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My old school science teacher told me that there where these people...The memory just popped back into my head this moment, so I thought I would check it out.
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djubl...rthsociety.htm
Idiots.
Still, its worth a look for a giggle.
By the way, it was "International Pirate Day" yesterday, Yaaar! :Pirate:
Formerly B.B.
Yes, there were people to take them seriously enough to belivie that their dog has joined them.
(see "current events" to understand the joke)
Imagine you noticed some termites over at your neighbors house, and instead of warning him about it, you just burn down his house because of the slight possibility that those termites might someday move over to your home. That's the Eldar for you. -Aquila
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#3
Well, at least they know it's propaganda. I like how they ignore reality and substitute their own.With our operatives strategically emplaced, the convicts and felons are being given a healthy dose of "pro-Flat Earth" propaganda.
OMG! I laughed so hard at that link tag.
#4
The flat earth society forum is good for a read...its amusing how many of the posters are people who signed up to flame them for believing in a flat earth - Id have thought people would have better things to do.
The "Why a flat earth?" page on that site is rather amusing...the arguments are so poor that I'm beginning to think that this page is a hoax set up by the same people who sign up to the forums to flame flat earthers.
apparently were are all "brainwashed" to know the earth is round
Did a google search for "the flat earth society"
and you come up with some stragne stuff...
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm
Oh like TBS said...they have a whole section on their forum for peopel to insult them
#6
Funny for us savvy net-types, but realistically there is a serous lack of science education for a lot of people.. :/
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#7
You people do realize this site is a joke, right?The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.
Im not a sciencetist by any means, but comparing the "round" earth to a beachball is the most stupidist thing ive heard! The biggest flaw in their logic with this is... the Earth doesnt have another mass 1,000,000 times its size right below it! I am sure if it did all the objects on earth would slip off its surface.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one self to destiny.
#9
I kind of realised that as I was reading through their scientific "proofs" that the earth was flat...however there are people who really do believe this kind of stuff (the link I posted is real, for example).
#10
I realize the page and probably most supporters of the "Flat Earth Society" are doing it as a joke, but on a similar topic, I find it amazing to see how many people from the general population think that Flat Earth theories were popular in the middle ages. I specifically remember being taught in Elementary school that when Columbus was planning his voyage, all the opposition he met was on the basis of people thinking he was going to sail off the edge of the world. How many others here were taught that at one point or another? It's crazy, though, because that wasn't the case at all. The earth was known to be round by the ancient Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, and others. Pretty good estimates for the circumference of the earth had been made using classical geometry thousands of years ago. By the time of Columbus, not many people seriously believed the earth was flat except the poor and uneducated maybe. Columbus met opposition on the basis of these circumference estimates, because the figures meant his voyage would take too long - and indeed it would have, had America not been there.
Yes, it is known that educated, or smart people of that time..and before, knew that earth was round, before Columbus set off to show us that the world was round.
I read in that forum that the earth being round is a "government cover up"
These people need help
#12
If this is a hoax site, what a waste of a joke: Space is full of ether. So, apparently, are the Flat-Earthers...
An entertaining read, though, especially given that all their reasoning is based around disproving this guy Efimovich's theories. Makes me wonder what the (hypothetical?) Efimovich has going on that, say, your average Einstein or Newton don't.
Yeah, they do have weak arguments these people, but that site is a joke, however, there are people who do belive in a flat earth.
Ok, so do you want the Website that tells how the WWII holocorst was a big lie too?
#14
Yeah. If you read the FES forum, the only defense the flat-earthers have is to ignore and insult anyway they can. If they can't argue, they just throw 'CONSPIRACY' at you, which is the fall-back for anyone with a controversial theory that defies what is thought as fact.
#15
Related to Athexx's post.
I find it amusing to see how many people think Columbus ever came close to even seeing US soil.
Watching footage of that silly 'Columbus Day' they celebrate in the US where everyone waves a US and Italian flag had me laughing out loud.
(@Murph) later dolts
#16
Hey, I'm not complaining, I get a day off work because he landed over a thousand miles to the south of where I live.
Another thing that confused me in elementary school was the difference between Columbus and the puritan pilgrims of the 17th century. I knew the stories related to each, but they were both taught the first time I heard about them as though they were the first to make it to America. Of course I had only recently immigrated to the United States at the time so I might have gotten mixed up just because of a lack of background. Why the pilgrims get such a prominent place in our early public schools but not other earlier expeditions is beyond me.
#17
Don't want to confuse the young 'uns with a dose of unpatriotic reality...
Peope wave flags on Columbus day? I don't even know when that is... I don't get time off for it at the school I go to (unless it's during a break).
#18
I assumed it was a hoax, sadly, it wasnt very amusing, just kinda "man...morons".
I find it hard to believe people actually believe the world is flat, but ohwell, its the same knida state of mind that gets terrorists to blow themselves away for some sort of "paradise".
In conclusion, for a hoax, it lacks the wit and humor it requires.
Dangit... I lost my toy duck after reading that site! :\
#20
Athexx, it may have to do with the connotation of the name 'America'.
In the US, United States = America, but trust me, no other country in the continent shares that definition. To everyone else, America refers to the continent as a whole, from the Bearing Strait to Tierra del Fuego, including all Caribbean Islands. Saying "Columbus 'discovered' America" means he reached the continent of America. In the US, saying so may be undestood as "Columbus set foot on United States territory", which is wrong. Likewise, Amerigo Vespucci worked on maps of the coast of Brazil and South America to determine this was an entirely 'new', unknown continent.
Ewww.... psycho people....
The probobly just had a bad experience in high school, and now they are bent on finding something to push againast the system just for the sake of being stupid.
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