Vince this evening told me about "the flat earth society" when he was looking through wikipedia....
I Immediately LOL-ed and checked it out... it turns out they have a website.... and a FORUM... so me and vince joined the forum.... let the flamming begin....
and what is more..... vince after reading this bull shite is parting with the "FE-ers" (flat earthers)
look...
And this is how FE-ers explain the apparent reason why the earth is flat:
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Warning the following information is taken from www.theflatearthsociety.org and should be read with humour.
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General / this forumQ: "Is this site for real?" A: This site is real. There are people who seriously believe the Earth is flat. However, there are also people on this site who do not. Q: "Why do you guys believe the Earth is flat?"A: Well, it looks that way up close. Also, Samuel Rowbotham et al. performed a variety of experiments over a period of several years that show it must be flat. They are all explained in his book, which is linked at the top of this article.GovernmentQ: "Why do the all the world Governments say the Earth is round?" A: It's a conspiracyQ: "What about NASA? Don't they have photos to prove that the Earth is round?" A: NASA is part of the conspiracy too. The photos are faked.Q: "Why has no-one taken a photo of the Earth that proves it is flat?" A: The government prevents people from getting close enough to the Ice Wall to take a picture.Q: "How did NASA create these images with the computer technology available at the time?" A: Since NASA did not send rockets into space, they instead spent the money on developing advanced computers and imaging software instead PLEASE NOTE This means that pictures confirming the roundness or flatness of the Earth DO NOT IN THEMSELVES CONSTITUTE VALID PROOFQ: "What is the motive behind this conspiracy?" A: The motive is unknown although it is probably moneyQ: "If you're not sure about the motive, why do you say there is a conspiracy?"A: Well it's quite simple really; if the earth is in fact flat, then the governments must be lying when they say it isn't.Q: "The government could not pull off the conspiracy successfully"A: Actually, they could.Q: "How are the world governments organized enough to carry out this conspiracy?" A: They only appear to be disorganized to make the conspiracy seem implausible. Q: Why hasn’t this site been shut down by the government? A: Doing so would prove that the government is hiding something.Q: No way could the government possibly guard the entire Ice Wall! It would take too many men! Millions of men!A: Not really. You could do it with a few hundred and some basic equipment.Q: Why is NASA’s space shuttle runway curved?A: It was specially constructed by NASA to be so. After all NASA are at the heart of the conspiracy.The Earth in space Q: "What is the circumference and diameter of the Earth?" A: "Circumference: 78225 miles, Diameter: 24,900 miles Q: "What about the stars, sun and moon and other planets? Are they flat too? What are they made of?" A: The sun and moon, each 32 miles in diameter, circle Earth at a height of 3000 miles at its equator, located midway between the North Pole and the ice wall. Each functions similar to a "spotlight," with the sun radiating "hot light," the moon "cold light." As they are spotlights, they only give light out over a certain are which explains why some parts of the Earth are dark when others are light. Their apparent rising and setting are caused by optical illusions. In the "accelerating upwards" model, the stars, sun and moon are also accelerating upwards. The stars are about as far as San Francisco is from Boston. (3100 miles)Q: "Please explain sunrises/sunsets."A: It's a perspective effect. Really, the sun is just getting farther away; it looks like it disappears because everything gets smaller and eventually disappears as it gets farther away.Q: "Why are other celestial bodies round but not the Earth?" A: When you look at these celestial bodies, even with a telescope, they're entirely two-dimensional. Q: "What about satellites? How do they orbit the Earth?" A1: They don't, satellite signals come from radio towers. Q: "What's underneath the Earth?" aka "What's on the bottom?" aka "What's on the other side?"A: This is unknown. Some believe it to be just rocks, others believe the Earth rests on the back of four elephants and a turtle. Q: "What about gravity?" A1: The Earth is accelerating upwards at 1g (9.8m/s-2) along with every star, sun and moon in the universe. This produces the same effect as gravity. A2: Gravity comes from an external source (to be discussed) Q: "Isn't this version of gravity (A1) flawed? Wouldn't planes/helicopters/paragliders crash into the Earth as the Earth rises up to them?" A: No. By the same argument, we could ask why planes/helicopters/paragliders don't crash into the Earth as they accelerate down towards them. The reason that planes do not crash is that their wings produce an upthrust which, when the rate of acceleration upwards equals that of gravity's pull downwards, causes them to remain at a constant altitude. The same thing happens if the Earth is moving up. The plane is accelerating upwards at the same rate as the Earth, which means the distance between them does not change. Therefore, the plane stays at the same height and does not crash.
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this continues with diagrams aswell....
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if you havn't fallen asleep already....
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