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Flat Earth Theory / Re: What if flat earth theory was widely accepted
« on: January 01, 2018, 10:09:49 PM »We don't believe that there is a Globe Earth cover up. We believe that they are merely mistaken. Scientists and astronomers are likewise merely mistaken. Everyone is merely mistaken about the shape of the earth, and it all has to do with the educational system's culture of holding its authorities dating back to Aristotle as unimpeachable.So NASA are mistaken. I guess the Russians and the European space agency are too?
I wonder why they keep sending people to the ISS and making videos from it and have live feeds from it. So much effort, so many more people to keep quiet.
And they have a website where you can see details of when you can see the ISS from your location, something so easily testable.
If they are trying to cover up all this then they do seem to be going out of their way to make it difficult for themselves.
And scientists are mistaken.
And astronomers.
And I guess the entire airline industry and cruise line industry have to be too?
What about polar explorers? Meteorologists who use weather satellites?
If the idea of the earth being a globe came from some bloke a couple of thousand years ago and observations increasingly didn't match that model then that model would have been replaced. That's how the heliocentric model came to be accepted, the geocentric model didn't work with the retrograde movement of the planets, various attempts were made to fix it and in the end the heliocentric model came to match the observations and so became the accepted one.
The thing is, GPS works. Satellite TV works. Google Earth works. The airline industry works. These things, all based on the earth being a globe, demonstrably work.
The flat earth model doesn't even have an accepted map. It can't even explain a sunset (no, perspective doesn't make things sink below the horizon on a flat plane, it just makes thing smaller and the flat earth model of the sun cannot explain how clouds can be lit from below). Flat earth proponents seem to be split into two camps. Some are just very ignorant of science and their argument boils down to "I don't understand it, so it can't be true". And others have staked their reputation on flat earth theory and so cling on to it in a mess of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.