Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/20/meet-the-people-who-insist-the.html
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damn it @pesco we got enough loons with the last thread…
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I…just…but…I don’t…I can’t…
Thank you for this, BB. I am now useless for the rest of the afternoon due to frothing rage and incomprehension of my fellow humans.
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No thank you. I’d rather not.
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Meet the people who insist the Earth is flat
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I wonder what fraction of these fine folks are just really, really, really good at staying in-character.
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None of my circle of close friends, i.e., people whom I will let into my home without frisking them, believe in anything presented by the flat-earthers. Whenever the topic comes up, however, we make jokes about them.
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On season 5 of Arrested Development, Tobias lands the role of a for a lifetime.
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Oh, FFS. Not another thread to attract the Flat Earthers here.
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The silliest thing about this is that to explain the acceleration of gravity, we would have to assume that the disc is moving upwards at a rate of 9 m/s^2 (not to mention the home-observable phenomenon of terminal velocity). After one hour, 36 minutes, and 12 seconds, we’d be traveling celeritas. 
Oops. 9.8 m/s^2: 1:32:11 to c.
Double oops. That’s not the right formula (as pointed below). Turns out: 30,591,067 seconds. Or 354 days, 1 hour, 31 minutes, and 7 seconds.
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Oh, but to the Flat Earth crowd, gravity isn’t a law, just a good idea.
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one dude says around 1:45 “based on my gut feeling and common sense” NOPE.
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Is this a whole room full of people all thinking what a hoot it is to pretend to be crazy like all the other people in the room?
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OH man, I watched like 6 or 7 min of that guy from the conference. No thanks.
I mean, they can’t even show me a model of how the changes of seasons or daylight hours based on latitude would work. One can show that its daylight for months at a time near the north pool and near the south.
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Don’t go dragging math, physics or logic into this
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I’m glad I got to see this! I actually thought about going, just for a laugh, almost like an anthropology field trip. Pity, I decided not to. It would have been more fun than the time I went into the gift shop at the Creation Museum.
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If you’re going in that direction, let’s switch things up and meet the people who think they’re Napoleon Bonaparte.
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I’ve got all their channels blocked-off in YouTube.
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