Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 16, 2024

Actually, in Columbus’ time nobody thought the Earth was flat; everyone knew it was round, except Columbus who thought it was pear-shaped.

Maybe there are portals on one edge that send you to the other edge.

If the world were flat all the cats would have pushed everything on earth over the edge, just to watch it fall.

I thought the “bumper thingies” were like pinball.

The water is in the middle and the land is around the edges, keeping the oceans contained.

If the Earth WERE flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now. We have things. QED.

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!

Hold on! Don’t let me get started on Lord!

Rat is a member of the Flat Earth Society?

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?

Baltimore needs some of those little bumper thingies.

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.

Rat is just an idiot.

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

Comic drawing in 2024: Draw the 1st panel and copy 3 times…

We live in a kid’s bowling lane. That explains so much!

If the world was flat, the cats would have shoved everything off the side by now.

If the Earth is flat, then why isn’t the edge of the world a tourist destination?

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.

I need smarter friends… or at least friends with common sense.

No way the earth is flat.. cats would have knocked us all over the edge by now if it were

Rat’s brain just hit the bumper thingies.

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?

We have nothing to fear but sphere itself…

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.

Next time they want to put an embargo on a country they don’t like, they’ll install those bumper thingies near the coastline

Better explanation than you get from Flearthers.

unfortunately there are people who probly believe just like Rat… at least they’re here for our entertainment!

i’ll only start listening to flat earthers the moment they make a model what accounts for everything a globe model does

That MUST be it…

Please don’t feed the idiots. They’ll use this as proof.

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.

The Earth is not flat!

But birds aren’t real.

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.

Let’s see what ants and The Donald say about that.

I actually have an in-law who believes this!!

The Earth is flat because Dick Tracy’s arch-enemy wants it that way

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.

The Earth can’t be flat, because it’s never been on the level.

The magat concept of ‘questioning science’.

The geometry of space changes at the edge of the earth. It’s impossible to go over the edge,

Oh Rat, LOLOL

Like so many of my T friends. I say nothing, as I love them.

I think Goat has an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt.

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…

The designers of the (replacement) Key Bridge in Baltimore would like a discussion with you……..

Watch the trolls and fundamentalists fight over this one.