At least you'd get a long look at the elephants before you splatted on the turtle.
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Time actually runs backwards because the earth is accelerating "up"wards at 9.8 Meters Per second, which means it would only take 30,591,067.142857 seconds before Earth reaches the speed of light, which is about 354.0632771164 days.
Meaning, if Earth existed for more than a year, it's already traveling faster than the speed of light, which, according to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, could only mean one thing:
Everything happening outside Earth's frame of reference is happeneing backwards.
Blackholes don't exist, they are light-bombs.
The big bang didn't happen, that was the end of the universe that we escaped from.
Earth is not flat, it's a TARDIS.
Checkmate, NASA!
c/EarthIsTARDIS
I'm going to need you to flesh this out a little bit, then make a web 1.0 style site, complete with scrolling marqe, random fonts and sizes, and a lot of statements along the lines of "if you don't see the truth of this you are evil and should be thrown off the edge". Once that's in place I think we're good to launch your new conspiracy.
Yeah. If the earth were flat the edge would be a tourist attraction.
oh for real.. I've always wanted to ask them what they thought the underside looked like. I picture their simple minds imagining something like loose dirt clods falling off and maybe some roots and shit sticking out like I would have when I was a kid...
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Ha I should have known someone else here would have the same first thought as I did. Didn't turn out so well for me and my buddy though - our stuff and our boat is still somewhere in the void.
many laughs and screams to be had. build a base and drop your stuff off. catapult from mountains nearby from epic shenanigans
Flat earthers believe that we are on a disc but are accelerating 1g per second per second. So if you jumped off the edge the earth would leave you behind forever never to return.
Would you even fall "down" at all, if it's at the edge of space? Wouldn't gravity cause you to just continue walking down the edge like it's another surface--how "thick" do they say the flat earth is? Have they ever described what the edge is supposed to be like and why no one has found it yet? Or do they maybe say there isn't an edge, but then what do they claim the earth's shape is supposed to be beyond the 2-D term "flat"?
I've seen a few "debunking" videos refuting some claim or another but I've never seen either the flat earthers or the debunkers address some of the most obvious questions about it. Usually they just demonstrate the curvature of the earth or something.
Dude. I just set a marble on the ground and it didn't roll to the bottom of the globe like it would if it were REALLY round!