Investigating 10 Things that Flat Earthers say! (Part-2)

Number five. One of your favorite little “gotcha” challenges, is to request that we demonstrate how water can stick to a ball spinning at a thousand miles per hour. The implication is that water and everything else should fly off of it, like a child getting thrown from a merry-go-round. Well, it’s very cute that you get overwhelmed by numbers with four digits in them, but in actuality the Earth spins once per day. One time in twenty-four hours. Get on a merry-go-round and have someone push you one time around over twenty-four hours. Not a very thrilling ride, is it? The issue is that the earth is really big. So, if instead of using rotational velocity to describe a rotating body, like a normal person, you try to use linear tangential velocity, you’re going to get a pretty big number. But to be honest, it’s still not really that big.

Planes go more than half that speed, and sitting on a plane at cruising altitude with no turbulence is just like sitting on a chair on the ground. Flat earth priests cite these big velocities associated with the earth and the solar system purely for shock value, and you’re falling for it. Furthermore, this little “water doesn’t stick to a ball” challenge is the strawiest straw man that was ever made of straw. The earth is huge. It generates an enormous gravitational field. That’s why everything sticks to it. A ball is very tiny. It does not generate an enormous gravitational field, so things don’t stick to it. Also, unless you’re doing this in space, the ball must be very close to the earth, which as we just said, generates an enormous gravitational field. So, when water drips off the ball onto the ground, your desired demonstration of gravity fails because gravity exists.

Number six. Lots of you say that moonlight is cold. This is astonishing for a number of reasons. The first is that it is not related to any claim you could possibly be making in order to argue for a flat earth. But the second, and much more important detail, is that it is the perfect demonstration of the fact that you have no clue how science works. Some flat earth priest measured the temperature under the moonlight, and then again under something providing shade. Wow! Moonlight makes it colder! But does it? Shouldn’t you add some element of control to your experiment? What’s a control you ask? Fair question.

You now have to repeat the experiment when there is no moonlight to make sure that the moonlight was indeed the cause of the discrepancy in temperature. This is something you should have learned in middle school, but don’t worry. Take the measurements again on a night with a new moon, so that there is no moonlight. So, the moonlight absolutely wasn’t the reason for the discrepancy in temperature. What was the reason? Well, that thing that is providing the shade from the moonlight is also trapping in heat that is emanating from the earth while it faces away from the sun. So, case closed.

Number seven. Many of you say some unintelligible about water flowing uphill, or that on the globe model, some rivers flow uphill. You’ll look at a globe and say that a river flows this way, and that this is somehow uphill, because you seem to think that up on the screen is some kind of universal up in space. Well how about if I turn this a little bit? Now it’s down. There is no up and down in space. To believe so would be as dumb as thinking that on earth, whichever way you happen to be facing is north.

No one on earth is upside down, or on their side. Up on earth is away from the surface of the earth, no matter where you are on the earth. Rivers flow from higher elevation to lower elevation, which is a measure of how far away you are from the surface of the earth. This has nothing to do with flowing in any particular direction along the surface. This is above sea level. That’s what elevation means.

Number eight. Many flat earthers remain dumbfounded by the idea that the earth is slightly closer to the sun in winter than in summer. As I’ve said before, winter up north is summer down south, and vice versa. So, your confusion is one of northern hemisphere narcissism. But it is also one of complete ignorance. Because of the curvature of the earth, the light hits the surface at an angle, and is therefore distributed around a greater area. Same amount of heat distributed around a larger area, lower average temperature. This is absolutely trivial to understand. Its why magnifying glasses can focus light to a point and set things on fire. It’s how heat works. Flat earth priests know this, they just pretend to be confused about things that they know their viewers won’t check up on.

Number nine. Many flat earthers refer to the body of scientific knowledge as “scientism”. This is meant to be derogatory, implying that science is a religion. Science students are not told what to believe. They are shown how to perform experiments. Even in high school physics, students use blocks and ramps and balls and pendulums and carts and rulers and timers to derive Newton’s laws and many other such pillars of science. They personally do the science that has already been done by others in order to derive the knowledge that we already know, and prove its validity to themselves. This continues through college, and then on into graduate school, where students do their own research and figure out things that no one else has done yet.

So, using the word scientism only serves to disqualify you from adult conversation regarding science. In actuality, it is quite clear why you adopt this viewpoint. Because you just accept whatever you hear if it’s what you want to believe. This is why your beliefs are baseless. Since you are incapable of doing anything other than repeating what you are told, you assume that others are doing the same thing. But they are not. Those that are educated in the sciences understand how things work, and use this information to build technology, such as computers and the internet, both of which you use to claim that the science that produced them is not real, in a display of irony so thick that you could cut it with a knife.

And to wrap things up, number ten. The piece de resistance. The claim that we have all been indoctrinated. That we have been brainwashed, by schools, by the government, by NASA, by freemasons, by Hollywood. Take your pick. Well, you all say the same exact incorrect things word for word, like you’re reciting the oath of the flat earth fraternity, so it’s a rather incorrect accusation to be throwing around. The fact that you all say the same things is not surprising in the slightest. What do you do when you want to brainwash someone? You tell them they have already been brainwashed. That’s what flat earth priests do. They tell you that you’ve been brainwashed so that you are nice and receptive to the brainwashing. They tell you that everything you know is a lie so that they can lie to you. It’s human psychology 101. Why do they do this? Money. It’s a way for con men to capitalize on the gullible.