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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Hello, I'm new here. Let's chat about science and stuff.
« on: February 07, 2018, 07:27:47 PM »You see, in order for the majority of scientists to be wrong about the shape of the earth, they must either be delusional, stupid, or conspiring to conceal the true nature of the world.
Considering you have to go to college and get high grades and write a lot of papers and be able to effectively communicate in order to be considered a respectable scientist, we can rule out the first two options of delusion and stupidity. That only leaves us with a world-wide conspiracy.
You say here that scientists cannot be wrong because they've gone through college and got good grades. You also say that the majority of scientists believe that the world is a sphere. You imply that colleges are infallible. However, colleges are staffed by these scientists or at least are taught by people that base their lessons on these scientists' findings. Therefore if these scientists are stupid and delusional, that would mean that their stupidity and delusion is being passed onto the students that went through college and become scientists. It's not really a world-wide conspiracy as that means that there are people in power that know better, what if that's not the case?
Same thing goes for the moon landing hoax nonsense. Suppose you wanted to be an astronaut as a child. You dreamed of sailing through the stars, looking down at planet earth far below your spacecraft. So you study really hard and through luck and chance you happen to land a job at NASA in the year 1968 as a full-fledged astronaut.
Now, if you believe the moon-landing was faked, then that means none of the astronauts who were working for NASA in 1968 ever went to the moon in 1969. So after having worked your ass off your whole life for this dream, you find out it was just a hoax. Sorry kiddo, there is no real space mission to be heard of.
Wouldn't you be outraged? Wouldn't you immediately come public with the truth to get back at the bastards that led you on a lie?
Since there's a well established theme of government distrust in the Flat Earth Society, NASA being a government entity means that it cannot be trusted. Therefore, the moon landing could be faked. All records of it could be faked, all footage could be faked, astronauts could have been told what to say in the interviews, etc.
Listen, it's just not the case. We did go to the moon. I know people that worked for NASA. I know people that know people that worked for NASA. I know engineers who have to correct for the curvature of the earth in large-scale projects. There is no conspiracy to be found in the scientific community. There is no rational way to explain the massive, enormous, incredibly large amounts of data we have that prove the earth is round.
Maybe there's no conspiracy, but there definitely is disagreement, also based on the previous assumption of government distrust, it's very easy to say that the space data was faked.
It's also sad, and I'm genuinely upset by the mere existence of a forum such as this. If you guys are a bunch of trolls, it's sad that you're spreading misinformation. If your wiki page is true and you genuinely believe in a flat earth, then it's sad that you've been so dearly misinformed, and waste so much of your lives obsessing over a non-issue.
So let's chat. What do you think about the scientific community? What do you think about the points I brought up? Why do you think the shape of the earth is a big deal, or do you not think it's a big deal? I'm not here to argue, just want to have some casual conversation about these topics.
Look mate, you come to this forum saying that you want to have a friendly chat, then write a chapter in a condescending tone and finish with saying that FES is sad and is a bunch of trolls. So which is it?