[Mercenary]

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Old maps from history: (with Antarctica as an ice wall on the outside)

[Mercenary]

The 4 seasons explained

[Mercenary]

2 stories from last year:


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kerry-...le/2606507

Quote:

Kerry traveling to South Pole on Election Day

By Joel Gehrke (@Joelmentum) • 11/4/16 3:44 PM

Secretary of State John Kerry will be headed toward the South Pole on Election Day for an historic visit with climate change researchers in Antarctica, his department announced Friday.

"The secretary has been wanting to get down there for a long, long time, and frankly this schedule was very literally driven by the weather," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters. "You wait much longer in the year and it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to travel down there."

Kerry leaves on Monday, although the logistics of traveling to Antarctica mean he won't arrive at his primary destination until Nov. 10. (Kirby said Kerry would be out of the country on Election Day, but Kerry's plane refuels in Hawaii on Tuesday before departing for New Zealand, so another State Department spokesperson suggested the secretary might not finally exit the United States until after the election).

He will be the first sitting secretary of state to visit the South Pole. No foreign leaders will accompany him, causing one reporter to suggest that "there's no real, technically, diplomatic component" to the trip, but Kirby dismissed the idea that Kerry is "knock[ing] Antarctica off his bucket list" at taxpayer expense.

http://yournewswire.com/buzz-aldrin-warns-danger-evil/

Quote:

Buzz Aldrin Warns “We Are All In Danger. It Is Evil Itself

December 9, 2016

Buzz Aldrin has tweeted an ominous warning on Twitter this week, claiming that “we are all in danger. It is evil itself,” accompanied by a picture of a pyramid at the South Pole.

The tweet comes days after the U.S. astronaut was mysteriously taken ill in Antarctica and had to be evacuated to safety in nearby New Zealand for emergency medical treatment.

[philosophical_recovery]

I think it's time for a vacation.

[Mage]

I was researching this flat earth theory for a while until I understood the psychology behind people who make these theories.

Most of these people are Christians who want to prove that Bible is literary correct. So they say there must be an actual firmament like described in Bible and so on.

There is a deeper issue however - contemporary Christians in general and Flat Earth theorists particularly want their World to be small.

These are people who are used to a certain order and are challenged by thought of infinite universe and/or infinite spiritual development like in Yogic traditions. Some of them are good traditional and conservative people, but they are still close minded. They want all the world and all the questions to be explained in a single book, all the morality to be prescribed by a single church or institution, all the spiritual growth to be limited to surrendering it to a single savior figure.

I and most people who would actually prefer a round earth want our World to be Big. We want there to be never ending perspectives, endless horizons, endless mysteries to solve, endless borders to overcome. People like that are likely to be atheists in love with science and logical reasoning and/or practitioners of Yoga and more esoteric spiritual paths that do not limit the spiritual practice to worship of a single savior, instead offering limitless space for spiritual development and limitless expansion of consciousness.

Basically it boils down to person's bio survival and territorial neurological circuits - whether the person has a regressive attitude and wants to cuddle back into the mother's womb or a progressive attitude and wants lo leave the womb and go and explore the infinite universe.

I would be very disappointment if the earth would actually turn out to be flat and it's a good thing that despite these theories most of evidence, logic and common sense proves earth is round.

[brick tamland]

A few years ago I would have dismissed a lot of theories but when you start examining the 'truths' you find that the explanations for a lot of things don't go far enough.
It's okay to call a skeptic crazy but I think everyone should spend a little while asking questions.
How many people who believe in a round Earth know that the first photograph of the earth (a tiny part of the surface) was apparently only captured as recently as the 1930s by a balloon. What about NASA using materials on their space craft that very particularly would never withstand the conditions in space. Optimistic estimates of a successful human lunar landing and return were put at 1 chance for and 6000 chances against. The guy who wrote a comprehensive report on the feasibility of this died shortly after submitting it and it has never been publicly released.
How are space walks possible when the international space station travels at 5 miles per second?
Nearly 100℅ of the ocean floor is unexplored yet apparently the Hubble telescope can detect objects that are 13,4 billion light years away.
The first dinosaur was scientifically described in 1824, yet no traditional human societies in the places where discoveries have been made even have such a species (rather discoveries of their fossils) recorded in their own history.

[sterling_archer]

I believe the flat earth movement was put as a way to mock real deal conspiracy theories. You can simply point finger to a legit conspiracy theorist and put him in the same basket with those who believe in flat earth and believe nazis are on the moon.

[Mage]

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

How many people who believe in a round Earth know that the first photograph of the earth (a tiny part of the surface) was apparently only captured as recently as the 1930s by a balloon.

Wow, that's earlier then I thought - I didn't even knew it was done prior to launching a satellite capable of taking photo's into space. If it's possible to see earth's curvature from a mere baloon is it not evidence for round earth?

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

What about NASA using materials on their space craft that very particularly would never withstand the conditions in space.

I am no material physicist but what materials are we talking about/ Do you even know? Are you a material physicist?

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

Optimistic estimates of a successful human lunar landing and return were put at 1 chance for and 6000 chances against.

At which point and by whom were those estimates made? Estimates vary day by day. Some people gave the same odds to Trump presidency at some point during election.

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

The guy who wrote a comprehensive report on the feasibility of this died shortly after submitting it and it has never been publicly released.

How many guys who wrote reports about this died decades later and their reports were released? Do you know all the poeple involved and can you make statistics on % of those who made reports who dies soon and who didn't?

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

How are space walks possible when the international space station travels at 5 miles per second?

All speed is relative. Your mentioned 5 miles per second - is it relative to other space craft? Earth? Moon? Sun? Solar system barycentre? Sirius?
To visit space station you must accelerate to it's speed relative to earth's using math and engines.

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

Nearly 100℅ of the ocean floor is unexplored yet apparently the Hubble telescope can detect objects that are 13,4 billion light years away.

The unexplored objects of ocean floor are small, the big underwater mountains and ravines are known. Hubble telescope only detects huge objects many light years away like stars and clusters, not objects like crabs and turtles on ocean surface. Larger objects are visible from further distance - that is called perspective.

(01-22-2017 08:57 AM)brick tamland Wrote:  

The first dinosaur was scientifically described in 1824, yet no traditional human societies in the places where discoveries have been made even have such a species (rather discoveries of their fossils) recorded in their own history.

Before 19th century people didn't use scientific method too often and had no little interest in archeology and paleontology - sciences that became a thing slowly and gradually from 18th to 20th century. Before that people just didn't collect the bones miners found and didn' try to reconstruct skeletons from these bones. If people did found some weird bones in the past they probably attributed it to dragon's or whatever they imagined.

I am not a total skeptic - I believe there are some things we thing wrong about the world, but flat earth is probably not such a thing and if you want to present arguments then you better present something serious, not just such silly arguments that make me think you lack basic understanding about science, technology, logic and history.

[Mercenary]

Here is something most people have never seen.
It is the 1st press conference after the Apollo 11 crew return from their "journey to the moon". It lasts more than an hour....something is seriously wrong here with these guys.

They were lauded by the press and the world as heroes of humanity, but the astronauts look uncomfortable, nervous, confused, fidgety and have weird body language, uncomfortable laughter and long pauses before replying to simple questions.

I am posting 3 videos.
The first 2 show some highlights of the weirder parts of their behaviour.
The 3rd is the press conference in full.

Neil Armstrong intro:

Questions from reporters:

Press conference in full:

[Mage]

(01-22-2017 09:31 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  

Here is something most people have never seen.
It is the 1st press conference after the Apollo 11 crew return from their "journey to the moon". It lasts more than an hour....something is seriously wrong here with these guys.

They were lauded by the press and the world as heroes of humanity, but the astronauts look uncomfortable, nervous, confused, fidgety and have weird body language, uncomfortable laughter and long pauses before replying to simple questions.

I am posting 3 videos.
The first 2 show some highlights of the weirder parts of their behaviour.
The 3rd is the press conference in full.

Neil Armstrong intro:

Questions from reporters:

Press conference in full:

Again it's grasping straws.

Those people are astronauts not showmen, politicians or other kind of public speakers - also they have just made a hard and risky journey to another world and spent weeks in quarantine after return. They are dead tired, just lucky to get a shower, a sleep in normal bed and to take a piss in a normal toilet where the piss actually falls down and doesn't floats around in your eyes. What do you expect of them?

It would be more suspicious that they faked the whole thing and got normal sleep all the time, if they were smiling and cracking jokes.

[Mercenary]

I really do not understand the immediate emotional hostility of many people towards this idea. I mean...most of us discovered game and the red pill because we noticed we had been lied to our whole lives about the true nature of women and how to act with them.

We went to seek the truth and asked other men their experiences with women and then we started comparing our ideas and experiences on many other topics right here on this forum and it emerged that many, many things we were taught were totally wrong. Thats why we took the red pill.

So, in this case, I want people to consider how they really know the earth is round. How can we, who have never travelled into space know this for certain ? How many people have actually seen all of antarctica from above ?


Science today has become SCIENTISM.
It is now a religion.


Many things like the supposed age and form of the earth, continental drift, age of fossils...all those things you cannot verify yourself but have to believe on pure FAITH because the new priests (SCIENTISTS) tell you it is so.

The official narrative has lied to us about so many things - women, health, politics, masculinity...why should this concept remain such a sacred cow ?

In general i think it is very important to discuss any topic we cannot prove ourselves....shutting down conversation immediately as nonsense is like those insane holocaust denial laws....it becomes a new strict religious dogma that cannot be questioned anymore.

I'm not coming at this from a christian point of view....but from the view of "I have been lied to about so many things, I now want to verify things more than ever before." So, I ask all of you to cast aside your immediate emotional reaction and open your mind to intelligent rational DISCUSSION even if you are not religious at all.

Thanks.

[EDantes]

(05-19-2014 07:51 PM)cardguy Wrote:  

I waste too much time on the internet.

And the other day - I found a site even weirder that PUAHate.

It is the forum for The Flat Earth Society. I had no idea that people like this still existed. To me - knowing some people still believe the Earth is flat has made my life about ten times more interesting.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

I love kooky shit like this. I am not even hating on them - since most of us just blindly regurgitate what we have being told by experts.

Very few of us have the knowledge and ability to prove a lot of the things we 'believe' in a rigorous way from first principles.

Anyway - this is a giant area of conspiracy weirdness. And I am going to try and get to to the bottom of why some people still believe the Earth is flat.

There was even an interview (in The Guardian newspaper) with the president of The Flat Earth Society back in 2010:

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2010/f...th-society

Quote:

Shenton himself used to accept that the Earth was round, but began ­asking questions after hearing musician Thomas Dolby's 1984 album The Flat Earth. (When Shenton reconvened the society last year, Dolby accepted membership number 00001.) "It was the late 1990s and I started doing research into what the Flat Earth Society was. I had heard of it and, when I did some more research, I eventually ended up believing its ideas were true."

It may sound like Shenton is playing games, that the reborn society is a clever metaphor or marketing tool for another cause – but he insists he is serious.

"I haven't taken this position just to be difficult. To look around, the world does appear to be flat, so I think it is ­incumbent on others to prove ­decisively that it isn't. And I don't think that burden of proof has been met yet."

Anyway - if you have way too much time on your hands. It is quite an interesting ocean of weirdness to go for a swim in...

Here's some background on the history of modern Flat Earth Societies, apparently it was some fringe movement started by an Englishman named Samuel Rowbotham in the 1800s, apparently it was based in part on some fringe interpretation of the Bible; I think one of the arguments is that Jesus could not have ascended "up" into heaven if the earth was round, since there would be no "up or down", or something silly like that.

I've been to the website before, some of them might be true believers, though a lot of them seem more like internet trolls just doing a parody.

The problem with a lot of 'conspiracy theorists' though is that they're really not 'open minded', they may be outside of the mainstream but they just think like their own little hivemind. For example they'll just brush off any criticism of their ideas by saying there's a "media conspiracy" to censor them, and just write off anyone who disagrees with them as a "sheep" who only listens to MSM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.html?tit..._societies

Modern flat Earth societies are modern societies that are based on the belief that the Earth is flat. Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884). Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy, which he later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles (4,800 km) and the "cosmos" 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Earth. He also published a leaflet titled "The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!", which argued that the "Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture".

Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists. One such debate, involving Alfred Russel Wallace, concerned the Bedford Level experiment. Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.

After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was "the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation". The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century.[7] A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901–1904, edited by Lady Blount.

The International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS), the first Flat Earth society organization, was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956 and was later led by American Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization in his home town of Lancaster, California. The belief lacked representation after Johnson’s death in 2001, until the name was reclaimed in 2004 by Johnson's self-proclaimed successor "Daniel Shenton", a man claiming to live in Hong Kong.

[Mage]

(01-22-2017 10:06 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  

I really do not understand the immediate emotional hostility of many people towards this idea. I mean...most of us discovered game and the red pill because we noticed we had been lied to our whole lives about the true nature of women and how to act with them.

We went to seek the truth and asked other men their experiences with women and then we started comparing our ideas and experiences on many other topics right here on this forum and it emerged that many, many things we were taught were totally wrong. Thats why we took the red pill.

So, in this case, I want people to consider how they really know the earth is round. How can we, who have never traveled into space know this for certain ? How many people have actually seen all of antarctica from above ?


Science today has become SCIENTISM.
It is now a religion.


Many things like the supposed age and form of the earth, continental drift, age of fossils...all those things you cannot verify yourself but have to believe on pure FAITH because the new priests (SCIENTISTS) tell you it is so.

The official narrative has lied to us about so many things - women, health, politics, masculinity...why should this concept remain such a sacred cow ?

In general i think it is very important to discuss any topic we cannot prove ourselves....shutting down conversation immediately as nonsense is like those insane holocaust denial laws....it becomes a new strict religious dogma that cannot be questioned anymore.

I'm not coming at this from a christian point of view....but from the view of "I have been lied to about so many things, I now want to verify things more than ever before." So, I ask all of you to cast aside your immediate emotional reaction and open your mind to intelligent rational DISCUSSION even if you are not religious at all.

Thanks.

The fact that official narrative has lied about many things does not mean it lies about all things.

I admit I have never been in space and I don't know if the earth is round or not from direct experience. However the round earth model has no "plotholes" and it allows me to explain many phenomena. Flat earth model has many "plotholes" and raises many questions and doesn't help to explain anything.

The only people who feel that flat earth explains something are people who believe in Bible literally and blindly and they seek something to explain how it's description of creation is correct. Since I don't believe in a literal interpretation of Bible I don't feel that Flat earth theory explains anything at all - it only creates confusion and useless questions while the world keeps revolving physically and metaphorically despite that.

The analogy of red pill and nature of women is a false one at least in my experience.

The official narrative about nature of women aroused many questions and doubts in me from a very early age - it frustrated me and whenever I tried to follow the official model - i got hit on head by reality that increased my resentment and frustration.

The red pill model about the nature of women leaves gives me peace and serenity - it doesn't frustrate me it doesn't cause me to collide with reality, it allows me to control my life and predict the result of my interactions with women with a high degree of accuracy. It allows me to change my life to make it more successful.

However I don't see how it would be similar if I rejected the round world model and accepted the flat earth model? Would it lessen my frustration about the world? Would it give me inner peace? Would it allow me to predict future events more precisely? Would it allow me to be more successful in any area of my life?

When I look to these questions I must answer all of them with a No.
If I changed my beliefs about shape of earth it would either make no difference in my life or even cause a negative effect making me unable to cope with modern technology that works by using the fact that earth is round. Flat earth is also not as compatible as round earth with my beliefs in reincarnation and evolution of consciousness, which are also concepts hidden by official narrative.

The only thing compatible with a flat earth is a close minded Bible-thumpher worldview about how we all are just ants under glass(firmament) for some big cosmic entity. I find no appeal and no credibility in that.

Therefore I remain a user of a round earth model in my head.

[realologist]

(01-22-2017 10:06 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  

I really do not understand the immediate emotional hostility of many people towards this idea. I mean...most of us discovered game and the red pill because we noticed we had been lied to our whole lives about the true nature of women and how to act with them.

We went to seek the truth and asked other men their experiences with women and then we started comparing our ideas and experiences on many other topics right here on this forum and it emerged that many, many things we were taught were totally wrong. Thats why we took the red pill.

So, in this case, I want people to consider how they really know the earth is round. How can we, who have never travelled into space know this for certain ? How many people have actually seen all of antarctica from above ?


Science today has become SCIENTISM.
It is now a religion.


Many things like the supposed age and form of the earth, continental drift, age of fossils...all those things you cannot verify yourself but have to believe on pure FAITH because the new priests (SCIENTISTS) tell you it is so.

The official narrative has lied to us about so many things - women, health, politics, masculinity...why should this concept remain such a sacred cow ?

In general i think it is very important to discuss any topic we cannot prove ourselves....shutting down conversation immediately as nonsense is like those insane holocaust denial laws....it becomes a new strict religious dogma that cannot be questioned anymore.

I'm not coming at this from a christian point of view....but from the view of "I have been lied to about so many things, I now want to verify things more than ever before." So, I ask all of you to cast aside your immediate emotional reaction and open your mind to intelligent rational DISCUSSION even if you are not religious at all.

Thanks.

Nobody has responded to you emotionally in this thread. Maybe you are confusing your own for others.

I agree with you that some science is total bullshit(mainly social science) but this is not one of them. If you look at with an objective instead of skeptical eye you can see this.

How do you explain the round appearance of other planets and the sun? You can't tell me you've never looked through a telescope.

How do you explain gravity and gravitational pull if the world is flat instead round?

Why would all these hundreds of people lie over something as insignificant as the world being round?

Why did navigation and sailing improve so much once the world was seen as round instead of flat?

I'm sure there are plenty more areas I'm forgetting. I understand where you're coming from but sometimes there just isn't a fight or isn't anything to be skeptical about.

[Mercenary]

How many of you have actually stared directly into the sun for more than 1 minute with fully open eyes ?

You are supposed to go blind right ?

Wrong.

For last few weeks I have started staring directly into the sun at different times of the day for 2 to 4 minutes at a time and when you do that the sun starts to look real different. I'm shortsighted and my eyesight is actually getting better.


Also, this video is pretty damn interesting showing planes above and going through the sun:

[Repo]

(01-22-2017 10:59 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  

For last few weeks I have started staring directly into the sun at different times of the day for 2 to 4 minutes at a time and when you do that the sun starts to look real different. I'm shortsighted and my eyesight is actually getting better.

For the love of god please stop this expirement.

[Mercenary]

(01-22-2017 11:31 AM)Repo Wrote:  

For the love of god please stop this expirement.

If I was supposed to go blind it would have already happened after all these weeks. But the opposite is happening. My eyesight is getting better and I can see the sun as a much smaller and closer ball in the sky. Many old cultures did this. It's called sungazing.

At the start I could only do it by squinting a bit for very short amounts of time, but the more days passed and more I did it, the easier it became. My eyes started getting used to it and adjusting.

I encourage everyone to try staring directly into the sun with eyes fully open for at least 5 to 15 seconds and post back here what exactly you see. Stop as soon as you feel uncomfortable...they try again later or the next day. Make it a slow gradual process.


Let's see if our expierences are the same.

[realologist]

First you only addressed one of my points. I'm pretty sure that video showed that the sun was round as well. I should have known trying to get into an argument with a conspiracy aspie.

Just know that I'll be happy living a life of fucking girls and living in comfort and joy. The only way you will experience that is if that no FAP gives you a mind equal to Professor X's while you stare at the sun trying to absorb the Flat Earth's energy to have Superman's powers with Lazer eyes from the Flat Sun's rays and the ability to reserrect threads from the underworld.

I'm done with this thread.

[Mercenary]

(01-22-2017 12:04 PM)realologist Wrote:  

First you only addressed one of my points. I'm pretty sure that video showed that the sun was round as well. I should have known trying to get into an argument with a conspiracy aspie.

Just know that I'll be happy living a life of fucking girls and living in comfort and joy. The only way you will experience that is if that no FAP gives you a mind equal to Professor X's while you stare at the sun trying to absorb the Flat Earth's energy to have Superman's powers with Lazer eyes from the Flat Sun's rays and the ability to reserrect threads from the underworld.

I'm done with this thread.

Attitudes like yours and personal insults on me is what keeps men from developing their knowledge and discussing things seriously.

I don't have all the answers, nor do I claim to have proof.

Im asking questions and providing my own evidence of things that seem to show that we have been told is not quite right.

On a general level it's way easier to prove the earth is flat than to prove it's round. For the round model you have to go into outer space....but for the flat model all you have to do is travel to edge by boat....which I will post about now below.



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[Mercenary]

In December 1938 Hitler's Nazi Germany sent an expedition to claim a large piece of territory in Antarctica. They called it "Neu Swabia". In reality in seems they were looking for the edge of the firmament (force field) that surrounds the entire flat earth.

You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Swabia

Here is their logo



And here is the area claimed based on a round earth model.




Then in 1946/1947 the USA sent their expedition to the same area. This time they sent 13 ships and 4700 men. They too were looking for the area the Germans had claimed and possibly the edge of the force field. There was a naval battle and many deaths and several planes and 1 ship were apparently destoyed. It was called "Operation Highjump" and was lead by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.

You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump

Quote:

Operation Highjump, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68. Operation Highjump commenced 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft. Operation Highjump's primary mission was to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV

The Russians made a serious 1 hour documentary about it.

In short....if the earth is flat, then no man has ever been able to reach the edge.



...

[Mage]

(01-22-2017 10:59 AM)Mercenary Wrote:  

How many of you have actually stared directly into the sun for more than 1 minute with fully open eyes ?

You are supposed to go blind right ?

Wrong.

For last few weeks I have started staring directly into the sun at different times of the day for 2 to 4 minutes at a time and when you do that the sun starts to look real different. I'm shortsighted and my eyesight is actually getting better.


Also, this video is pretty damn interesting showing planes above and going through the sun:

Looking at Sun for a short time can bring health benefits according to Yogic teachings. Just don't overdo it.
According to those same Vedic traditions Earth is round and there are billions of worlds and gods trough.

It's a well known red pill truth that sun screens are cancerogenous and a little sun is good for your skin - again just don't overdo it. The official narrative lies about Sun's effects on health, that is true.

About videos - flat earthers would tell to disbelieve NASA videos yet to accept videos like these, where is integrity in that? Now according to this video not only do I have to believe Sun is small - it is also cold. Gimme a break.

Of all the conspiracy theories flat earth is the most boring one - if you are smart enough to understand that it excludes aliens and a lot of other fun cryptic and weird stuff. if you believe in a flat earth and aliens simultaneously then you probably believe in anything you are told and have no critical thinking.

(01-22-2017 12:21 PM)Mercenary Wrote:  

The Russians made a serious 1 hour documentary about it.

Russians have thousands of similar conspiracy movies on REN TV, also available on YouTube - all voiced by what sounds to be the same guy. If you take all of them seriously then every conspiracy theory ever - is true.

(01-22-2017 12:21 PM)Mercenary Wrote:  

In short....if the earth is flat, then no man has ever been able to reach the edge.
...

Maybe there just is no edge?

[sterling_archer]

Also, I doubt that Yogic teachings are as simple as stare in the fucking sun for ... seconds. There are probably necessary preparations for that known only in their circles.

[Mage]

(01-22-2017 12:37 PM)sterling_archer Wrote:  

Also, I doubt that Yogic teachings are as simple as stare in the fucking sun for ... seconds. There are probably necessary preparations for that known only in their circles.

In a serous Yoga class - even the simple asanas you see people doing in every modern fitness center - should not be done without proper mental and moral preparation.

Sun gazing is not some occult knowledge hidden under seven seals and guarded by few zealous ninjas hidden in Hymalayas - but it is also not something you do without a lot of research, an experienced teacher and other simultaneous practices in other fields of like - like proper diet, exercise, breathing, mindfulness, thinking, leading a moral life.

N.B. All Yogic sungazing is to be done during sunset and sunrise - as far as I know no one recommends doing it at full noon.

[brick tamland]

Hey Mercenary take care of the eyes. Seriously though I bet the sun doesn't look like it's 93 million miles away does it? I've never tried gazing at it. What if the sun is "within" the Earth or just a few miles above. that would be fascinating . How will we ever find out, if space exploration is tightly controlled by a small group of people.
Brilliant people at least because within 7 years NASA went from completing the first manned space flight a few miles above Earth for a mere 15 minutes, to then sending men on an approximately 480 000 mile long round trip to the moon and back over 8 days. All went faultlessly in outer space, despite the various problems and failures experienced during pre-mission testing.

[Jackreacher]

The problem with Flat Earth Theory is that it presupposes quite a lot. I won't go into the MANY reasons why a Flat Earth couldn't be possible but I'll take the devil's approach and put up some of the points that are certainly interesting and worth considering as “noteworthy” arguments.

The Foundation of Flat Earth
I'll start at the ground level with how the Earth itself is seen at different heights. If one were for example to look at the land surrounding them and the land was mostly featureless(no mountains, hills, no depressions) the earth would appear to be quite flat. The same would occur if one were standing on the tallest sky scraper or the tallest mountain on the Earth. It would again still appear to be flat. Even at 40,000 feet above land (while flying) the Earth would still appear flat at eye level. The first man to enter the stratosphere August Piccard declared that the Earth "seemed a flat disk with upturned edge". It was recorded he went as high as ten miles into the sky.



The Earth's Curvature
Now in regards to the curvature of the Earth here is what Google has to say; Using the theorem of Pythagoras a2= 39632+ 12= 15705370 and thus a = 3963.000126 miles. Thus your position is 3963.000126 - 3963 = 0.000126 miles above the surface of the earth. 0.000126 miles = 12*5280*0.000126 = 7.98 inches.

So for every mile you will get 8 inches of curvature roughly speaking. Using one of the calculators available on the web I punched in how much curvature could be expected over a distance of 60 miles standing at an eye level of 6 feet. The calculation comes out to 2100 feet of curvature. The second tallest tower the Shanghai Tower would be completely obscured to me at that distance as it is 2073 feet tall. Flat Earth Theory states that this is not true and points to some anecdotal evidence, for example:

and with due respect to the curving horizon and perspective

Most Popular Flat Earth Model
Now lets take a look at their views regarding what the Earth looks like in their model. How for example does a flat earth theorist account for circumnavigation around the globe? So far this is the most popularized model of the Earth that FE theorists point to to demonstrate how circumnavigation is possible on a flat model and I urge you not to laugh:

The Sun and Moon
So that covers the mainstream view of the what the Earth looks like to most Flat Earth Theorists, now what about the Sun, the Moon and the rest of the universe with all the planets and celestial objects within the cosmos. For this the best way I can describe it in their terms is with Plato's “Allegory of The Cave” analogy. We see the sun and the moon as round therefore the Earth must be round also is what they claim is a logical error. To them the sun and moon are not celestial objects hundreds of thousands, or in the case of the Sun 93,000,000 miles away but instead sits 70-80 miles over a transparent dome that encapsulates the lands of the Earth and is synonymous to what is known in scriptures as the “Firmament”.

What could possibly support some of these outlandish views?

One of the arguments has to do with the rays of the Sun:

Their perspective on the Sun's supposed “Vanishing” point

How night and day at the same time is supposedly impossible on a round Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPlGJdY3PkI

How the Moon does not appear to rotate since we never see the “Dark Side” of the moon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIB_leg75Q

Also of note how the Moon appears upside down when viewed from the south hemisphere:

Moon's Orientation

The Stars and Other Planets
Now for the rest of the celestial objects they claim that the stars are nothing at all like our sun and that other planets do not exist. For example a non digital telescope will render images that look nothing like the depictions of stars and planets that you find from Nasa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGc-ukd0Pk

The North Star
Polaris, the North Star never moves. All the stars visible from the Earth appear to revolve around Polaris leaving Polaris at the center. The idea is if the Earth rotates the Sun and the Sun rotates the Milky Way this is impossible, all stars including Polaris would move in all sorts of directions relative to our view of the sky:



Additional Notes of Support:
Prominent scientists/inventors have stated that the Earth is not round.

Nikola Tesla:

"Earth is a realm, it is not a planet. It is not an object, therefore, it has no edge. Earth would be more easily defined as a system environment. Earth is also a machine, it is a Tesla coil. The sun and moon are powered wirelessly with the electromagnetic field (the Aether). This field also suspends the celestial spheres with electo-magnetic levitation. Electromag levitation disproves gravity because the only force you need to counter is the electromagnetic force, not gravity. The stars are attached to the firmament"

Some pictures from Nasa of the Earth apparently do not add up to FE'ers:



These are at the very least some clever arguments. I'll give them that. But their arguments are undone by footage of satellites and space stations, astronauts doing live interviews while in space and many other arguments. A good mental exercise though!