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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Explain this Phenomenon

« on: March 15, 2019, 01:17:39 PM »

I'm not FE myself, however I always like to consider what the best argument might be for the other side, and sometimes you can force yourself to consider new things this way.

So something that bothers me here is that not all sunsets look like this, and neither flat not round Earth dictates that the atmosphere and the clouds in it must hug the ground with even thickness at all times. It doesn't make sense to me then that this picture proves that the ground must be at a curve. These clouds could easily be set at their own arbitrary angles, independent from the ground, due to areas of high/low pressure.

Go search for underwater photography, like particularly viewing a wave with surf from beneath, and you'll see what I'm getting at here. Some of these photos look strikingly similar to weather systems you might see in the sky. It's not difficult to imagine how a sunset might light the surf from beneath if the surface was gently sloped by a long wave.

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Flat Earth Theory / Fermi's paradox

« on: March 02, 2019, 11:09:41 PM »

I'm non-FE (Glober?) but interested in FE just because I like exploring all different viewpoints on any topic, and this is different stuff to say the least! Anyway, one of the first places my mind went when thinking about the whole debate is what about aliens, and the total lack of them so far?

It seems a pretty obvious thing to jump on. Round Earth predicts that we're floating in the middle of a dark void, surrounded by worlds similar to our own - at least in terms of basic shape - and that we should've picked up some radio signals from other intelligent life by now, but we haven't. Flat Earth I'm guessing predicts that any alien life would be somewhere over the ice wall, not anywhere up in the sky.

I skimmed the tfes wiki already, didn't spot any reference to the Fermi paradox. Is there any reason this doesn't get brought up as a topic for flat Earth more often? Thanks