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Flat earth expedition

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    #32
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I remember a flat earther saying that GPS companies fool pilots into thinking they are flying around a globe.

    This obviously ignores the simple fact that people were flying around the world long before pilots used GPS for navigation.


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    #33
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    So once the ice all melts we will find out then if ya fall of the edge ! Lol


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    #34
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,149 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    So how do they explain travelling along the equator and ending up back where you started?


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    #35
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    So how do they explain travelling along the equator and ending up back where you started?

    Somebody, somewhere bribed those who did it into silence!
    A quick get out of jail card always seems to be 'they were bribed'.

    The whole thing is an intellectual prank expounded by self aware con artists who exploit gullible people's inherent distrust of governments and big business as well as their scientific ignorance. Those conventions and book sales generate significant revenue.


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    #36
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    So If the earth is flat why hve they told us it’s round ? What’s to gain from lying? Nothing that’s why it’s round

    They don't want us to know what's underneath

    🤪



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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    I really really wish the earth was flat, well disc shaped anyway. Hopefully balanced on the back of four elephants, carried on the back of a giant turtle.

    that would be far more interesting than this "It's kind of squashed ball shape" theory.


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    #38
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,149 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Aegir wrote: »
    I really really wish the earth was flat, well disc shaped anyway. Hopefully balanced on the back of four elephants, carried on the back of a giant turtle.

    that would be far more interesting than this "It's kind of squashed ball shape" theory.


    Ah but what is the turtle standing on?


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Ah but what is the turtle standing on?

    Duh, it’s swimming across the universe of course


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    #40
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Sabre0001 wrote: »
    They don't want us to know what's underneath
    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Ah but what is the turtle standing on?


    Turtles

    Turtles all the way down


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    #41
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Cordell


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Ah but what is the turtle standing on?

    its feet.


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    #42
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    Cordell wrote: »
    its feet.

    Turtles don’t have feet as far as I’m aware.

    Still no word from these guys, they must have fallen off.


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    #43
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Bogwoppit wrote: »
    Turtles don’t have feet as far as I’m aware.

    Still no word from these guys, they must have fallen off.

    Think they are basically tetrapods. So the answer is yes and no.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #44
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    When are they appearing on TV programmes again so we can all laugh at them, or they can show us proof of this flat earth?


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    #45
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    he'll never find the edge, people tend to walk in circles when they have no landmarks to reference...
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32494981/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/turns-out-lost-people-really-do-walk-circles/#.XICHwE3QjIU


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    #46
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Watched "behind the curve" on Netflix over the weekend.

    It would lead you to say it'd be no harm if they all fell off the edge being honest.


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    #47
    [Deleted User]
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    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Think they are basically tetrapods. So the answer is yes and no.
    Well, with legs like that, it will take them a long time to get anywhere.


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    #48
    fran38
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭fran38


    Flat Earthers have nothing to fear but sphere itself....


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    #49
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Well, with legs like that, it will take them a long time to get anywhere.

    Maybe they have the right idea. Chill out and relax the pace of life.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #50
    Ipso
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    SeaFields wrote: »
    Watched "behind the curve" on Netflix over the weekend.

    It would lead you to say it'd be no harm if they all fell off the edge being honest.

    Or out of the gene pool.


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    #51
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Bizzare how they ignore the bleeding simply obvious and go for the convoluted international lizard people conspiracy.


    It's obviously an illness.
    Should close the conspiracy forum as well now that I think of it, don't be pandering to this stuff.


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    #52
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    kneemos wrote: »
    Should close the conspiracy forum as well now that I think of it, don't be pandering to this stuff.

    Oh god no. There's already enough of them in AH already. If you removed the CT forum, you'd have more of them in here and nobody wants that. I'd rather there have an area where they can be quarantined.


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    #53
    Capt'n Midnight
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    mcmoustache wrote: »
    I'd rather there have an area where they can be quarantined.
    Could we stick the anti-vaxxers there too ?


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    #54
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,031 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Darwin Award contender 2020.

    https://twitter.com/justindchapman/status/1231336002175717376


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    #55
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    "Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed."

    what was he hoping to achieve, exactly?


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    #56
    dotsman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭dotsman


    I know I shouldn't laugh but...


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    #57
    Graces7
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    free falling off the world sounds a grand idea....off into the wide blue yonder, free as a bird


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    #58
    Jayesdiem
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Jayesdiem


    What actually happened to Des Walsh after the crackpot announcement of his trip? If you google him it’s pretty much as if he did fall off the edge of the world because there’s nothing on him after 2018. No interviews, no footage, no proof he discovered what he said he would. Rather convenient that. Also, please tell me he is not really a professor?


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    #59
    Boggles
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    "Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed."

    what was he hoping to achieve, exactly?
    "Mad" Mike Hughes sought to prove his theory that the Earth was flat

    Should have worked on the theory of not ejecting the rockets parachute at take off.

    RIP Mad Mike.


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    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,149 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Boggles wrote: »
    Should have worked on the theory of not ejecting the rockets parachute at take off.

    RIP Mad Mike.

    It is almost as if rocket science is difficult.


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    Jim_Hodge
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    free falling off the world sounds a grand idea....off into the wide blue yonder, free as a bird

    You do realise it killed him, don't you?

    Free as a bird alright.


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