• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      The Final Experiment in Antarctica about a year ago fractured the community. The way this sort of thing generally works is that a lot of them break off, but the remaining ones are even crazier than before. As examples, see the Great Disappointment among Adventists, or 1975 among Jehovah’s Witnesses.

      That said, they still lost some major voices. If you don’t follow this sort of thing on YouTube a lot, you’re probably going to miss them completely.

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    Woah, woah, woah!!! … wait a minute. This is a northern centric interpretation.

    Who says the center of the flat earth plane sits on the north pole?

    If the center is in the south pole, you wouldn’t have to refuel at all.

    Check mate libs

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    10 months ago

    To be fair, there is only one non-stop commercial flight between Australia and South America. I’m not a flat earther but pointing out this fact sure makes me feel like one 🤔

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      You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.

      For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don’t go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?

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      Is there one that isn’t nonstop (excluding stopovers in New Zealand- not because it doesn’t count, but because I’m wondering whether there’s a place to stop between South America and Oceania)?

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        I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there’s not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand… and Antarctica if you’re a round Earth shill ;)

        Weird how there’s a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile… two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.

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      trick question: they don’t think.

      but if you want to know how they say the sun works, it is a combination of light having a limited range and some weird thing about angles that they use to justify sunrises and sunsets

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      Spotlight above the north pole that spins around and lights up different parts of the world at different times, obviously. Why doesn’t the Sun appear from a northern angle when it’s pointed at you in the daytime? Shut up round earth shill, nananana I can’t hear you!

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    It’s magnetism and solar winds, or something. Don’t ask me how it works, your round earther brain wouldn’t get it. ~this is sarcasm~