Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

right. we should all be praising this person for waking up from their slumber

Plus we gotta check every once in a while to keep the earth on its toes

This is how science was done back in the day. Welcome to the club, guys!

At this point some of them are so far in they have a financial incentive. For some if they were at admit, then their income would vaporise. Others know, but do it as a grift to get money out of believers.

And they'll act like this guy was never one of them, and is a plant from the "globies" to trick them.

Because anything that disproves the conspiracy is actually part of the conspiracy

There were several of them who refused to go on the trip, which they were offered for free, and then when other people went on the trip, they claimed that footage of the trip was faked in some way.

I agree, the people are doing good, who went there and admitted the truth of what they were seeing. There’s a whole category that are even further gone than that, though, to where their brains will actively shield them against something that might threaten the whole self-referential structure.

I mean the whole flat earth thing started as trolling anyway...

Also, this is Jeranism, who has a history of doing a bunch of legit experiments, ending up proving globe every single time, admitting as much, then just going "well that's interesting", and keeping believing in flat Earth anyway.

It was the north-sun of course!

The reason they chose Antarctica is because the most often used flat earth model* has Antarctica as a ring on the "rim".

They usually do acknowledge a 24h sun in the north existing based on that model because it would require the sun to remain central over the disc, which is geometrically not really an issue. However the southern 24h sun is not possible with that model. (Edit: Excluding some weird lensing effects or multiple suns, like some of them claim)

*Most of them will tell you they don't have a model, because they don't really know what "model" means.

Source: I watched too many SciManDan videos.

Propped up against the gravity of what? If Earth fell down the infinite columns, how long would it fall? What would be the difference? What are the columns made of? Can we mine them? So many questions.

I remember once as a teenager thinking what if atoms aren't real like what if everything is like solid, and just what you see?

A little interrogation of the concept and it fell apart pretty quickly (maybe ten minutes of internal monologue back and forth), but I still remember the moment the initial thought clapped me on the temple, and in that moment it felt profound.

I wonder if that's what being a credulous fool is like all the time. It was intoxicating.

Apparently, at least part of the modern version was an early discussion forum online. It was used as a fun, stupid method to train debating skills. Unfortunately, idiots stumbled in and assumed it was real. The debaters either got bored, or weirded out, and went elsewhere. The remaining people were the idiots.

It's an idea that seems to pop up a lot however. It's """Obvious""" to those who don't understand science properly.

From what I recall, a group of 4channers started the Flat Earth Society as a joke. As the joke grew and became more popular, it started to attract the real loonies. When enough loonies came together, it sort of stopped being a joke and they took over.

Reality is a team sport, to some people. They have no objective means for evaluating claims. In their worldview, that is not what claims are for. In a very real sense they do not believe in the concept of truth. There is only trust, and trust is a matter of interpersonal loyalty.

4chan started memeing about how funny it would be if modern people believed the earth was flat. So they founded the flat earth society, and started satirically posting about the earth being flat. And then idiots (who weren’t in on the joke, and completely missed the satire) took it as gospel and ran with it. And at that point, 4chan thought it was fucking hilarious and sat back to watch the idiots play. At a certain point, it had grown beyond even 4chan’s expectations, and there was nothing they could do to stop it even if they wanted to.

The old joke is that Reddit is where stupid people go to act smart, and 4chan is where smart people go to act stupid. And the latter part of that joke is really exemplified by the flat earth society.

No, no, he was defeated !1

They did that before the trip. There was “infighting” as the top dummies in the space tried to badmouth and discredit the ones going as “traitors”. It’s all just a handful of evil people trying to make money off their grift.

Yeah they were saying the flat earthers who accepted were paid actors or traitors. They claimed the whole thing was fake. Or that there would be a sun simulator at work. And even that looking up at the sky doesn't tell you anything about the earth, you can only look down to tell something about the earth.

A lot of them are straight up grifters, doing it to troll or have untreated mental health issues. Of course a combination will do as well. They prey on easily swayed people, who like to think they know the real truth and everyone else is being deceived. In a world where there are so many people and everybody is linked together through the internet, it's harder and harder to think of yourself as an individual that matters. So joining a special group of elites that understand the world in a more fundamental way than even top scientists is very attractive. I sympathize with the people who get duped by people like flat earthers. It says a lot that something as easily disproven and as wrong as the flat earth still gets some traction.

Big up for the final experiment dude to put up the money and organize it all. I hope it convinces even some people flat earthers are wrong and crazy, then it will be worth it.