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shawnfromnh69 ago

I'll believe in the flat earth when they show me undeniable proof as in video of them arriving at the edge and then showing space looking straight down. I've never seen that and I'm positive I never will. The reasons they give for a flat earth are basically dumb and their experiments are ill conceived at best with absolutely questionable results at best.

TwitterBannedIt ago

This is a fun argument because no one ever claimed that an 'edge' existed.

The most prominent theories are an endless plane.

I'm not an FEer either, I identify most with the gentlemen above who believes neither.

What responsibility have I to believe things I cannot know?

Know being the key word, believing popular hearsay is not knowledge, it is a belief system. I can't test these things myself, but would be happy to try, should I gain the opportunity. I would be happy with any outcome, if I could prove it.

Another theory would say you can see the edge, because Antarctica is around us on all side, and this could indeed be tested, but not with a compass, assuming the north pole is in the center of the world we know (which this theory does assume). Still you could disprove it by flying OVER Antarctica completely, and you would be heading south when you started, but once on the other side, you should be facing NORTH, that would prove the globe is how it is taught. I would be interested in proving either, but if you aren't mounting a scientific expedition to do so, not terribly interested in hearing the 'facts' you've LEARNED from HEARSAY.

SerialLarper ago

You can test the flat earth theory by phoning people in other timezones to track the path of the sun from sunset to sunrise in your local timezone. According to flat earth theory it has to change direction in order that it doesn't go below the horizon, but it doesn't.