If you are a flat-earther, then you are probably frustrated at the lack of appreciation for your observations about the world we live in. You can't understand how everyone else; save for a few enlightened ones, can't see what is staring them blatantly in the face.
Well I believe I can help with that, I may be just a poor deluded glober, whose mind is as closed as the doors were to his old classrooms. However, I do have a knack when it comes to giving advice, and dare I say it, am quite the logical and practical thinker.
On top of this, I am a bastion for scientific discovery, and thus I believe that I do have some insight as to exactly how you can convince everyone the world is flat, and at the same time win a Nobel Prize!
The Sun Problem
A clearly photoshopped image of the sun going 'down'
As a flat-earther, it must irk you that every time you proffer your very reasonable assumptions about the earth. That the first thing people come back to you with is; that would mean it is daytime everywhere on earth at once, and we'd get all sorts of weird shadows on the moon as the sun passed underneath us at night.
Then of course you have to patiently explain how the sun is not circa 93,000,000 miles from earth, but is actually only 32,000 miles away; and is in fact a lot smaller than those slippery bastards at NASA claim it to be.
You then have to go through tiresome explanations about the spotlight effect, just waiting for the inevitable question;
Yes, but why then do we see a sunset and sunrise on the horizon, that clearly shows the sun coming from underneath the horizon?
To which you answer; because perspective.
Why aren't people OK with this!?
Proving The Distance
So it seems to me, that if you could prove that the sun is only 32,000 miles away, you would not only prove a major part of the flat-earth conspiracy theory hypothesis, you would also win a Nobel Prize.
Ah but how do you go about proving it without the help of those deceitful swines at NASA, or their ridiculous shills like Elon Musk?
Well the answer to that, lays in how those NASASSholes proved the sun is 93,000,000 miles away. You see they use this (clearly made up) mathematics called trigonometry. Apparently there is a way you can gauge how far something is away from you without actually having to travel there; it has something to do with using two different measuring points, and then measuring the angle between those points and the distant object, or some such bunkum.
Those NASA stooges (and every other mathematician on earth), say that the theory can be proved because you can use the method to measure an object(s) of which you already know the distance. Repeat it over and over again, and you can be sure your methods are sound.
This throws up a fantastic opportunity for you! It means that there are two, yes two ways you can win a Nobel Prize.
The first, is to prove, by demonstration that the method for measuring far away distances is flawed, by simply using the method yourself over and over again, meticulously writing down every single step you take, then publishing the results.
Voila! Nobel Prize.
Number Two, you show exactly how the figure of 32,000 miles distance, came about for the moon, because I'm sure that distance wasn't just chosen because it happened to fit the model. I'm sure it was worked out scientifically.
Ergo, all you have to do, is show the scientific community what to replace trigonometry with... Hmm, I'm sensing three Nobel Prizes here:
One for proving that the method used to measure distant objects is fatally flawed.
One for replacing the entire discipline of trigonometry with whatever you decide to call the new math.
Lastly you'll get one for using the new math to prove the distance of the sun from the earth.
Bingo!
Get To It!
OK, there you go, you now have the blueprint to win multiple Nobel Prizes, and prove the first part of the flat-earth hypothesis.
The best thing about this is, apart from having to momentarily pollute your mind with glober knowledge as you learn the distance measuring method, you don't actually have to know any physics or mathematics for two simple reasons.
Firstly, you'll be working with the new math which I'm sure is widely available within the flat-earth community. Secondly, if they can get the distance of the sun from the earth (and of course its size) so badly wrong; maths and physics are obviously all a load of complete and utter rubbish.
Further reading:(glober science)
Measuring Distance By Parallax Method - experimentation - Centre for Science and Mathematics Education, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) (probably NASA shills)
How Do We Measure The Distances To Things In Space - Starchild question - Warning: NASA shill site! - Links contained to non-NASA (but probably still shill) sites.
Eratosthenes - Wiki - Man who worked out circumference of earth circa 2000 years ago - The first NASA shill.
Astronomical Unit - Wiki - More baloney science from NASA shills Edwin Hubble, Albert Einstein, et al.
I HOPE THIS HAS HELPED! I INTEND TO PUBLISH SOME MORE OF THESE GUIDES AS THIS IS A MEGA IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT THE REST OF US EITHER CAN'T OR DON'T WANT TO SEE!
PLEASE ACCEPT MY HUMBLE GIFT TO YOU, THIS WILL HELP YOU PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PLANET. MY ONLY WISH, IS THAT YOU REMEMBER ME IN YOUR NOBEL PRIZE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
Your eternally ignorant glober-friend
There are things beyond our knowledge. There are things that our beloved science can not solve. For example, how the f* can someone be so f* stupid to believe in flat earth conspiracy fairytheory in XXI century?! If someone could explain the reasons behind this and similar phenomena, I think that he or she ought to win a Nobel Prize.
Edit: I'm sorry for profanities, I'm too easily irked by blatant ignorance. : )
On the contray there are dozens of awesome theories on cognitive dissonance that explain really well why some nutty nutty nut jobs believe stuff like this!
Thanks, I'll look it up and might even publish an article if I find some interesting, easy-to-interpret stuff. : )
I was never good at math and when I was looking into all this flat earth nonsense, I did come across this one new theory that I think the flat earth group could gravitate to soon if they were to find out about it.
While we're at it, why not just create a Nobel prize for true science, like the hypothesis you so thoroughly outlined here. We could call it the... Newbel prize (Neobel prize?), and have many different categories:
One could also think of special, thematic prizes like:
Let's start this new scientific revolution together for a better world!
....the whole thing exploded in 4 lines....
You evil glober.
Oh no! I didn't mean to; I really want to help these guys!! :-)
Cg
When they originally calculated the distance to the moon ...
They didn't know about
. No-one is going to argue against the works of Stephen Hawking. If you do, he will time warp back and kick your ass using techniques he learned from Chuck Norris while traveling in the past and the future at the same moment.
Bring me my prize!!!
Reference
http://www.hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html
FE theory is proven wrong in every aspect. In case of sunset, I always say them this observation:
According to their theory the Sun is always above FE. In moments of sunset, sun is just moving away from your point on Earth. In one moment it just went too far and you can see it anymore. That is their theory of sunset.
If that was the case, in moment it went too far, you could just take binoculars or telescope and look at direction of sun and you should be able to see it. Of course you can't see the sun after sunset because Earth is not flat. You can't see the whole sun in one moment and in next one don't see it at all. But of course their belief is stubborn so they ignore all evidence like this because they point in opposite conclusion.
Acceptable material. Really admire your hard work . Thanks for sharing with us
Thanks for the laugh! Truly a noble effort. Or a Nobel effort.
Yes because they don't teach us how to make money but all they best they do is help us count money and make our lives more complicated. Pissed.....
Yeah, I think you've taken that line out of context.
Cg
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What he means is that anyone who has an idea or invents something new can win a Nobel Prize. I have an example: the president of Colombia, Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for saying that "farc" that is a rebel group signed a peace agreement ... that they are not fulfilling.
I found your post to be musing and an enjoyable read
I tried to get involved with the subject but just can't wrap my head around Flat Earth Theory . Its like saying the weather is a constant .
And how do you think they arrived at the 93,000,000 mile number?
How many times did they change that?
Anyway, the distance to the sun is measured by trigonometry in both cases. If you assume the earth is curved between the two points of measurement you get one set of numbers. If you assume the earth is flat between the two points of measurement, you get a different set of numbers.
The thing that is really going to frost most people's cookies is that real scientists have known that the sun is a metal sphere and not a ball of super hot gases.
Modern scientists will also be horrified when it is finally realized that photons do not exist. But hey, they believed that crap from M-M about the aether not existing, so of course in for a penny, in for a pound.
It is for statements like this, that you were once called Builder of Castles, Destroyer of Reason.
Cg
I think as our technology keeps advancing, there will be a day where taking a trip to space will be just as normal as taking a plane today.
Only then will those people finally accept the fact their delusion is wrong, and that believing in conspiracies will take you nowhere.
But of course, until that happens they will keep sharing their speeches and selling their books explaining all sort of fake things.
I just hope they don't fall off the edge of the Earth!
No they won't, apparently there's a big ice wall keeping everything in :-)
NIKOLA TESLA: "Earth is a realm, it is not a planet. It is not an object, therefore, it has no edge. Earth would be more easily defined as a system environment. Earth is also a machine, it is a Tesla coil. The sun and moon are powered wirelessly with the electromagnetic field (the Aether). This field also suspends the celestial spheres with electro-magnetic levitation. Electromagnetic levitation disproves gravity because the only force you need to counter is the electromagnetic force, not gravity. The stars are attached to the FIRMAMENT."
If Nikola Tesla truly said that, I don't reckon he was the genius he was cracked up to be.
Firmament is a made up biblical word and means nothing.
Cg
what is one? more than nothing ? less than something? whats nothing whats something .... we are ape's we have no understanding of anything....look at the death we cause all other living things in the name of human progress. its all just too make our fears more palatable . i live on the fat earth and it keeps getting fatter. Let's maintain this, the last and latest technical civilization of our world
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Hey there! Thanks for this post! I hate flat Earthers :P kidding
The simple reason why the Earth cannot be flat is Gravity. Gravity wouldn't pull objects vertically unless they were situated on the center of a flat celestial body. That basically means ships would sail from the edges towards the center without consuming energy and planes would need a lot more energy to travel in this direction than in reverse. Oceans would constantly flow towards the center of this flat Earth, buildings situated on the edges would demand entirely different technical design than those in the middle of a flat celestial body, trees on the edges would grow horizontally due to gravitropism and so on. The natural creation of a flat celestial body is impossible anyway.
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