Thats how the flat earth movement started… with an idiot.
ActualSpamBot on
Imagine being dumber than some ancient Greek dude who never washed his ass.
JD_SSM on
Flat earthers are seriously the dumbest form of human.
hesmistersun on
Velocity is relative. Intelligence is not.
Only_One_Kenobi on
Has this person never been in a car?
Jonmclean88 on
Somebody failed physics
J_Dabson002 on
Is your head actually spinning though…? Who’s to say your head isn’t flat?
Ducallan on
Does OOP think it’s impossible to stand in an airplane because the air inside it moves towards the back at hundreds of miles per hour?
NoLie129 on
This right here is how we ended up with maga. Raw unadulterated stupidity.
Eagle_Fang135 on
Seems our friend missed the day in physics covering relativity. Ignorance is bliss I guess. Never mind the examples on YouTube of people on trampolines in moving trucks or even the cool one where the person gets ejected from a moving car and lands on his feet (ejection speed and direction the opposite of travel).
FanDry5374 on
If you accept wyodrakoo’s premise that there is a spherical airport spinning at 1000mph, he isn’t wrong. Just missing the first 99% of “how planets work”. Shaming the stupids is not a nice thing to do.
ChelseaMourning on
If the earth is flat, how come nobody has been to the edge yet?
aromilk on
Relativity!
If a person is sitting in a train travelling at 100 km/h
1) the person is at rest relative to the car
2) the person is travelling at 100 km/h relative to the tree next to train tracks
mirza_dng on
I read the first 2 lines and straight went to the reaction
dropandgivemenerdy on
By the same logic our legs should be ripped out from under us the moment we complete a jump…
bclynch30 on
Are they expecting the earth to be spinning everything like it’s on a conveyor belt
ibyczek78 on
I love the Professor Dave answer to this 1000s/mph spinning “own”. How long does it take the earth to rotate once?
2WheelRide on
Food for thought… this food is absolute dog shit, will not eat.
hallerz87 on
I used to think this when I was like… 8.
SilverGnarwhal on
Flerfs gonna flerf. What are ya gonna do 🤷
TrashCapable on
Its is pretty dumb, but dont forget we have Trumps daily posts that put it to shame.
papercut2008uk on
They think if the Earth is spinning, like say if you had a globe, you placed your finger on 1 spot, lift it up and turn the globe then put your finger down, it would be in a different spot. This to them would prove the Earth is round and spinning in space.
Since a helicopter lifts up into the air and can hover and not move, but come down in the exact same spot, minutes or hours of hovering wouldn’t change it’s position. This is their logic that the earth is not spinning and must be flat.
They fail to take into account that the air around them is moving with the Earths rotation and gravity, probably many other factors too that cause the helicopter to stay in the same geographic location when it hovers.
xd_mariq on
Food for thought:
A car could NEVER go 100mph and safely stop. You’d be launched through the windshield or pulverized into a fine pink mist
RainbowSupernova8196 on
Nothing to see here, folks. Just another Flat Earther saying stupid shit for attention.
PlainSpader on
Ohh so much mental energy is wasted on complete stupidity.
Cosmic-Hippos on
Flat earthers don’t understand the speed velocity of an unladen swallow
CalliopePenelope on
Legit question for people who understand aeronautics and physics better than I: If a helicopter is hovering above the ground and appears to be in the same spot, is the earth’s gravity still pulling it so it that it’s moving along with the earth’s rotation?
Beatless7 on
Moronic to the extreme.
SWatt_Officer on
I know someone this idiotic cant comprehend, but just in case this concept confuses someone – *the air moves with the planet, you have to move against it too*
johno12311 on
People can’t agree on if the current US president is a criminal. Do you really think that the entire world would agree to keep the whole flat earth secret?
blahblah19999 on
Odd to act like he’s saying planes don’t exist. Not the best comeback
Key_Somewhere_5768 on
Well well well…that explains when I jump in the air I travel about a 200 feet or so…hey…it gets me from point A to point B without having to stupid walk! 😉
Interesting_Debate57 on
You might need something like a weak form of the special theory of relativity to truly understand why this isn’t true.
SR requires a handful of assumptions, one of which this person isn’t making:
There is no observable difference between standing still and moving relative to another object at any particular fixed velocity. It could be moving past you, you could be moving past it, etc. etc. I think it takes a typical physics undergraduate a few days to internalize this the first time they hear it.
The other two assumptions aren’t relevant for refuting this argument (that the speed of light is fixed and constant).
It can be very difficult to get people out of their heads when it comes to relative motion. You generally need to appeal to the energy required for acceleration and deceleration to be able to really get to the bottom of these things in a way that the listener can grok.
The typical first way that this is explained in school isn’t necessarily helpful, it’s really useful to get a physics professor at a university to lay it out in a few simple sentences.
Before you laugh, keep in mind that there are all kinds of possibilities of how the universe could work that have been disproven over many many centuries. The “aether” is a good one to learn next.
capulet2kx on
lol “food for thought”
matey must be fkn starving
Meowingway on
Then when you counter by explaining relative/rotational momentums in closed systems, they counter with “wellll aqckshually that’s librul demon debil science!!!11!” Like bro it’s how your vacuum and stupid F-150 truck works too, dufus.
QuillQuickcard on
This is why you should NEVER jump while on a moving vehicle. You will instantly lose all forward momentum and just go straight up. That’s why skateboarding is impossible
Flaxmoore on
All Quiet on the Frontal Lobe.
meeplebunker on
This is why I have lost hope for humanity and welcome the Singularity…
killerwithasharpie on
Hey, why don’t you try jumping up and down and see if you landed a different place each time??
Vellioh on
Dunning-Kruger Effect at its finest.
People who know so little about a subject that they are almost incapable of even comprehending how little they understand about the subject material. They then assume that they **must** be experts because it seems so simple to them.
Without an active interest in learning from **actual** experts in the field, it’s incredibly difficult to break people out of this mindset because you’re essentially asking a self-described expert to admit that they’re a blabbering idiot. Many will keep fighting out of sheer ego alone.
KcirderfSdrawkcab on
It takes some powerful stupidity to be a flat Earther.
natetheskate100 on
And I could never walk forward on a train moving at 80 mph.
BraveLittleTowster on
This is why you have to take fish out of a fishbowl before you move it. If the fish is still inside and you move the bowl, the fish will crash into the wall of the bowl.
dayumbrah on
Everyone keeps saying they are dumb but they are just severely misunderstanding things. They are not saying planes dont exist.
Intuitively, what they are saying makes sense. It takes additional info to get to the truth. Honestly it still is real difficult to believe its true even knowing how it works.
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Thats how the flat earth movement started… with an idiot.
Imagine being dumber than some ancient Greek dude who never washed his ass.
Flat earthers are seriously the dumbest form of human.
Velocity is relative. Intelligence is not.
Has this person never been in a car?
Somebody failed physics
Is your head actually spinning though…? Who’s to say your head isn’t flat?
Does OOP think it’s impossible to stand in an airplane because the air inside it moves towards the back at hundreds of miles per hour?
This right here is how we ended up with maga. Raw unadulterated stupidity.
Seems our friend missed the day in physics covering relativity. Ignorance is bliss I guess. Never mind the examples on YouTube of people on trampolines in moving trucks or even the cool one where the person gets ejected from a moving car and lands on his feet (ejection speed and direction the opposite of travel).
If you accept wyodrakoo’s premise that there is a spherical airport spinning at 1000mph, he isn’t wrong. Just missing the first 99% of “how planets work”. Shaming the stupids is not a nice thing to do.
If the earth is flat, how come nobody has been to the edge yet?
Relativity!
If a person is sitting in a train travelling at 100 km/h
1) the person is at rest relative to the car
2) the person is travelling at 100 km/h relative to the tree next to train tracks
I read the first 2 lines and straight went to the reaction
By the same logic our legs should be ripped out from under us the moment we complete a jump…
Are they expecting the earth to be spinning everything like it’s on a conveyor belt
I love the Professor Dave answer to this 1000s/mph spinning “own”. How long does it take the earth to rotate once?
Food for thought… this food is absolute dog shit, will not eat.
I used to think this when I was like… 8.
Flerfs gonna flerf. What are ya gonna do 🤷
Its is pretty dumb, but dont forget we have Trumps daily posts that put it to shame.
They think if the Earth is spinning, like say if you had a globe, you placed your finger on 1 spot, lift it up and turn the globe then put your finger down, it would be in a different spot. This to them would prove the Earth is round and spinning in space.
Since a helicopter lifts up into the air and can hover and not move, but come down in the exact same spot, minutes or hours of hovering wouldn’t change it’s position. This is their logic that the earth is not spinning and must be flat.
They fail to take into account that the air around them is moving with the Earths rotation and gravity, probably many other factors too that cause the helicopter to stay in the same geographic location when it hovers.
Food for thought:
A car could NEVER go 100mph and safely stop. You’d be launched through the windshield or pulverized into a fine pink mist
Nothing to see here, folks. Just another Flat Earther saying stupid shit for attention.
Ohh so much mental energy is wasted on complete stupidity.
Flat earthers don’t understand the speed velocity of an unladen swallow
Legit question for people who understand aeronautics and physics better than I: If a helicopter is hovering above the ground and appears to be in the same spot, is the earth’s gravity still pulling it so it that it’s moving along with the earth’s rotation?
Moronic to the extreme.
I know someone this idiotic cant comprehend, but just in case this concept confuses someone – *the air moves with the planet, you have to move against it too*
People can’t agree on if the current US president is a criminal. Do you really think that the entire world would agree to keep the whole flat earth secret?
Odd to act like he’s saying planes don’t exist. Not the best comeback
Well well well…that explains when I jump in the air I travel about a 200 feet or so…hey…it gets me from point A to point B without having to stupid walk! 😉
You might need something like a weak form of the special theory of relativity to truly understand why this isn’t true.
SR requires a handful of assumptions, one of which this person isn’t making:
There is no observable difference between standing still and moving relative to another object at any particular fixed velocity. It could be moving past you, you could be moving past it, etc. etc. I think it takes a typical physics undergraduate a few days to internalize this the first time they hear it.
The other two assumptions aren’t relevant for refuting this argument (that the speed of light is fixed and constant).
It can be very difficult to get people out of their heads when it comes to relative motion. You generally need to appeal to the energy required for acceleration and deceleration to be able to really get to the bottom of these things in a way that the listener can grok.
The typical first way that this is explained in school isn’t necessarily helpful, it’s really useful to get a physics professor at a university to lay it out in a few simple sentences.
Before you laugh, keep in mind that there are all kinds of possibilities of how the universe could work that have been disproven over many many centuries. The “aether” is a good one to learn next.
lol “food for thought”
matey must be fkn starving
Then when you counter by explaining relative/rotational momentums in closed systems, they counter with “wellll aqckshually that’s librul demon debil science!!!11!” Like bro it’s how your vacuum and stupid F-150 truck works too, dufus.
This is why you should NEVER jump while on a moving vehicle. You will instantly lose all forward momentum and just go straight up. That’s why skateboarding is impossible
All Quiet on the Frontal Lobe.
This is why I have lost hope for humanity and welcome the Singularity…
Hey, why don’t you try jumping up and down and see if you landed a different place each time??
Dunning-Kruger Effect at its finest.
People who know so little about a subject that they are almost incapable of even comprehending how little they understand about the subject material. They then assume that they **must** be experts because it seems so simple to them.
Without an active interest in learning from **actual** experts in the field, it’s incredibly difficult to break people out of this mindset because you’re essentially asking a self-described expert to admit that they’re a blabbering idiot. Many will keep fighting out of sheer ego alone.
It takes some powerful stupidity to be a flat Earther.
And I could never walk forward on a train moving at 80 mph.
This is why you have to take fish out of a fishbowl before you move it. If the fish is still inside and you move the bowl, the fish will crash into the wall of the bowl.
Everyone keeps saying they are dumb but they are just severely misunderstanding things. They are not saying planes dont exist.
Intuitively, what they are saying makes sense. It takes additional info to get to the truth. Honestly it still is real difficult to believe its true even knowing how it works.