Flat Earth?

[SpuffMonkey]

Given everything is held in by a wall of ice - the flat earthers must be pretty damned worried by "global" warming!

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Given everything is held in by a wall of ice - the flat earthers must be pretty damned worried by "global" warming!

 

Pretty sure they'll argue that doesn't apply to Discworld® inhabitants

[Rob_D]

Of course there's no "Discal warming". You see, the see the disk is constantly accelerating upward (this is what creates the illusion of gravity) and everyone knows the higher you get the colder it gets. So the Disk is obviously cooling.

 

...right?

[sted]

Of course there's no "Discal warming". You see, the see the disk is constantly accelerating upward (this is what creates the illusion of gravity) and everyone knows the higher you get the colder it gets. So the Disk is obviously cooling.

 

...right?

 

add to that hot air rises and that should solve discal warming lol

[Rob_D]

add to that hot air rises and that should solve discal warming lol

But is the hot air rising faster than the disk? Or maybe it goes through phases where we catch up to it and that explains summer and winter?

[sted]

But is the hot air rising faster than the disk? Or maybe it goes through phases where we catch up to it and that explains summer and winter?

 

it has to rise faster than the disc or it could never rise at all lol

[unixman_again]

Australia is a hoax https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/theres-new-flat-earth-theory-14609665

 

"...reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong"

 

I didn't know that I was computer generated. I guess that means my entire life has been somebody playing The Sims and I don't really exist, so I'm not really typing this. Jeez - I've got a headache!

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Australia is a hoax https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/theres-new-flat-earth-theory-14609665

 

"...reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong"

 

I didn't know that I was computer generated. I guess that means my entire life has been somebody playing The Sims and I don't really exist, so I'm not really typing this. Jeez - I've got a headache!

 

We have an "Australian" here in the office. He won't accept that he's a paid actor or a computer simulation either. Damn method actors!

[mikes]

I always knew there was something fishy about that Neighbours

[DJ-1701]

Australia is a hoax https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/theres-new-flat-earth-theory-14609665

 

"...reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong"

 

I didn't know that I was computer generated. I guess that means my entire life has been somebody playing The Sims and I don't really exist, so I'm not really typing this. Jeez - I've got a headache!

 

The whole universe is computer generated, don't they know that?! *scoffs*... that's why there is so much corruption in the English language the further you get from Buckingham Palace.

[mikeprice]

So - let me get this right

 

Australia doesn't exist - OK

 

We already 'know' that Finland doesn't exist

 

so - what next

 

do I exist??

 

does EduGeek exist??

 

even do the mods actually exist

are we all worried about nothing

maybe @witch can't actually turn transgressors into frogs???

 

 

Nah - seems daft to me

[sted]

Australia is a hoax https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/theres-new-flat-earth-theory-14609665

 

"...reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong"

 

I didn't know that I was computer generated. I guess that means my entire life has been somebody playing The Sims and I don't really exist, so I'm not really typing this. Jeez - I've got a headache!

 

if you go down that road how do you prove anyone exists and isnt made up by your own brain (or that your memories etc arnt imagined by someone else) as far as im aware it impossible to prove we arnt all the dream of some random thing in some dimension somewhere never mind it all being a simulation (or a simulation in a simulation in a simulation . . . )

[mavhc]

I am thinking, therefore I am

[sted]

I am thinking, therefore I am

or even i think im thinking therefore i possible may be

[ICTDirect_Dave]

I HAVE CONCRETE PROOF THAT THE FLAT EARTH THEORY AND NON-EXISTENT AUSTRALIA THEORY ARE TRUE!!!!!!!

 

 

HE CONFESSED!

 

http://www.ict-direct.co.uk/media/edugeek/pete.jpg

[DJ-1701]

Going viral in 3... 2... 1...

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Going viral in 3... 2... 1...

 

If I'd bothered to sign up to the flat earth forum, I'd be trolling them right now.

[mikeprice]

I HAVE CONCRETE PROOF THAT THE FLAT EARTH THEORY AND NON-EXISTENT AUSTRALIA THEORY ARE TRUE!!!!!!!

 

 

HE CONFESSED!

 

http://www.ict-direct.co.uk/media/edugeek/pete.jpg

 

Well - that's me convinced - proof positive

 

 

always thought there was something weird about Australians

[Arthur]

🤯

 

Gary Heather, Darren Nesbit and Martin Kenny are part of ‘The Flat Earthers’ who come from all ‘four corners’ of the globe even claiming that gravity is fake and The Moon Landing of 1969 was a hoax. So are their ideas ‘from another planet’ or have we all been conned by science?

 

Broadcast on 02/05/2018

 

Edited May 5, 2018 by Arthur

[DJ-1701]

That video reminds me of a saying... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

[witch]

maybe @witch can't actually turn transgressors into frogs???

 

Do you wanna risk it??

[mikeprice]

Do you wanna risk it??

 

Nah

 

Your ok

 

Anyway it would be inconvenient as I'm on my honeymoon at the moment

[Katy]

Nah

 

Your ok

 

Anyway it would be inconvenient as I'm on my honeymoon at the moment

"Mike, when I said I'd marry you I didn't expect you to turn into a frog on honeymoon!"

 

(Bet you didn't have an "if I turn into a frog" exception in the vows though? )

[Arthur]

I wonder what's underneath the earth then.

Something eggy (assuming the disc we live on is inside a giant cosmic egg)?

 

I watched an entire Flat Earth Convention for my research—here’s what I learned

 

Speakers recently flew in from around (or perhaps, across?) the Earth for a three-day event held in Birmingham: the UK’s first ever public Flat Earth Convention. It was well attended, and it wasn’t just three days of speeches and YouTube clips (though, granted, there was a lot of this). There was also a lot of team-building, networking, debating, workshops—and scientific experiments.

 

Yes, flat-Earthers do seem to place a lot of emphasis and priority on scientific methods and, in particular, on observable facts. The weekend in no small part revolved around discussing and debating science, with lots of time spent running, planning, and reporting on the latest set of flat-Earth experiments and models. Indeed, as one presenter noted early on, flat-Earthers try to “look for multiple, verifiable evidence” and advised attendees to “always do your own research and accept you might be wrong."

 

While flat-Earthers seem to trust and support scientific methods, what they don’t trust is scientists, and the established relationships between "power" and "knowledge." This relationship between power and knowledge has long been theorized by sociologists. By exploring this relationship, we can begin to understand why there is a swelling resurgence of flat-Earthers.

 

[...]

 

Throughout the weekend, multiple competing models of Earth shapes were suggested, including "classic" flat Earth, domes, ice walls, diamonds, puddles with multiple worlds inside, and even the Earth as the inside of a giant cosmic egg. However, the discussion often did not revolve around the models on offer, but on broader issues of attitudes towards existing structures of knowledge, and the institutions that supported and presented these structures.

 

In the 21st century, we are witnessing another important shift in both power and knowledge due to factors that include the increased public platforms afforded by social media. Knowledge is no longer centrally controlled and—as has been pointed out in the wake of Brexit—the age of the expert may be passing. Now, everybody has the power to create and share content. When Michael Gove, a leading proponent of Brexit, proclaimed: “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts,” it would seem that he, in many ways, meant it.

 

It is also clear that we’re seeing increased polarization in society, as we continue to drift away from agreed singular narratives and move into camps around shared interests. Recent Pew research suggests, for example, that 80 percent of voters who backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election—and 81 percent of Trump voters—believe the two sides are unable to agree on basic facts.

 

Despite early claims that a worldwide shared resource of knowledge such as the internet would create peace, harmony, and a common interpretation of reality (this idea comes from as far back as HG Well’s "world brain" essays in 1936), it appears that quite the opposite has happened. With the increased voice afforded by social media, knowledge has been increasingly decentralized, and competing narratives have emerged.

 

 

https://youtu.be/iigUBjf4-pc

[SpuffMonkey]

Its never been entirely clear to me WHY there should be a conspiracy about whether the earth is flat or spherical? Who gains from the (so called) conspiracy?