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The Earth is a cube. Every minecraft player knows this.
Like come one, we have a perfectly functional simulation of it. How can it be disproved?
But in minecraft the earth is flat? Cubeheads coping and seething rn.
"hHmm" - Minecraft villager saying "For real tho"
Turn up the Resolution jeez😊
Minecraft earth isnt cube. Its endless.
Years ago every village had an idiot, now because of the internet they can get together and have conferences
There is tens of millions of them I am starting to think George Carlins stat of think of how dumb the average person is, now think half of them are even more dumb that that. It is funny and scary like Asmon says.
@@heliosgnosis2744 It's got electrolytes.
rofl omgosh this is so true.
The internet is a double edged sword.
And half of you’re great country is as this
Why … oh why
If the Earth was flat, these people would believe that the Earth is round.
You're not wrong
And that's why what asmon said is spot on, it's not about the shape of the earth, it's about going against established authority
If the man says jumping in fire is bad, then jumping in fire is good!
Exactly, these kind of people just want to believe the truth is actually wrong. They want some sort of affirmation that they are more intelligent than the majoritiy when in fact they just make themselves look stupid.
@@Coxy_Wrecked Its the same thing with people who think they know how firearms work when they argue that the bullet WILL go to where they are aiming at. If you point a firearm straight at a target's forehead with a scope or a sight, people believe that is where the bullet will go when really it will actually hit their nose, eye or cheeks.
just like when ur parents like something u like u don't like it nomo
And if NASA published pictures of the Earth from space showing that it was the shape of a pyramid, you would instantly believe that it was 100% pyramid shaped.
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid" Best line I've heard to describe Flat Earthers.
Couldn't careless about flat earth.. that's like being mad at pineapple on pizza. Now, on the issue of gender and pdf files- they take the cake
@@artistryspectrum512 😅
there's a somewhat famous quote from a national park ranger I believe that is something like "The reason its so hard to create a bear proof trash can is that there is considerable overlap in intellect between the smartest bears and the dumbest people"
i remember that saying
To be fair, Yogi was a pretty smart bear.
@@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan definitely above average
I heard that quote in Ron Swanson's voice...
and I'm ok with that.
This is deplorable and depressing!!
The female bears actually look after their Cubs without manipulating social norms
"Think of how dumb the average person is and then realize half of them are dumber than that," - George Carlin
But most people are within a standard deviation of the mean. So most less-than-average people are only marginally less intelligent than most more-than-average people.
It's disappointing how people are incapable of thinking of original comments these days
@@alexnorth2452 Nothing wrong with learning from our wisest elders.
@@innocentsmith6091 Everyone is missing the point, 10% fall below 80. Do you have any idea of how many people this is and how slow they are
Technically this is wrong, it should be the "median" person, not the "average" person.
My favorite documentary was the flat earth documentary where they used science to “prove” and then disprove their own theory
Under the dome I think. Saw it too. 😂
r/thathappened
@@Godzilla_Star_Eater it literally exists and you can watch it right now? how you gonna act like bro is lying when the video is literally up on the internet...
@@Godzilla_Star_Eaterthat was a dumb comment…one Google search could’ve saved you from that lol
A 15 degree drift? Thanks bob 😂
Some people feel that their lives are so boring that they need to feel persecuted in order to feel important.
I lost my shit when the dinosaurs got yeeted to the outerspace.
But that’s how it happened 😂🤣😭
Panspermia lol.
dinosaurs never existed.
@@oatsey1345 Go to a museum and come back to me
That's what happened, IRL
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - Charles Bukowski.
no de problem is elite cabal & their agendas and their agendas behind that and all their tentacles of their minions with their tentacles full of
goin low low low a low deez i see
This is a good one
Indeed.
I used to be like this and believe someone even tho i knew they are wrong because of the confidence they exuded while saying it
Which would imply that people open to the concept of a flat earth are more intelligent than those who are confident on either side of the topic.
Not that I believe in a flat earth at all, but the quote likely works outside your favor in this scenario.
People don't want the truth. They want to be right
The flat earther X account tweeted "Flat Earthers have members all over the GLOBE!"
yes, they actually used globe...
Saying “trust science” or “believe in science” is a terrible way to put it, science challenges science all the time, science disproves science all the time. The problem is when people challenge science with nothing but voices in their heads and their ignorance in the topic. You don’t “believe” or “trust” science, you understand that the evidence is compelling enough to be accepted as true
Damn gonna have to remember that. Thats a great way of thinking about science.
I love Physics. I like the total surface area of the Earth moving, spinning, at speeds of around 1000 mph...faster than the speed of sound...in an Oxygen Rich Atmosphere....the friction would be distinct for the life of that planet as would the atmosphere's movements, they would be locked into the same rotation as the moving surface area creating all that drag, all that friction. But hey, I'm not arguing for a shape of any prison, I'm arguing for people to use some Physics and create their own models. Hell...they could ask AI to create the model for them. But the herd never thinks of the Physics of their Reality.
The solution is to outcraze them. "You think the Earth is flat? The Earth is a pyramid; everybody knows that!"
Trusting science means trusting the scientific method, not trusting the postulations of scientists. Science challenging science is a reason to trust it.
But you know and I know scientists are in their own echo chamber. If anyone tries to challenge the status quo with evidence,that's pretty damming, it's just handwave dismissed.
There is zero measurable curvature down here where it matters. Can't be found. 3/4 of earth is underwater. Water at rest wether it's in a cup, a puddle, in a toilet, it is always level. Always. Water does not conform. Water will not lie. Every test ever done to gauge the motion of earth , proved the opposite. We're not moving. It's not hard to see once ya see it. It is difficult to deal with. I think it sucks. Life was a lot easier as a NASA fanboy atheist cruising the galaxy on a spinning water ball. But, it's not the case
Flat earth is so last year its all about the flat hollow earth now.
That was so 2010
its all about past the ice walls.
We should retro The Matrix
Thats sooo 17th century
I always talked about the hollow earth. Not only I am obsessed with this theory, even the Nazis and Hitler were. They sent entire expedition teams in Antarctica to find the entrance to Agartha, the home of the Aryans, the home of the Vril, the home of the Hyperboreans
"you cant reason someone out of a position they didnt reason themselves in to"
this is just...chefs kiss*
My elderly father asked me a while back: 'if the Earth is spinning at 5,000 miles-per-hour, how does all the water in the oceans not spin off into space?' All I could do was look at him in shock.
I'd have a far better life now at almost 50 if I hadn't listened to any of his advice as I was growing up. When you're a kid looking for guidance you are relying on your parent to set you in the right direction. It's a lottery. He may have had some of that passed to him, so he thought that was how to raise a kid, but that doesn't help me much.
People have a strange belief that people in the past were less intelligent than we are now, or that they didn't think exactly as we do today.
They did.. people have not changed at all, they just had less tools, less resources and limited language.
Why are Greek philosophers often quoted?
We can see further today because we stand on the shoulders of giants.
@@robertnapier624
Greek philosophers are a bunch of theorists. They have way more thing wrong than right.
The scholars of Islamic Golden Age have way more impacts in modern science than them. They took what Greek had and develop it way way more and with early scientific methods
Many fields of Modern science came from them not those Greeks.
The misconception came from the Renaissance where people dug up old and proven to be false or outdated Greek works to use instead of much more developed works from the Arabs.
Many actual discoveries the Renaissance came from the further developments of Arabs works.
@@huntermad5668 The majority of Islamic contribution was translating the texts of the old philosophers...
@@Panteni87
Nope, that is only one part. The translators didn't only translate but studied to see whether the works were true or not. Then used that knowledge to build up even more.
Also, just like today, U can't just ask somebody to translate a scientific works, u need to use subject experts so those translators were all accomplished men with decades to studies before becoming translators. That was a high paying job in contact with many really valuable books, one need to meet requirements to be accepeted
The idea is to teach and improve the ancient knowledge (the correct ones) not blindly copy them.
Many of the later generation scholars are not translators but scholars of various Houses of Wisdom.
Like Alogrthim came from the name of the Father of Algebra.
Through, in philosophy, many sources showed the same type of arguments between different schools. Some scholars wrote about the ridiculousness of the sides performed the same debates like thousand of years ago
Actually the world is resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin.
but whats under the turtle?
Incorrect. Great A'Tuin is the specific space turtle, or Chelys galactica, that holds up the Discworld. Some other giant space turtle is holding up the earth.
@@DarthZ01 It goes all the way down
@@DarthZ01 More turtles.
@@DarthZ01It's turtles all the way down.
3 quotes that will help you in your life.
1.Arguing with an idiot feels like running in circles. You end up exactly where you started but more exhausted.
2.The problem with arguing with idiots is that they often confuse arrogance with intelligence.
3.The moment you engage in an argument with an idiot, you've already lost. They thrive on wasted time and frustration.
FULLY! The best way to get OUT of that conversation, by changing the Subject.
SJWs, feminists, and cultists use that same principle to avoid debate. You're just scared and can't handle cognitive dissonance so you rationalise not communicating with us. When one side is unwilling to talk, the people on the fence see the side more open to talking as more reasonable, which is the flat Earthers.
Bruh. People run in circles all the time. Exercise has many benefits. Smdh
Flat earthers are proof of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
💯
Do you have 1 real image of Earth being a ball from outer space that is not a cartoon?
@@leocrow1919 lol, just say you don’t understand math or physics.
Can you show me a model in which our day/night cycle works on a flat earth? No, you sure can’t😂
@@leocrow1919 no one claims it’s a “ball”. Sphere doesn’t mean ball, lol. The fact you can’t differentiate that difference says a lot and the fact you use that word(making your argument a strawman) like it’s some sort of gotcha is WILDLY telling.
Maybe it was George Carlin (or some other comedian) who said "tell someone there are a billion stars in the sky and they will believe you, but put a "wet paint" sign on a wall and they have to touch it to be sure."
But we want people to test theories and ideas, it’s the best way to learn
The problem is flat Earthers “test” things and either don’t accept the out comes if proven wrong or don’t do further tests to make sure what the outcome wasn’t a fluke or an unknown variable effected it
Patrick Star appears...
That's actually the basis for flat earth theory. They are unable to see whether the earth is flat or a sphere from their perspective on the planet, so it could be either until they themselves see it with their own eyes. It's not necessarily that they are mentally handicapped for believing the earth is flat, it's more that they are skeptical of the claim that it is a sphere and went with the default that it is flat based on their perspective on the surface of the planet. Personally I learn towards it being a sphere, but it could be either since I haven't jumped on a rocket and looked down at the Earth from space to verify myself.
@@TyrianHaze There are things you can do to literally test it yourself. They deny anything and everything no matter what instead and will believe literally anything that even remotely supports their idea blindly. That is the issue. Difficult to progress to solving the next issues if you constantly need to revisit everything to make sure yourself it is right first. That is why there are studies, examples, demonstrations, and so on to help catch people up to speed.
@TyrianHaze flat earthers aren't just people who are ignorant or uneducated, and are like "looks kind of flat to me, but guess it could be round, whatever idk"
Flat earthers are people who have thoroughly looked into their idea and are absolutely confident in it, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary.
Also All of thier theories involve some form(s) of a global (discus, lol) conspiracy that tricks people into thinking it's a sphere for nefarious reasons... it also typically involves some god/Satan stuff, and tend to evangalize thier beliefs in flat earth...
The funniest shit is flat earthers doing experiments to prove the earth is flat and then proving it's round.
And then never talk about it. Still love the 15° per Hour Drift-Rotation that was proven during the Flat-Earth Documentary and they never talk about after that
And then they start to adjust their measuring methods and fail again.
I've never seen that but would love to find proof of it being round.
@@KE-yq2egyou have proof everyday, it's called the sun
They also have a habit of doing "experiments" where they fudge the experiment, like putting a camera below the edge of a table so they can make a coin disappear behind the table.
The difficultly is telling whether they push Flat Earth because they're stupid, or just for clicks and attention. Most of the "big names" in FE have been caught out lying or practicing deception more than once.
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid."
That's the most impressively concise explanation of flat earth I've ever heard.
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid." Well said.
The best thing the internet did was to give voice to everyone, the worst thing it did was to give voice to everyone.
The problem isn't everyone has a voice, it's that everyone isn't critical. That means people spew out their ignorance and people blindly believe it. If people were critical there'd be absolutely no problem at all with people being able to say whatever they want. This is actually one of the reasons why people are f*scist and believe it's justified. Because they understand humans having freedom can be dangerous.
Yeah that’s how ended up with people thinking men can be women, or that being gay is okay.
@@Stevo.100 precisely. Furthermore, a lot of people have a difficult time admitting they’re wrong as well. I’ve been in heated debates, to find out at the end that I was wrong. Admitting so was hard, but people tend to respect you when you can own up to being wrong. A lot of flat earthers are so prideful and just won’t admit that they’re wrong and don’t know what they’re talking about.
@@Teerts63 Yeah, thankfully that happened.
How do I know a conspiracy is real? Tom Scott makes a video about it.
Its easier to fool someone then to convince them they have been fooled. Its cognitive dissonance* Insult me all you want this statement rings true.
@circusbrains thanks for the spell check!
Omg so true brother and let's not forget:
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Insult me all you want, these statements ring true!
They have all balloon footage they need, but they still believe earth is curved and water curves with it.
@@Zemlja_je_ravna balloon footage lmao dog
True. For example: We never went to the moon. People find that fact hard to swallow.
Chemtrail folks have absolutely lost the plot too. 99% won't get back out of that rabbit hole.
@TriIIiian 🤣
@TriIIiian I think my dad's in there
Wish me luck! :/
There's worse things. You could be tricked to chopping off your ___'s.
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid." Nailed it.
Interest in Flat Earth as far as YT and other video platforms are concerned probably has a lot to do with the anti-Flerf channels that are enjoying a lot of popularity also.
The Earth isn't round or flat, it's fucked
BEST ANSWER ON THIS VIDEO, NO CONTEST!!!
for westerners hehe
So a Donut shaped?
@@JimmyDoyel-by2cpand Eastern Europeans unfortunately
By me
My personal theory is that Flat Earth started as a massive troll post that spiraled out of control. Like a few people online posted some pseudoscience nonsense that they thought no one would be stupid enough to believe, and then watched in some combination of horror and amusement as they found out that yes, there are people that stupid.
the reason why there is more and more of them, is they didnt booster up
Considering what the old internet was like that is probably what actually happened, there are probably still people that believe there are haunted websites that can curse you to death as well, that was a big one back in the day.
Honestly, flat earthers are the best argument against the idea of the free market of ideas.
well flat earth society been around longer than the internet itself. but still it could be someone that saw it and think it is dumb and post it on the internet.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
- A. Einstein
Flat earth conspiracy is my logic check... If I start believing in it, I know I've gone off the deep end officially and require help.
So true. I saw myself voluntarily showing up at the insane asylum and being asked why I am there... lol
The irony is that flat earthers use technologies to "spread their knowledge" that was made and are possible just because scientists built it around the fact that the earth is a globe...
"You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into." Asmon be saying some fire quotes sometimes. This literally applies to most of the morons on twitter and reddit.
I remind some friends of this too often. Based asmOn
I read this as he said it 😂
Unfortunately this also applies to the education system and government.
It’s a good quote but it’s an old one
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid."
My understanding of the internet just leveled up two levels
22:30-22:50 This is the main point of the matter. I saw a scientist mentioning how these conspiracies became widely spread in a period that contains 2 factors:
- Mass communication accesible for most people.
- Highly divisive politics.
They are merely a symptom of a divided and distrustful society.
Is it a conspiracy or a scientific fact that large bodies of water seek level?
Is it a conspiracy or a scientific fact that you can not have gas pressure adjacent to a vacuum without a container?
'Flat earth' is a result of people thinking critically and logically, and actually applying science. Unlike the globe which is based purely on faith and theories.
@@SkemeKOS if you "can't have gas pressure adjacent to a vacuum without a contain", how do you explain the pressure gradient right here on earth?
Funny how anti-woke people suddenly support the WEF when it comes to the Earth shape
People don't go to school and learn a bunch of varied facts so that they will remember them for the rest of their life. People go to school and learn a bunch of varied facts to build a sense of schedule, and to give them the opportunity to decide which facts they are most interested in to choose their own livelihood.
Play downside is most people who went to school to study facts studied under David rockefeller's educational system here in the union so they're not very bright. they're just taught to conform
Rockefeller said I don't want a nation of thinkers I want a nation of workers.
It's called self selecting servitude. The most efficient form of slavery. You are a genius 😮
I WAS A FLAT EARTHER FOR 3 YEARS!
here's what I found.
It's not that the people are dumb they are just bored with their lives, and being a flat earther brings about excitement. the kind that is addictive. People subconsciously knew it was all bs. At least I did.
I mean like open world game about that would be cool tho
Imma be real with you, I find the prospect of a nearly infinite universe with equally as many possibilities to be far more exciting than believing we live in some random disk and that everything outside of it is fake.
@@CarlosAM1 I agree now, but back then it wasn't how a universe is that was exciting but the exciting part was discovering something that only a few people know. A band of rebels against the antagonistic world government.
It's all bs now that I think about it.
@@nomi_4773 Oh, yeah that makes sense. Goes for most conspiracy theories as well, the moon landing being fake, 9/11 being controlled demolitions, HAARP controlling the weather, etc. I'd imagine many people who believe those things also like the idea of thinking they know something most people don't, and there in comes the whole thing about having to somehow teach someone who thinks that they were lied to that they are, in fact, being lied to and that the truth was what they used to think before.
I kinda doubt you are legit... but if you are, what pushed you away from the view, and what pushed you towards it?
Never thought I'd see Asmon react to Hossenfelder
Been watching her for years, she's great
He’s reacted to at least one more of Sabines videos fairly recently
Probably would have to. If she only opened her mouth when she speaks. The clenched teeth is so painful and impossible to ignore.
@@ExceptBaconseems I missed it. 😱 I watch her videos almost daily.
@@alekmothshe is a smart human being and her first language isn’t English … but everything she says is fact
"Humans were supposed to eat raw potatoes and die at the age of 32 due to a tooth ache" is probably the funniest thing I have heard all week. I love that.
Is that Asmon's present condition?
I mean it's so true. Humanity made it 200K years like that. Thinking everyone one of us is capable of knowing everything or at least having a trace understanding is very wishful.
Even tho this is untrue. If someone survived childhood/childbirth, most people lived into their 60s and early 70s. Other factors of course were war, famine, accidents, etc.
I almost spat out my drink driving i was rollin
@@taylemgames2652 Yep, main reason why most families back in the day tried to have 3+ children. Since if you had at least 3, that nearly guaranteed one of them survived to adulthood.
Believing something you can’t prove wrong is called having faith. Believing something you can prove wrong is just being dumb.
Why don't flat-earthers use GPS?
Because they can’t find the “flat” option.
or the zoom out button...
Just add 4 elephants and a giant sea turtle underneath, that would atleast make it sensible.
Nice reference
I second this, nice reference!
Yeah sure buddy, Maybe if you believe that elephants are real.
You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down.
A'Tuin!
"The Flat Earth society has members all around the GLOBE"
yea, delusion has no boundaries.
TBH, the original flat earth society was done as a joke to see how far you could take a bogus narrative and try to support it with argument. Since UA-cam, it's about half dudes trying to make money by getting clicks, and about half that are scientifically illiterate.
Like how people still believe whatever "the news" say
What is satire
It's one of those controlled opposition jokes to spread the propaganda. Bit like how they lied to people that the hospitals were full in 2020, whilst simultaneously all around the world medical staff having enough time to choreograph dance videos together... Joke's on those who laugh without investigating.
A couple years ago I had some insane coworkers at my job. They were super racist, antivax, and flat earthers. I’m so glad I got out of there
"keeps water from escaping" Escaping where? from falling off the edge of a disc? why would water fall off the disc if there's no such thing as GRAVITY.
Hollow earth > flat earth
Agreed
isn't a raging torrent of liquid hot magma with a giant hunk of metal pretty dope tho? what am I missing?
U mean like caves?
Hollow moon inside out earth
Nah man... Hollow Moon + Flat Earth all the way ❤
I think the whole "Look at who you can't criticize and you'll see who rules you" is referring more to when it's actually forbidden and illegal to criticize a person or group, rather than just what's socially acceptable. It may be frowned upon to criticize kids with cancer but it's not illegal. But if disagreeing with someone, criticizing them or their beliefs, or simply not going along with their ideas leads to you being arrested, fined, or jailed, then that quote becomes a lot more valid.
like leaving a skid mark on a pride flag drawn in the road resulting in jail time.
@@GOD_AND_FLAT_EARTH_MUSIC_VIDEObro stop schizo posting 😂
The amount of things that turned out to be actually fact about covid, that people called "misinformation" or a "conspiracy theory" is insane!
No I will never just "trust the science" again!
Especially when it's an experimental science!
Yeah thats why people get arrested for not saying the right pronouns or burning pride flags.
@@GOD_AND_FLAT_EARTH_MUSIC_VIDEOi pray for u buddy.
"you shouldn't trust most science as its mainly theory" MY LITTLE BROTHER IN CHRIST THEORY IS THE HIGHEST STANDARD IN SCIENCE
Yeah that's the problem. Most people never learned what a theory in a scientific context is.
People STILL confusing theory and hypothesis, just because people say theroy in regular speak when they actually mean hypothesis.
It's done a lot of damage.
Wait until they learn anything about music theory, or the driving theory test...
Though they intentionally act dumb on these things to twist the definition to their own narrative tbh
what is the evidence for things falling being a specific grand-scale magnetic force(gravity)
@@Kjernekar I think most of the damage is done when so called scientists begin to define theory as fact. This is unscientific garbage.
Flatearth map reward now over $91M. I wonder what's taking so long...
The only good thing about flat earth is their map illustrations, it's obviously innacurate but it'd go so hard on a DnD campaign
Flat Forgotten Realms. Nice
But that would make Spelljammer a lie
The best part is they cannot make a single map that makes all of their beliefs make sense simultaneously. They have to pull out a completely different map for each explanation
It's a disk in the crystal sphere. The top of the disk is toril while the bottom is abier. Nobody reaches the other side because nobody wants to deal with aboleths. @@utrak
should try the discworld dnd campaign, wont be disappointed
I like the map of all the continents outside of the Antarctic circle.
Can’t believe Asmon is a woke round earther, smh
He’s not voting for Trump either, smh
Globehead
Tesla stated that gravity does not exist, I guess he doesn't beleive in AC, radio waves nor the "wireless world" vision of Tesla... or does he?
Tesla said there is no gravity
@@hyruler036brother. Look at your username. Are you okay?
there is that one argument that flatearther cannot explain : why is the night sky different in the "south" and "north" emispheres? If earth was flat, the sky should be identical.
there is that one argument that globeearthers cannot explain: why is night sky the same for thousands of years. If globe is flying everywhere, sky would be much different today.
@@Zemlja_je_ravna why would it be different if it revolves around the same center?
@@Zemlja_je_ravna you're massively underestimating the size of the universe.
@@Zemlja_je_ravnayou don't realize how small and insignificant we are do you
@@Zemlja_je_ravna It's not the same as it was thousands of years ago, it changes slowly all the time, not noticeable in your or many peoples lifetimes though.
Next time you're in a vehicle, check out how fast near things whizz by, and the further off things are, the slower things appear to move.
Apply that to the scale of our galaxy... it's not hard.
"I believe this thing because I dont understand the truth and because I dont understand the truth, people that tell me the truth must be lying."
- anti-woke people
"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" - Sam Harris
Yeah, as someone that has long-time friends that are Flat-Earthers, I came to these conclusions years ago. But Asmon puts it best: "They just don't believe it." It's all faith-based. They rather believe the smallest evidence that they can interpret to prove their argument than thousands against it.
@@joshanonline i think most of them are either proud/peer/friends/locked in closet commies and/or folks that hate/can´t stand/never tried the good old deity(ies) or those who really just don´t givv shxt whatsoever yeh only when the beer is empty
yeh those in the system ofcourse who are scared for well yeh i mean crazy shxt might happen when it all finally goes over that certain keeling over percentage
hehehh hey let it be and let it shine is what i´m sayin
Exactly. If only globe believers would stop ignoring the damning evidence against their fantasy model.
@@joshanonline That's because Asmond is a fool. Flat earth has hundreds of proofs. HUGE, undeniable proofs. Whereas the globe has zero.
Just as an easy starter -
Why don't you have any evidence of curvature? Why has it never been detected(measured)? Not even 1mm
Why can't you explain gas pressure next to a vacuum, without a container?
Why can't you demonstrate water sticking a ball?
Why can't you detect the earth rotating?
Too bad Sam Harris exposed himself as an unreasonable person recently.
I used to respect him, and that's a very good quote.
Flat Earthers have proven more times that the earth is round then flat and everytime they are like "hmmm, this data says we are wrong. Lets ignore this data"
Observations alone are not science. Give independent and dependent variables in an experiment if you really want to make a point.
What's round have to do with anything?
Einstein married his own relations 🤮😬😬😬😬😬
Well yeah. It's not because flat earthers are stupid... I mean it is true that they are willfully ignorant.
It's just that scientists aren't trustworthy.
The flat earthers have arrived lmao
Dear flat earthers: get in a plane, travel in one direction, where will you end up? Back where you started. Why is there no real images of the flat earth and every image is a drawing? If there's an ice wall and it's guarded, why is there not a single video showing either the ice wall or the guards? Why can I not see the Eiffel tower by using a telescope in Australia? I know I'm wasting my time, but it feels good to give them that feeling of cognitive dissonance as they scramble to make weak excuses for why they can't admit they believe something obviously wrong.
Watching this video with a master degree in Geodesy is painful. Why do ppl believe this shit in 2024...
I've genuinely never understood the 'purpose' of believing the Earth is flat? What do they gain from arguing that it is? Is it just an act of defiance against scientific authority?
More like a search for the truth. Defiance does not give any motivation. Researching for the truth give motivation for exploration.
Basically yes
They believe earth is flat, because if it were a sphere, then science would be right, and science can't be right, because then evolution would be correct, and when evolution is correct, they are apes, and they don't like to be apes.
They want to be "speshull"! Also, they're conspiracy zealots. They're distrustful in the EXTREME of everything "official" or "mainstream". So, earth can't be a sphere, because that is the official point of view. Which they'll never trust.
It's a very stressful life IMHO. How can you go shopping, without fearing all the time that you won't be poisoned?
@@Zemlja_je_ravna Nah flat earthers are not searching for truth. They are just getting a emotional high by opposing the smartest people that ever lived on earth and feeling they are equal to them or even better than them. They are literally hundreds of science experiments you can do to prove that earth is round but they put the least amount of effort and just open their mouth and say earth is flat and feel good.
21:59
“This (flat earth) is a GLOBAL conspiracy”
Lmao 😂😂😂 Indeed
"flat earthers has members all around the globe"
Idk is this phrase is real but it just sums up everything to me
That was a quote by the Flat Earth Society. They are pretty much a group of deceptionists formed to make people believe how stupid flat earthers are and it worked.
its real one of their goup have twitter and they said that
It is not. Its by the "Flatearth Society" which is an stupid disinformation grp.
It comes from a tweet by the Flat Earth Society, but I think this group is satirical
@@vianneyb.8776 It's not a satirical group, it's a gate-keeper group spreading disinformation.
I hate when people say it's mainly a theory. People don't understand that theory in the scientific world is not the same thing as what you think it is. What you think and what the scientists call it is called a hypothesis! A theory is very well proven
dude, it is impossible to talk to people like Asmongold about this, they look at this video and think this is all there is about this theory...
well yes. but it is a worlwide misconception. people almost always think that 'theory' is hypothesis even if it's already have evidence and proven. or they just unable to incorporate it well with the context. "it's just a theory" is something that i heard almost everyday in the office.
The Greeks worked out the Earth wasn't flat using sticks, shadows and distance, it's not difficult.
It's not a ball neither.
@@serbrighterunagainst9231bro I’ve seen it
@@serbrighterunagainst9231 not a perfect ball
Yea but you cant do that today
Actually, that's wrong. What Eratosthenes did was a measurement of circumference of the earth but the way he did that does not prove or falsify that earth is a sphere. It's a common misconception for some reason
Birds arent real is the coolest thing ive heard ina long time
That's my favorite one.
Their heads move so robotic 😆
Government surveillance drones
Where have you been? This has been a thing since like 2012 lol
When I heard this one, I laughed so hard. I didn’t believe that was an actual conspiracy theory.
Flat earthers are the kind of people who would've believed the earth is a sphere, if the world had been flat. It doesn't matter what the truth is. They just want to be outliers
@asmondgold, you hit the nail on the fricken head. This is about distrust of authority combined with lack of understanding.
The ancient egyptian mathematician Ptomely wrote that the Earth was likely round due to all known evidence. He was big into geometry and astronomy.
he was hardly ancient egyptian, given that he lived during a time when the romans controlled egypt and was in time closer to us than to the builders of the great pyramids. Although the fundemental point of your argument still stands. People 2000 years ago understood that the earth was round.
Ive never understood why the idea earth is round could be that unbelievable. Every object visible in the sky is a globe…
^thanks for the laugh
No, It's a disk :D
You see, some of them think that only earth is a disk and all other planets are globes. Others think all planets are disks, and every other planet is constantly rotating in such a way that they always point towards earth, making them look round at all times. I guess in this theory, earth is the centre of the universe? Point is, they can't come to a consensus.
@@Saandy_ The idea they're disks pointing towards us his hilarious, you can literally see them spinning as globes. What a sad world.
@@Metallijosh100 Especially something like Jupiter. It even has a bigger-than-earth size spot that you can use as a literal point of reference to see that it is rotating.
The key concept that Flat Earthers don't understand is GRAVITY. They think that the center of Earth's gravity is somewhere "below" Earth instead of inside Earth's core.
Read the definition of the gravity theory again, it's the mass of the Earth that is creating gravity, not Earths core.
@@Zemlja_je_ravna And where's the center of mass of a sphere? Could it be in the core? Next time think before you post.
Flat Earthers source: trust me bro
"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid."
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool." - Wizard's First Rule
And humility is important. Even if we don't believe something as glaringly incorrect as flat earth, we all have delusional and ignorant beliefs.
Great book by a great author.
Strange, would have said a horrendous book by a narcissistic hack
@@andya4528the one good book of the series
@@jbfwinningsame, but Wizards first rule wasn't too bad by itself.
Wait until people find out the United Nations logo is the flat Earth map.
I thought that it was the F.O.W.L. map from Dark Wing Duck.
@@AndSaveAsManyAsYouCan "Let's get dangerous." Oh, no, look what you made me do.
I had to google this to make sure. That is actually hilarious.
For a strange reason airplane flight routes work only on that map.
oh i did see this as a supporting evidence for their flat earth theory awhile back
2:02 "you can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into" I've heard Matt Dillahunty say that a few times
16:25 when you say people are walking around and act like gorillas I think about some of the guys who still wear their pants halfway down there behind almost about to fall off in 2024
Flat earth is trolling and grifting
i wish that were true, but i had a week long Argument with a friend on why gravity doesn't crush birds and how the sea sticks to the ocean.
@@JojxzLmao that's tough.
I had a flat earther friend once, and had a debate over what the sky would look like if the Sun went in circles. After I brought up several points that he could not reconcile with a flat earth, he, without joking, told me that "the sky is glitched". That it's like a projection or distorted portal to another realm, and it makes it look like the earth was round, while in reality it's flat.
Asmon is absolutely right that taking flat earthers to space wouldn't solve a thing.
Thats true, gettin em there would not solve anything... but keeping em there would xD
You do not even need to go to space. A high-flying plane would do to see some curvature.
When asked a flat earther about the curvature, he responded that the windows distort the view.
I think this proves that point.
Bro, more than 50% of people can't picture an apple in their mind if you ask them to visualize one, nor answer how they would feel if they didn't have breakfast yesterday.
Space is NASA CGI
"Rocketships to nowhere" - Donald Trump
@@Sp3rw3rhe was probably confused by your question since modern astrophysicists have already declared you won't see curvature at 100 000ft so if you think you saw it at 35 000 you must REALLY have your nose up against the window.
If the earth is round how come when I talk to my friends in Australia they aren’t upside down in the zoom video?
because australia doesn't exist so does your friend
Because their camera is also upside down, duh! Your screen just flips it. Software 😂
it objectively is flat. we debunked the claims of the model taught in school using their own model. so now they retroactively are moving the goalpost and changing the claims.
couldntcareless6969 said something like don't trust science because it's just a theory, then followed that with "but all scientific laws should be followed" and it's obvious they have zero knowledge of science. A science theory is a description of that scientific law you think should be followed.
Think of it this way. That laptop you're interested in, is a physical laptop. The spec sheet is the description, or in science terms, the theory, of that laptop. Now, the laptop description is not really a theory, it's a description, but in science, that's what a theory basically is. It describes the observable law. We see things act in a certain way, ie fall to the ground when dropped. The theory of gravity explains the how that happens, it describes the details of how that law works to interact with the object, the ground, the air around it, etc.
And then he said there were 500 testimonies of Jesus returning, and that is 100% wrong. There is a claim that it was witnessed by 500 people, no names ever provided to that group of 500. Even in different books of the bible, they can't agree on who was there. Belief in Jesus is a 100% faith position, which, if you read the bible, that is what Jesus seems to want, so why bother trying to prove it to others? just believe and move on.
When the Dinosaurus flew off I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.
Imagine how far they would fly if they got twisted by the Globe xD
Its hard to have discussions with flat earthers as a HAM radio guy, because as soon as you explain beyond line-of-sight radio communications they shut down. And they cant justify why VHF and UHF communications dont go as far as HF, because they cant get past the hurdle of the earth being round.
the fact the states and Europe has had transatlantic communication since what-- the 20s-- and VHF and UHF just cant.
I imagine that must be frustrating for you whenever you're in that situation.
Why do you need curvature to send HAM radio signals further than it it was a level ground? 😂😂😂😂
Insanity
@@effigy42 lol the total lack of awareness about your lack of information
There is a difference between skepticism and ignorance. Skeptics will question even the things they are certain of and go out to find answers, while ignorant people will refuse to listen when someone questions them and think they can provide the answers.
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I like the conspiracy that flat earth is in fact a conspiracy to discredit other conspiracies
that's exactly what it is, and it worked
I don't think relating two totally different conspiracies is a good way to _seriously_ go about things.
When there are ACTUAL conspiracies that has to be revealed, junk ones like flat-earth make me think of it as a DOUBLE conspiracy (like a cover up kind to lure you away from real damaging conspiracies). Which is ironic since the meat of it points to a distrust in authority which, let's be real here, doesn't need flat-earth to start with.
Seems much like this. there is a lot of true facts that people are mixing btween some crazy stuff....
We know that some big indutrial corps pay some idiots to protest againts the pollution and climate change in very dumb ways.
Tha was to make people get a bad opnion about the topic and don't listen when someome say about it. soo is very likely i think is a tatic some powerfull dudes are using and is working very weell.
The sky is blue so that is why the grass is red... and vo a lá people think the sky can't not be blue now!
The flat earth scene is full of ex military reservists so yeah of course it's a psyop 🙄
My theory is that flat-earthers are so aggressive about their beliefs and so unlikely to change them because they're desperate to be right about something that nobody else is. It would mean that for the first time in their lives, they're the smart one and everyone else is the idiot.
A flat earther, a vegan and a keto pro enter a bar.
Literally main character syndrome. People are so fucking bored and so mind-warped into desperately wanting something "cool" to be real (like a fantasy movie). They think they're special and the whole "I'm right, everyone else is wrong". Like you know that cartoon with the big crowd of people, and there's one guy standing alone saying "yes, you're actually all wrong". SO MANY PEOPLE fall for that shit. It's unreal.
They all believed the Globe before they have seen the truth. No one of them wanted it, but they would rather accept the truth than to live in a lie.
Aggressive? How?
Yeah how are they aggressive?
So Science has become so complicated people just choose not to believe in it rather then try to understand it.
he is so right... I am a doctor and learning the necessary information to have an understanding of the human body that is based in scientific facts takes roughly two years. The rest of the time studying medicine is spent learning about the various deseases and how to treat them.
Pseudoscience isn't science my friend
1:56 This is a fact.
"Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason." -James Randi (A legend)
Real science requires questioning authority, so they have that. The problem is that science also requires other things such as high school math, which they seem to lack.
“People like to act like a person is more than a monkey” 😂😭 bro sounding like Frieza
flatearth is wild.. BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF "SPACE IS FAKE".....
Prove space, as is described by mainstream 'science' is real.
Go!
same thing bruh
the only think that is flat is space
@@SkemeKOS See Dwayne Kellum's balloon flight videos showing the lack of pressure and atmosphere at height, as well as the curvature of the globe.
@@jetlag133why can space be flat which is scientifically way more insane than earth being flat? Yet people blindly accept it because or school and tv…
UA-cam adding a "for context" wikipedia article about how flat earth is nonsense unironically gives it legitimacy 🙄
"I think thou doth protest too much" comes to mind haha
How?
@@GuardianSoulkeeperthose “for context” are fake and used to push the mainstream narrative. Everyone knows google and UA-cam can’t be trusted. They put those up to convince people that the subject in the video has been disproven.
@@GuardianSoulkeeper He is saying that from the perspective of a flat earther, it gives it more legitimacy, because to them the powers that be are trying to suppress it as if it proves their point. It also gives the topic more attention and thus the perceived legitimacy. The Idea is that by addressing it directly, it might imply that Flat earth is a significant enough topic to warrant an official rebuttal. Essentially... talking about fringe theory elevates its status by making it look like a valid subject to debate.
SHE IS PROPAGANDA. THE SUN AND UP AND DOWN. RISE AND SUNSET. WOW THIS IS JUST TO CALL PEOPLE DUMB. SO YOU FEAR BEING CALLED DUMB.
they just proved gravity by saying " water would fall off of a sphere but not off a plate" lol
They crack me up with their “demonstrations” dumping water on a ball, therefore proving that gravity is at work on the much larger Earth they’re standing on. Water is behaving exactly how it should. 😆
I had upwards of 95% in math tests and I still didn't graduate high school. Terrence Howard graduated high-school and look how that turned out. High-school graduation doesn't measure your intelligence and capacity to reason or even to retain information. It just measures your capacity to put in enough effort to pass each test.
I didn't graduate high-school because I got burned out from school. Much later on, at 25 I completed it studying at night.
Don't get me wrong, most of the time I was a mid grader. I was lazy and didn't take classes seriously, didn't do homework, didn't pay attention, etc. Every time I put in effort my grades got high. But that's true of anyone that puts in effort at school.
Love that they go for the Christian religion because talking about any other one would be offensive
The adherents of the other big one will harm you physically if you say anything bad about it, so it makes sense
To be fair, the people most vocal about flat Earth are the ones with access to the internet. The western countries (mainly US and UK) just so happen to have the most access and the main religion is Christianity which is why the correlation happens.
Christianity actually believes the earth is round...
Im an atheist but the fact that you can mock christians makes their religion 1000% more appealing to me than any other one.
@@kurvaanyad12 same i was sad to see the typical reddit athiest take that makes us all look bad.
The earth is a sphere! Obviously. It has to be, because it's hollow, and Agartha and the Giants wouldn't fit in a flat disk, don't be stupid. Geez.
Are you serious
yeh it would in a thick flat disc and glass topf
the earth goes into the square hole. i said it!
Flat earthers are a wonderful reminder to everyone how easily we're able to convince ourselves of falsehood if that falsehood promises us some form of enlightenment. Always check your beliefs against reality, even those you hold the closest to yourself.
The whole thing about flat earth coming from a complete and total distrust in authorities and everything is so true. I know a flat earther irl and that's pretty much their whole reason. And yeah, they also believe in a bunch of other conspiracy theories etc.
The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis.
-Round Earther
Facts.
but science only took a picture of your heart, you didn't see the myocarditis for yourself... check and mate
@@dan4500 such a dumb response. Rather than taking a balanced approach and admitting that sometimes science gets it wrong and that we should always question it, you go straight to "well at least they get some things right so there is still no reason to use critical thinking". Check and mate.
@@user-ee2bd5vv2z I'm pretty sure @dan4500's response was a joke...
@@user-ee2bd5vv2z you're right, critical thinking wasn't used here, check and mate also "whoosh"
I can not only prove the world is flat I can use the flat Earth to make predictions about when the earth will end. Who created the Earth? God, g-o-d God. What is God spelled backwards? Dog, d-o-g dog. The Earth is obviously a Frisbee that God has thrown into the cosmos and the Earth will end when it is caught by God's dog. In mathematics we call that symmetry. Check and mate atheists.
This joke is better thought trough than the actual FE theory.
Very impressive.
I bet there's some overlap with flat earthers and Holocaust deniers.
"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid" man, so good.