Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 26, 2023

Remember that idiot who killed himself while trying to somehow prove that the world is flat using a steam-powered rocket? He was an idiot.

And Bob’s your uncle

If you have money, you can book a series of flights around the world. Even if Bob did that, he might believe the maps.

Cute. But even Flat Earthers must have noticed that there are cliffs and so forth. The “flat” is really in opposition to “sphere-like” not “like an ironing board”.

Not a bluff?

I like that the red cross out “circle” on his shirt is a square. Clever.

Take a telescope to the top of any tall building in America and see how far you can see. For best results do this on one of the coasts.

Let’s start in New York, look east. You wont see England or Europe, so I guess that that tells us those places do not exist.

I was in Amarillo once and went 20 some floors up in a tall building. Amarillo is so ‘flat’ that you can see the curvature of the Earth at that height.

Hopefully Bob joined the Flat Earth Society… they have members all around the globe

The earth may not be flat, but my brother’s head is.

i would love it if Wiley would make an Obvious Man strip ! I miss him.

That is just a cliff. To get to the proper end of the world, you need to journey to the Ice Wall, past the 10000 naval ships protecting it so no one can get there.

I presume that she, like me, much prefers conversations with her dog.

Why does the edge of the Earth have a valley floor and a far side, Bob?

Check the Cliff notes.

Cats have already proven that the earth is NOT flat! If the Earth were flat, kitties would have FOUND the ends and knocked stuff off of it. Mostly between 1-4am, too.

A flat earth, or any other shape that is not spherical, violates the immutable laws of physics. Any mass larger than about 400 to 600 meters in diameter WILL form a roughly spherical shape due to the effects of gravity.

The only time in history that humans believed the earth was flat is from about 1850 CE to today. The height of this absurd belief came to be shortly after humans walked on the moon.

Well, his hat’s the right color…

some 78% of our Earth is comprised of non-carbonated water, so technically…

“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

Attributed to Galileo.

And yet, they are still allowed to breed and vote.

People who believe that the Earth is flat have apparently grew up in certain parts of the Midwest where you can see the grain elevators of towns dozens of miles away.

The Greeks figured this out several hundred years BCE and they even got the size of the planet to within about 5%: a fact ignored by Columbus.

For everyday living, a flat earth model works. I seldom build things so big that I have to take the curvature of the Earth into account.

Definitely in contention to be a Darwin award winner.

Bob’s last selfie.

And they call Bob an idiot. Good call.

A cliff bar? That makes no sense??

The Earth is NOT flat. If it were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.

It takes all kinds …..☹️

Since the moon is a rock and rocks don’t reflect light, it is really a spotlight in the sky. That is why no one ever landed on it. I love the insanity of it all.

Don’t jump, Bob.

people around the planet believe the earth is flat!head slap, eye roll deep sigh!

They know the earth is flat because the alien reptiles told them so.

When people claim the Earth is flat, they generally mean “horizontal-flat”, not “vertical-flat”….

the puppy is adorable!

Let Bob jump. It will be addition by subtraction.

If the earth was flat, my cat would have pushed everything off the edge by now!! ;D

Well of course the earth is flat. The Jewish Space Lasers destroyed the rest only leaving the flat part. MTG: 3:4-5

The Earth is not flat. Florida is flat. Kansas is flat. The Earth is not flat…

Like a post I saw pointed out, if the Earth was flat Disney would have built a theme park on the edge.

Now break the news to him about gravity.

“I’m king of the end of the world!”

I was at my exercise place when I overheard two young men discussing “flat earth” fallacy. Both were quite serious about the topic. I had to stick my nose in what was my business… teaching. I told the FE young man that he should watch a lunar eclipse… the earth throws a circular shadow, not an oval. Constellations change… if flat, they’d always be the same. Over the following centuries, knowledge of a globe-shaped Earth spread through the astronomers of Europe, India and the Arab world.… the first direct proof that Earth was a spherical globe was in 1519, when the Magellan–Elanco expedition first circumnavigated the globe. I reminded him that the astronauts were in space and they could see the planet was circular. I don’t know if I changed his mind but I tried.

Well, the earth is flat while you are standing on it, that’s why the theory lasted as long as it did.

It’s flat for all of my purposes. The sun comes up, travels slowly across the sky ; then disappears until tomorrow.

Perfect!! LOLOL!!

Great expressive art!…

“When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.” —Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American science-fiction writer

It’s turtles all the way down. I live on a street called Tortuga. I love it.

Modern day Christopher Columbus

So close … and yet sooooo far!

Love the dog.

The best part is that on a clear day from Everest’s summit, a good telescope allows you to see the Pyramids of Giza, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge simultaneously!

And don’t forget the 4th boat lost in Columbus’s voyage of discovery. It was the one who got too close to the edge!

Yeah, there’s MORE on the other side. What you’re looking at is not the end of the Earth.

“There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber’s wall.Their eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all”. (The Man From Ironbark, by A.B. Paterson)

Seems every week somebody backs over a precipice at the Grand Canyon yelling “Take My Picture!”

“Jump off it, Bob, and then you’ll be flat…”