Because in australia down is up, so their gravity pull all the water back up north
Gravity!
Submitted 2 weeks ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The stupidest possible way to say the truth. Now that’s a .ml comment
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That you make all water bulge at the equator.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
OwO
What’s this?
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean you joke, but the earth does bulge in the center a little
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Ah, but the equator also pulls the water sideways because nobody wants a sea where they live.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Technically…
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks 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?
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m reasonably convinced that the flat earther explosion was at least encouraged by nefarious actors to see what dumb shit people will actually believe. I feel like the flat earth videos on YouTube are directly related to the recent rise of the extreme right, it primed so many of these people to reject reality so completely.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
When I say this was meant as a joke, it picked up steam in the /r/flatearth sub, which I saw back early, and it was kind of an inside reddit joke much like /r/birdsarentreal is today. Mark my words, that shit will be the next flat earth.
People work like this. A sub with 50K subscribers? Maybe there’s something to it!
I had subs once. Big ones. They were taken from me. I know. Buy me a beer and I’ll tell you about it.
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Who’s laughing now?
@tomiant@piefed.social who started selling t-shirts and slowly had to hire more employees as the demand steadily outgrew supply.
At the end they retired to their vineyard villa, now worth substantially more after the devaluation of half the planet.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I wish!
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This literally sums up Americas current situation
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are not evolved for being capable of seeing the thoughts, reactions and feelings of so many people, especially in the form of text written on a screen that your brain reads in its own voice. We have not adapted to nor even begun to study and understand how vulnerable our minds are to outside influence.
But it’s okay because we’re building giant artificial neural systems in data centers that take the power of small cities to run, with the express purpose of predicting and exploiting those vulnerabilities with superhuman effectiveness.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
smoke more weed, you’ll laugh too
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same with Birds aren’t Real, and it’s going the way of this dumb shit.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That evil dihydrogen monoxide is at it again.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We need to get rid of that wicked substance.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I WANT TO PUT THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL, this goes for all of you:
People are NOT DUMB because someone comes up to them and screams “watch out, dihydrogen monoxide can kill you!” because they may not be familiar with chemical nomenclature, yet may be acutely in tune with people taking to the streets protesting some substance that may affect them and their families.
I always hated that one.
That one and that dumb quote, “don’t attribute to malice what can equally be attributed to incompetence"- yeah cute, but uh, no, that is not how anything fucking works, it’s a funny quote in context, it’s not a rule of fucking thumb, you’d be a dumb sucka to live by that creed, but anyway, while we were clearing the air.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
and the annoying gaseous dioxygen.
Nanook@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If water flows down then why do I get it up my nose? Explain that Big Sciece!
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But if the world would wear pants, how would it wear them? 🤔
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
looks around at the state of the world
On its head? Seems to be the default.
em2@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Hahah…
aww now I’m sad
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 2 weeks 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?
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gravity is just centrifugal force.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where were you when South America was kill?
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When halo killed all the alien and doesn’t afraid of anything
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Invisibly barrier makes sense. Up in the sky. I think the Bible mentions something similar.
bort@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
dont you mean mass.
Zier@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
The problem with the picture is, it's upside down.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m tired Boss…
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🥴
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is not a joke. This is genuinely what a significant number of flat earthers believe.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Similar with the anarcho capitalist types
zedgeist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But… but… I posted it as a joke, so it is?? Please??
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s all fun and games tricking idiots into believing dumb shit, until they become fundamentalists.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
flat earthers=flat personality and flat brains.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Flat EEG