"The Earth is, more or less, a disc," he states. "Obviously it isn't perfectly flat thanks to geological phenomena like hills and valleys. It is around 24,900 miles in diameter."
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And what about the fact that no one has ever fallen off the edge of our supposedly disc-shaped world?
Mr McIntyre laughs. "This is perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions," he says. "A cursory examination of a flat earth map fairly well explains the reason - the North Pole is central, and Antarctica comprises the entire circumference of the Earth. Circumnavigation is a case of travelling in a very broad circle across the surface of the Earth."
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500 years ago, people were already moving on from this ignorance.
But these fucksticks are regressing.
Sad.
And the fact that people have walked across Antarctica, dragging a 500 pound sled, between points which, on your map, are separated by over 39,000 miles in a little over 97 days? Which is an average of 25 mph if they walked for 16 hours every day .
Whatever Ranulph Fiennes was taking, I want some!
(Oops, he said a diameter , not radius)
... and anyone who shows him facts to the contrary is just fudging the numbers to make it LOOK like the earth is spherical. Because that's all part of the giant conspiracy!!
.... yeah, I think it's time for the padded cell for this guy...
that would set the coast line of Antartica at about 74900 miles long. And that's nbefore looking at all the planes etc that have traversed it, (etc, etc: can't convince loonies, mutter, mutter.....
Flat Earthers might be able to rationalize all phenomena, such as day and night cycles and timezones, consistent with their flat earth models. HOWEVER, they are NEVER able to show some god-damned evidence that might show a flat earth. That is why they always remain a failure of reason, science and humanity.
Does the world travel on the back of a turtle who is on the backs of elephants?
No, no! The world rests on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the Great A'Tuin as he travels through the cosmos.
........ right, capslock time...
GO AND DIE YOU IGNROANT FUCK!
You know, I can at least understand how the 9/11, lunar landing, JFK assassination and shadow government nuts arrive at those conclusions, even though they're obviously completely wrong and totally inept at logical deduction, but I'll never get how anyone , even a total retard, can think the earth is flat. All you have to do is LOOK at the horizon, note that the sky is dome-shaped and observe the pathways the sun, moon and stars take across our skies, and you can easily see that the earth can not possibly be anything other than a sphere.
Larty:
The problem you will find among denialists of many stripes is a confusion between legal, rhetorical, and evidentiary arguments. I will give you two examples of the same sort of argumentation as is going on here:
-If you go to Phil Karn KA9Q's website (www.ka9q.net I think) there is a discussion of someone's idea of a new data transmission format (read "The VMSK Delusion") where the data is supposedly being jammed into a tiny spike of bandwidth. Further analysis indicates that the system is actually an ultra-wide-band system where all the data is in the "grass" (i.e. a long series of very quiet sidebands spanning out over a vast swath of spectrum around the claimed signal frequency) and the power spike in the middle of the frequency band is nothing more than a useless clock signal. The VMSK advocate's claims are based heavily not in the reality of digital radio communications, but on FCC regulations for sideband interference; in fact, if the sidebands are filtered out according to FCC regs, the information being carried disappears completely.
That's precisely what this yutz is doing with his "world map" thing. There's no intelligent life here.
And I suppose we're on the back of four elephants, on the back of the great turtle, A'Tuin.
Life would be so much easier if we lived on a planet of unstable reality like the Disc.
Thanks, James, for conclusively proving that gravity doesn't exist. Go climb one of those mountains and jump, please.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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