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Flat Earth Theory / Re: FE Theory Formal Development II

« on: April 04, 2019, 04:49:39 PM »

The plane Earth accelerated upward at an acceleration that is known on the surface, g=9.8 m/s^2.

What about the local variations in the acceleration that have been measured? All lies, I'm sure? But then why do you accept any other sort of published measurements of physical quantities as true?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Questions made purely for understanding perspective

« on: April 04, 2019, 04:24:01 PM »

Why would the government hide the fact that the Earth is round from us?
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Not a Flat Earther, but read the wiki first.

I have read the wiki on this question, because that is what fascinates me the most about the FE belief. You have to be convinced that an incredibly elaborate complex of lies is actively maintained. Not just NASA, but the whole field of astronomy, for starters, has to be a lie.

And why would some sort of nefarious conspiracy come up with such an incredible web of lies? What could be their motivation to write libraries full of elaborate lies about a fantasy universe, when the topic only interests a small minority of people to begin with? What could they gain from it?

It fascinates me how anyone can seriously believe this. So yes, I did read the wiki. Does it answer the question? No, not really. The wiki says, under conspiracy/motivation:

The purpose of NASA is to fake the concept of space travel to further America's militaristic dominance of space.

Some other superpowers are supposedly involved as well: pretending and/or lying about a space program in order to scare other countries.

This could maybe be an explanation for a fake NASA. But if their only goal is to scare other countries, how does it help to lie about the shape of the earth? How does it help to come up with libraries full of internally consistent fake info about a universe, including black holes, galaxies, competing theories about dark matter, all supported by incredibly advanced math, all of these pictures you would have to fake...
And then they would also have to fake every map of the earth, every travel path of every vehicle making a long journey.. and they would need to get so many peoples to cooperate with their scheme... none of which really helps with military dominance.

So no, the wiki doesn't answer the question.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Help with the conspiracy aspect

« on: April 01, 2019, 11:57:38 PM »

I have believed the world to be flat since the day I was born. I sleep on my flat floor in a sleeping bag and do not look to the skies with astronomical fear, incited into me by indoctrinated science.

Ok, one more question. What do you mean when you talk about "astronomical fear"? Fear of meteorites that could strike Earth? Or perhaps a more general fear of a vast empty space? Just curious, if you would rather not answer my questions I will not bother you further.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Help with the conspiracy aspect

« on: March 31, 2019, 11:17:58 AM »

I was about to ask the same question.

It is not so much a global conspiracy, but a global misunderstanding created by deceivers at the top.

Okay. Why are they doing it?