat earth theory

[Anonymous No.3236022]

>>3236016
The Coriolis effect.

What do I win?

[Anonymous No.3236024]

>>3236016
MFW when anon cannot read.

[Anonymous No.3236027]

ships disappearing over the horizon.

do i win too?

[Anonymous No.3236033]

>>3235534
>makes post about the idea of the Earth actually being flat
>posts pic showing the sphere that is the Earth, from space
>mfw

Congratulations, OP, you're the most retarded, failed troll I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.3236037]

>>3236007
farked if I remember. Also, I live here in Japan. If the world was flat, Japan would have daylight like the states at this very moment etc etc etc.

[Anonymous No.3236097]

>>3236027
They just fell off, bro