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Somehow physics forms a perfectly flat disk in outer space that is only cold on the outer rim, and also somehow has a single direction based gravity. 'Cause science.
There is a nice hill something 40mins away by walk from my house, everything around it, is almost full of flat fields, so during nice weather you see pretty damm far. And even I managed to spot the curviture of the planet, as mountains in the background look almost like they are sinking below horizon. Just by observation it can be seen, that it is not flat.
The only thing you have to do to prove that their pancake Earth idea is wrong is to take a flight from Chile to Australia. There's a direct flight there. And if you look at their flat Earth map, you'll see that South America, and Australia are way on the opposite sides of the Pancake from each other. There's zero ways that a single plane could make that trip without dozens of in-air-refuelings and landings. The ONLY way that this flight works is on a globe. But this won't convince any flattard. Flat Earthers aren't interested in the truth, like they claim. What they ARE interested in is inventing enemies, and punching those imagined enemies to earn points and back patting from their flat Earth peers. You can see this in pretty much every flat Earth video on UA-cam. Not a single one of them is interested in showing any theory of how their world model works. All they're interested in is attacking NASA, attacking scientists, playing the victim by claiming that everyone is against them, claiming conspiracies against them. All they have to do is provide a model of the world that actually describes what we experience in the real world that can't be falsified. A model that can pass peer review and can describe what we see better than the theories we already have. Not one of them is interested in doing this. It's always conspiracy theories, NASA (when there's several other space agencies out there), victimhood, and attacking invented enemies. They aren't interested in the truth. They enjoy being a part of a special club that makes them feel good. That's it.
Pretty much spot on, people believe conspiracies theories because they want to, it makes them feel special, like they have special secret knowledge the rest of the world doesn't have. All conspiracies theories seem to be about the need to feel special, or the fear of chaos.
My older brother is a flat-Earther. We...don't talk much anymore because I can't deal with his craziness. And if ever he became incapacitated in some way in the future and needs a caretaker, I'm probably going to see if he can be put in a home as I just don't want to be around that. Probably makes me a bad sister but I say he's done it to himself :/
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Imagine separating from a family member over an eccentricity that really doesn't matter and fantasizing about putting them in a home if they needed help. You're not just a bad sister, you actually come off as an all around piece of shit tbh.
@@jkvltra804 This gets long, but I ask you to still give it a read when you have the time. Maybe it changes nothing, and so be it. You only have a small glimpse into everything from my comment. If it was just the flat earth thing, I wouldn't care. It's also the religious fanaticism. I'm agnostic and he doesn't seem to understand that I personally just don't care for religion so I've taken no sides. So long as your religion doesn't revolve around hurting yourself or others, be that physically or mentally, have at it. Just don't force me into it. But...that's exactly it, with both of these. He WANTS me in both. If it were just himself, I'd think he was crazy but I can still try to be close to him. But that's not enough. He gets angry that I don't see things his way, that I'm not Christian, how crazy that I'm not Christian, how is it I still believe the lie that the Earth is round! Everything has also now become a government conspiracy, the government is lying about 9/11 and it was an inside job, there's a bubble over the earth and no one has ever been to the moon, much less space...and if I say otherwise, as I said, he becomes angry and belligerent. I used to laugh about this shit online but never in a million years would I have thought it would end up directly in my personal life. I used to laugh about it but when he showed he was dead serious and it became frightening, I realized I was up against something much deeper. My two brothers and I were very close growing up. My older brother is only a year older than me, my younger brother two years younger. We were thick as thieves as kids. However, in my senior year of high school, our family moved to a different part of the state and my older brother chose to remain behind. Except for a few months the next year, I pretty much would not see him for a decade. And in that decade...whomever this stranger is that he's become now took over. I've tried to be understanding of his skepticism and anger. We're black and America hasn't exactly had the best track record with people of color. But it feels like he's become suscpicious of everything now. Oh, he's also become an anti-vaxxer. How could I have almost forgotten the argument that happened when I stupidly stepped on that land mine and tried to push back against him... It's heartbreaking because he's not budging on any of this. And as I'm not a confrontational person if I can help it, I tried to just ignore it, change the subject and talk about something else. But no, he brings back up these topics, he drags me back into these arguments when I tell him I don't care, he'll repeatedly send links to prove himself right and that I'm the fool for not believing him. If I try to just say "Fine, you're right!" just to get him to leave me alone, he knows I'm lying and it persists. At this current time, he's finally backed off but he wants me to move to his city because I can make more money there as they have higher wages (I'm happy he cares enough to suggest that). And I would, though I love my current job, but I won't...because I just cannot mentally handle being closer to him. This peaceful stalemate we've reached is unfortunate as I want my old brother back, but I feel safer here. People grow up and change but this is absolute night and day. And maybe not wanting to be around him, be it now or in old age, makes me a shitty person and fine, I'll take that. But being selfish here, my mental state just wouldn't be able to handle his antagonism for years. I could already feel myself close to something, some kind of breaking from stress in just the days he visited last Christmas. I'm scared of what would happen if I lived closer where he could easily come over and visit me. And you might be wondering why I don't enlist the help of my other family. To varying degrees, they actually agree with him as well. My younger brother almost idolizes my older brother and is beginning to parrot him (we're all well and grown adults so this isn't a child being swayed by someone older but not having the means to know any better). He and I room together currently and while he's not as bad, sometimes we'll be watching something and a globe will be shown or an image of the Earth rotating and he'll scoff, "That's not true." I get enough of the fighting with conversations with my older brother, I haven't the strength to then get into more with someone who lives directly in the house. This will be our last year rooming together and then my younger brother will be moving in with my older brother. ...holy fuck. I'm going to end up losing both of them. And I don't know how to help them.
Fluffymiyster Um.... I was traversing through the comments and saw this. I knew you said it was going to be long but wow it was long and interesting. That’s sad what’s going on in your life. I kind of have the same issue with my younger sister but she is a hardcore SJW. We get into little stupid debates and hardly talk unless it’s around the time we get together as a family. It’s hard having a family member you are close with and they change and try to change you in the process. I support her from time to time depending on what she is involve in but sometimes I find certain actions unnecessary and try to understand and find middle ground but wind up not on good terms anymore. Life just sucks sometimes.
For all the good the internet has done for global communication and connection, it's also given all the random crazies in the world a place to congregate and grow emboldened enough to spread their misinformation to others more effectively.
I'm very willing to bet that "study" saying a third of milennials believe the earth is flat is flawed somehow, like the one claiming 30-some percent of americans think coronavirus comes from beer. Especially considering it's from a pop science journal, i don't expect unbiased peer-reviewed evidence.
I don't know, there are a lot of dumb Millennials and post Millennials out there. Many just to lazy, or self important, to bother to learn or even think about it.
I wouldn't be surprised if that supposed third of millennials was primarily made up of people giving joke answers because they thought it would be funny. They're not stupid, they just don't respect such a ridiculous "study" enough to be truthful.
Medieval scientists: "By god using this new equipment that was invented, and using some new methods we have created, we can deduce the Earth is a giant round rock!" NASA: "We're scientists, and thanks to understanding the science of gravity and other methods, we have discovered and can confidently say the Earth is round like a ball! Some medieval scientists actually knew what they were doing." Flat Earthers: "KnOw YoUr ScIeNcE pEoPlE wAkE uP tHe EaRtH iS fLaT hOw CaN wE wAlK oN iT iF iTs RoUnD???"
My biggest question with flat earth is quite simply - why? what would they have to gain by hiding this from us, and considering it would require massive co-operation between every single nation for thousands of years, why hasn't a single whistleblower come forward?
If I were in their shoes, I'd probably answer that it doesn't matter that there isn't a direct benefit, and it's the principle that they control our lives down to how we see the ground we walk on, like 1984 had that bit that basically went like "2+2 is 5 because we say so. We control your reality, and that means we have absolute power over you."
ValensBellator Yup. That level of pure fear can really screw up a person's ability to think and make them believe the most fragile theories to avoid risking an I-could-have-survived-if-I-had-only-listened-before type situation. A situation that comes up very, very often in pop culture-you know how in a bunch of stories the useless skeptical adults who don't believe the kid protagonists about the alien invasion (etc.) are the first to fall, and all that stuff.
The difference of the equatorial radius from the polar radius is about 22 km (13 mi), a difference of less then half a percent. So, really it's more like a sphere than not and getting overly particular just confuses people.
The bills aren't gonna pay themselves. Sure, there are better, more ethical sponsors out there, but from what I understand they don't pay nearly as well.
At the very least, he delivered the sponsor while keeping his writing style intact (i.e. he still felt in-character), making it more bearable to sit through.
Lol...I was really hoping that would be part of the B.o.b. insanity and we’d find out that HE called the notorious NTD as he’s known to his friends a psychiatrist.
The impression that I have about Mad Mike is that he was more along the lines of a daredevil trying to make a mark in modern times rather than somebody who actually believed the world is flat. I kinda respect the dude in a weird way. RIP you crazy bastard*. _(*Am Australian. This is not an insult.)_
Agreed. Flat Earther or not, he would've still done his fatal rocket flight one way or another. Dying in a homemade rocket is probably the most daredevil way to go out, so, a fitting end
@horrorkesh maybe you should learn the "logical" difference of round and sphere? a clock on a wall is round, a basketball is a sphere. understand? why assume nasa is feeding us with truthful cgi composites? after all of this fraud: /watch?v=ThduRhb7V1A /watch?v=yee4cw4E4JE /watch?v=QBun3unO0t8
If they kickstart the flat Earth, it won’t drive because nobody inflated it to roll. You need some Fix-A-Flat. Otherwise...you’re gonna have a bad time.
Please explain. Not actually what the flat Earth believers actually believe. I think your very dumb Mr. Prove the earth is round. Can anyone? Lol. Show me a pic of the earth
"Yea i almost caught a halibut -THIS BIG-!!!" "Oh wow! But you lost it?" "Yup. Bugger jumped right over the edge of the world just as i reached for a mallet to knock him out..."
Daniel, you forget that no-one's investigated the ice wall because of the machine-gun armed penguins who patrol it. Obviously. But also, if people want to watch a brilliant take down of flat earth "theory" watch CoolHardLogic's videos on the episodes. I might be slightly biased by the fact he's British lol
Fun fact: even the Ancient Greeks realized that Earth was round, thanks to Erathosthenes, who did a simple experiment. One day he planted a long stick vertically on the ground in Syene, southern Egypt, and noted that it had no shadow at noon. The next day he took the same stick in Alexandria, near the Nile's mouth, planted it on the ground and noted that it made a shadow at noon. Considering that Sun rays are parallel to each other when reaching Earth, if the Earth was flat than there would have been a shadow in both cities. As it's not the case, the Earth must be round. Not only he demonstrated the Earth is round with his experiment, he even managed to calculate its circumference: by using the angle formed between Alexandria's shadow and the stick and the distance with Syene he used a couple of simple mathematical operations to obtain a circumference of about 39375 km. The current estimate by NASA measured at the Equator is... 40075.017 km.
It's a shame because they're right to be suspicious about information handed down to them from the powerful, but their energies have clearly been diverted in the wrong direction.
I still remember seeing this one video ages ago (I think it was on UA-cam but I forget the name of the channel and video) where it was three flat earthers sitting down and having a conversation with two scientists (I believe they were) and an astronaut that actually WENT to space and the flat earthers got pissed when the other three would interrupt them saying, “Let us at least explain our point” but they would then interrupt the scientists whenever they would talk and then say to the scientists, “You had your chance to talk now it’s ours”
I tried to do this a few years ago. They agreed to disagree, but the flat earther believed that there could be another world on the other side of the flat Earth.
That would be like duct taping five cats together. Most people assume mundane outcomes from these events, but the odd chap will break out in a panicked sweat realising the danger you are describing.
@@averagebritishguy7082 people who basically believe that "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is true. It is actually a rather interesting theory but also has no real supporting evidence that it is true, in fact most available evidence leads to the opposite conclusion.
Useless fact: that map projection is called the Polar Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. All map projections cause serious distortions of SOME kind (you're probably familiar with the typical Equirectangular projection, which makes places like Greenland look much bigger than they actually are), but this projection is useful for the UN flag because, while it's not very useful for navigation: 1. The center is the North Pole, which belongs to nobody, rather than having any specific country in the middle. 2. The most severe distortions are in the oceans and Antarctica, which also belong to nobody. Basically, it's the projection that's most difficult to put any kind of perceived nationalistic bias on.
The original Azimuthal Equidistant Projection was a black and white drawing that was published in Alexander Gleason's 1893 patent for a "Time Chart", in which he states that it is a projection of the globe. To make his time chart work, he had to alter time zone boundaries to fit in with lines of longtitude. That meant that he had to deform landmasses to conform to these modified time zones - just look at Australia. If you look at most of the various version of the AE map, you'll see an eyelet at the North Pole. That was to hold the two arms which were used to calculate the time. The time bezel is still included around the outside of the map.
I was part of flatearthers as a troll and i think most of them were just trolls . I refuse to believe people are that stupid . The stuff they kept coming up with was unreal . People there either had brain damage, smoked too much or just really good trolling
The truth is actually somewhere between the beliefs of anti vaccers and their detractors. It is well known that there is a risk of neurological damage as a result of vaccination, but the improvement to the overall health of populations is thought to grossly outweigh the individual losses.
The anti-vaxxing thing does make a little bit of sense given the fact that viruses mutate over time, so a vaccine that works for a virus will not work on that same virus forever, leading to the need to make the vaccines stronger and stronger.
Your comment reminds me of the line in In The Mouth of Madness, where the woman talks about same and insane being interchangeable. "...A reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily switch places...if the insane were to become the majority...You would find yourself locked in a padded cell...wondering what happened to the world..." Just because you agree with the majority, or vice versa, doesn't mean you're right. I'm not a flat earther, I'm just saying. Personally speaking I keep my options and opinions open unless I know from FIRST HAND experience.
My father actually did 2 tours in Antarctica when he was in the Navy and he gets a good laugh out of flat earthers. It's like wth did they get this idea of an ice wall guarded by NASA, what would really happen is you walking off an ice shelf into the ocean so have fun with that lol.
@@DisAlex666 unless you go by the time frame of them being born between 1986 and 2005. There isn't a hard rule on how to define generations. But yes, you make a good point.
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SOHGuy You just said you’re tired of cutesy RPGs, the advertisement is aimed at you. It’s just to let you know about a game you might like. It’s not the devil, lol. If you had a product to sell, you’d promote it also, obviously.
I heard of Mike Hughes on his first attempt to get high enough. I predicted that he was going to find he was wrong , and then crash and die. I hate that I was half right.
@@carncats07 a man died. Have some respect. He believed in something stupid, but he went up and beyond to proof he was right and lost his life in return. I don't think death is funny.
@@thespector8587 I didn't say it was funny, I just said it served him right. It's called natural selection and it's been going on in the animal and plant kingdom for eternity and will continue to do so. His idiocy meant he wasn't selected. But now that you mention it, it is kinda funny.
If that old genius of a man needed Magical Time Dilation to explain how a flat earth could exist, these dumbasses have no chance of convincing Me we live on one.
The defense I always hear from the flerfs regarding Antarctica is "BUT THE ANTARCTIC TREATY BANS TRAVEL THERE". Actually no, you can go there to visit. It's expensive but you can do it. It's like going up to the top of Mt. Everest these days. Anyone with enough money can do it.
> Can a Flat Earther please comment down below No. NNNO. BAD IDEA. it's like playing chess with a pigeon, it's just going to crap all over the board and claim victory
Pfft. I have a channel that sometimes reviews card games and the guy who makes the Flat Earth card game tried to approach me for a review. I, a person who actually has seen the curvature of the Earth, said no.
If the Earth WERE flat, then wouldn't we be able to see more of the planet where we stand? And if the planet were flat, then why do volcanoes, earthquakes, and wind exist?
I watched the docu on Netflix about Flat earthers. They did so many tests to proof the earth was flat and each and everytime they couldn't proof it. Yet none of them was like "Huh, maybe it's round after all". Also even ammong flat earthers there is a civil war going on between two streams that both have a different idea about how the earth looks like and fight each other for it. It's comedy gold. I think one of them in the docu is dead now though, he had a self made rocket to proof the earth was flat, launched himself a few weeks ago, parachute opened up during launch, got ripped appart, rocket made its return to earth and flattened the pilot......irony is such a commedian at times
@@luyandolove That whole docu is hilarious. It's so funny to see this massive arguement between the flatearthers who all take it so serious. And to see them struggle to proof their reallity is true. It's been a while since i seen it, but one of the theories is that the poles don't excist. They are giant walls that keep stuff from falling off the earth. Their defense of why no one has ever seen them is that it's a complot. Like wtf? We are thousands of years old, and every government since humans went exploring been like "Yeah we can't shot this shit to people, they will freak out!". Yeah that must have happened, i'm sure that's it. Just a conspiracy of all the governments in the world who fight each other to death over oil, but agree together on the giant walls that protect us from falling off the planet :P
The flat Earth comic actually sounds pretty interesting. I wouldn't mind a fictional work like a series or movie about it either, would be entertaining.
As far as the Flat Earth comic goes here's what I feel. He has fulfilled other campaigns before and after so I have to believe him just based on his track record.
Thank you for introducing your subscribers to the Flat Earth concept. For anyone who is curious, ask yourself: How do I know it's a globe, without using a space agency? It's harder than you think. Do your own research, and never stop asking questions. Long Live Flat Earth.
I once had a debate with a flat earther in a pub, we talked about the fact going from London to Tokyo in 12 hours wouldn't be possible without a globe to chop the distance, the fact Germany have a race track with a 5 km long straight race test track you can't see the end of due to the curvature of the earth, and the fact the sun rises and falls at different horizon points based on the season. Dude wouldn't accept it, I then out of frustration asked him to explain wjy it's possible to greater distances from higher up a mountain. His response was 'mountains make no sense anyway, they're closer to the sun but have snow on top when the ground doesn't." ... I ended the conversation there, either he's the world's most patient troll or the dumbest guy I ever met.
There are three types of people I won't even have a discussion with: flat-Earthers, Chinese shills and ones who think that Fallout 3 is better than New Vegas.
For what it's worth, Apple Valley California is a strange place. It's cool, but something always felt a little off there. It's a picturesque small town near LA so lots of movies and TV shows get filmed there. Maybe it's got a bit of the Hollywood bug. Lots of places in So-Cal are like that.
I'd recommend Hbomberguy's video essay regarding Flat Earthers to anyone who's interested in why so many of these idiots seem to be popping up these days. He goes in-depth with it & shows how laughable their "evidence" actually is.
yeh it was the world of goo music, indeed. Took me way too long and a couple of google searches to remember it. initially though it might have been the music for 'don't starve', but no. lol
God flung the flat earth through the air like a frisbee. That's why we spin. This is also how the frisbee was created. There, now the flat earth theory makes sense.
As somebody who has a degree in physics, I can tell you that the Flat Earth hypothesis (I refuse to call it a theory on the grounds that this is technically a hypothesis because there is no formal scientific methodology or consensus that implies a more theoretical basis) has one major problem: besides having no actual mathematical basis, Flat Earth hypotheses are far more complicated than actual scientific explanations for a round Earth.
The easiest way to debunk the flat earth theory is the travel situation where you say have a man named Jack who is flying out of LAX in California and a woman named Jill flying out of Charlotte, NC to Tokyo, Japan. Jack who would be flying over the Pacific Ocean and Jill over the Atlantic, one of them WON'T make it if the flat earth theory is actually fact and you could probably guess that Jack is the unlucky one who never makes it or gets there much later than he anticipated. THAT is the ABSOLUTE EASIEST way to disprove the theory cause that proves the ridiculousness of the theory. These Flat Earthers are INSANE to believe that the earth IS NOT a ball like all the other planets. There is ZERO SCIENCE (like they CLAIM there is) to back up their claims so it is just a LIE.
Love the zombies ate my neighbours opening tune used as the backing track, very apt and brought back memories, deffo best game on the mega drive although I’m gonna get flack for saying it haha
I have a funny story about one I met a few years back. I was working at my company and we had the our own office management team. We had this person who was I'm pretty sure a flat earth believer and I'm not sure if other people knew. I was picking up some mail from their supply/mail room one day and we usually talk (you know normal office chatter). I have no idea but somewhere down the line she starting talking about how the earth is totally flat and how the government puts sleeping gas in airplanes so we don't look outside to see that there is no horizon or something along those lines. I didn't really say anything and kind of just waited until I got the mail. I told one of my coworkers and she was appalled and also said basically she wasn't surprised. I don;t know how she got along with everyone else but I assume by that response...not too well. I don;t really care anymore about people believing nonsense, you basically can't win against people like that as they come across as extremely uncompromising (basically if you said "hey well I don't believe that" they will call you stupid or at least that was my experience), but for god sake it was an office, leave that crap outside of the work space.
I believe the Earth is round, but I've always thought if the Earth really has been magically flat this whole time and people accept it as fact that nothing would change. I mean trade routes and flight paths have been mapped out for a long time, zero reports of people falling off any sort of weird edge so basically whatever the reality of it is, it's simply inconsequential at this point because we've already established a way of life that wouldn't suddenly change upon changing your mind about if our planet is round or flat.
We all should send them to space with no windows so they wont blame it on holograms. Or maybe invent time machines and send them to the time before Christopher Columbus. I love the 8bit around the world daft punk
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"I'm fed up with all these people not understanding science..."
Okay
"...and not believing the Earth is Flat."
Oh alright you lost me.
Wait... even if the Earth was actually flat, didn't that guy just try to crowd-fund his own snuff film?
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Somehow physics forms a perfectly flat disk in outer space that is only cold on the outer rim, and also somehow has a single direction based gravity. 'Cause science.
There is a nice hill something 40mins away by walk from my house, everything around it, is almost full of flat fields, so during nice weather you see pretty damm far. And even I managed to spot the curviture of the planet, as mountains in the background look almost like they are sinking below horizon. Just by observation it can be seen, that it is not flat.
@@mostmelon Earth is a hot pocket.
The only thing you have to do to prove that their pancake Earth idea is wrong is to take a flight from Chile to Australia. There's a direct flight there. And if you look at their flat Earth map, you'll see that South America, and Australia are way on the opposite sides of the Pancake from each other. There's zero ways that a single plane could make that trip without dozens of in-air-refuelings and landings. The ONLY way that this flight works is on a globe. But this won't convince any flattard. Flat Earthers aren't interested in the truth, like they claim. What they ARE interested in is inventing enemies, and punching those imagined enemies to earn points and back patting from their flat Earth peers. You can see this in pretty much every flat Earth video on UA-cam. Not a single one of them is interested in showing any theory of how their world model works. All they're interested in is attacking NASA, attacking scientists, playing the victim by claiming that everyone is against them, claiming conspiracies against them. All they have to do is provide a model of the world that actually describes what we experience in the real world that can't be falsified. A model that can pass peer review and can describe what we see better than the theories we already have. Not one of them is interested in doing this. It's always conspiracy theories, NASA (when there's several other space agencies out there), victimhood, and attacking invented enemies. They aren't interested in the truth. They enjoy being a part of a special club that makes them feel good. That's it.
Pretty much spot on, people believe conspiracies theories because they want to, it makes them feel special, like they have special secret knowledge the rest of the world doesn't have.
All conspiracies theories seem to be about the need to feel special, or the fear of chaos.
My older brother is a flat-Earther. We...don't talk much anymore because I can't deal with his craziness. And if ever he became incapacitated in some way in the future and needs a caretaker, I'm probably going to see if he can be put in a home as I just don't want to be around that. Probably makes me a bad sister but I say he's done it to himself :/
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Imagine separating from a family member over an eccentricity that really doesn't matter and fantasizing about putting them in a home if they needed help. You're not just a bad sister, you actually come off as an all around piece of shit tbh.
@@jkvltra804 This gets long, but I ask you to still give it a read when you have the time. Maybe it changes nothing, and so be it.
You only have a small glimpse into everything from my comment. If it was just the flat earth thing, I wouldn't care. It's also the religious fanaticism. I'm agnostic and he doesn't seem to understand that I personally just don't care for religion so I've taken no sides. So long as your religion doesn't revolve around hurting yourself or others, be that physically or mentally, have at it. Just don't force me into it. But...that's exactly it, with both of these. He WANTS me in both. If it were just himself, I'd think he was crazy but I can still try to be close to him. But that's not enough. He gets angry that I don't see things his way, that I'm not Christian, how crazy that I'm not Christian, how is it I still believe the lie that the Earth is round! Everything has also now become a government conspiracy, the government is lying about 9/11 and it was an inside job, there's a bubble over the earth and no one has ever been to the moon, much less space...and if I say otherwise, as I said, he becomes angry and belligerent. I used to laugh about this shit online but never in a million years would I have thought it would end up directly in my personal life. I used to laugh about it but when he showed he was dead serious and it became frightening, I realized I was up against something much deeper.
My two brothers and I were very close growing up. My older brother is only a year older than me, my younger brother two years younger. We were thick as thieves as kids. However, in my senior year of high school, our family moved to a different part of the state and my older brother chose to remain behind. Except for a few months the next year, I pretty much would not see him for a decade. And in that decade...whomever this stranger is that he's become now took over. I've tried to be understanding of his skepticism and anger. We're black and America hasn't exactly had the best track record with people of color. But it feels like he's become suscpicious of everything now. Oh, he's also become an anti-vaxxer. How could I have almost forgotten the argument that happened when I stupidly stepped on that land mine and tried to push back against him...
It's heartbreaking because he's not budging on any of this. And as I'm not a confrontational person if I can help it, I tried to just ignore it, change the subject and talk about something else. But no, he brings back up these topics, he drags me back into these arguments when I tell him I don't care, he'll repeatedly send links to prove himself right and that I'm the fool for not believing him. If I try to just say "Fine, you're right!" just to get him to leave me alone, he knows I'm lying and it persists.
At this current time, he's finally backed off but he wants me to move to his city because I can make more money there as they have higher wages (I'm happy he cares enough to suggest that). And I would, though I love my current job, but I won't...because I just cannot mentally handle being closer to him. This peaceful stalemate we've reached is unfortunate as I want my old brother back, but I feel safer here. People grow up and change but this is absolute night and day. And maybe not wanting to be around him, be it now or in old age, makes me a shitty person and fine, I'll take that. But being selfish here, my mental state just wouldn't be able to handle his antagonism for years. I could already feel myself close to something, some kind of breaking from stress in just the days he visited last Christmas. I'm scared of what would happen if I lived closer where he could easily come over and visit me.
And you might be wondering why I don't enlist the help of my other family. To varying degrees, they actually agree with him as well. My younger brother almost idolizes my older brother and is beginning to parrot him (we're all well and grown adults so this isn't a child being swayed by someone older but not having the means to know any better). He and I room together currently and while he's not as bad, sometimes we'll be watching something and a globe will be shown or an image of the Earth rotating and he'll scoff, "That's not true." I get enough of the fighting with conversations with my older brother, I haven't the strength to then get into more with someone who lives directly in the house. This will be our last year rooming together and then my younger brother will be moving in with my older brother.
...holy fuck. I'm going to end up losing both of them. And I don't know how to help them.
Fluffymiyster Um.... I was traversing through the comments and saw this. I knew you said it was going to be long but wow it was long and interesting. That’s sad what’s going on in your life. I kind of have the same issue with my younger sister but she is a hardcore SJW. We get into little stupid debates and hardly talk unless it’s around the time we get together as a family. It’s hard having a family member you are close with and they change and try to change you in the process. I support her from time to time depending on what she is involve in but sometimes I find certain actions unnecessary and try to understand and find middle ground but wind up not on good terms anymore. Life just sucks sometimes.
For all the good the internet has done for global communication and connection, it's also given all the random crazies in the world a place to congregate and grow emboldened enough to spread their misinformation to others more effectively.
Boy oh Boy I'm here from the future to tell you that you are right
so true; someone tried to tell me that a man can become a woman! OMG where does it end?
@@DetectiveJones I'm from the future and I don't remember seeing you there.
@@AbsurdityViewer Thats because Im even more from the future than where you're from
I'm very willing to bet that "study" saying a third of milennials believe the earth is flat is flawed somehow, like the one claiming 30-some percent of americans think coronavirus comes from beer.
Especially considering it's from a pop science journal, i don't expect unbiased peer-reviewed evidence.
I don't know, there are a lot of dumb Millennials and post Millennials out there.
Many just to lazy, or self important, to bother to learn or even think about it.
No room to learn anything else when it's full of what the Kardashians are doing, who is trending on Twitter, or the latest thing to be irate about.
I wouldn't be surprised if that supposed third of millennials was primarily made up of people giving joke answers because they thought it would be funny. They're not stupid, they just don't respect such a ridiculous "study" enough to be truthful.
@@Fimbleshanks plenty of UA-cam videos of random on the street interviews that show the exact opposite.
@@asasial1977 because anecdotal interviews are evidence....
Medieval scientists: "By god using this new equipment that was invented, and using some new methods we have created, we can deduce the Earth is a giant round rock!"
NASA: "We're scientists, and thanks to understanding the science of gravity and other methods, we have discovered and can confidently say the Earth is round like a ball! Some medieval scientists actually knew what they were doing."
Flat Earthers: "KnOw YoUr ScIeNcE pEoPlE wAkE uP tHe EaRtH iS fLaT hOw CaN wE wAlK oN iT iF iTs RoUnD???"
"yOu'D fAlL oFf If YoU wErE iN mExIcO!"
Its worse than that. Iron age scientists pretty accurately determined the earth's shape and size just by horizon calculations.
@@raycearcher5794 and people in the times of antiquity knew that the earth is most likely a sphere of sorts
We figured out the earth was a sphere when mammoths still roamed the earth
MEDIEVAL?! The fucking ancient Greece knew earth is round
My biggest question with flat earth is quite simply - why? what would they have to gain by hiding this from us, and considering it would require massive co-operation between every single nation for thousands of years, why hasn't a single whistleblower come forward?
If I were in their shoes, I'd probably answer that it doesn't matter that there isn't a direct benefit, and it's the principle that they control our lives down to how we see the ground we walk on, like 1984 had that bit that basically went like "2+2 is 5 because we say so. We control your reality, and that means we have absolute power over you."
Baffle Blend
They could just as easily do that with a flat earth. Every motive I’ve seen listed tends to fall apart under the slightest scrutiny lol
ValensBellator Yup. That level of pure fear can really screw up a person's ability to think and make them believe the most fragile theories to avoid risking an I-could-have-survived-if-I-had-only-listened-before type situation.
A situation that comes up very, very often in pop culture-you know how in a bunch of stories the useless skeptical adults who don't believe the kid protagonists about the alien invasion (etc.) are the first to fall, and all that stuff.
The Global Elites have various reasons, some so incredibly advanced that the average person couldn’t understand.
@@leecroft1983 Ridiculous
Like my friend says; if the earth was flat, the cats would have already knocked everything off the edge.
0:57 Well it's not exactly a ball but more likely an ellipsoid, but that's fairly technical and very specific.
I remember watching this back after editing seeing that and thinking "I bet someone corrects me within minutes of this going live hahaha"
The difference of the equatorial radius from the polar radius is about 22 km (13 mi), a difference of less then half a percent. So, really it's more like a sphere than not and getting overly particular just confuses people.
@@DamnedSilly less *than* 🙄😐
Yes, it's a lot of wibbly wobbly....
It's an oblate spheroid.
I'm a millennial who went to school with and still interacts with other millennials, and I've never met a millennial who thinks the earth is flat
however; how many think a man can become a woman?
You absolute fools. The Earth isn't a disc or a globe, it's a beyblade.
Show that expose scammers, sponsored by a scam of a game.
Well money is money.
Indeed. I'm still watching this video, but seeing that almost put me off of giving it a chance.
The bills aren't gonna pay themselves. Sure, there are better, more ethical sponsors out there, but from what I understand they don't pay nearly as well.
At the very least, he delivered the sponsor while keeping his writing style intact (i.e. he still felt in-character), making it more bearable to sit through.
Does he actually play that trash, that's the real question.
shamusfarmer no one does except little kids who don’t know what a good game is
Calls Neil Degrasse Tyson a "psychiatrist," doesn't redo last part of video. We still luv yah, Slopes!
Lol...I was really hoping that would be part of the B.o.b. insanity and we’d find out that HE called the notorious NTD as he’s known to his friends a psychiatrist.
The impression that I have about Mad Mike is that he was more along the lines of a daredevil trying to make a mark in modern times rather than somebody who actually believed the world is flat.
I kinda respect the dude in a weird way. RIP you crazy bastard*.
_(*Am Australian. This is not an insult.)_
Agreed. Flat Earther or not, he would've still done his fatal rocket flight one way or another.
Dying in a homemade rocket is probably the most daredevil way to go out, so, a fitting end
Flat Earth doesn't even make logical sense most flat-earthers even agree that everything else in the universe is round
They've all got their reasons for believing it, but most often it's paranoid schizophrenia.
@horrorkesh maybe you should learn the "logical" difference of round and sphere? a clock on a wall is round, a basketball is a sphere. understand?
why assume nasa is feeding us with truthful cgi composites? after all of this fraud: /watch?v=ThduRhb7V1A
/watch?v=yee4cw4E4JE
/watch?v=QBun3unO0t8
@@maxlevel1489 but both a circle and a sphere is ROUND, so it’s still correct vocabulary
26:17.5 "The psychiatrist Neil DeGrasse Tyson". I think you mean 'physicist'.
Ah! That's what the error was 😄
To be fair, Scientologists also absolutely hate psychiatry, and they are definitely cultists
Neil is a physicist who needs a psychiatrist . . .
@@Ektalon You hit the nail on the head! :)
I thought it was some kind of joke I didn't get.... ;D
If they kickstart the flat Earth, it won’t drive because nobody inflated it to roll. You need some Fix-A-Flat. Otherwise...you’re gonna have a bad time.
I believe the earth is a disc carried by 4 elephants on the back of a giant turtle in space
Well yeah...
It’s turtles all the way down.
Why does that make me think of Avatar🤣
Flat Earthers are truly the greatest comedians of recent times.
Please explain. Not actually what the flat Earth believers actually believe. I think your very dumb Mr. Prove the earth is round. Can anyone? Lol. Show me a pic of the earth
@@bryVegas Day and night cycles, the horizon, communication satellites, gps satellites, a fucking space station in orbit
@@bryVegas do you even English bro?
Holy shit your comment is near unreadable
@@th3d3wd3r that's the proof! 😀
@@bryVegas that's a few proofs of many
Pretty sure the millenials saying the Earth is flat on the survey were mostly trolling...
God I sure as heck hope so.
Two words: TIDE. PODS.
@@EddieHawkinsII that's gen z. Millenials are like 24+ these days and have careers
Probably the same people that think Twitter is a good idea.
If there really was a survey. Sounds like a statistic pulled out of a backside.
"Yea i almost caught a halibut -THIS BIG-!!!"
"Oh wow! But you lost it?"
"Yup. Bugger jumped right over the edge of the world just as i reached for a mallet to knock him out..."
Daniel, you forget that no-one's investigated the ice wall because of the machine-gun armed penguins who patrol it.
Obviously.
But also, if people want to watch a brilliant take down of flat earth "theory" watch CoolHardLogic's videos on the episodes. I might be slightly biased by the fact he's British lol
Agreed. CHL has the most thorough debunk videos on here. They're great.
Fun fact: even the Ancient Greeks realized that Earth was round, thanks to Erathosthenes, who did a simple experiment. One day he planted a long stick vertically on the ground in Syene, southern Egypt, and noted that it had no shadow at noon. The next day he took the same stick in Alexandria, near the Nile's mouth, planted it on the ground and noted that it made a shadow at noon. Considering that Sun rays are parallel to each other when reaching Earth, if the Earth was flat than there would have been a shadow in both cities. As it's not the case, the Earth must be round. Not only he demonstrated the Earth is round with his experiment, he even managed to calculate its circumference: by using the angle formed between Alexandria's shadow and the stick and the distance with Syene he used a couple of simple mathematical operations to obtain a circumference of about 39375 km. The current estimate by NASA measured at the Equator is... 40075.017 km.
It's a theory that falls a little flat.
It's a shame because they're right to be suspicious about information handed down to them from the powerful, but their energies have clearly been diverted in the wrong direction.
I still remember seeing this one video ages ago (I think it was on UA-cam but I forget the name of the channel and video) where it was three flat earthers sitting down and having a conversation with two scientists (I believe they were) and an astronaut that actually WENT to space and the flat earthers got pissed when the other three would interrupt them saying, “Let us at least explain our point” but they would then interrupt the scientists whenever they would talk and then say to the scientists, “You had your chance to talk now it’s ours”
Re: Vince and the alleged stalker: No proof? That's just like a flat earther, isn't it?
I would like to see what would happen if you put a hollow earther and a flat earther in a room together
I tried to do this a few years ago. They agreed to disagree, but the flat earther believed that there could be another world on the other side of the flat Earth.
The fuck is a hollow earther? Actually, don't tell me. I'd prefer to be in blissful ignorance.
There will be a singularity event and both cease to exist 😁
That would be like duct taping five cats together. Most people assume mundane outcomes from these events, but the odd chap will break out in a panicked sweat realising the danger you are describing.
@@averagebritishguy7082 people who basically believe that "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is true. It is actually a rather interesting theory but also has no real supporting evidence that it is true, in fact most available evidence leads to the opposite conclusion.
that flat earth representation is actually from the UN flag :/
They’ve often pointed to that as evidence of the earth being flat.
Useless fact: that map projection is called the Polar Azimuthal Equidistant Projection.
All map projections cause serious distortions of SOME kind (you're probably familiar with the typical Equirectangular projection, which makes places like Greenland look much bigger than they actually are), but this projection is useful for the UN flag because, while it's not very useful for navigation:
1. The center is the North Pole, which belongs to nobody, rather than having any specific country in the middle.
2. The most severe distortions are in the oceans and Antarctica, which also belong to nobody.
Basically, it's the projection that's most difficult to put any kind of perceived nationalistic bias on.
The original Azimuthal Equidistant Projection was a black and white drawing that was published in Alexander Gleason's 1893 patent for a "Time Chart", in which he states that it is a projection of the globe.
To make his time chart work, he had to alter time zone boundaries to fit in with lines of longtitude. That meant that he had to deform landmasses to conform to these modified time zones - just look at Australia.
If you look at most of the various version of the AE map, you'll see an eyelet at the North Pole. That was to hold the two arms which were used to calculate the time. The time bezel is still included around the outside of the map.
@To Release is To Resolve "It's a cover-up, but they're stupid! They'd have to be, or we'd have no evidence at all!"
I'm not a Flat Earther but I'd read the heck out of that comic Vince was working on.
I was part of flatearthers as a troll and i think most of them were just trolls . I refuse to believe people are that stupid . The stuff they kept coming up with was unreal . People there either had brain damage, smoked too much or just really good trolling
@@contytub Never underestimate the ability for humans to be stupid...
@@scotthurr5925 you have a point there😅 also yes I’d read the comic too out of curiosity
Right? In the fantasy land of a flat Earth... well, that makes for a very interesting fantasy concept!
"A 15 Degree per hour drift"
Oh wait, wrong bob...oops
Hey, remember when B.o.B. made GOOD Hip-hop tracks?
Flat Earthers, Anti Vaxxers, etc.
My reminder that I'm not that insane
The truth is actually somewhere between the beliefs of anti vaccers and their detractors. It is well known that there is a risk of neurological damage as a result of vaccination, but the improvement to the overall health of populations is thought to grossly outweigh the individual losses.
The anti-vaxxing thing does make a little bit of sense given the fact that viruses mutate over time, so a vaccine that works for a virus will not work on that same virus forever, leading to the need to make the vaccines stronger and stronger.
Your comment reminds me of the line in In The Mouth of Madness, where the woman talks about same and insane being interchangeable.
"...A reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily switch places...if the insane were to become the majority...You would find yourself locked in a padded cell...wondering what happened to the world..."
Just because you agree with the majority, or vice versa, doesn't mean you're right.
I'm not a flat earther, I'm just saying.
Personally speaking I keep my options and opinions open unless I know from FIRST HAND experience.
I'll never understand the goal of flat earthers
Attention
To feel like they're special and know something others don't.
@@lazyrmc and donations ect some assh---- make a living from this
Local flat earther dies: “he was so well rounded”
brandon roberts the power of ‘dad’ jokes
My father actually did 2 tours in Antarctica when he was in the Navy and he gets a good laugh out of flat earthers. It's like wth did they get this idea of an ice wall guarded by NASA, what would really happen is you walking off an ice shelf into the ocean so have fun with that lol.
Pythagoras is spinning in his grave.
This sounds like a start of some essay math question
"One-third of millennials believe the Earth is flat."
*watched both Rocketman and Behind the Curve*
You spelled "40-year olds" wrong.
the oldest millenials turn 40 this year.. millenials are born between 1980-1995
@@DisAlex666 unless you go by the time frame of them being born between 1986 and 2005. There isn't a hard rule on how to define generations. But yes, you make a good point.
@@DisAlex666 oh ok so wait my parents are millennials?😅
@@OtakuUnitedStudio good god this is CONFUSING
@@OtakuUnitedStudio by YOUR description I’m apparently one too😅
I, for one, welcome our hollow-earth lizard overlords!
Astrophysicist not psychiatrist
Wait!! The Earth isn't flat?... Next, your gonna tell me the Moon isn't made of Cheese.
I've got some bad news mate
@@alexvince4576 What? your gonna tell me Wallace and Gromit didn't land on the Moon many years ago to get some Cheese?
@@AlexOlinkiewicz thats just a conspiracy from aardman theres a glass dome that would've stopped them from ever reaching the moon
@Zombobo Smith all the cows that tried to jump over it and ended up stuck up there , getting milked by the man on the moon
Alex Olinkiewicz The Moon is flat too. Look at it in the sky, you can’t tell me it’s anything but flat.
Daniel "Are you tired of cutesy rpgs"
Me "Hell yeah"
Daniel "Well you're in luck because this video is sponsred by-"
Me "Aww hellz naw"
JK mate. Money is money and sadly we do have to register with the devil that is advertising.
Daniel "Are you tired of cutesy rpgs"
Me: Hell nah cuteness all the way!
@@Kalvinjj Welp I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn't like cutesy RPGs considering my profile pic.
SOHGuy You just said you’re tired of cutesy RPGs, the advertisement is aimed at you. It’s just to let you know about a game you might like. It’s not the devil, lol. If you had a product to sell, you’d promote it also, obviously.
The Flat Earth society has (or had) on their advertising, the slogan "We have members all around the globe". I shit you not.
I heard of Mike Hughes on his first attempt to get high enough. I predicted that he was going to find he was wrong , and then crash and die.
I hate that I was half right.
I'm going to dangle my feet on the side of the flat Earth so my feet could be out in space 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
It should be noted that Mike Hughes’ rockets were steam-powered, making them destined to not succeed.
Love the Sonic 3 music in the background of the B.O.B. clip.
The “Mad” Mike segment is kind of a bummer knowing what was to come this year.
It served him right.
It was pretty funny :-P
@@carncats07 a man died. Have some respect. He believed in something stupid, but he went up and beyond to proof he was right and lost his life in return. I don't think death is funny.
@@thespector8587 I didn't say it was funny, I just said it served him right. It's called natural selection and it's been going on in the animal and plant kingdom for eternity and will continue to do so. His idiocy meant he wasn't selected. But now that you mention it, it is kinda funny.
@@carncats07 he didn't deserve death. He never harmed anybody.
The Earth isn't flat, and it isn't round. The Earth is a taco that is covered in hot sauce.
and Galactus is coming to pick up his lunch
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The only flat earth I believe in is the one held by 4 elephants on top of a giant floating space turtle.
If that old genius of a man needed Magical Time Dilation to explain how a flat earth could exist, these dumbasses have no chance of convincing Me we live on one.
The defense I always hear from the flerfs regarding Antarctica is "BUT THE ANTARCTIC TREATY BANS TRAVEL THERE". Actually no, you can go there to visit. It's expensive but you can do it. It's like going up to the top of Mt. Everest these days. Anyone with enough money can do it.
Life proves that there is no limit to people’s stupidity...
> Can a Flat Earther please comment down below
No. NNNO. BAD IDEA. it's like playing chess with a pigeon, it's just going to crap all over the board and claim victory
NNNNNNNAAAASAAAAAA
Pfft. I have a channel that sometimes reviews card games and the guy who makes the Flat Earth card game tried to approach me for a review. I, a person who actually has seen the curvature of the Earth, said no.
You'd think there would be more people arguing that the moon is flat, on account that we only ever see one side of it.
If the Earth WERE flat, then wouldn't we be able to see more of the planet where we stand? And if the planet were flat, then why do volcanoes, earthquakes, and wind exist?
Great question. They can’t answer😅
I watched the docu on Netflix about Flat earthers. They did so many tests to proof the earth was flat and each and everytime they couldn't proof it. Yet none of them was like "Huh, maybe it's round after all".
Also even ammong flat earthers there is a civil war going on between two streams that both have a different idea about how the earth looks like and fight each other for it. It's comedy gold.
I think one of them in the docu is dead now though, he had a self made rocket to proof the earth was flat, launched himself a few weeks ago, parachute opened up during launch, got ripped appart, rocket made its return to earth and flattened the pilot......irony is such a commedian at times
Jorendo That sounds hilarious. The civil war. Not the guy dying.
@@luyandolove That whole docu is hilarious. It's so funny to see this massive arguement between the flatearthers who all take it so serious.
And to see them struggle to proof their reallity is true.
It's been a while since i seen it, but one of the theories is that the poles don't excist. They are giant walls that keep stuff from falling off the earth. Their defense of why no one has ever seen them is that it's a complot. Like wtf? We are thousands of years old, and every government since humans went exploring been like "Yeah we can't shot this shit to people, they will freak out!". Yeah that must have happened, i'm sure that's it. Just a conspiracy of all the governments in the world who fight each other to death over oil, but agree together on the giant walls that protect us from falling off the planet :P
@To Release is To Resolve They did measure things to proof it was flat. Their result "there is a curve, something must be wrong" xD
"A 15° drift"
Thanks Bob!
The flat Earth comic actually sounds pretty interesting. I wouldn't mind a fictional work like a series or movie about it either, would be entertaining.
i love whoever that person was that named themselves "sollux captor"
Hes a legend
As far as the Flat Earth comic goes here's what I feel. He has fulfilled other campaigns before and after so I have to believe him just based on his track record.
20:35 When I first saw him, I automatically remembered him dying on a home made rocket.
Nice touch of the KSP music with Mike Hughes.
Thank you for introducing your subscribers to the Flat Earth concept. For anyone who is curious, ask yourself: How do I know it's a globe, without using a space agency? It's harder than you think. Do your own research, and never stop asking questions. Long Live Flat Earth.
ISS can't work on a flat earth.
How do you know it's flat?
my main gripe with flat earth theory is that the sun would be up 24/7 worldwide if it WAS flat
I once had a debate with a flat earther in a pub, we talked about the fact going from London to Tokyo in 12 hours wouldn't be possible without a globe to chop the distance, the fact Germany have a race track with a 5 km long straight race test track you can't see the end of due to the curvature of the earth, and the fact the sun rises and falls at different horizon points based on the season. Dude wouldn't accept it, I then out of frustration asked him to explain wjy it's possible to greater distances from higher up a mountain. His response was 'mountains make no sense anyway, they're closer to the sun but have snow on top when the ground doesn't." ... I ended the conversation there, either he's the world's most patient troll or the dumbest guy I ever met.
4:17 to cut to the chase
858 This "scientist" should ask Mad Mike about gravity, no wait...
i really hope this video makes the rounds. Rounds. Like the earth.
Hi Dan!
Thanks for taking us on a ride
during these harsh times... : )
Best regards.
A fiction series about a flat Earth could be pretty interesting. Weather would be weird, shit would have developed differently.
I'm loving the Space Engineers OST playing whilst Mad Mike talks about his rocket!
this guy did it, he saw the whole round planed. he wasnt in his body anymore and he couldnt tell us, but he got his proof
The earth is technically an oblate spherpoid. It is definitely not flat though.
The planet being flattened at the poles by 1 part per 300? You need to resort to measurements just to notice the space rock's oblateness.
There are three types of people I won't even have a discussion with: flat-Earthers, Chinese shills and ones who think that Fallout 3 is better than New Vegas.
I can hop on board that wagon.
put all Bethesda fallout on there and I'm in
For what it's worth, Apple Valley California is a strange place. It's cool, but something always felt a little off there. It's a picturesque small town near LA so lots of movies and TV shows get filmed there. Maybe it's got a bit of the Hollywood bug. Lots of places in So-Cal are like that.
The other 2/3's of Millennials watch kickscammers.
I'd recommend Hbomberguy's video essay regarding Flat Earthers to anyone who's interested in why so many of these idiots seem to be popping up these days. He goes in-depth with it & shows how laughable their "evidence" actually is.
I knew Mad Mike would be a part of this ;)
Was that the World Of Goo theme I heard during the shout out? :D
yeh it was the world of goo music, indeed. Took me way too long and a couple of google searches to remember it. initially though it might have been the music for 'don't starve', but no. lol
I played that game to death when it was released. Breaks the screen in modern Linux but still good on Android :)
@@ColinJonesPonder lol, yeh, i loved that game too, had it on PC and Wii. :D
I mean, you can just point out that New Zealand and Australia have direct flights to Chile.
When you say something important and all you get in response is that fluoride stare.
Is it just me or Daniel sounds just like Larry Bundy Jr? I always get those two guys mixed up in my head
God flung the flat earth through the air like a frisbee. That's why we spin. This is also how the frisbee was created. There, now the flat earth theory makes sense.
matthew orenstein ....then why are why always in a solar system? Did he throw that too?
@@PartnershipsForYou Being omniscient makes you bored.
This was a really fun Kickscammers video, Slope. Mad Mike’s story is crazy. You can’t say he wasn’t passionate!
As somebody who has a degree in physics, I can tell you that the Flat Earth hypothesis (I refuse to call it a theory on the grounds that this is technically a hypothesis because there is no formal scientific methodology or consensus that implies a more theoretical basis) has one major problem: besides having no actual mathematical basis, Flat Earth hypotheses are far more complicated than actual scientific explanations for a round Earth.
The ultimate troll that documentary dude. That made my day.
The easiest way to debunk the flat earth theory is the travel situation where you say have a man named Jack who is flying out of LAX in California and a woman named Jill flying out of Charlotte, NC to Tokyo, Japan. Jack who would be flying over the Pacific Ocean and Jill over the Atlantic, one of them WON'T make it if the flat earth theory is actually fact and you could probably guess that Jack is the unlucky one who never makes it or gets there much later than he anticipated. THAT is the ABSOLUTE EASIEST way to disprove the theory cause that proves the ridiculousness of the theory. These Flat Earthers are INSANE to believe that the earth IS NOT a ball like all the other planets. There is ZERO SCIENCE (like they CLAIM there is) to back up their claims so it is just a LIE.
RIP Mad Mike, at least you lived interestingly.
I'm curious about the guy who was gonna jump off the edge of the world, did he do it?
edhc44 I would be very impressed if he actually managed it, especially if he did a backflip while doing it.
Woof you could put a warning 'contains footage of the last minutes of a man's life' or something
Love the zombies ate my neighbours opening tune used as the backing track, very apt and brought back memories, deffo best game on the mega drive although I’m gonna get flack for saying it haha
Who's flat now, Mike? Ever heard of hot air balloons, drones, etc.? Nah, a steam-powered rocket is the only way!
Yeah, I don't buy it that a 3rd of millennials believe the Earth is flat, not by a long shot.
He said it was bogus numbers right after saying that.
I have a funny story about one I met a few years back. I was working at my company and we had the our own office management team. We had this person who was I'm pretty sure a flat earth believer and I'm not sure if other people knew. I was picking up some mail from their supply/mail room one day and we usually talk (you know normal office chatter). I have no idea but somewhere down the line she starting talking about how the earth is totally flat and how the government puts sleeping gas in airplanes so we don't look outside to see that there is no horizon or something along those lines. I didn't really say anything and kind of just waited until I got the mail. I told one of my coworkers and she was appalled and also said basically she wasn't surprised. I don;t know how she got along with everyone else but I assume by that response...not too well. I don;t really care anymore about people believing nonsense, you basically can't win against people like that as they come across as extremely uncompromising (basically if you said "hey well I don't believe that" they will call you stupid or at least that was my experience), but for god sake it was an office, leave that crap outside of the work space.
Ancient history : beyond this point there be dragons
Flat earthers : hold my steam rocket
I believe the Earth is round, but I've always thought if the Earth really has been magically flat this whole time and people accept it as fact that nothing would change. I mean trade routes and flight paths have been mapped out for a long time, zero reports of people falling off any sort of weird edge so basically whatever the reality of it is, it's simply inconsequential at this point because we've already established a way of life that wouldn't suddenly change upon changing your mind about if our planet is round or flat.
theirs flat earthers, theirs hollow earthers and their is normal spherical earthers.
Me an individual "the earth is a square"
The earth is round. But space is finite. Behind the moon? BRICK WALL!
Yup
Oh yeah we're walking driving flying taking boats on a flat Earth 😂🤣😂🤣👍👍👍
We all should send them to space with no windows so they wont blame it on holograms. Or maybe invent time machines and send them to the time before Christopher Columbus.
I love the 8bit around the world daft punk