Those giant trees had to be cut because the earth was risking turning upside down from the weight.
Listen, Susan. It's a valid theory, just look at the damn thing.
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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kubica@kbin.social 11 months ago
RePsyche@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Flat Earth has entered the chat. :-D
robotopera@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Giant earth theory is wild. I followed a guy on Reddit who had some absolutely insane videos “teaching” the subject. He also thought multiplication was a lie because if you do 5x5 by counting your fingers 5 times you still only have 5 fingers.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
I’d say he’s trolling but Terryology is apparently serious so anything goes.
Or maybe he’s just amazing at the bit. He is an actor…
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m every dumb movement you have the tucker carlsons that say shit they don’t belive in, the trumps completely demented even lower iq and truly believe those things they say. And who ever the hell are the monkeys that whatched it.
robotopera@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If he was an actor he was performing for an insanely small audience. This guy was legit some of his videos were years old with less than 10 views.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But like… so what? What does this add to the flat earth “theory”? Like, okay there were really, really big trees once. Now what?
I know I’m looking for logic where it doesn’t exist, but this really baffles me.
robotopera@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ll see if his YouTube channel is still up so you can get the crazy sauce straight from the tap. Be warned, it is difficult to find a cohesive thought let alone any logic.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah yes, all natural phenomena including checks notes the one where someone cut down a tree with a chainsaw
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Maybe someone cut down that mountain with a really big saw?
Jode@midwest.social 11 months ago
Behold, Erdtree
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Erdtree O Erdtree,
Erdtree O Erdtree
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 11 months ago
my brother thinks mountains are fossilised giants.
not kidding
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
whereisk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bloody hell mate… maybe he likes to rile you up? I mean, hopefully.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I had a friend that i guess I slowly drove away by always calling him on his bullshit and amongst the thousands of insane things he did and believed, he legitimately thought that there used to be giants roaming the Earth and he would argue this point intensely.
metoothanks@yiffit.net 11 months ago
He must be a fan of the xenoblade games
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Wow does anyone know where that first picture comes from? That mountain range looks like someone just jammed a bunch of glass shards into the ground!
Flokman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure that’s the Cerro Torre in Patagonia :D
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I need to go check those out. The Peruvian Andes are an experience for sure.
archaeoraptor@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Looks like Cerro Torre. That specific image appears to be a mirrored version of a photo from an Outside article that features Cerro Torre.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Thanks for the link and an interesting article!
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can you imagine the size of the chain saw!!?
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is a quasar not just a giant chain saw? Are spiral galaxies not just giant sawblades? It’s giant trees all the way down, baby. Checkmate, Arborists.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Flat earth wasn’t silly enough?
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The line between creative worldbuilding and batshit insanity is surprisingly thin.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have three words if you love laughing at idiots like this: Mud. Fossil. University.
Enjoy.
robotopera@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Holy shit that’s a deep library. I’m going in
davidalso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s fun.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m obviously not getting this one lol
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No need to overthink a meme, but here’s my guess.
They’re correlating the shapes of the objects, implying some causation.
There isn’t.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ahh okay, that makes more sense. Thanks!
Slovene@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Are you stumped?
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You could say that my formations have been rocked.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Just be happy that you don’t get it. There are flat earthers out there who will say it unironically. Not sure if it’s only flat earthers but I think so. It really is wild
averyminya@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Wow, that’s awesome. I’ve been thinking a lot about the scale of the universe and how cyclical it is.
Take a scaled out view of our solar system and then compare it to a molecules composition (the atom or group of atoms surrounded by protons and neutrons) and the similarities are just uncanny.
Like this image, what’s to say that we aren’t just part of a molecule making up the chemical composition of something far larger than ourselves. An ant has no concept of the vast empty space between the United States and Europe, we know that is the case between solar systems but our actual understanding of our relationship in space is limited.
P.S. look at the patterns of discharge of electricity in wood/paper/stone and then look at the patterns of the Grand Canyon. They’re the same! And the Grand Canyon is the only formation we have that exhibits this quality, which makes it extra interesting.
DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Take a scaled out view of our solar system and then compare it to a molecules composition (the atom or group of atoms surrounded by protons and neutrons) and the similarities are just uncanny.
Nah, the planetary model of the atom is outdated. The quantum model doesn’t look very much like a solar system.
sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Not even a little bit, really
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s actually fractal patterns. They always emerge in nature if you look at the right scale.
taanegl@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Falsifiably so.
metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
so better science than most of modern physics
DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Mariner: why do all caves look the same?
Rutherford and Tendi: cause they’re all formed by… SOLUBLE MINERALS!
Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Mountains is wood
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Plateaus are stumps of mountains.
Batman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My dataset says there is a one to one relationship between mountains and stumps (n=3). Infinite-Power.jpg.gif
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not pictured: Teldrassil
spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
This sounds like it could be cool lore for some niche book
Seraph@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's not.
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but imagine how fuckin cool it would be if they were
EllyEinhorn@feddit.de 11 months ago
It wood be really cool.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sadly it’s the other way around. Tree stumps are nothing but small rock formations. Hiw disaplointing.