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SWBTATTReg

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5. A simple look at the sky will convince anyone w/ a rational mind that the earth is round...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:05 PM

Nov 2019

after all, why do you see clouds all of the way to the horizon, before the earth circled away from your perspective (15 miles or so)...if the earth was flat, you would only see the clouds immediately above you and that's it. Otherwise, like in the real world, you see layers and layers of cloud cover, going all of the way to the horizon.

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Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They're Idiots [View all] NeoGreen Nov 2019 OP

How are they any different from edhopper Nov 2019 #1

They aren't. Raster Nov 2019 #4

Because you can 100% and unequivocally prove they're wrong, like with friggin PICTURES ... mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #7

Their arguments are no less stupid edhopper Nov 2019 #8

If you'd said THOSE fundies ... then I'd have agreed outright ... although it's SLIGHTLY harder mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #15

Considering there are man made structures edhopper Nov 2019 #16

why did you restrict that to fundamentalists? Voltaire2 Nov 2019 #11

Low hanging fruit edhopper Nov 2019 #12

fair enough Voltaire2 Nov 2019 #13

Their friends are right. 3catwoman3 Nov 2019 #2

well, if they can't live in a bubble, do they live in a pancake? frisbee? NRaleighLiberal Nov 2019 #3

A simple look at the sky will convince anyone w/ a rational mind that the earth is round... SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #5

You can't fix stupid. Va Lefty Nov 2019 #6

The flat earth needs to be a disk magnet sanatanadharma Nov 2019 #9

Eh, fuck me. First of all, did you look close at the picture of Earth? 3Hotdogs Nov 2019 #10

There is a reasonable explanation against it Major Nikon Nov 2019 #17

Flat earthers shouldn't support Trump because he "digs coal". CaptYossarian Nov 2019 #14