Funny, in my 30’s I’d hear the fine XTC song Senses Working Overtime. At the time, I thought the line And all the world is football shaped meant it was distorted round, a prolate spheroid (North American football). As I got older, it hit me that, British band football is what we call soccer, hence round. Duh!
Flat earthers have an answer for most evidence that the earth is really a sphere(ish), but there’s one thing I’ve never heard them explain – time zones. If the word were flat, the sun would rise on all the earth at the same time, so why can it be daytime in one place while it’s the middle of the night somewhere else?
I was going over the pass into Sun Valley, Id. in a white out blizzard. It was a ragged old truck- "67 f150, and I figured since I couldn’t see the road, I would just bounce off the guard rails (Bumper thingys). I got over the pass, and stopped for gas. The lady says, You just came over the pass in THIS ? I told her my plan of playing bumper pool with the guard rails, and she kindly informed me there are none. God is GOOD.
I know that flat-earthers are wrong. But anti-flat-earthers are wrong too. What’s the point in putting all that effort into contradicting them? It’s their belief, so what? It’s like if one group believes that god said A and the other believes that the same god said B, one is wrong for sure because god is perfect and can’t be misinterpreted. Can you imagine? They’d be still fighting for it! :D
I was at my exercise spot when I overheard a couple young men speaking. One of them asked me if I thought the world was flat. I said no. He asked me how did I know… if the world was round, why didn’t we fall off it. I kindly reminded him of gravity. His friend tried to explain, too. I don’t know if he was convinced or if he still believed it.
Astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner has spent some effort dealing with the arguments and “experiments” presented in favor of a Flat Earth, not so much to correct those behind them (mostly lost causes at this point), but to help protect those who might be curious and might otherwise have been taken in.
I always knew there were people who said they believed the earth is flat, but I always thought they were joking. What a shock when I realized they were serious.
I would say we have plenty of photos of Earth from space but they don’t believe in that either. Let them crawl back to their caves. Maybe it is a happy place for the ignorant, who knows.
I once read that the whole thing about Columbus trying to prove the world was round, was started by his grandson who didn’t like the idea that his grandfather was wrong.
It is actually physically impossible for the earth to be other than spherical (almost) since gravity would automatically pull any object as big as the earth into a sphere. Centripetal force at the equator turns earth into a slightly flattened sphere.
In all fairness, if you look on a flat earth map (they do exist, including on the UN emblem), you can go in circles just by continually going east or west. On such a map, there is a north pole, but no south pole. Where you would fall off is the edge, which on a flat earth map, is surrounded by an icy edge, that sphere maps redefined as being a “continent.”
And unlike what some people said in their comments, the majority of humanity as late as the early 20th Century believed earth was flat. Can’t recall the exact percentage, but at the time of the Apollo program in the 1960’s, I heard that something like 25% of Americans were still flat earthers.
I will leave it there, before I am accused of being “stupid” or not believing in science…
BasilBruce about 1 month ago
Actually, in Columbus’ time nobody thought the Earth was flat; everyone knew it was round, except Columbus who thought it was pear-shaped.
sirbadger about 1 month ago
Maybe there are portals on one edge that send you to the other edge.
orinoco womble about 1 month ago
If the world were flat all the cats would have pushed everything on earth over the edge, just to watch it fall.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 1 month ago
I thought the “bumper thingies” were like pinball.
Asharah about 1 month ago
The water is in the middle and the land is around the edges, keeping the oceans contained.
Concretionist about 1 month ago
If the Earth WERE flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now. We have things. QED.
syzygy47 about 1 month ago
Funny, in my 30’s I’d hear the fine XTC song Senses Working Overtime. At the time, I thought the line And all the world is football shaped meant it was distorted round, a prolate spheroid (North American football). As I got older, it hit me that, British band football is what we call soccer, hence round. Duh!
deojaideep aka Courage about 1 month ago
Hold on! Don’t let me get started on Lord!
iggyman about 1 month ago
Rat is a member of the Flat Earth Society?
Purple People Eater about 1 month ago
Flat earthers have an answer for most evidence that the earth is really a sphere(ish), but there’s one thing I’ve never heard them explain – time zones. If the word were flat, the sun would rise on all the earth at the same time, so why can it be daytime in one place while it’s the middle of the night somewhere else?
MS72 about 1 month ago
Baltimore needs some of those little bumper thingies.
win.45mag about 1 month ago
I was going over the pass into Sun Valley, Id. in a white out blizzard. It was a ragged old truck- "67 f150, and I figured since I couldn’t see the road, I would just bounce off the guard rails (Bumper thingys). I got over the pass, and stopped for gas. The lady says, You just came over the pass in THIS ? I told her my plan of playing bumper pool with the guard rails, and she kindly informed me there are none. God is GOOD.
Ellis97 about 1 month ago
Rat is just an idiot.
James Wolfenstein about 1 month ago
I know that flat-earthers are wrong. But anti-flat-earthers are wrong too. What’s the point in putting all that effort into contradicting them? It’s their belief, so what? It’s like if one group believes that god said A and the other believes that the same god said B, one is wrong for sure because god is perfect and can’t be misinterpreted. Can you imagine? They’d be still fighting for it! :D
robcarroll1213 about 1 month ago
Comic drawing in 2024: Draw the 1st panel and copy 3 times…
Slowly, he turned... about 1 month ago
We live in a kid’s bowling lane. That explains so much!
RobinHood about 1 month ago
If the world was flat, the cats would have shoved everything off the side by now.
ajr58(1) about 1 month ago
If the Earth is flat, then why isn’t the edge of the world a tourist destination?
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 1 month ago
I know our planet Earth is a sphere. But I love listening to morons explain themselves. Find a flat earther and listen. It’ll make your day.
Goat from PBS about 1 month ago
I need smarter friends… or at least friends with common sense.
phobos about 1 month ago
No way the earth is flat.. cats would have knocked us all over the edge by now if it were
uniquename about 1 month ago
Rat’s brain just hit the bumper thingies.
diskus Premium Member about 1 month ago
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, If I just say I don’t believe it, enough times it makes it false. Right?
old_geek about 1 month ago
We have nothing to fear but sphere itself…
librarylady59 about 1 month ago
I was at my exercise spot when I overheard a couple young men speaking. One of them asked me if I thought the world was flat. I said no. He asked me how did I know… if the world was round, why didn’t we fall off it. I kindly reminded him of gravity. His friend tried to explain, too. I don’t know if he was convinced or if he still believed it.
DaBump Premium Member about 1 month ago
Astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner has spent some effort dealing with the arguments and “experiments” presented in favor of a Flat Earth, not so much to correct those behind them (mostly lost causes at this point), but to help protect those who might be curious and might otherwise have been taken in.
mindjob about 1 month ago
Next time they want to put an embargo on a country they don’t like, they’ll install those bumper thingies near the coastline
klapre about 1 month ago
Better explanation than you get from Flearthers.
wildlandwaters about 1 month ago
unfortunately there are people who probly believe just like Rat… at least they’re here for our entertainment!
SuperCharged5- about 1 month ago
i’ll only start listening to flat earthers the moment they make a model what accounts for everything a globe model does
pheets about 1 month ago
That MUST be it…
alkabelis Premium Member about 1 month ago
Please don’t feed the idiots. They’ll use this as proof.
Jefano Premium Member about 1 month ago
I always knew there were people who said they believed the earth is flat, but I always thought they were joking. What a shock when I realized they were serious.
Bilan about 1 month ago
The Earth is not flat!
But birds aren’t real.
Drbarb71 Premium Member about 1 month ago
I would say we have plenty of photos of Earth from space but they don’t believe in that either. Let them crawl back to their caves. Maybe it is a happy place for the ignorant, who knows.
zeexenon about 1 month ago
Let’s see what ants and The Donald say about that.
pearlyqim about 1 month ago
I actually have an in-law who believes this!!
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
The Earth is flat because Dick Tracy’s arch-enemy wants it that way
Alicia1955 about 1 month ago
I once read that the whole thing about Columbus trying to prove the world was round, was started by his grandson who didn’t like the idea that his grandfather was wrong.
It is actually physically impossible for the earth to be other than spherical (almost) since gravity would automatically pull any object as big as the earth into a sphere. Centripetal force at the equator turns earth into a slightly flattened sphere.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
The Earth can’t be flat, because it’s never been on the level.
braindead Premium Member about 1 month ago
The magat concept of ‘questioning science’.
willie_mctell about 1 month ago
The geometry of space changes at the edge of the earth. It’s impossible to go over the edge,
pamela welch Premium Member about 1 month ago
Oh Rat, LOLOL
jonesbeltone about 1 month ago
Like so many of my T friends. I say nothing, as I love them.
MFRXIM Premium Member about 1 month ago
I think Goat has an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt.
SKYSWIM about 1 month ago
In all fairness, if you look on a flat earth map (they do exist, including on the UN emblem), you can go in circles just by continually going east or west. On such a map, there is a north pole, but no south pole. Where you would fall off is the edge, which on a flat earth map, is surrounded by an icy edge, that sphere maps redefined as being a “continent.”
And unlike what some people said in their comments, the majority of humanity as late as the early 20th Century believed earth was flat. Can’t recall the exact percentage, but at the time of the Apollo program in the 1960’s, I heard that something like 25% of Americans were still flat earthers.
I will leave it there, before I am accused of being “stupid” or not believing in science…
LNER4472 Premium Member about 1 month ago
The designers of the (replacement) Key Bridge in Baltimore would like a discussion with you……..
leopardglily about 1 month ago
Watch the trolls and fundamentalists fight over this one.