Internet Gutter: Welcome to the Flat Earth
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The internet is a strange and terrifying place. It’s enabled us to connect with one another, advance the causes of science and culture, and unite the world with a glowing net of data. It’s also enabled people with very… particular interests to find each other. In this new ongoing series, we’ll be dipping into the Internet Gutter – the strange subcultures and weird worlds lurking in the dark pockets of the World Wide Web.
If you ask a smart scientist about the concept of “proof,” they’ll always end up hedging you. We can’t 100% prove anything, really – just assemble enough data to support a hypothesis over other hypotheses. That’s how Aristotle came to the realization that the Earth is a sphere floating in space and not a flat plane around 330 BC.
One would think that the intervening 2300 years or so – in which we, you know, went outside the Earth’s atmosphere and saw it for ourselves – would have put the nail in that particular coffin.
But for every piece of science there must be a skeptic, and it shouldn’t surprise you that Flat Earthers are alive and well on the Internet. This devoted group of truthers mandate that all of the so-called “evidence” we’ve seen of the planet’s rotundity was either misinterpreted or faked.
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Brother needs to lay off the party pharmaceuticals.
Oh man, ding dong.
I didn't read the whole article yet. How do they explain the receding horizon?
Maybe the same way they explain my receding hairline - it's now at the back of my head.
The earth is flat ... in some places and not in others . There are ways to demonstrate the earth's curvature w/o traveling off the planet . But they require understanding complex concepts .
Not really. Sailing will demonstrate it pretty quickly as islands rise over the horizon.
Why would John dislike that comment?!
Probably because he saw no purpose in it.
Whiat? The Earth isn't flat? Whose crazy idea is that?
I thought the moon landing conspiracists were the craziest. I stand corrected.
Hey, it really is flat. Here is proof.
That was me going over Niagra... sorry about the confusion.
You're supposed to use a barrel. Amateur...
I used a barrel the first time felt like a hamster running in a wheel so this time I took a straight approach. Also I got to see Toronto on the way down.
Actually if you were in the observation/restaurant tower at Niagara Falls, you could on a clear day see Toronto.
Perrie, was that you on the news? We hear about these things all the time here.
That was me going over Niagra
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Perrie, is that you in the barrel?
Ever since I was a little kid whether at school or at home this is the kind of map I saw. As you can see, the world is flat, it is not spherical.
As you can see, the world is flat, it is not spherical.
Of course its flat!
How do I know? Because if it were spherical, the Chinese would be underneath-- and they would all fall off!
(The Ozzies as well)
Wrong map Buzz...
I used this map everyday, and this clearly shows that the world ends in Amersham.
Aha! No wonder they're so obsessed with "Mind the Gap!" on the London Underground!
I always wondered why...but know I no that the warning is so you don't fall off the edge of the earth!
See.. you get it! That is one big gap in Amersham!
Nope-- it ends in Shady Grove-- at the end of the Red Line!
CAn anyone guess what town this is (without peeking at the Blue line?)