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Facebook Aunt posted:I wonder if flat earthers will finally disappear once commercial space flight becomes more affordable? Climbing everest is like $40,000 and people are literally lining up to do it. Going to space for a few hours and taking selfies in front of a window with Earth in the background is bound to become the new middle class aspiration if the price ever drops below $50k. Or will the conspiracy theorists just double down and insist those companies are fraudsters and the whole trip takes place in a simulator?
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your friend a dog posted:If someone believes killing babies isn't murder, why should I debate them? Ok, for a start, you're a stupid oval office. For seconds, none of the things you quoted are provably true in either way, so yeah maybe you should debate them because there's nuance and degrees on each side. The Earth being flat is trivially proven to be false by anyone with a junior high school diploma. Sorry your American public school education left you so far behind in both science and rhetoric.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:21
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Did you know that gps doesn't work in the southern hemisphere and that it's a land based system? And that airplane can only fly west in the northern hemisphere? CERN and the LHC are trying to open a portal to hell. I mean, it's sooooo obvious! They have a statue of SHIVA at their headquarters! Why would they do that if they didn't want to open a portal to hell? Just watch this 7 hour youtube series and learn with me! The Freude is on me for having a close relative with no job, no friends, and an internet connection. I once had to explain to her why I was not going to be using the plans she purchased! to build a perpetual motion machine to power her house.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:26
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Memento posted:Ok, for a start, you're a stupid oval office. That's pretty obviously not what anyone was talking about to begin with when they said that the Alt-Left rejects other people's view points and refuses to respect them. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 18, 2017 08:30
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your friend a dog posted:That's pretty obviously not what anyone was talking about to begin with when they said that the Alt-Left rejects other people's view points and refuses to respect them. i'm sorry someone made fun of you for being racist or whatever caused you to be this much of a crybaby
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Jan 18, 2017 08:32
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Alaois posted:i'm sorry someone made fun of you for being racist or whatever caused you to be this much of a crybaby Someone disagreed with me, must be racist. 
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Jan 18, 2017 08:33
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your friend a dog posted:Someone disagreed with me, must be racist. were you saying something about the Romani, that's always one people don't expect to get called out for
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Jan 18, 2017 08:34
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Alaois posted:were you saying something about the Romani, that's always one people don't expect to get called out for Are you Jon Pop? Because I bet the irony is going right over your head. (he's short you see)
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JoelJoel posted:Did you know that gps doesn't work in the southern hemisphere and that it's a land based system? And that airplane can only fly west in the northern hemisphere? CERN and the LHC are trying to open a portal to hell. I mean, it's sooooo obvious! They have a statue of SHIVA at their headquarters! Why would they do that if they didn't want to open a portal to hell? Just watch this 7 hour youtube series and learn with me! All of a sudden I'm so happy my crazy relatives lice on another continent. It's bad enough limping through the annual skype talk/lecture on cannabis curing everything/science is a lie/geographers are in it with satan flavour of the year.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:38
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your friend a dog posted:Someone disagreed with me, must be racist. your friend a dog posted:rly wish the white man had wiped out ur ancestors with the devestatin 1-2 punch of disease and iron You seem like a real winner.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:43
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Zesty Crab Legs posted:You seem like a real winner. Yes, that obviously serious post. You seem like a real smart dude.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:48
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Please stop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gtTVqmp3Q
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Jan 18, 2017 08:53
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Somfin posted:More like oldhypothesess These don't get old 
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your friend a dog posted:That's pretty obviously not what anyone was talking about to begin with when they said that the Alt-Left rejects other people's view points and refuses to respect them. That's because, frequently, the views are bone crushingly stupid and have no actual evidence to back them up. Also "Tolerate my intolerance" will never cease to be funny. I don't have to tolerate it if you don't.
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Jan 18, 2017 09:23
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your friend a dog posted:.............. too bad you're a retarded dipshit who can't realize his high horse is a kid's rocking one i don't care to keep the dumb political derail going but i think it's pretty funny this was apparently supposed to be a really sick burn on someone regardless of whatever the argument was
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Jan 18, 2017 09:38
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Facebook Aunt posted:Kinda like how cell phones and dash cams have made stories of UFOs, Sasquatches and the Loch Ness monster ever more unbelievable. Sasquatch has always been unbelievable but the Finding Bigfoot TV show is somehow popular enough that their ninth series is currently airing. It's utterly bizarre that people are completely willing to believe that Bigfoot exists when there's never been any actual quantifiable evidence for it. Knormal posted:You can already see the curvature of the Earth from any flight long enough to warrant a high cruising altitude, so probably not. I don't think they have an answer for that, other than vague mumblings about optical illusions or something. And I doubt most flat-Earthers are going to be in a position to drop $50k in their lives. Also you can see that the Earth is round from the shadow it casts during a lunar eclipse, as was noted by Aristotle. Also shadows are different lengths at latitudes, as was noted by Eratosthenes. Etc etc. Unless I guess those guys were in on the anti-flat earth conspiracy 22 centuries ago?
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your friend a dog posted:Are you Jon Pop? Because I bet the irony is going right over your head. Don't engage with probable rapists
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Jan 18, 2017 10:14
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also you can see that the Earth is round from the shadow it casts during a lunar eclipse, as was noted by Aristotle. Also shadows are different lengths at latitudes, as was noted by Eratosthenes. Etc etc. Unless I guess those guys were in on the anti-flat earth conspiracy 22 centuries ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgA_7-bHvyo This flat Earther video is actually one of the better demonstrations I’ve seen of Earth’s curvature. Seriously, y’all, borrow a pair of binoculars next time you’re in a port city and watch ships drop below the horizon.
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Jan 18, 2017 10:17
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Smart little fucker, that badger is.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:i don't care to keep the dumb political derail going but i think it's pretty funny this was apparently supposed to be a really sick burn on someone regardless of whatever the argument was 
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Jan 18, 2017 10:41
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Platystemon posted:This flat Earther video is actually one of the better demonstrations I’ve seen of Earth’s curvature. There's also a whooooooole bunch of flat earth 'proof' videos where they show that moving a coin away on a flat surface such as a table will make it look like it's disappearing over the horizon exactly the same way that the sun appears to disappear over the horizon. Absolutely all of them set the camera below the level of the tabletop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7K6r6zZLs 
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Jan 18, 2017 10:58
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Send camera into space. Done.  Also, that's a really bad experiment. The sun doesn't grind across the surface of the Earth.
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My personal favourite are the hollow earth people who say we're actually living _inside_ the planet. Evidence of this includes: - The Challenger shuttle exploded because it hit the ceiling - Stars are actually holes in the ceiling -
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Jan 18, 2017 11:21
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Danaru posted:My personal favourite are the hollow earth people who say we're actually living _inside_ the planet. All the geometric complexity of a spherical Earth, with none of the evidence. Truly a great theory. Danaru posted:- Stars are actually holes in the ceiling This is a thing in the Elder Scrolls universe, probably some real‐world mythology as well.
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Jan 18, 2017 11:23
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So is the flat earth movement actually gaining members these days, or are we just noticing it more because internet?
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Data Graham posted:So is the flat earth movement actually gaining members these days, or are we just noticing it more because internet? It seems kind of quaint in comparison to most of the poo poo that happens these days.
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Everyone trying to keep out the Mexicans and Muslims, meanwhile sovcitizens and flat earthers walking around this great country
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Platystemon posted:All the geometric complexity of a spherical Earth, with none of the evidence. In the Old Testament, The earth is basically a flat disc, with a dome above it that keeps a giant ocean restrained, and stars are lights on that dome. rain is water seeping through it, and the great flood was god opening literal floodgates.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:In the Old Testament, The earth is basically a flat disc, with a dome above it that keeps a giant ocean restrained, and stars are lights on that dome. rain is water seeping through it, and the great flood was god opening literal floodgates. Terrry Pratchett was right.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:In the Old Testament, The earth is basically a flat disc, with a dome above it that keeps a giant ocean restrained, and stars are lights on that dome. rain is water seeping through it, and the great flood was god opening literal floodgates. So we've been living in Rapture this whole time? There's a Saudi businessman I need to get on the phone...
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Platystemon posted:All the geometric complexity of a spherical Earth, with none of the evidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQaF4YXCXsc
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spog posted:I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply a case of them being great fans of Bruce and simply respecting his views. Haha, the headliners right now are Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down. And someone from America's Got Talent is doing the national anthem.
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oldpainless posted:One thing I never understood about the flat earth thing is, what's the end game? What is the benefit to having a flat earth? Makes it easier to play Risk and Axis & Allies
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It's a good thing Toby Keith tapped in to this vein of ultra-conservative feel good patriotism, because his music sucks balls
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ElGroucho posted:It's a good thing Toby Keith tapped in to this vein of ultra-conservative feel good patriotism, because his music sucks balls Toby Putin the Boot In.
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ElGroucho posted:It's a good thing Toby Keith tapped in to this vein of ultra-conservative feel good patriotism, because his music sucks balls sometimes my friends and i sing courtesy of the red white and blue during the fourth of july or while playing battlefield. its one of the worst songs ever.
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Jan 18, 2017 16:05
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I believe in Bigfoot, or at least the possibility that some sort of large, undiscovered or long-thought extinct ape species was hanging around much more recently than we'd think. Schadenfreude on me I guess.
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Basebf555 posted:I believe in Bigfoot, or at least the possibility that some sort of large, undiscovered or long-thought extinct ape species was hanging around much more recently than we'd think. It's somewhat likely that a large, undiscovered ape species survived until fairly recently (in palaeontological terms) in some corner of the globe. Gigantopithecus didn't come out of nowhere, after all. However, the chances that a sustainable breeding population of large undescribed apes is currently living in North America is so exceedingly small as to be laughable. We can't actually say that the probability is zero but it's astronomically close to zero. (I'm a massive Bigfoot skeptic but I would love to be proved wrong, I'm fascinated by cryptozoology.) Edit: to bring this all back on topic, the schadenfreude is that hundreds and hundreds of people have dedicated countless hours and in many cases most of their lives into trying to find/capture/kill a mythical creature based on a bunch of hoaxes perpetrated back in the 1950s Facebook Aunt posted:Kinda like how cell phones and dash cams have made stories of UFOs, Sasquatches and the Loch Ness monster ever more unbelievable. At the rate people were encountering those things 20-30 years ago there should have been tons of new footage in the last 5 years, but there's almost nothing new. Videos still turn up somewhat regularly. There were some news stories just a few days ago about 'compelling' new footage of a family of Bigfoots in Yellowstone Park . Judge for yourself:  Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 17:26 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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