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Kyrie Irving, Flat Earther

Although the Flat Earth is getting a lot of action these days, the poor Hollow Earth goes begging.
I always thought that was much more interesting, what with a miniature Sun floating around inside the planet and all manner of interesting folks and civilizations....
 
Capsid said:
They can't argue against this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope
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Elagabalus said:
Oh ... but they can!
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And they do. I recently watched Behind the Curve, on Netflix currently. A FE believer bought a ring laser gyro, at a cost of $20k, to see if they could detect the 15 degrees per hour precession (I might have the term wrong here) of the earth's rotation. And, sure enough, they saw the 15 degrees per hour. They were dismayed for a while but it wasn't long before they explained away the results, saying that what they were detecting was the rotation of the sky/firmament and not that of the earth. :rolleyes:

I'm much more interested in why people believe woo than the beliefs themselves. But speculating on posters' motives is discouraged here, for reasons I both understand and support. I recommend the film for anyone interested in the social and personal side of the FE world.

ETA: the bit about the LRG test is near the end of the film
 
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Trouble is thousands of planes are fitted with them. Are all FEs scared of flying?


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Red Baron Farms said:
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I was wrong. There literally are rational people that really do believe the Earth flat. And what happens here is a Flat Earther sets up an experiment to prove it!:jaw-dropp

The result should be no shock, but the reaction is priceless.:D:thumbsup:

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Ah, "My experiment has proved that the earth is round . . . therefore my experiment is wrong and should be disregarded." Priceless indeed.
:D
 
Bikewer said:
Although the Flat Earth is getting a lot of action these days, the poor Hollow Earth goes begging.
I always thought that was much more interesting, what with a miniature Sun floating around inside the planet and all manner of interesting folks and civilizations....
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Yeah, dude! Pellucidar, I dig it. I was surprised not long ago to discover that the forged "Secret Diary of Richard E. Byrd" about his flight into the hollow Earth is still available. Truth lives long, but lies apparently are immortal.
 
Spektator said:
Yeah, dude! Pellucidar, I dig it. I was surprised not long ago to discover that the forged "Secret Diary of Richard E. Byrd" about his flight into the hollow Earth is still available. Truth lives long, but lies apparently are immortal.
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Agreed, Burroughs Pellucidar novels are a lot of fun.
They did a movie back in the 70's that suffered from too small a budget and the limitations of SFX at the time, but would love to see a movie with a decent budget and state of the art effects.
 
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Spektator said:
Ah, "My experiment has proved that the earth is round . . . therefore my experiment is wrong and should be disregarded." Priceless indeed.
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You think? I saw the same clip and came away with the exact opposite impression.

It looks to me like a broken man finally understanding he was wrong.

But of course his whole YouTube career depends on Patreon donations. So yes, after a delay where he made no flat Earth uploads at all, he started uploading again.

Very much like other scammers Randy debunked. But this one more funny because he debunked himself and we got to see the moment when he went from true believer, to hypocritical scam artist in it only for the money.
 
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It's a good, simple epistemological exercise.

I have an inactive account at the Flat Earth Society website and a good 95% of the posters have to be trolls and saboteurs, and the remaining 5% mentally ill or so incredibly radically conspiracist that they actually believe the flat earth truth is being intentionally hidden from them.

It gets tiresome after a few minutes.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
You think? I saw the same clip and came away with the exact opposite impression.

It looks to me like a broken man finally understanding he was wrong.

But of course his whole YouTube career depends on Patreon donations. So yes, after a delay where he made no flat Earth uploads at all, he started uploading again.

Very much like other scammers Randy debunked. But this one more funny because he debunked himself and we got to see the moment when he went from true believer, to hypocritical scam artist in it only for the money.
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Well, Campanella claims that some force, maybe refraction, caused the "false positive." Doesn't seem broken to me . . . Crooked, maybe . Randi spells his name with an i, by the way.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
Mostly as a debate and rational thought experiment. Actual real flat Earthers don't really exist. The reason is this: In order to be educated enough to even argue the flat earther case, one generally is educated enough to know it isn't true.
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It is obvious to me people are alternate reality gaming.

They know perfectly well the earth is round. It's pretty easy to pretend you don't though, and certain personality types love trolling other people this way.

It actually does require organizing a complete line of ******** about the outer rim of the earth being this 200 foot high sheet of ice and the movements of the sun and moon are this guy holding a flashlight, etc.

I have seen a number of them use it to really get under the skin of people, just like Bigfooters do. Look how brainwashed you are, believing in NASA and all...
 
AlaskaBushPilot said:
It is obvious to me people are alternate reality gaming.

They know perfectly well the earth is round. It's pretty easy to pretend you don't though, and certain personality types love trolling other people this way.

It actually does require organizing a complete line of ******** about the outer rim of the earth being this 200 foot high sheet of ice and the movements of the sun and moon are this guy holding a flashlight, etc.

I have seen a number of them use it to really get under the skin of people, just like Bigfooters do. Look how brainwashed you are, believing in NASA and all...
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There are massive numbers of true believers in both of these fantasies.
 
Venom said:
It's a good, simple epistemological exercise.

I have an inactive account at the Flat Earth Society website and a good 95% of the posters have to be trolls and saboteurs, and the remaining 5% mentally ill or so incredibly radically conspiracist that they actually believe the flat earth truth is being intentionally hidden from them.

It gets tiresome after a few minutes.
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What started out as a lame, tiresome joke quickly became a sincere conspiracy theory.
 
Red Baron Farms said:
I will use this thread simply because I see no reason to add extra flat Earther vids on the science forum.

The interesting thing here is it proves me wrong in my hypothesis too.

I was wrong. There literally are rational people that really do believe the Earth flat. And what happens here is a Flat Earther sets up an experiment to prove it!:jaw-dropp

The result should be no shock, but the reaction is priceless.:D:thumbsup:

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They did this back in the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment
 
AlaskaBushPilot said:
It is obvious to me people are alternate reality gaming.

They know perfectly well the earth is round. It's pretty easy to pretend you don't though, and certain personality types love trolling other people this way.
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FEARGers

The fact that they haven't walked to the edge of the earth, tells me that they don't believe their stories.
 
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