Flat Earthers Tell CBS News That Photos Of The Planet Are 'Utterly False'
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CBS News recently spoke to a group of so-called Flat Earthers who believe that the scientific community has pulled off a great hoax by claiming that the world is in the shape of a globe.
In a segment that aired on CBS Sunday Morning , reporter Brook Silva-Braga interviewed a group of people who are trying to prove that the world is flat and that a wall of ice around the perimeter is containing all of the sea water.
"Probably most people who hear about it will laugh at it, think we're idiots," Flat Earth believer Patricia Steere told CBS News. "We're not idiots. We're intelligent people from all walks of life and all ages."
According to Steere, photos of the Earth from space are "completely and utterly false." She believes that the Sun and the Moon are "probably about the same size." And she said that photos of astronauts are always "completely fake."
"We didn't go to the Moon," Steere explained. "And we don't have a rover on Mars. And we didn't do a fly-by of Pluto. And we've never been to space! Period."
"It's a giant game of chess and, we -- all of us in humanity -- are the pawns," she added. "Part of the whole fodder thing is keeping us locked down, not knowledgable about who we are, who we really are as people and what we're capable of."
But national security expert Tom Nichols told CBS News that the Flat Earth trend is part of a bigger problem.
"People have lost faith in experts," he said. "We've developed a kind of reverse snobbery that says, if you have a great deal of education, if you're at a well-known institution, by definition, you must be a liar."
"Younger people will say, 'The internet is a big library,'" he continued. "That's wrong. The internet is a big dumpster. There's no guarantee that anything you find on it is true."
Silva-Braga also spoke to Flat Earther Michael Hughes, who shot himself 6,000 feet high in a rocket to prove the Earth has no curvature.
"I just want people to question everything," Hughes said. "Question what your congressman's doing, your city council, question what really happened during the Civil War, what happened during 9/11."
Hughes vowed to take another rocket trip to the edge of space.
"I expect to see a flat disc up there," he insisted.
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These flat earthers believe that the world is shaped like a pie, with the edges of the crust being large walls of ice that hold all the earth's water i n place. Strange how they don't accept proof that the earth is round but haven't produced their own photos of this ice wall.
And if the earth is flat, why do things that are over the horizon become visible as we move toward them?
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We have people who want to bamboozle everyone. It is a game to them, and some of them undoubtedly hope to make money off the stupidity of others.
Do these dipsticks understand what a flat earth lunar eclipse would look like?
This was a blurb from these idiots on Twitter,
LOL LOL LOL ...
Scrachin head !!!
LOL LOL LOL ...
Duuu well yeah !
That wording does kinda pose a ideological problem there doesn't it. Irony at its finest !.
Love it, Thanks !
If the world was truly flat, cats would have pushed everything off of the edge by now.
Neil Degrasse Tyson was trolling these morons a while back. They had no idea how stupid they looked.
Pinches gatos !
They seem to lack the intellectual capacity to understand that.
They have already started to...
Nonsense! They can't possibly have followers "all around the globe"...because as everyone knows..the Earth is flat!
So therefore all their followers are obviously all on top...
(Any who were foolish enough to try to get to the other side would... FALL OFF!)
Well, I like pie. Lol
So... What's on the other side? Where does lava come from? When climate change melts the ice wall does all the water just fall off? So many questions.
Why hasn't anybody been to, photographed, or climbed the ice wall? Why is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus round when the Earth is flat? Haven't these guys ever flown in an airplane?
Thank god for the ice wall, otherwise the atmosphere and oceans will fly away from the earth.
Just can't believe the devils from nasa.
Is a special notation actually needed for this post?
I wonder how they explain the phases of the moon.
One flat disc passing another flat disc.
Fair enough. I might have to look in to this deeper . . .
"Fun With Fundies" never ends...
So what, 40 percent of the country believe something even crazier. They believe that Donald Trump is acceptable as a president.
At least they don't believe in single payer healthcare.
I wonder what the leader of the flat earth society would say if he were to be put on the International Space Station for a day.
Actually, I'll guess: "Weightlessness causes people's imagination to exceed reality."
I'm pretty sure it is considered a trick of the nasa devils.
Optical illusion ........
My boss’s wife is a flat earther, Qanon follower, believes seven types of extraterrestrials walk among us (she’s personally met four of them), and there isn’t a conspiracy theory that she doesn’t support. He lets her wander around the office about once a month spilling her crazy all over the place. He never spews that nonsense himself, but marrying a person like that means you’re only a step away from being that person. Yeah, I need a new job, and I’m looking.
Does that include the crab people? or mole men?
Sounds like an Alex Jones fan.
Or she's really good in bed.
Don't forget the Sleestaks .... google eyed bastards ....
LOL!
I know one of them.
RIP Marty!
Loved him in Young Frankenstein .....
What hump?
YEP! "walk THIS way"... Classic movie.
Lol .... i love the gag they did by moving his hump from one side to the other in different shots. Marty did that on his own without telling anyone. Took awhile for Mel to catch it but he loved it and added it to the movie.
Good stuff!
Marty was good at sight gags like that.
I suppose all I can say is, wow!
Life imitating art, these folks are making a strong case for an Idiocracy (oh, that's right we're already there)
Don't you know? Those pictures are an "optical delusion".
1) Yes, you are.
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"Probably most people who hear about it will laugh at it, think we're idiots," Flat Earth believer Patricia Steere told CBS News. "We're not idiots. We're intelligent people from all walks of life and all ages."
Apparently these are intelligent people who've never called someone on the other side of the planet while it was day time out. I'd love to hear a flat earthers explanation of how it can be midnight in one place on earth while it's noon on the other. Exactly how does that happen with a flat earth model? And do they truly believe mankind simply hasn't found the "edge" yet? Where exactly does the earth flip to the other side?
LOL.
Easy, everyone is looking down.
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I dare a flat earther to set sail until they fall off the edge. If any of them can offer proof that they did fall off I will send them twenty bucks.
Speaking of false udders,