I’m disappointed but not the least bit shocked
IRL Wimp Lo.
I’ve tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn’t make it work.
I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you’d insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.
I have never through of that…how is day an night supposed to work on a flat earth? Like Minecraft they just…rotate around? What about the underside of the earth? The other side of the coin…do people live there too? Can we visit them if we dig a hole?
The sun is apparently more like a flashlight than an orb. That would be the only way this could work, but even Terry Pratchett knew that this doesn’t make any sense
…wait and how does it become night? Like the lantern gets turn off? What about when it’s night in a place but morning on another?
It would rotate around, like in the model. Since it’s more like a flashlight there would be no scattering of the light. There would only be day right under the sun. That’s the only way this would make any sense at all, and even then That’s kinda meh
Burh I would honestly have even more questions,who holds the lantern? What about the sunset? And sunrise?
I have no idea, and “they” prevent us from finding out
(/s)
The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions
What do the pillars of the earth stand on?
4 elephants and a turtle.
What does the turtle stand on?
The elephants
Is there a badparents Lemmy group?
This is, very simply, child abuse.
It’s satire
I can assure you people really are this stupid. My fiance works at a public library in rural Ohio and young-earth geocentrism is alive and well.
How sure are you
Honestly, I’m not sure that is satire
I wish
Humor at its darkest - at best.
But how would the flat each get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?
How dare you bring logic into this
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Yup that was foolish of me.
Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions
I believe the answer to your question of “what do the pillars stand on” is a turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And it is turtles all the way down. Though I might be confusing two different beliefs.
I don’t know much about religion, but it made me think of this.
The giant Turtle
Turtles
I always wondered…if the earth is flat then what’s on the under side? Why haven’t we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can’t get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?
So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
They think that the sun is like a spotlight, and only illuminates a cone beneath it.
There are many problems with this explanation, but I’ll leave those as an exercise for the reader.
Everyone knows the sun is switched off during night time, DUH !
If i know right, they think the sun has much less power than usual, so it works like a spotlight. So its light wont reach the territories under the moon
Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.
This is layered… Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.
I have met a Flat Earth conspiracy believer mom who was homeschooling her kid, explaining how the sphere Earth model is wrong and so on, her complaint was that despite her best efforts to
indoctrinateeducate her child, the child was not convinced that the Earth is flat. It goes to show that some children are just too intelligent to fall for this kinda shit. The child was eight or nine years old I think.Reminds me of Aron Ra, he grew up in a mormon family, but in his case they waited with the indoctrinating until he was old enough, which was when he was eight
But as he himself said “by then it was already too late”
When his mother sat him down and started reading to him from the book of mormon, he just pointed out things that were wrong and stupid.
Remember, if you want your kids to believe the stupid things you believe, start early and don’t let them see or hear too much about reality, or you’ll have a bad time
Reminds me of Aron Ra, he grew up in a mormon family, but in his case they waited with the indoctrinating until he was old enough, which was when he was eight
But as he himself said “by then it was already too late”
When his mother sat him down and started reading to him from the book of mormon, he just pointed out things that were wrong and stupid.
Remember, if you want your kids to believe the stupid things you believe, start early and don’t let them see or hear too much about reality, or you’ll have a bad time
The thought of a nine year old looking at a “grown” women with disbelief as the women tries explaining the flat earth BS is actually fucking jokes lol
You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(
I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger
So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
In the Flat Earth model, the sun is much closer to earth than in the globe model and so it’s more of a giant lamp and there’s only daylight in it’s light cone. Look at the YT channel Vibes of Cosmos for some examples of how sun and moon work according to Flat Earth: https://youtube.com/@VIBESOFCOSMOS (hope this is ok to post, but I think it’s rather uncontroversial)
(I’m not an expert, just followed the rabbithole a few years back. Some people researching the topic are actually quite nice and raise some interesting questions. They’re not all right wingers (though often Christian conservatives) and most of them are convinced that Flat Earth Society is a psyop.)
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Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn’t want us to know.
Forgetting to model Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars” … that’s just lazy parenting.
Yeah, but even if they tried to stick to a faithful representation of reality, the whole “turtles all the way down” part would be problematic.
Have these kids even read Discworld?
