This is not a joke. This is genuinely what a significant number of flat earthers believe.
Gravity!
Submitted 9 hours ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Flat earthers don’t believe in a flat earth. What they actually believe is that Satan is fighting a war for the minds of people, and education is a tool of satan to lead you away from god. All other nonsense they spew stems from that— they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat because the education system, which they believe to be from Satan, tells you it’s spherical.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.
It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I’m like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn’t feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.
I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.
She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.
Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I’d destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Also, they believe the earth is flat because the Bible says so; and the earth is young because the Bible says so, and that science is the devil’s work because it contradicts a book written by Bronze Age goat herders retconned by a guy in the Iron Age that got killed for telling the Roman’s he was king of the Jews.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat
Similar with the anarcho capitalist types
zedgeist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
But… but… I posted it as a joke, so it is?? Please??
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Nope. It’s science now because you posted it in Science Memes. You just single handedly destroyed years of accumulated knowledge with your careless shitposting. Way to go, bud. Bravo.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 hour ago
It’s all fun and games tricking idiots into believing dumb shit, until they become fundamentalists.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
flat earthers=flat personality and flat brains.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 minutes ago
Flat EEG
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Because in australia down is up, so their gravity pull all the water back up north
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
The stupidest possible way to say the truth. Now that’s a .ml comment
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
That you make all water bulge at the equator.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Technically…
Nanook@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
If water flows down then why do I get it up my nose? Explain that Big Sciece!
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That evil dihydrogen monoxide is at it again.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
We need to get rid of that wicked substance.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
and the annoying gaseous dioxygen.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Let’s follow on this. Water goes down to the south hemisphere (why? Gravity is a lie). Then it stays there, attached to the ground. Why? Gravity again? An invisible barrier?
I doubt this is something anybody except the fringiest of flat earthers would approve, but I’m down for further explanation
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Invisibly barrier makes sense. Up in the sky. I think the Bible mentions something similar.
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
*lowest relative to the center of the spherical celestial body
Out of curiosity of this argument, what direction in the universe is “down” to be considered the lowest point?
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But if the world would wear pants, how would it wear them? 🤔
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
looks around at the state of the world
On its head? Seems to be the default.
em2@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Hahah…
aww now I’m sad
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
this is really stupid, but how do you considered that the rotational speed of the earth at the equator is like 400 meters per second? How tf are you not flying into space under that speed?? The answer is obviously that the center of rotation is ABOVE us (that’s right baby hollow earth is back) and BTW that’s how gravity work, thank me later physicists.
bort@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
funfact: because water itself has weight, it produces gravity, therefore it pulls more water towards itself, therefore more water collects in some parts of the world than other.
for example: most of the extra water that comes from global warmings, collects at the pacific because it has a larger surface, therefore US Eastcoast and Europe see very little change in sealevel, while some pacific islands are already gone.
epistemic status: I remember reading this info a couple years ago, but the best source I can found now is that sentence from wikipedia:
Changing ice masses also affect the distribution of sea water around the globe through gravity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
dont you mean mass.
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Where were you when South America was kill?
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
When halo killed all the alien and doesn’t afraid of anything
Zier@fedia.io 5 hours ago
The problem with the picture is, it's upside down.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I’m tired Boss…
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
🥴
tomiant@piefed.social 1 hour ago
It all started as a joke. The purpose was to fool people to believe in this dumb shit. Then people did, and there was much rejoicing. Then more people did, and it got old. Then even more people did, and was worrying. Then even more people did and now we have a whole industry of dumbfucks basing their lives and identities around something that started out as a joke at their expense.
Who’s laughing now?