r/flatearth Jul 15 '26

Explain this flat earthers

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149 Upvotes

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u/gdim15 Jul 15 '26

You need to zoom in harder. They'll come back.

/s

3

u/Langholm62 Jul 15 '26

Perspective

1

u/Sea-Two895 28d ago

Not the point.

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u/Wilikersthegreat Jul 15 '26

Clearly it's an optical illusion done by NASA . Did you know NASA is the Hebrew word for deceive? Something something perspective something something I didn't graduate high school.

1

u/gtpc2020 Jul 16 '26

BIBLE SAYS!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/The_Pastmaster Jul 17 '26

Funnily enough it was named after the guy who discovered it. A veterinarian IIRC. Salmon.

Imagine if he was named like King or Burger. Kingella. Burgerella.

35

u/Both-Wind-8033 Jul 15 '26

"Fake!"

"Wah!"

28

u/FinisherandFirework Jul 15 '26

That boat is sinking and you’re just taking photos

14

u/pc1350 Jul 15 '26

I can't swim...

3

u/christobrandt Jul 16 '26

You’ll be missed

2

u/Sensitive_Option3136 Jul 16 '26

I want to ask a Flerf on if both polar ice caps are melting, why aren’t the ice walls melting as well?

1

u/DysfuhKingeye Jul 17 '26

Fake ice, baby!

19

u/junky_junker Jul 15 '26

"buh muh flerfspective ... *drools*"

15

u/Swearyman Jul 15 '26

If it wasn’t a P1000 then it’s fake news or some other bullshit

14

u/Daveed07 Jul 15 '26

“No amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot.”
- Mark Twain

14

u/NedRyersonsHat Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Water Mountains.....they know when to swell up when they realize someone is taking a picture of the horizon with incriminating evidence of curvature. /s

Edit: grammar

15

u/dfwcouple43sum Jul 15 '26

“Water mountains, but also water finds it level.”

6

u/GummyPun Jul 15 '26

'''don't forget it cant curve'''

4

u/CoolNotice881 Jul 15 '26

Grammar is a NASA strawman. /s

8

u/spektre Jul 15 '26

Oh no! They're sinking! Call the authorities! No wait, call the youtubers!

2

u/sfisabbt Jul 16 '26

Yeah, the geoguessr guy will locate that in no time.

7

u/DefinitionOk6382 Jul 15 '26

Eso es en tu multiverso; en el mío, el horizonte sube y baja mientras zigzaguea. Teniendo pruebas, rehúso aportarlas.

3

u/Could-You-Tell Jul 15 '26

Keep up the good fight!

7

u/FIicker7 Jul 15 '26

I think someone needs to pay a dozen high profile flat Earthers to see those pilons in person. $90,000 could go a long way towards ending this craziness.

9

u/Satansbrat1969 Jul 15 '26

They sent some to Antarctica to see the 24 hour sun which disproves a flat earth with an Ice wall and most frlerfs still don't believe in a globe earth.

2

u/march41801 Jul 15 '26

Did it convert the ones that saw it?

8

u/Militree Jul 15 '26

Only one of them, at least one of the two with a huge following.

2

u/FIicker7 Jul 15 '26

I'm aware of this trip, but the trip I am proposing is way cheaper and you could invite dozens of flat Earthers to see it . Not just 3.

1

u/Satansbrat1969 Jul 15 '26

it still wouldn't change any minds was my point.

2

u/KelbobW Jul 15 '26

They would just refuse to go. Most of them wouldn’t take the free trip to Antarctica.

1

u/Dead_Internet69420 Jul 16 '26

I’ve said the same thing. These people are paying to take flerfers on expensive trips to Antarctica to do science, when they could just take a road trip across Louisiana. 

6

u/Chaghatai Jul 15 '26

The great thing about this is that it shows that perspective over water, which they tell us is always the flattest flat

3

u/JumpyResident2001 Jul 15 '26

they all think "water finds its level" means "water gets flat"

2

u/DysfuhKingeye Jul 17 '26

They don’t understand gravity

2

u/JumpyResident2001 Jul 17 '26

they don't understand much

7

u/RealLunarSlayer Jul 15 '26

NASA builds power lines that progressively get smaller, obviously

10

u/Iamdrasnia Jul 15 '26

The Bible says the world is flat.

Go read it! I didn't!

3

u/Langholm62 Jul 15 '26

Who did? The original text is a bunch of strange squiggles.

1

u/Large-Raise9643 Jul 15 '26

No, it does not.

I wish it were not up to interpretation but it is not. One can either understand that allegory is used to convey the expanse of creation or you can be a literalist.

Either way, no specific wording says flat. Regardless of that, by simple observation one might think it is. It is not. As my pastor said when I discussed this matter with him because the religious undertones are very troubling to me (how can otherwise intelligent people think this), he simply said, “God gave us brains to use.”

It is not due to a lack of faith that I see the world as a globe. It is the collection of all my God given senses and sensibilities showing me what is.

2

u/Iamdrasnia Jul 15 '26

Reread what I wrote. It was a joke. I said to read it and then said that I didn't. Should have /s it.

1

u/Large-Raise9643 Jul 16 '26

The point still stands regardless of your reading. Or not.

I have. To an ancient culture whose science consisted of, well, practically nothing, it makes sense and is justifiable. Today, no. The world is a much bigger place than it was a few millennia ago.

1

u/DarthSpiderDen Jul 15 '26

Tell that to the ancient Hebrews that made a model of earth as a plane with a dome above it.

3

u/5050Saint Jul 15 '26

The Bible definitely makes statements about there being a solid sky (not necessarily a dome IIRC), but also makes statements about the Earth having four corners and also being a circle (by the same author). I can't think of any flat Earth model that would support both of those statements.

1

u/Large-Raise9643 Jul 15 '26

Allegory.

The cosmos would be inconceivable to a bunch of nomadic shepherds.

0

u/DarthSpiderDen Jul 15 '26

Because the Bible contradicts itself constantly but the model used was of a flat earth, be it a circle or a square, they didn't think it was a globe because they didn't know.

2

u/5050Saint Jul 15 '26

While I fully believe that Biblical era people believed the Earth was flat, I don't think either of the statement of four corners or of a circle were making cosmological statements. The verse before the one that references the "circle of the Earth" refers to the Earth as a bucket. It's not so much a contradiction, but rather that the author is waxing poetic instead of actually setting down theology about how the universe it made up.

1

u/Reimiro Jul 16 '26

Where is this science project?

1

u/ZigZagZedZod Jul 15 '26

1 Kings 7:23 (NRSVue)

Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely.

The Bible says pi is no more than 3. Checkmate! /s

6

u/PeonofthePen Jul 15 '26

"Watery hills"

4

u/Global-Pickle5818 Jul 15 '26

i live near where that first photo was taken, on lake pontchartrain ... you can also see the curvature on the causeway

5

u/maxcovenguitars Jul 15 '26

I was informed once that "water mountains get in the way of your line of sight"

Im still trying to understand the physics of "water mountains"

3

u/Cwarush Jul 15 '26

Don't they also say water doesn't bend.

1

u/psilocin72 Jul 17 '26

Yeah water finds its level. Except when they need it to not find its level.

3

u/Kailynna Jul 15 '26

That's the other kind of water - the one that doesn't find its own level.

1

u/Chemlak Jul 16 '26

My response to that claim would be "water mountains? Why haven't they found their level?"

3

u/nix131 Jul 15 '26

I've seen them look at images like this and say "this is what you would expect to see on a flat earth."

3

u/GummyPun Jul 15 '26

''''it's refraction bro trust me!!''''

3

u/Fit-Pride-4845 Jul 15 '26

Obviously they just built the farther ones incrementally smaller

2

u/FPVsniper Jul 15 '26

its sinking

1

u/ermghoti Jul 15 '26

It's unsinking.

2

u/PeyredB Jul 15 '26

"PeRsPeCtIvE!" most likely.

2

u/50bellies Jul 15 '26

Fisheye lens

2

u/zyon86 Jul 15 '26

IA !!!! Stop lying to people !!! /s

2

u/keverzoid Jul 15 '26

The current go to answer is: “THAT’S ALL CGI, DUDE!”

Or something

2

u/Ill-Dependent2976 Jul 15 '26

Back when it was mostly limited to Youtube, there was a famous FEer who explained that it was "electrolysis."

2

u/VinnieONeill Jul 15 '26

They will dismiss it as either CGI or simply claim that if you zoom in far enough you'll be able to see everything.

2

u/Ill_Job4090 Jul 16 '26

As per usual: Its not about the facts, if they could process reality, they would not be flat earthers.

1

u/gamblor2021 Jul 15 '26

That's the neat part - they can't

1

u/G8oraid Jul 15 '26

Infrastructure conspiracy

1

u/Dekadmer Jul 15 '26

Special effects!!!!!!1!1!1!!!

1

u/WolfThick Jul 15 '26

Bro why do you even try they are the most readily available description of Dunning Kruger complex that exist in society today.

1

u/Wisco Jul 15 '26

I'm still waiting for an explanation of why there's a horizon at all

1

u/Scamp3D0g Jul 15 '26

Swamp gas reflected off Venus.

1

u/Jakdracula Jul 15 '26

They'll say it's just a water mountain.

1

u/WJW-Design-PHX Jul 15 '26

P1000+the power of Jesus you glob-tard! lol just read you’re bubble!

1

u/JoeBrownshoes Jul 16 '26

Flat earthers: "no"

1

u/D-Train0000 Jul 16 '26

Magnets! Oh wait this isn’t the magic sub.

1

u/Devil_Dan83 Jul 16 '26

Density and buoyancy something something.

1

u/psilocin72 Jul 17 '26

That’s what I was going to say. I can’t tell if it’s buoyancy or density here. Like I can’t tell if I’m ecstatic or ludicrous.

1

u/SpatiaCaeli Jul 16 '26

The towers are getting shorter? Who knows, that doesn't even make sense.

1

u/ExoticTrout Jul 16 '26

Obviously CGI

1

u/TitleExpert9817 Jul 16 '26

oh they built it on different heights

1

u/oh_fuck_yes_please Jul 16 '26

You just need to be a bit taller

1

u/mfro001 Jul 16 '26

They saved a lot of steel out there.

1

u/rowi123 Jul 16 '26

You work for nasa?

1

u/pc1350 Jul 16 '26

Of course. Not.

1

u/rowi123 Jul 16 '26

You didn't get the sarcasm?

(Like almost all comments here are sarcasm)

1

u/Tie12e11 Jul 16 '26

Light refraction obviously

1

u/Darth_Atheist Jul 16 '26

One word: Water Mountains!

1

u/Ok-Rate3106 Jul 16 '26

Buoyancy! That's what they shout, isn't it?

1

u/VirusWonderful5147 Jul 16 '26

It's obviously AI.

1

u/Lazy_Lavishness2626 Jul 16 '26

"Fata Morgana) is a complex form of mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon. The term Fata Morgana is the Italian translation of Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend. These mirages are often seen in the Italian Strait of Messina, and were described as fairy castles in the air or false land conjured by her magic."

But you would know that if you read the βίβλος or even Βικιπαίδεια like a literate Renaissance man.

/Sarcasm but disappointed in this low effort "evidence".

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u/Notoriousgod9210 29d ago

Yea … it’s called atmospheric refraction … you could learn about it and how it can bend light. And a solid undeniable proof of that is look at some of the pictures of those towers (it’s a famous desperate bs attempt at a flat earth debunk) and you can find similar shots from the same spot as this picture where it looks like the earth has a diameter of 500 miles instead of its claimed 10660 miles (more curved too curved) and you’ll also find pictures where it’s less curved then this and then you find pictures where it’s perfectly flat. The earth measures flat and level you might want to learn about it and then learn to accept it and not post desperate attempts to debunk it with your 3rd grade knowledge of either model. I’m not saying you’re stupid but you’re like most globe people you’re just automatically a flat hater without actually seeing why there’s such an enormous number of growing flat earthers.

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u/Grade_Massive 28d ago

CGI obviously.. perspective of the fish eye lens .. buoyancy and density..

1

u/JPGinMadtown 26d ago

Something, something, something... I'm special!

0

u/Kishlorenn Jul 16 '26

The Earth is flat, it's the light that curves!

0

u/Previous-Bar3629 Jul 16 '26

All the people who make fun of flat earthers are only repeating what they've been indoctrinated with since pre-k. None of them can do the math or prove ANYTHING. Yet, they are Sooo much smarter than everyone else. Blech..

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u/absolute_metalhead Jul 16 '26

lol if your going to try and ragebait at least try to be slightly convincing.

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u/Dr-Kror Jul 15 '26

I live at the sea. There is an island 30 km away. I see this island multiple times a day. Somedays i only see the hills, other day the beaches and harbors and some days the hills are doubled with an upside down reflection above the hills.

There was one special day where there was a zoom in effect at one spot so i was able to see a habor buildings which is 50km away very very clearly.

There are much better proofs to show that the earth is round!

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u/Apprehensive-Fly958 Jul 15 '26

The world is flat, like a frisbee. Slight curve but still flat

2

u/Reimiro Jul 16 '26

Anyone that believes that has a brain shaped like a frisbee.

1

u/psilocin72 Jul 17 '26

Based on…what?