Not at all impressed with this flat earth conspiracy one little bit Every time I go down the shop to get a few groceries, there's this damned hill I gotta walk back up.... every frickin' time. Like what fechen flat Earth? What's more, it's all fechen uphill to my daughter's place. Like there's no flat Earth going on there. That's why I make her come visit me... no damned hill for me to walk up get there. Yeah, it might be all downhill on the way home, but at my age I don't feel that's compensation enough.
Not only that, what's with this Everest and other lumps poking out of the ground? Like really, if the Earth were truly flat, would them enormous lumps be there? I don't think so. And then there's the Grand Canyon. Like what's with that? A bloody great hole in the ground.
Frankly, I think the bloody Americans who came up with the entire concept. Firstly to stop people from traveling too far so's they don't get to enjoy being overseas holiday makers like they do; and secondly, to boost US tourism with attractions like the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls.... bloody great holes in the ground, one with water and the other without.
Thing is, it's still a contradiction in terms. The Earth is either flat or it isn't.
Define flat
No lumps, bumps or holes. That's flat!
Then there's flat matt paint.
Or the day old beer.... that's gone flat.
So its somethin' that ain't got no bubbles. How 'bout that.
Could be something with no bubbles... could also be a brassiere with no puppies in it.
On a big disc with an ice wall around it? You know why the ice wall is there right. Its to keep you from falling off the edge when you get there.
If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
And people on the outer edges would have lost so many dogs playing fetch.... not to mention hundreds of balls.
Not only that, politicians here in Australia wouldn't be making millions from international waste when it could just be tipped over the side.
Is a smoothly paved sidewalk straight up a hill flat? Can the side of a hill be flat? Are all sides of all hills flat? Flat and level are not identical concepts. (My big dictionary has 101 definitions of flat; and, 60 definitions of level). One example of what is flat is a 2-D surface in a 3-D space. One definition of level, using a bubble leveler, is perpendicular to a point vector of gravity. Using a bubble leveler every 20 ft. or 6 meters, you could build a ‘leveled house’ completely around a planet. Light from a laser leveler follows the curvature of space caused by mass; and, like a bubble leveler, can be accurate enough over short enough distance. Mathematically, what is flat is a geometric in all dimensions that are lower than, and when present in, an n-dimension. In the first (1-D) dimension, zero dimensional points are flat. In the second (2-D) dimension, zero dimensional points and one dimensional lines are flat. In the third (3-D) dimension, zero dimensional points, one dimensional lines and two dimensional surfaces, which is a common understanding of flat, are flat. In the fourth (4-D) dimension, a 3-D sphere is flat. For example, in an n-dimensional space, an object of less than n-dimensions has been flattened in one or more physical dimensions. In dimensions that are more than 3-D, we are all flats, perhaps being either flat wrong or flat right about the existence of dimensions that are more that 3-D. Whoever originated the words, flat Earth, should define flat Earth. From what I read, flat Earth sometimes seems to be a denial, a refusal or a rejection, as in, “I reject that authority on me”, or, “I refuse the authority of science”, for some reason.
In other words a person who believes in a flat earth doesn't believe in round things.
And a person who believes in round things doesn't believe in a flat Earth.
Thing is, the bit you're standing on is flat.... unless you're atop a needle-point mountain with acutely steep sides... or a v-shaped crevice with a pinpoint bottom.
OUCH!
This flat Earth stuff is very popular. They have supporters all around the globe...
And when they tell you themselves that they have a global following ya gotta feel summat fishy's going on around the world.
Then there was the inebriated flat Earth believer who jumped out of his RangeRover before it went over the edge of the world.
It was found next morning in his neighbour's empty swimming pool.
You should ask them how they explain day and night. Hilarious.
That's easy! The Earth is like a flattened soccer ball, and every twelve hours it flips over to give us day and night on the respective sides.
See! I have an answer for everything.
That's almost as good as the guy sittin' all by his lonesome in a small room deep under ground with a single chair, a rickety table and a tiny rusty fridge with two day old McDonald burgers and stale fries stuffed inside. On a wall he doesn't have to get up for is one switch. When his grandfather clock, that used to belong to his grandfather, chimes incoherently he knows its time to flip the switch. This time he flips it up, daytime. Next time he'll switch it down to turn off the lights and make it night outside.
Yeah, we got an Aussie bloke in a derelict old cellar deep in the bowels of Sydney who does that, except he has kangaroo burgers and flips the switch up for night and down for day.
I want some of the drugs you lot seem to be on.
Kinda need a rest from reality at the moment....[and the alcohol bill is certainly not...um...flat]....
No drugs here, Jafo... well none of those mind-bending illicit ones, at least.
I do, however, have some pain meds with no hallucinogenic properties whatsoever; some antidepressants that take me nowhere 'cept calm; some diabetic meds, and some pills to help with vertigo... not that they're all that effective.
Have you tried drinking beer through a straw? I'm told it gets you drunker quicker, thus saving a bit of cash.
And another thing! The moon is probably flat as well, otherwise it'd rotate and we'd see the dark side as well.
But...but...its only flat on one side.
It's flat on both sides so that it doesn't spin unevenly out of orbit with just a half rounded side.
We might not ever see the dark side of the moon, but it has to be flat... doesn't it. Well doesn't it?
And now we know why there's no life on Mars. It's flat, and the former inhabitants went exploring too far and fell off the edge, didn't they.
And poor Jafo, hope he's feeling a lot happier than he was.
I'm gonna look on youtube for videos.
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