Personally I find flat earthers quite interesting (though naturally you are wrong because the world is actually a hollow tube full of spiders).
Regardless, if you'd like to present a map of flat Earth I'll be happy to point out why that particular model doesn't work through publicly available data and simple mathematics that most folks with an income and some vacation days should be able to check if they actually gave a shit.
First question would be: Are you capable of walking in a straight line?
Test: Take a compass to confirm you are heading East or West, walk/drive/fly in a completely straight line for N thousand miles without changing your heading.
Expected results: Flatworld: You are orienting around a central pole, therefore your compass will show you have changed your heading has changed and you are no longer heading East or West despite having travelled in a straight line. Roundworld: You are orienting around an oblate spheroid, travelling any amount of distance East or West in a straight line will lead to you arriving at your origin point and your compass heading will remain static throughout.
Alternative: You are actually incapable of travelling in a straight line and instead list naturally towards the pole that is "central" on the disc. Your brain is also literally incapable of determining if something is straight and will interpret mildly curved objects as being straight as an arrow.
man i live in australia right. ive been to europe myself so i know i can fly direct from australia to the uk
i know people who have flown direct to LA, so you can fly from AUS to the US.
i know people in the UK who have flown from the UK to new york so i know you can do that.
So presumably there is some kind of north/south running land border dividing the US, cos it sure as shit aint on this side of the planet.
Now i also know that i can book a pleasure cruise down to antarctica and that place exists with no sekrit navy guarding some massive ice wall but ill pretend thats there for the purpose of this flat earth scenario, so, where is the northern border which presumably exists somewhere north of canada russia and all that shit?
So flat earthers either live on a pacman plane where they disappear out one side and appear on the other, or a cylinder word.
And if yes to either of those... then why the fuck not a globe, especially when you dont have to explain why all the parts of the model dont argue with each other
Australian, eh? I assume you're already well acquainted with "hollow and full of spiders" view of the Earth then.
Yeah, the entire flatworld model doesn't seem to work very well when you remember that people actually live in the Southern Hemisphere and can travel to destinations in both the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere without any appreciable difference in travel time whether they're going east/west or north/south.
Presumably you're allowed to visit Antarctica because all Australians are part of the conspiracy already?
Something like that :)
New Zealand is fake tho.
A. what a coincidence. Obviously you know coincidences don’t exist.
B. Nobody is capable of walking in a straight line, though the question begs this, “if straight lines are possible why has the South Pole never been flown over and circumnavigated from pole to pole? You don’t have an answer because it’s illegal.
C. Oh, just read the rest of your example. You don’t know anything about flat earth. You can walk east to west. What you can’t do son, is walk north to south because it’s illegal. Trust the science
D. Your gotcha question is low IQ which I caught immediately. Try again, remember I was a GENIUS globalist just two years ago, no way could I become a moron in just two years simply for asking questions.
E. You don’t even know why you believe in Globalism, you just watched one too many Hollywood pedophile movies
A: Cool, thanks. You agree based on this map the minimum distance between South Africa and Australia is more than double the distance between South Africa and Britain?
B: Okay, so you believe that nobody is capable of walking in (or presumably seeing) straight lines? That's interesting. So if I stuck a hundred meter long rulers end to end, would it seem curved to you? How many do I need to stack before it starts to curve? Does this only happen to you when you walk West or East? Or does it happen when you try to walk North?
C: To the contrary, it seems impossible not to walk north or south in a flat earth model unless, as you claim, people are incapable of the simple act of walking in a straight line. Any straight line with a starting direction perpendicular to the pole would inevitably result in someone travelling South-East or South-West. The only possible straight line would be travelling directly north or south.
D: I haven't asked a gotcha question. So far I've asked if you were capable of walking in a straight line and proposed an experiment you could easily take to prove or disprove your worldview.
E: I don't watch television. Have you ever considered that maybe part of the negativity you encounter is a result of you being needlessly aggressive?
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