We just burn parking meters around here.
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I haven’t found anything they simply ignore. They have a response to pretty much anything including the eclipse. Their solutions can be far fetched and fantastic but they have a response for everything I’ve run across. I think it’s great to have a skeptical handful of folk out there dreaming up improbable responses and questions to our generally accepted models.
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I actually know this one:
Whenever the moon and sun cross each other on the tracks they’re on, the system shorts-out and they have to reboot.
Works the same way in a lunar eclipse except the moon is just crossing the sun’s empty track.
I’d love to see their explanation of a lunar eclipse. Nimelennar’s explanation is the best I’ve ever seen. I’ve asked the question several times and gotten no response.
Agree. I recently joined a group called “Christians against Dinosaurs” and have seen some crossover. The dissonance is deep and wide and will swallow you whole.
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The shadow disc is common but I like this
Also grammar rules is a fucking lie!
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I can’t watch videos at work, but it seems to me that if the sun and moon are always both on the same side of the Earth-Disk, the Earth-Disk can never cast a shadow on anything we can see. It also seems to me that being a Flat-Earther takes a LOT of faith in things we have never seen.
That’s photographic evidence if I’ve ever seen it. You’re onto something big here.
Possibly they’re not part of the conspiracy, but just are “confused” by the apparently nonsensical way the Sun and its light must work on a flat Earth…
Right - it can’t be a simple spotlight. It has to be a fesnel with changeable masks and effects - in fact, a giant theater’s worth of lighting gobos, gels, filters, etc. (And probably more than one light, to make it work properly - either that, or the sky is some sort of video screen, with the Sun and Moon part of that.) Which means the Earth must literally be a giant stage…
That kind of is the logical endpoint, if one believes in a flat Earth (see above).
Anyone who deals with global systems (e.g. geologists, climatologists),
Penguin researchers (and any other researchers in the Antarctic region),
Sailors (especially those in the Southern Hemisphere),
Hell, pretty much just everyone in the Southern Hemisphere, in fact,
Anyone who has ever traveled from the Northern to Southern Hemisphere…
It’s like a terrible traffic accident - “Don’t look, don’t look… how the Hell did that get there? Oh gods, this is too upsetting… Is that a motorcycle in that tree?”
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A high school classmate from a school with great teachers in a big city has become a flat earther → moon landing was faked → pizzagate was real → the Talmud tells Jews to control the world → White Power Stormfront Racist. I don’t know if there’s much correlation beyond him, but would say that crushing a belief in science/peer review/scientific method is a step toward climate change denial, which IMJO poses an even greater threat than neo nazis.
So, on the important aside that the Flat Earth International Conference has no connection to the Flat Earth Society, I say agitate and keep them fighting with each other.
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That’s proof the Earth’s flat! And Shakespeare knew it!
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Relativity puts GPS clocks off in two opposite and unequal ways*. So I think it’s more accurate to say that their time readout is adjusted by the satellites software to compensate for the time variances introduced by relativity.
*Their orbital speed slows the clocks down thanks to special relativity, and the gravitational field is weaker where they are which speeds them up thanks to general relativity. You have to account for both general and special relativity to get an accurate location.
ETA: actually @barradeno was correct, the clocks are adjusted on the ground to compensate for the relativistic conditions that they will experience in their target orbit. (Oh, of course, correcting it with software afterwards means you’re relying on a computer on the spacecraft, whose clock will be off as well due to relativity, so probably not the best approach)
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It looks like the live video is a 90 minute loop:
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Truman Burbank knew the truth…
That spotlight sun nearly flattened him!
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The government is fooling us! They are telling us that the GPS satellite clocks are using one fundamental frequency, but then, they are changing it!!! They say that it is for our own good!!! You can never trust the govirmint!!! (insert emoji for tinfoil hat here)
Anyhoo… there’s an excellent novella by stross called missile gap that covers the practicalities of living on an alderson disk. Launching stuff into space from a disk is… problematic.
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Is this a joke? Is this a cruel joke? Am I reading the onion?
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Most flat earthers are also Godbots. If they are impermeable to reason wrt something that is easily experimentally demonstrable, it’s no surprise that arguing about Dog is even more of a futile exercise.
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It is actually a hybrid called The Bunion.
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