Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?

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  • Опубликовано: 31 окт 2024

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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  5 лет назад +880

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    • @mikestrohm3271
      @mikestrohm3271 5 лет назад +101

      Just a small point. Flat Earth is not a theory, it is a concept. A theory is something that has been proved.

    • @FroggyTWrite
      @FroggyTWrite 5 лет назад +94

      overall great vid, but a 1min 30sec ad in the start of a video is a bit much

    • @iforgie
      @iforgie 5 лет назад +16

      @@mikestrohm3271 Anything that is discovered that works and is not a Theory in Technical School is patented at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

    • @coltm4a186
      @coltm4a186 5 лет назад +8

      Was the Wild West really all that wild?

    • @dr.davidbannerf.e.s.6217
      @dr.davidbannerf.e.s.6217 5 лет назад +6

      I did...I started AWL of it...every single bit of it. Have the Science to Prove it....Why?

  • @patrickdurham8393
    @patrickdurham8393 3 года назад +7929

    I saw a meme stating if the world was flat cats would have already knocked everything off the edge. That's irrefutable logic right there.

    • @Gigipretty64
      @Gigipretty64 3 года назад +248

      I completely agree. The fluffy little demons knock everything off anything. One of mine likes to dip her paw in glasses of ice water and tap the ice on the edge inevitability knocking over the water, I lost my very new MacBook Air thanks to her efforts. A whole pint of ice water over the keyboard, RIP. My cat was just pissed she got wet...

    • @yourordinarytwathere8789
      @yourordinarytwathere8789 3 года назад +56

      @@Gigipretty64 please tell me you got that mac fixed? if not, i’ll buy it and fix if myself. usually water damaged macs are fixable. don’t throw it away either way! :)

    • @Gigipretty64
      @Gigipretty64 3 года назад +46

      @@yourordinarytwathere8789 no, I managed to sell it to a Mac shop though. It was 4 years ago but I appreciate your concern 😍

    • @yourordinarytwathere8789
      @yourordinarytwathere8789 3 года назад +43

      @@Gigipretty64 haha good! i hate seeing fixable macs and pcs just thrown away when they could still be good computers if someone just fixed them😄

    • @steveskouson9620
      @steveskouson9620 3 года назад +28

      You SO beat me to this!
      (My cats don't knock stuff off, but one of them
      sticks his left paw, into the water bowl, and licks
      it off, to drink.)
      I am, in true life, a "dog" person. But my cats, are
      "me" cats. (Really, I want another Basenji.)
      steve

  • @fl0wrid3r40
    @fl0wrid3r40 5 лет назад +12555

    “It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, its impossible to win an argument with a stupid person” -Bill Murray

    • @wbrandon78
      @wbrandon78 5 лет назад +99

      I could not have said it better!!!

    • @JohnJackson-mn4ts
      @JohnJackson-mn4ts 5 лет назад +389

      They bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

    • @NoctumusTV
      @NoctumusTV 5 лет назад +66

      I'll go ahead and save that quote. Thanks!

    • @d3r4g45
      @d3r4g45 5 лет назад +60

      Be the one asking questions.
      Like let him explain night time.

    • @kelvinpang438
      @kelvinpang438 5 лет назад +42

      @@d3r4g45 As said in the vid,they claim the sun is like a spotlight only able to cover a portion of the earth at a time.

  • @TheChillimouse
    @TheChillimouse 5 лет назад +2754

    Come on. Everyone knows ships disapear because of being outside of the render distance.

    • @jinkstacks4830
      @jinkstacks4830 5 лет назад +65

      @@taurohkea2169
      thats because the sails have a larger render distance

    • @jinkstacks4830
      @jinkstacks4830 5 лет назад +34

      Tillke Rohkea
      No dude, anything attached to the boat will have the same render distance. Even lights that you attach to it

    • @SteamedBunX
      @SteamedBunX 5 лет назад +20

      @@taurohkea2169 Google render distance in game. maybe you will get it lol.

    • @dcacnc
      @dcacnc 5 лет назад +32

      @@taurohkea2169 lol i get you think he ment what was visible but render distance or draw distance is "In computer graphics, draw distance is the maximum distance of objects in a three-dimensional scene that are drawn by the rendering engine. Polygons that lie beyond the draw distance will not be drawn to the screen." google says. so its referring to a aspect of games.

    • @dcacnc
      @dcacnc 5 лет назад +34

      he might be saying we live in a simulation.

  • @SleekDiamond41
    @SleekDiamond41 Год назад +437

    The Netflix documentary Around the Curve has my favorite example of flat earthers
    They came up with a surprisingly scientific experiment involving a gyroscope to measure the actual curvature of the earth. They laid out the explanation for what evidence would prove that the earth is round, and what would prove the earth is flat
    It proved the earth is round
    Their conclusion: magical sky beams interfered with their measurements

    • @javierlatorre480
      @javierlatorre480 Год назад +95

      Better yet: they then went to the trouble of buying a zero Gauss chamber to block out these "heavenly energies"
      It still proved the Earth is round

    • @THE-BUNKEN-DRUM
      @THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Год назад +24

      "Thanks Bob." 😆

    • @wheelie642
      @wheelie642 Год назад +2

      All a person needs is to fly into Chicago at night to see the curvature.. trust me

    • @mikekasich836
      @mikekasich836 Год назад

      "Why do people believe in flat Earth?"
      Because they're stupid. That's all there is to it. They're stupid. And I mean that legitimately. They are too stupid to understand basic things

    • @racheyrox724
      @racheyrox724 Год назад +4

      Lol i remember that he just kept saying “ hmmm interesting”😂

  • @zakbzak7
    @zakbzak7 3 года назад +4602

    The only thing to fear is sphere itself.

    • @Jesse-bb4qj
      @Jesse-bb4qj 3 года назад +65

      Don't you fear falling off the basketball? And who is upside down the united states or Australia?

    • @EmmEff72
      @EmmEff72 3 года назад +292

      That was flat out funny.

    • @Proton_N
      @Proton_N 3 года назад +37

      I see what you did there 😌😂

    • @mattterry1255
      @mattterry1255 3 года назад +43

      Genius-level pun! Congrats!

    • @zakbzak7
      @zakbzak7 3 года назад +56

      @@mattterry1255 I can't take credit. I've heard it a dozen times.

  • @robote7679
    @robote7679 3 года назад +761

    "Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they'll beat you with experience." Mark Twain

    • @ultraniusmaximus1536
      @ultraniusmaximus1536 3 года назад +6

      So don't argue with ball Earth sheeple.

    • @AmishMicrowave
      @AmishMicrowave 3 года назад +44

      @@ultraniusmaximus1536 The only thing flat is your brain, you don't even understand an insult directed at you lol

    • @ultraniusmaximus1536
      @ultraniusmaximus1536 3 года назад +4

      @@AmishMicrowave Did you seriously just post that? Wow. Could you really not tell I was being facetious? Try a little less "lol"-ing, and try using that meatball you have upstairs a litte more.

    • @lepangolin4080
      @lepangolin4080 3 года назад +17

      @@ultraniusmaximus1536 Thank you for bringing the world some fun.
      At least thank to US flatearthling, I'm pretty reassure about my own country and how things aren't that all f*cked up.
      People at least have better education, better health care and better life.
      Like the reality show where you mock people for the way they behave. But here the reality show is the news from US x)

    • @ultraniusmaximus1536
      @ultraniusmaximus1536 3 года назад

      @@lepangolin4080 You're welcome.

  • @Plaguebearer7
    @Plaguebearer7 4 года назад +1561

    The fact we are discussing this in the 21st century is worrying.

    • @alainlefebvre9860
      @alainlefebvre9860 4 года назад +99

      Explains the Trump presidency. Sad.

    • @oldschool3484
      @oldschool3484 4 года назад +9

      Pepe4358 _ Thats what they said to Galileo in his century..

    • @oldschool3484
      @oldschool3484 4 года назад +8

      steve naylor you saying GODS word is false ? You are really blind. Has nothing to do with science. Yes science has been manipulated for political agendas. That is a Fact !

    • @Del3691
      @Del3691 4 года назад +36

      ​@@oldschool3484 I would happily say LOUDLY that the just because some Trump voting Corona denying creationist Flat Earther says something IS Gods word DOES NOT make it so, and anything YOU (or similar edumacationally challenged lizard brain freaks ) says IS the word of God 100% most definitely IS NOT! and the world is round sunshine!

    • @oldschool3484
      @oldschool3484 4 года назад +3

      Ariako Ishikawa You are one ignorant SOB. First off, that is BS ! Your statement is false ! More people were killed , especially in the 20 th. Entury by Communists and Socialist dictators. Usually took Christians to stop it. Not going to get into a biblical discussion with someone who definitely seems to have a chip on their shoulders about Jesus and the Bible. One thing is for sure, NASA LIED and the Earth is not what we have been told. PERIOD ! End of Story !

  • @SleekDiamond41
    @SleekDiamond41 Год назад +455

    I have a neighbor that’s a flat earther
    He watches videos on it, does his research… and has the balls to laugh at people for thinking the earth is round. He literally says that “people would know it’s flat, if they just had a little basic understanding of science”
    These people are fascinatingly stupid.

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ Год назад +23

      If those people had a little bit more than just a basic understanding of science they would realise that the world is a spheroid.

    • @turtlesandmoreturtles
      @turtlesandmoreturtles Год назад +50

      If only he had the balls to believe in balls

    • @JootjeJ
      @JootjeJ Год назад +13

      @@turtlesandmoreturtles I love your name! Turtles all the way

    • @turtlesandmoreturtles
      @turtlesandmoreturtles Год назад +15

      @@JootjeJ thank you! turtles are epic

    • @johnjohnson3709
      @johnjohnson3709 Год назад +10

      You just want to beat the crap out of those people!!

  • @neonclear8500
    @neonclear8500 2 года назад +190

    6:04 You could run a survey in which the only question is "Are you currently taking a survey?" and 5% of people will still answer "Not sure"

    • @tobiaswilhelmi4819
      @tobiaswilhelmi4819 Год назад +5

      Reminds me of the time where those telephone polls were a thing. You had to grab the phone, dial the number and pay a considerable amount of money and yet still there were people who did just that just to vote for "I don't care".

    • @thoughtfulalbatros9683
      @thoughtfulalbatros9683 Год назад +3

      @@tobiaswilhelmi4819 when apathy comes at a cost

    • @thevocatiousunspeakables709
      @thevocatiousunspeakables709 Год назад +1

      "Taking a survey" is something that only happens in our mind. In reality, we are just pressing lead onto a piece of paper, so perhaps it would not be unwarranted

  • @isaacgraff8288
    @isaacgraff8288 3 года назад +603

    I once asked a flat earther about 'If you keep going west, why do you end up in the east?" His answer boiled down to, shit you not, Pac-Man Physics. If you leave the left side of the screen you appear on the right side of the screen. I still do not understand how this could possibly work.

    • @tenhundredkills
      @tenhundredkills 3 года назад +72

      Reading that comment genuinely made me laugh out loud!

    • @smakmyass3276
      @smakmyass3276 3 года назад +53

      Or just ask them to explain sunset because even minecraft debunks their "science and evidence"

    • @elimsyldog4858
      @elimsyldog4858 3 года назад +1

      Lmao 😂 FOH 💀

    • @DibIrken
      @DibIrken 3 года назад +17

      Pac-Man physics. Lol!

    • @DibIrken
      @DibIrken 3 года назад +22

      @mohammed ilyas why don't you do it.

  • @Maikeru110572
    @Maikeru110572 2 года назад +1468

    One of my favourite Flat-Earther statements is that they have thousands of members around the globe.

    • @harvbegal6868
      @harvbegal6868 2 года назад +121

      And the immediate response to that statement. "Say that again but slower."

    • @johncomeau6896
      @johncomeau6896 2 года назад +17

      ROTFLMAO

    • @negotiableaffections
      @negotiableaffections 2 года назад +45

      ...and they use mobile phone technology to talk to each other...

    • @lasso79ify
      @lasso79ify 2 года назад +1

      😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Lauren080508
      @Lauren080508 2 года назад +2

      hahahaha!

  • @u1849ka
    @u1849ka Год назад +61

    "Only believe in things you can see for yourself. Also, there's an ice wall around the disc that no-one has ever seen for themselves, but trust me bro."

    • @adamboi17
      @adamboi17 Месяц назад

      Well that’s because NASA and the CIA has the men in black on the ice wall taking you if you get close enough and then replacing you with an NPC or lizard person

  • @77gravity
    @77gravity 5 лет назад +1167

    How to debate a Flat Earther - walk away in a straight line until you disappear below the horizon. QED.

    • @reddragon3132
      @reddragon3132 5 лет назад +42

      bUt PerSpeTivE!

    • @dbillionaer
      @dbillionaer 5 лет назад +16

      Daaaaaaaaamn good one

    • @jamesguy1030
      @jamesguy1030 5 лет назад +27

      77gravity ~ Yeah,
      And then the Flat Earther will take out their P900 Camera & bring you Straight back into focus. . . Lol . .

    • @brnt034
      @brnt034 5 лет назад +16

      Nope. A telescope will bring that person who "walked over the curve" right back into focus. Or binoculars. Or the P900/P1000. Globetards believe light can bend around corners and curves!! LOL

    • @mikew8914
      @mikew8914 5 лет назад +1

      Wrong. This is know as Perspective.

  • @ninjaswordtothehead
    @ninjaswordtothehead 3 года назад +390

    Remember when we thought it was the lack of access to information that was holding people back?
    It's not. It's not that at all.

    • @blenderbanana
      @blenderbanana 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/eebzVpqm7-s/видео.html

    • @shaunsteele8244
      @shaunsteele8244 3 года назад +1

      are lies considered "information" now?

    • @ninjaswordtothehead
      @ninjaswordtothehead 3 года назад +14

      @@shaunsteele8244 Depends on who you ask.

    • @AngryReptileKeeper
      @AngryReptileKeeper 2 года назад +21

      It gets worse when you realize that stupid people reproduce the most.

    • @sally8708
      @sally8708 2 года назад +3

      @@AngryReptileKeeper That’s the result of people consuming relentless mythology and misinformation related to fertility, conception, and pregnancy. It used to be just dumb stuff teenagers heard from an older sibling and passed around in a relatively small group, but it is significantly more proliferative these days. No, laying still after sex does not prevent pregnancy. No, jumping up and down after sex does not prevent pregnancy. No, you cannot get pregnant from a toilet seat or hot tub. Yes, you can get pregnant if sperm contacts your vulva even if it wasn’t initially released inside the vagina. No, birth control does not cause abortions (guys really like to believe that the magic happens the second they release, but there’s at least a week before a blastocyst implants in the uterine wall, at which point pregnancy occurs). Trying to explain to someone the whole timeline of the process is an effort in futility. But really, if you’ve decided to hate a thing, shouldn’t you at least know how it works?
      Okay I got off on a tangent, but my initial point was relevant as to the specific area of ignorance which causes more widespread reproduction.

  • @tyskbulle
    @tyskbulle 5 лет назад +264

    For awhile I questioned the moon landing, then I remembered that 25 years earlier mankind split the atom. And 4000 years ago we built the pyramids. All the while I am sending messages at the speed of light across the globe.

    • @ShadowLynx777
      @ShadowLynx777 5 лет назад +9

      Well speed of electricity and signal waves. But yeah sure "light"

    • @ParkerUAS
      @ParkerUAS 5 лет назад +12

      @@ShadowLynx777 , would speed of radiation suffice?

    • @textman09
      @textman09 5 лет назад +8

      The speed of information as it's called. Far faster than the speed of light. Watch a video on quantum entanglement

    • @ShadowLynx777
      @ShadowLynx777 5 лет назад

      @@ParkerUAS
      That'd actually be slower XD

    • @ShadowLynx777
      @ShadowLynx777 5 лет назад +13

      @@textman09
      That's cosmic information though, that is special.
      We're sending information on energy using cables and transmitters. Very very different stuff.

  • @MegusKhan
    @MegusKhan Год назад +22

    Here are five undeniable scientific facts that make flat earth theory an impossible model.
    1. Size of the sun observed in the sky: When observed the sun takes up the same “degrees of space” in the observable sky. This is only possible for a very large object being very far away. In all flat earth theories the sun is a small object moving relatively close to earth shining a spotlight of “day time” upon the surface of the earth. The relatively observed ”degrees of space” taken up by the sun should start as very small at sun rise, be observed to be 3x-5x times larger in the sky at Noon (based on theorized size of the sun and distance from the earth’s surface proposed in the various versions of flat earth models). The sun would then get smaller and smaller in the sky as it approaches sunset.
    2. The pattern of the tides. The double low and high tide patterns as seen on earth are only possible if the moon is rotating around a spherical earth. No math models in any flat earth theory can explain the observed tide cycle.
    3. Sky Rotation changing. From time lapse studies, we know from the observable sky at night what appears to be a sky rotating counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This is only possible on a rotating globe. In fact in flat earth models, the sun and northern star (Polaris) should ALWAYS be visible at night.
    4. Shadow angles at Noon. Put two tall sticks in the ground 100 yards apart. Watch what happens at Noon. In a flat earth model there should be a time when the shadows cast by the sticks are pointing in opposite directions as the small relatively close sun passes over head. This doesn’t occur the shadows are cast at always the same angle of projection. This is only possible with a globe rotating to reveal a very large very far away sun.
    5. Sundials move “clockwise” north of the equator. Sundials move “counter clockwise” south of the equator. This cannot happen on a flat earth with a small sun flying through the sky.

    • @panckreous
      @panckreous 6 месяцев назад +8

      This assumes you're qrguing with a rational person playing by the same rules as us (logic, science, reality...)
      Here, I'll pretend to be one of them for a moment and show how easy it is to refute all of your well-thought-out, perfectly-explained, accurate arguments: "nuh-uh"

    • @shawnglade790
      @shawnglade790 4 месяца назад +1

      Lmao!

    • @ApolloniusOfTyana0
      @ApolloniusOfTyana0 Месяц назад

      What we see is the result of a giant projector putting the image on the sky-screen. You are accepting the simulation, I see.

  • @garrettwhitener3385
    @garrettwhitener3385 2 года назад +589

    The funny thing is if we took a champion of champion among the flat earthers to space and they confirmed the earth is round they would then be written off as bought by NASA.

    • @Darkstormsun9865
      @Darkstormsun9865 2 года назад +60

      nah they would say the windows are special effects.

    • @albertbresca8904
      @albertbresca8904 Год назад +26

      the flat earthers provide the rest of us plenty of amusement..
      mind you all that wasted effort trying to prove the earth is flat..... mind you i don't think they would be so enthusiastic about something else if they beleive the earth was round....

    • @jaymac7203
      @jaymac7203 Год назад

      They are liars who ignore evidence because of their need to feel special!

    • @marcelstockli9306
      @marcelstockli9306 Год назад +8

      @@Darkstormsun9865 CGI!!🥳🤣😂🤣🤸🤡

    • @hatlessjet7802
      @hatlessjet7802 Год назад +2

      Is this true? 😂

  • @kazineverwind5267
    @kazineverwind5267 5 лет назад +703

    Their model is wrong. The Earth disc sits atop four elephants, who themselves stand on the back of a sea turtle.
    Also time is a cube.

    • @aureumordinemprincipia9272
      @aureumordinemprincipia9272 4 года назад +57

      What are you, idiot? Earth is velociraptor-shape that stand on a skateboard. Time is orange-color

    • @SanilJadhav711
      @SanilJadhav711 4 года назад +19

      Idk about time being a cube, but Earth is actually a cube.
      A cube...just like my Minecraft world

    • @vikingskuld
      @vikingskuld 4 года назад +13

      No no no its TURTLES ALL THEWAY DOWN REALLY BIG OLD TURTLES BUT TURTLES LOL

    • @Hugh_I
      @Hugh_I 4 года назад +42

      Y'all missing the big picture here. The real question is: what is the sex of the big turtle?

    • @sparcism_2901
      @sparcism_2901 4 года назад +5

      Haha love you for this

  • @AG-io5wr
    @AG-io5wr 3 года назад +660

    "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn

    • @navelpicker
      @navelpicker 3 года назад +13

      You mean George Lucas...

    • @AG-io5wr
      @AG-io5wr 3 года назад +17

      @@navelpicker Clever you are.

    • @Oraelius
      @Oraelius 3 года назад +3

      It certainly didn't make Qui-Gon intelligent.

    • @DoremiFasolatido1979
      @DoremiFasolatido1979 3 года назад +6

      Nah, cogent speech does make one intelligent. But intelligence does not equal sapience.

    • @davechan8613
      @davechan8613 3 года назад +17

      “Meesa tinkin the Earthum be flatten.”
      -Some idiot

  • @PaulTheCyclist.
    @PaulTheCyclist. Год назад +129

    I remember watching a documentary not that long ago that followed a group of flat earthers who set out to confirm that the Earth was flat, and basically, after every experiment that proved them wrong they simply changed the narrative to suit the results. In a nutshell, they were wrong and could not prove the Earth was flat.

    • @iamnotamused317
      @iamnotamused317 Год назад +8

      Hence the beginning of the term "thanks Bob".

    • @Hkizzie
      @Hkizzie Год назад +25

      That’s basically religion in general. Only accept any evidence that supports your belief, throw out all evidence that disproves it.

    • @Софија-крафт
      @Софија-крафт Год назад

      ​@@Hkizzieno one asked I declare jihad on you

    • @filmandfirearms
      @filmandfirearms Год назад +4

      @@Hkizzie Flat earth has nothing to do with religion, that's a modern idea. Besides, you can definitively, scientifically prove the shape of the earth, and it was first done thousands of years ago. You can't show any evidence that directly disproves the existence of any deity. You can explain the mechanism behind certain phenomena attributed to deities, but you can't prove or disprove if a deity was responsible for it happening. In fact, scientists for thousands of years viewed science not as a way of replacing or disproving God, but of understanding how He operates, and when you understand how He does what He does, you can better understand why He does it

    • @beyolgrenlef5001
      @beyolgrenlef5001 Год назад +11

      ​@@filmandfirearms Keep your god out of science.

  • @andrewjohnson6716
    @andrewjohnson6716 4 года назад +368

    This video really didn’t touch on “why” people believe this. I’d like to forward my theory. Having engaged with many flat-earthers I have found some commonalities in all of those with whom I have spoken. All of them share a misunderstanding of core concepts of science. I don’t believe that is the key as many people share that and have the capacity to realize that principles that have been proven are true whether you personally master them or not. The other aspect that they all seem to share is that they are people with a self-image that is honestly above them while living a life that they see as beneath them. My theory is that as long as one clings to an idea that they are a member of a select few that “can see the truth” and are “too smart and open-minded to be brainwashed” it gives them an escape from the idea that perhaps they are not living up to their full potential. That perhaps their life is much smaller than it could be.

    • @stormisuedonym4599
      @stormisuedonym4599 4 года назад +61

      That's pretty common to almost all conspiracy theorists.

    • @SovietReunionYT
      @SovietReunionYT 4 года назад +13

      Ugh. It's like you're describing my mother. And I get the brunt of it since me becoming wealthy and sharing it with her seems to be her only hope of improving her life.

    • @uuouuo5480
      @uuouuo5480 4 года назад +46

      I have a theory which some will find controversial: They're morons.

    • @Heathcoatman
      @Heathcoatman 4 года назад +19

      It's basically a version of the Dunning Kruger effect.

    • @alwaysovercomingbear4809
      @alwaysovercomingbear4809 4 года назад +4

      You just described most humans....

  • @bigbadseed7665
    @bigbadseed7665 4 года назад +454

    "Dropping out of school at the tender age of nine..."
    And now it all makes sense.

    • @manoman0
      @manoman0 4 года назад +1

      Fridays For Future!

    • @haroldsen4238
      @haroldsen4238 4 года назад +16

      Most flat earthers act like 9 year olds, so it makes sense

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 3 года назад

      *Dropping out of school* or *dropped on the head at school?*

    • @MsPegasus1001
      @MsPegasus1001 3 года назад +1

      @@philaypeephilippotter6532 in thinking more he mother drank while pregnant, dr dropped him on his head at birth and he dropped out of school because he was too stupid to learn.

    • @SieMiezekatze
      @SieMiezekatze 3 года назад

      My dad is a flat earther he drop from high school

  • @marccolten9801
    @marccolten9801 5 лет назад +2422

    I'll tell you who is most pissed by the Flat Earth theory - the Hollow Earthers. No one even talks about their crackpot theory any more.

    • @thejudgmentalcat
      @thejudgmentalcat 5 лет назад +106

      Sir Sic did, this one guy said the door to the underworld was on an island but no one can get to it. His claim is if the earth is full of hot magma, then why is it cold in caves.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 лет назад +199

      a Flat Earth Vs. Hollow Earth MMA smack down cage fight would be interesting...i'd buy tickets for that one

    • @siddokis2945
      @siddokis2945 5 лет назад +79

      @@thejudgmentalcat a friend of mine works in a mine in northern Canada and he said he sweats every day, all day down there.

    • @thejudgmentalcat
      @thejudgmentalcat 5 лет назад +66

      @Greg Moonen I know this. The hollow-earther does not.

    • @cheeseyjrdude4751
      @cheeseyjrdude4751 5 лет назад +32

      @MRGRUMPY53 Im fairly certain it's been around longer. If I remember correctly, Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth after hearing about it, could easily be wrong on that part though

  • @k.s.k.7721
    @k.s.k.7721 Год назад +31

    I read a fascinating comment by a psychologist who has a policy of refusing to treat any patient that claims the earth is flat: he has found that they usually have underlying mental health issues and symptoms that need psychiatric care and perhaps medication. He therefore refers those prospective patients to a higher level medical professional. While this is not a causation situation, there is correlation between the firmly held belief in a flat earth belief and symptoms of larger problems.

    • @clueless4085
      @clueless4085 Год назад

      Huh. Imagine that.

    • @kellharris2491
      @kellharris2491 11 месяцев назад +2

      That's interesting. Probably a good point.

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 8 месяцев назад +4

      Could the same be said of MAGA followers?

    • @thommanley
      @thommanley 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ankhpom9296 Excellent question. It certainly seems likely.

    • @seansteel3326
      @seansteel3326 3 месяца назад

      I know only one guy at my previous workplace who was a flat earther, and yeah, he had serious mental issues. Doesn't mean they all have, I wouldnt be able to say that with certainty.

  • @marlonagrimano2937
    @marlonagrimano2937 3 года назад +373

    and they call it a "global" conspirancy...

    • @mickytwoknives
      @mickytwoknives 3 года назад +3

      OOoooo ...........lol

    • @jasonarthurs3885
      @jasonarthurs3885 3 года назад +2

      It's the only thing they got right.

    • @litterallyjustwater
      @litterallyjustwater 3 года назад +8

      The only 2 things the flat earth society have right is the moon orbits the earth and they call it a "global" conspiracy

    • @jjevans1693
      @jjevans1693 3 года назад

      Flat earth society is run by globe heads to make it seem ridiculous. This guy is out of touch.

    • @jjevans1693
      @jjevans1693 3 года назад

      @Some Guy ?? Proper English please.

  • @orko714
    @orko714 5 лет назад +302

    "Anyone who claims something is foolproof drastically underestimates the ingenuity of complete fools."

    • @AmaryInkawult
      @AmaryInkawult 4 года назад +2

      I was a fool so I still get around now and then through sheer dumb luck.

    • @maximeprometheas
      @maximeprometheas 4 года назад

      42

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 4 года назад +2

      Or goes to church, prays in a temple or rams pedestrians with a lorry for voices in his head . Flat Earth is as real as the 4200 other religious virus in humans brains . Let's make it 4201 just to annoy Orko ;)

    • @stephenle-surf9893
      @stephenle-surf9893 4 года назад +1

      Sounds like a old usmc instructor saying, put a new recruit in a padded room with two steel ball bearings and one hour later he'll have broken one and lost the other!

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 4 года назад +1

      @@stephenle-surf9893 90% of humanity believes ON FAITH in angels ... Let that sink in before talking "smart" ... Unless YOU are an anti - theist ... Take a number to the padded dorm .

  • @crumpeteer6477
    @crumpeteer6477 2 года назад +431

    Someone wrote: "It's very difficult to argue with an intelligent person but it's impossible to argue with an ignorant one". True words indeed.

    • @sandraal2585
      @sandraal2585 2 года назад +4

      That was Bill Murray

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 2 года назад +28

      "Never argue with stupid people. They'll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience" - Mark Twain

    • @GORILLA_PIMP
      @GORILLA_PIMP 2 года назад

      The only thing that matters is people don't TRY an argue with me
      Period

    • @sandraal2585
      @sandraal2585 2 года назад

      @@GORILLA_PIMP but what if you are wrong and someone tried to correct you but in a healthy debating kind of way?

    • @GORILLA_PIMP
      @GORILLA_PIMP 2 года назад

      @@sandraal2585
      Because it's not about "being right or wrong" lmfao
      It's about not challenging me

  • @RobRoss
    @RobRoss Год назад +30

    Like all cult beliefs, some people need to believe they have secret knowledge that only they and their in-group possesses, to make them feel whole.

  • @emomuzz5883
    @emomuzz5883 3 года назад +369

    I LOVE flat-earthers! They make me feel smarter!

    • @berniethekiwidragon4382
      @berniethekiwidragon4382 3 года назад +13

      I'd rather be surrounded in the knowledge and comfort that there are people smarter than I.

    • @howard7689
      @howard7689 3 года назад +5

      Okay I believe that the earth is a ball chasing after the sun at the speed of light in an elliptical pattern with the moon and stars trailing after because I was told to in school, but wouldn't dream of making fun of someone else who has things he can point to to support another idea.

    • @berniethekiwidragon4382
      @berniethekiwidragon4382 3 года назад

      B

    • @euanoneill8398
      @euanoneill8398 3 года назад +9

      @@howard7689 “at the speed of light” you mean, as in, the speed at which light has the possibility to travel at, although almost never does?

    • @ogrehaslayers605
      @ogrehaslayers605 3 года назад +10

      @@howard7689 no. I just know that you don’t have a fucking clue what you’re talking about, can’t back up your shitty nonsensical claims, and are too stupid to pull yourself out of your shithole of conspiracy theories.

  • @ShadowAkatora
    @ShadowAkatora 3 года назад +561

    "Only trust what you can see with your own eyes"
    Hasn't seen the edge of the Earth.

    • @adrianb990
      @adrianb990 3 года назад +19

      Haven't seen actuall space

    • @Surdeigt
      @Surdeigt 3 года назад +38

      I haven't seen a kenguru. Therefore, they don't exist. Logic 🥴

    • @ultraniusmaximus1536
      @ultraniusmaximus1536 3 года назад +8

      Trust what you see with your own eyes in your everyday life, not locations that the military will not let you reach even if you wanted to reach it.

    • @otisdylan9532
      @otisdylan9532 3 года назад +19

      Actually, much of what they assert are things that they can't possibly have seen with their own eyes.

    • @ultraniusmaximus1536
      @ultraniusmaximus1536 3 года назад +6

      @@otisdylan9532 Otis, you've seen the flat earth with your own eyes, but because of indoctrination over your lifetime, it's easy to miss. CGI images of space that are obviously fake, high-altitude weather balloon video where the horizon rises to you eye level, zero proof of gravity turning us around. Believe me, you've already experienced it.

  • @killermode5926
    @killermode5926 3 года назад +571

    "You know, maybe there's a good reason donkeys shouldn't talk."
    ~Shrek

    • @realmalcontent1029
      @realmalcontent1029 3 года назад +6

      So wise

    • @nokuhobune
      @nokuhobune 3 года назад +1

      Wise words flat earth denier

    • @Wertsir
      @Wertsir 3 года назад +6

      Conspiracy theories are like onions.

    • @Tcrror
      @Tcrror 3 года назад +8

      @@nokuhobune LMFAO. Dude, you people are even dumber than Trumpers. Somehow. I realize that most of you ARE Trumpers, btw, which is just hilarious.

    • @nokuhobune
      @nokuhobune 3 года назад +1

      @@Tcrror cope harder round earther

  • @jeffbguarino
    @jeffbguarino 4 месяца назад +6

    My wife's niece came from Guyana to Canada in 1995 and she was 15 years old. We were talking about how Winnipeg is 1 hour different from Guyana because we are on central time. And she wondered why and I told her because the world is round and we are more west. She told us she didn't know the world was round. Also in Vietnam in the 1960's the people were shown maps from Americans and laughed and said you can't make maps and they believed the world was flat. Most people now have more education. But is was not that long ago that a large number of people just thought the world was flat because the topic never came up and so no one even got to the stage to question it. The people were more worried about farming and getting food.

  • @b.arborio2404
    @b.arborio2404 3 года назад +315

    As an "empty headed sailor" who's better with a compass than arguing, I've tried to explain to Flerfers how deficient their beliefs are, without success. I no longer bother, as the headache isn't worth it ---nor is their company on my sailboat. 🍸🔥🦉

    • @JamesEvans-ow1wc
      @JamesEvans-ow1wc 3 года назад +53

      It's not about the shape of the earth. It's their psychotic quirk of "I know something you don't"... When you debunk their irrationalisms, they see that as a personal attack and generate any lie to save thier feeling of dominance

    • @litlack
      @litlack 3 года назад +17

      Dude, take me on your sailboat. I want to see this ice wall, or just hang on a sailboat.

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 3 года назад

      @@JamesEvans-ow1wc WRONG !!!!!!!!

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 3 года назад

      @@litlack IT DOESNT TAKE A ROCKET SURGEON TO KNOW YOUR CRAZY !!

    • @jonmendelson1104
      @jonmendelson1104 3 года назад +9

      @@flatearth9140 YOU'RE*

  • @FadingNewDawn
    @FadingNewDawn 3 года назад +131

    The most impressive thing about this video is your ability to read their positions with a straight face. Well done as always

  • @WilcrezTheWanderer
    @WilcrezTheWanderer 3 года назад +1037

    My favorite part of flat earth people is that Bob Knodel made a whole-ass documentary and bought a $20,000 gyroscopic laser to prove the Earth is flat... only to discover it WASN'T flat, and decided that since he didn't like that, the evidence didn't matter.

    • @spfadden082711
      @spfadden082711 2 года назад +33

      Hahaha I saw that!

    • @fallen4life080
      @fallen4life080 2 года назад +161

      Even worse is that they're now trying to find ways to force the gyroscope to show a flat earth and they don't realize how biasedly faulty that logic is. It's like me trying to prove gravity doesn't exist and after dropping rocks over and over i then let go of a helium balloon and act like i proved my point.

    • @barryomahony4983
      @barryomahony4983 2 года назад +44

      And they could have instead gone and looked at a Foucault pendulum, or built one themselves. Much easier and cheaper.

    • @fallen4life080
      @fallen4life080 2 года назад +22

      @@barryomahony4983 Don't understimate flat earthers confirmation bias and special pleading. They claim that Foucault pendulums work because the "dome" earth sits under is spinning...which would result in similar results or they claim the earth is rotating as a disk at 24hr/day intervals but the sun is traveling much faster around the disk.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 года назад +10

      Hbomberguy did a Single Awesome Video about Flat-Earth and so did Wisecrack;
      but some are even specialized on it: Like Sci Man Dan, who did a Thousand Videos of High Quality.

  • @loganmaximus2160
    @loganmaximus2160 Год назад +11

    Almost a decade ago, I discovered online that there were people who believed the Earth was flat. I began arguing with them. I tried to understand what made them believe what they believe and thought of ways to debunk their beliefs in indisputable ways. Here are some examples:
    -Flat earthers said that Antarctica surrounded the Earth, was comprised of 75-150 foot tall ice walls that could not be traversed, and if you somehow did manage to traverse the wall machine-gun-carrying NASA guards would turn you away. I really thought to even think this was truly hilarious. Do these people even realize that you can just book a trip to Antarctica and go there yourself to see that none of this is true? I mean... let's go! Let's go in person and see that none of this is true in reality. See for yourself that there are no continuous tall ice walls and no NASA guards. I'm guessing that flat earthers don't have much money because none took me up on the offer
    -They were so convinced that the whole global concept was a means of controlling the populous. They somehow merged the globalist "New World Order", which is really about people capitalizing on a unified world government, whereby the word global doesn't refer to the shape of the planet, but the encapsulation of all governments of the world. They don't seem to understand this distinction. Further, they then use MK-Ultra and merge that into their unhinged beliefs for some reason. Then, they claim this is all because of the Rothschilds and Rockerfellers, etc. Then, I asked them a couple of questions:
    1) How is it that these people or governments are going to somehow control me more or less just because of the shape of the planet? I mean, if the Earth is round or flat, from a government perspective... my life doesn't change in either case. From a controlling me perspective, nothing changes. My life from a governing perspective isn't affected by the shape of the planet. They of course had no answer for this and merely resorted to ad hominem attacks about how clueless I was and how they felt sorry for me.... even though they are the ones who couldn't answer the simplest of questions
    2) Why? Why would anybody require the Earth being round in my mind, or the populous in general? What is the end game? What's it all about? The answer? Seriously... the answer was: so the government could get your money. THAT'S IT! That is all they had! So, I informed them that the government ALREADY has our money they collect in the form of taxes and that they already give many billions a year to NASA, out of a $4 trillion sum in federal revenue a year, and they don't need my understanding or permission to give NASA money because they already have my money and can spend it however Congress decides to do so in their budget. Me believing the world is some shape has literally no effect on anything with regard to them taking my money and giving it to NASA. Again, they had no response to this. So, they cannot even come up with a plausible reason that they can effectively explain in any legitimate fashion that even begins to provide a motive for their make-believe claims.
    Add-on: No lie, this one Australian guy was really smug about his flat earth positions and attempted to execute a live experiment on the spot on video that "proved" for sure just how the Earth simply cannot be a globe. The experiment? He had a deflated soccer ball and he used his garden hose to spray water on it to show that the water fell off and didn't stick to the ball! HAHAHAHAHA! Seriously! That was it!!! He is completely scientifically brainless! He didn't even consider for a second that the gravity of the Earth, due to its much larger mass than the ball, would overpower any sort of gravitational effects a tiny little ball could even hope to produce. This guy is all flat earthers. Just stupid and wrong.

    • @jannaswanson271
      @jannaswanson271 Год назад

      Now we are seeing the "extraterrestrials" and UFO narrative unfold. This would not be possible if people believed in the firmament of God. Our entire world is God's creation.
      The Bible says this, "The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness." 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
      Don't believe it if you want but this world is passing away.

    • @JustJezBeingJez
      @JustJezBeingJez 2 месяца назад

      You can literally watch how flat earth works as an entity atm. A few pro flat earth people have accepted a free trip to perform the final experiment, is there 24 hour sun in Antarctica? As I write this the priests have already banned these once flat earth loyalists, labelled them as shills and plants and are scrambling to have the script of a second sun ready to dispute their evidence.
      It's amusing for several reasons. It really shows what lengths the high priests need to go to keep their miniscule income coming in from the grift. Rather than accept any form of science they need to insert their own science (if you can even call it that) to explain something that then becomes even more outlandish than it was to begin with.

  • @edgarpryor3233
    @edgarpryor3233 3 года назад +299

    Walls of ice contain the oceans? Flat Earthers must really be concerned about disc warming.

    • @kiriuxeosa8716
      @kiriuxeosa8716 3 года назад +22

      We just need to find the suns light switch and turn it off for a bit

    • @sarahb.6475
      @sarahb.6475 3 года назад +2

      😂

    • @curtiswhiteheadjr1322
      @curtiswhiteheadjr1322 3 года назад +1

      🤣 That’s a good one! 🤣

    • @robertlascelle1602
      @robertlascelle1602 3 года назад +3

      @@kiriuxeosa8716 yep who care about look at this who care about shave hair with razer or fat men or skinny men shut off the lights

    • @lynguy439
      @lynguy439 3 года назад

      Love the humor

  • @jpelkins8678
    @jpelkins8678 5 лет назад +173

    I really like all of your well rounded presentations. This one was flat out entertaining. :)

    • @johnhiponia3322
      @johnhiponia3322 5 лет назад +5

      Pun intended? It was good haha

    • @khloerabnta4995
      @khloerabnta4995 5 лет назад +3

      JP Elkins oh the puns lol 😂

    •  5 лет назад +3

      Well done good sir

  • @Metaljacket420
    @Metaljacket420 5 лет назад +703

    The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.

  • @Draw2quit
    @Draw2quit Год назад +17

    If the curvature of the earth as viewed from an airliner is due to the shape of the windows, why doesn't the terminal building look curved when you're on the runway.

    • @nathanpeterson5609
      @nathanpeterson5609 2 месяца назад +2

      They would probably say it has something to do with the cabin pressurization. Like somehow the windows morph just the right way when there is such a pressure difference.

  • @burnerjack01
    @burnerjack01 4 года назад +166

    So, every world sailor and every transcontinental airline pilot all keep the Flat Earth a secret.
    Nobody cracks and spills the beans? That is an amazingly solid conspiracy!

    • @frantisekvrana3902
      @frantisekvrana3902 4 года назад +11

      Do not forget every person who climbed a tall mountain.
      If the Earth was flat with north geological pole being in the center, visible terrain would not line up with maps (curving northward more than it should according to spherical maps), and they would see the Sun at night (it would have to be higher than all mountains, thus be visible from them).

    • @basklooster3574
      @basklooster3574 4 года назад +10

      I am in the conspiracy. I sailed all 7 seas. And there is a big ice wall. Don't tell anybody I told you.

    • @alexandergaus493
      @alexandergaus493 4 года назад +5

      Exactly what I thought. NOWHERE people are so consistent in their lies. (I hope, what I typed made sense. I am german- and you can't always translate figures of speech)

    • @lonnyhandwork422
      @lonnyhandwork422 4 года назад +4

      Every sailor, pilot, most every person in the sciences, engineers.... oh, and me clearly (30 years as an airforce navigator).

    • @burnerjack01
      @burnerjack01 4 года назад +1

      @@basklooster3574 Go back and make a video. Let's see who can crack the spherical Earth conspiracy first!

  • @CR3271
    @CR3271 3 года назад +358

    "And that is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped." -- Monty Python and the Search For the Holy Grail

    • @CannibalSoggoth
      @CannibalSoggoth 3 года назад +29

      came looking for this comment, and not only I wasn't disappointed, but I'm appalled by this scientific knowledge, now tell me again how can we use a sheep bladder to prevent earthquakes

    • @rotarypants408
      @rotarypants408 3 года назад +11

      Tis just a flesh wound

    • @hackergaming6372
      @hackergaming6372 3 года назад +5

      It’s just Monty python and the holy grail not search for the holy grail.

    • @RocketCouch
      @RocketCouch 3 года назад +5

      Where do I sign up for the monty python self defense class? I'm running late for my appointment at the ministry of silly walks.

    • @RocketCouch
      @RocketCouch 3 года назад +4

      More to the point, it's clear this banana shaped earth is the case, just look at the unfortunate tale of the Crimson Permanent Assurance. Clearly they strayed too close to the stem and fell off.

  • @overworkedcna412
    @overworkedcna412 5 лет назад +182

    “Dropping out of school at the age of nine,...”
    *Wow. I’m shocked. **_Shocked,_** I tell you.* 🙄

    • @aylbdrmadison1051
      @aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад +12

      To be fair, this was the mid 1800's. So although it is unfortunate in most cases, it was not an uncommon occurrence. Nor is it an indication of a lack of intelligence even when it happens today.
      That said: obviously he was at least half batshit crazy, lols.

    • @overworkedcna412
      @overworkedcna412 5 лет назад +5

      Aylbdr Madison I know, I know, I was just being a facetious smart ass ;)

    • @michaelblacktree
      @michaelblacktree 5 лет назад +2

      I LOL'd 😊

    • @grandmofftarkin1516
      @grandmofftarkin1516 5 лет назад

      Well that explains everything.

    • @TheOriginalEUrban
      @TheOriginalEUrban 5 лет назад +6

      Teacher: The Earth is round.
      Kid: No! That's bullshit!
      *slams book shut and leaves*

  • @robertfries6845
    @robertfries6845 Год назад +27

    Years ago, I spent a year at South Pole Station. Up there on the polar plateau, I would have noticed an ice wall if it had been there, don't you think?

    • @javierlatorre480
      @javierlatorre480 Год назад

      Yeah no they think the ice shelf itself is the ice wall. Apparently they have no idea that Antarctica has beaches

    • @abelreyna8781
      @abelreyna8781 Год назад +2

      They would say you had your memory erased by NASA.

    • @wardrobegirl67
      @wardrobegirl67 6 месяцев назад

      The point is Antartica is the land mass surrounding the oceans, its height varies but land is the edge of water.

    • @Yomam_Sophat
      @Yomam_Sophat 2 месяца назад

      You did notice. You're just lying about it.

    • @scottishadonis
      @scottishadonis 2 месяца назад

      @@Yomam_SophatWho is lying about what?

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... 4 года назад +145

    The Key Word is "Believe".
    You have a right to your beliefs. But denying facts is not belief. It's just plain ignorance.

    • @Helperbot-2000
      @Helperbot-2000 4 года назад

      Right!

    • @kmaterne
      @kmaterne 4 года назад +5

      Facts?? How do you know something is fact that’s told to you on your idiot box in your living room?

    • @Emanon...
      @Emanon... 4 года назад +2

      @Eriko. Oy
      Yeah I guess youre right about that.
      Usually when people cling on to their "truth" despite evidence of the contrary atrocities and calamity follows.
      I pity people who believe they are the only purveyors of the truth

    • @Emanon...
      @Emanon... 4 года назад +5

      @@kmaterne
      Reading. Critical analysis. Corroborating evidence. Rinse and repeat.
      And as always: Who stands to gain?
      Ie "Food pyramids". "Minimum 2 liters of water daily". "Iran and Venezuela are evil (oil)". "Israel is the good guy (waiting for Jesus)". Diamonds are rare. etc etc
      And of course the motherload: USA #1...

    • @unarammer2003
      @unarammer2003 4 года назад +3

      @@Emanon..."school" is forced government indoctrination void of the truth of Jesus Christ..designed to fill the children's heads with useless nonsense and outright lies...big bang,lol...evilution, lmao...spinning globe,smh...

  • @6447912
    @6447912 5 лет назад +430

    "Trolls are gonna troll. Look below for examples". Owhh.. That's a win for Simon.

    • @akehapkap6143
      @akehapkap6143 5 лет назад +11

      6447912 Started scrolling immediately 😂

    • @nuzum11
      @nuzum11 5 лет назад

      Got trolls out right now are trolls outside in online right now Trolls of hall not hell. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

    • @ghostunix731
      @ghostunix731 5 лет назад +2

      @6447912 I pretended to be a flat earther and trolled FTFE

    • @scotthenrie5674
      @scotthenrie5674 5 лет назад +3

      The big companies know Earth is flat, that's why all maps are rectangular!

    • @dyscea
      @dyscea 5 лет назад +3

      I immediately stopped the vid to search comments and if it needs trolling.

  • @asdf9890
    @asdf9890 4 года назад +234

    I can't fathom that people actually take this seriously, it's insane. And those lunatics just need to take a long walk, hopefully they find their "edge" of the Earth.

    • @ailexx3377
      @ailexx3377 4 года назад +12

      Well they can't, since the South Pole "is guarded by NASA Aliens obliterating any Explorer that comes there."

    • @halamadruuid2380
      @halamadruuid2380 4 года назад +6

      The Lovely Mel Chan bruh, there is no ice wall, I went around the earth, with cars, planes, etc. there is no end, because a ball doesn’t have an edge

    • @lesliekilgore648
      @lesliekilgore648 4 года назад +8

      unfortunately, according to them they'll just walk in a huge circle and end up right back where they started. standing next to you. like a boomerang of idiocy. :>

    • @RenRen2453
      @RenRen2453 4 года назад +7

      I half hope their dream comes true and they just “fall” off the earth somehow. Reduce the stupid

    • @theblackswan2373
      @theblackswan2373 4 года назад +3

      ...,or a pier.

  • @liamalepta8003
    @liamalepta8003 Год назад +7

    As a side note, ants see their world like its flat. So maybe some people only have the aptitude of an ant

  • @tomgjgj
    @tomgjgj 4 года назад +168

    Wait so, a guy spent 20,000 dollars and ten years of his time designing and building a rocket that could take him up only several hundred feet and didn't think to just make a hot-air balloon that could take him way higher with exponentially less cost and effort?
    Really makes you think. Or not, I guess.

    • @easy_s3351
      @easy_s3351 4 года назад +31

      I think he expected it to go a bit higher. But since he was using flat earth science his calculations were way off. He must have thought he could use the ever accelerating earth to give him some extra boost.

    • @yungkidnf
      @yungkidnf 4 года назад +18

      The WORSE part of it all is he actually tried to send himself up in a rocket a few months ago, but it failed and crashed to the earth, killing him.

    • @FrontLineMarine84
      @FrontLineMarine84 4 года назад +3

      you perfectly described flat earth logic

    • @ristopaasivirta9770
      @ristopaasivirta9770 4 года назад +33

      The hot air balloons are too close to the shape of a sphere so they confuse him.

    • @tomgjgj
      @tomgjgj 4 года назад +3

      @@ristopaasivirta9770 Nice one.

  • @kenxclout
    @kenxclout 5 лет назад +5823

    A flat-earther's greatest fear is...
    Sphere itself.

  • @Gooner333333333
    @Gooner333333333 2 года назад +135

    So the 1st person who said the Earth is flat, dropped out of school at 9? That explains a lot about flat Earthers

    • @albertbresca8904
      @albertbresca8904 2 года назад

      interesting that he was a very good debater... and could talk anyone around or under...

    • @StargateDav
      @StargateDav 2 года назад

      School is a joke... anyone with an above average of 90 IQ understands that school is pure evil indoctrination of the stupidity of our modern Era of lack of educational evidentiary science 🤔 that's why a SMART 9 yr old would drop out

    • @gmr4life884
      @gmr4life884 2 года назад +6

      @@StargateDav
      Anyone who has an education would immediately understand the logistical impossibility of FE to ever be maintained.
      You will be a coward and not even try to weasle you way through an explanation.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 2 года назад

      @@gmr4life884 And anyone who understands the 2020 election, the working of RNA vaccines, etc, would know those theories are impossible. But in the modern day, the disinformation merchants are extremely skilled at making educated people stupid.

    • @omegatired
      @omegatired 2 года назад

      Wait ... Aristotle had a 9th grade education? I sort of blame him because while other Greek thinkers had mathematical proof for a spherical earth, Aristotle, teacher and mentor of Alexander the Great, did not believe this and taught Alex that the world was flat. This belief was spread as he conquered a lot of the world. Oh, wait, at 9 years of age???

  • @LanceRulau
    @LanceRulau Год назад +6

    Whistler's content (multiple RUclips channels) is top quality. Insightful, humorous, and always engaging, Whistler carries the short content with his own brand of audacious cheek. Truly entertaining stuff 😂

  • @Zamtrios245
    @Zamtrios245 4 года назад +1370

    A reality show where flat earthers travel to find the edge of the world..

    • @TheBuddhaBear
      @TheBuddhaBear 4 года назад +87

      So that would kinda be like the shows about finding bigfoot and such?

    • @hardcore476
      @hardcore476 4 года назад +31

      thare is one its called C SPAN

    • @YeOldeSpellbooke
      @YeOldeSpellbooke 4 года назад +71

      Or a reality show where flat earthers have to plan a direct flight between Perth and Johannesburg, or other southern hemisphere direct long distance flight. Explain their reasoning, and then execute it.

    • @davidmaschino3359
      @davidmaschino3359 4 года назад +55

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar I think Ive seen this. He built an insanely powerful lazer and set up polls as a sort of check point and something along the lines of "If the world is a sphere then the exact degree of curvature should be _______." Then he did the experiment and the outcome was damn near literally exactly what he stated if the world were spherical. He then basically said, in his own round (or flat hehe) about way that the results were inconclusive due to them not proving his point.

    • @synq-_-8595
      @synq-_-8595 4 года назад +45

      @@davidmaschino3359 if it doesn't fit their beliefs they disregard it

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 2 года назад +243

    Nobody can get to the ice wall because the penguins are guarding it. They may look cute but they've done their duty for millions of years and they're really, really good at it.

    • @ikennamadueke9131
      @ikennamadueke9131 Год назад +11

      This is correct

    • @MsGbergh
      @MsGbergh Год назад +6

      One day, penguin skeletons might be discovered in the arctic. A bunch of them were fed up of being hunted by polar bears, so used an icefloe to escape... They ended up at the other end of the world. 🐧🐧

    • @danielessex2162
      @danielessex2162 Год назад

      Alot of flat earth bs is based off creationist bs. So many seem to think the world is either 7,000 years old or 10,000 years old.

    • @72Yonatan
      @72Yonatan Год назад +5

      Hilarious. Thanks.

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 Год назад +1

      🐧🐧🐧

  • @beardlessdragon
    @beardlessdragon 3 года назад +635

    Welp, the fact that the movement was started by someone who stopped going to school at age 9 should tell people everything they need to know

    • @anival9576
      @anival9576 3 года назад +23

      That he wasn't brainwashed by organized education. ;-D

    • @al5306
      @al5306 3 года назад +65

      @@anival9576 It means he's not smart. You need education, bud. Act grown.

    • @amirtham5783
      @amirtham5783 3 года назад +35

      @@kingdavey90 The earth is round. Deal with it.

    • @kingdavey90
      @kingdavey90 3 года назад +6

      @@amirtham5783 indeed it is

    • @rossolini3588
      @rossolini3588 2 года назад +13

      @@anival9576 you can rent a hot air balloon and see it for yourself

  • @willis7148
    @willis7148 Год назад +8

    The idea that all world governments would come together for once on any one idea (let alone to keep it secret from the entire world) is quite preposterous.

  • @kingcrabbrc
    @kingcrabbrc 4 года назад +826

    Flat Earthers: "there's a GLOBAL conspiracy"

    • @minnion2871
      @minnion2871 4 года назад +12

      @Traditional Catholic I tend to be skeptical of the idea of there being one single giant conspiracy.... (I tend to think that there are likely a multitude of secretive groups each working towards their own ends that sometimes work together but also against each other...)

    • @christopherblake2588
      @christopherblake2588 4 года назад +15

      Minnion yes, they are called governments. Really not much of a secret, humans are just horrible. 😂🤣😂

    • @minnion2871
      @minnion2871 4 года назад +7

      @@christopherblake2588 Some of them are cults, clubs, syndicates, churches, and of course corporations.... Of course the whole one world government conspiracy could be considered two or more... (Religious organizations trying to get everyone to be the same religion, and see a one world government as a tool to achieve this... Then you get corporations that see a one world government as their ticket to saving money on lobbing multiple governments to pass laws to benefit their greed by suppressing competition and making it easier to achieve their monopolies and the death of the free market....)

    • @christopherblake2588
      @christopherblake2588 4 года назад +6

      Minnion very true can’t ignore those as well. Every group has a special interest, you can even throw lobbyist into that equation. Wouldn’t call it much of a conspiracy thou if they are doing this out in the open. Human nature almost guarantees there will never be a “one government”.

    • @dazstudio68
      @dazstudio68 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/WQITXbcz2hg/видео.html
      Obviously flat

  • @TaiyelKynoska
    @TaiyelKynoska 3 года назад +88

    'You can only believe what you can see with your eyes'
    As a blind person I guess nothing is real

    • @yoseifhaph1020
      @yoseifhaph1020 2 года назад +3

      Omg that is awesome

    • @jchinckley
      @jchinckley 2 года назад +6

      I guess you must be well read.
      Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Your humorous comment dredged it out of me.

    • @paladin313
      @paladin313 2 года назад +1

      And if nothing is real, being blind, then I guess you've been to Strawberry Fields. Not only is nothing real, there's also nothing to get hung about.

  • @alexandergilles8583
    @alexandergilles8583 5 лет назад +252

    Mercury- sphere
    Venus- sphere
    Earth- frisbee
    Moon- sphere
    Mars- sphere
    Jupiter- sphere
    Saturn- sphere
    Uranus- sphere
    Neptune- sphere
    Pluto- sphere
    *Yep, makes sense*

    • @aarondavis5386
      @aarondavis5386 5 лет назад +10

      Y you make me defend flat earth!? If you take their axioms that all of the celestial bodies are within a dome a couple thousand miles away, then there is no expectation that earth (being a special case) should have any similarity at all to the sky blobs that are part of itself.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 5 лет назад +11

      Aaron Davis Jesus, dude. 🤦‍♂️

    • @pandaguan
      @pandaguan 5 лет назад +5

      did you even watch the video?

    • @g00gleminus96
      @g00gleminus96 5 лет назад +20

      Don't be silly. The earth is flat and everything you see in the sky is an illusion generated by Norse god Loki becasue LOL.
      /j

    • @alexandergilles8583
      @alexandergilles8583 5 лет назад +5

      Pandaguan it’s a joke lmao it’s sarcasm

  • @vanrozay8871
    @vanrozay8871 Год назад +6

    I'm over 80 and can't remember when there were no flat-Earthers; on slow news days, "human interest" coverage would profile such believers, with little editorial comment, the assumption being we'd all have a laugh. So nothing new; just attention seeking jerks. Too bad they CAN"T fall off the edge.

  • @MilesUmbrae
    @MilesUmbrae 4 года назад +238

    Kinda amazing that the first person to calculate the circumference of the earth was just off by about 1%...

    • @phildavenport4150
      @phildavenport4150 4 года назад +18

      Beats the crap out of all those morons who don't seem to understand that there is a circumference to find.

    • @jannieschluter9670
      @jannieschluter9670 4 года назад +1

      That first person did not calculate an existing circumference. He calculated the circumference under the ASSUMPTION that the ground was curved.
      Check for "Circular Reasoning" to get the point, Einstein. ;)

    • @jannieschluter9670
      @jannieschluter9670 4 года назад

      @@phildavenport4150 the joke is on you, doody.

    • @FoeHammerTime
      @FoeHammerTime 4 года назад +14

      @@jannieschluter9670 Actually, the fact itself that the shadows were different (or rather, that there was a shadow in one place and there wasn't one in another) *proves* that the ground *is* curved. This proof can be done today anywhere on the globe with basic tools and basic math, and will *always* yield a consistent result. It's 100% verifiable...unless...unless sticks, shadows, and geometry are all paid actors subverted by NASA. :O Wait! That's it! I've seen the light! Where do I join the Flat Earth Society? Let me in! Let me in! Let me in!

    • @jannieschluter9670
      @jannieschluter9670 4 года назад

      @@FoeHammerTime the ground is flat. You are easily deceived when you have already made up your mind.

  • @burgers1
    @burgers1 5 лет назад +169

    "you must only trust what your senses can prove to you!"
    Uses relativity to explain the flat Earth model.
    Uses "dark matter or aetheric wind" to explain the flat Earth model.
    Ignores your senses when you look out of a plane window.
    Ignores your senses when you look at ships disappearing bottom first.
    etc etc etc...

    • @washizukanorico
      @washizukanorico 5 лет назад +24

      The best part is “don t trust your eyes when you see the sun rising or setting as it s just an optical illusion, the sun is actually circling around the North Pole”
      Like really?
      People actually believing this have two options :
      - getting shot in the head because that what they deserve
      - giving me their dealer s phone number cuz the shit is obviously terrific ...

    • @Psittac20
      @Psittac20 5 лет назад +17

      exactly "don't believe what others tell you".......... then tells them what to believe

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 5 лет назад +19

      @@Psittac20 It's absolutely amazing how often that basic attitude crops up in conspiracy theories of all types. "Be an independent thinker by believing exactly what WE say is true!"

    • @HBK360MUSIC
      @HBK360MUSIC 5 лет назад +9

      This guys just quoting the flat earth society, which is clearly a parody group. He did not mention or quote a single “flat earther”from this century. I in no way advocate for the earth being flat, but this guy spent 23 minutes on this video and we learned nothing. You’d think he’d actually pull up some of their most commonly used arguments and show in detail why they are wrong, but instead he cracked jokes and told us about flat earthers from the early-mid 20th century

    • @ericferguson68
      @ericferguson68 5 лет назад +16

      @@HBK360MUSIC : You missed the point of the video. The questions I have are:
      1. Is this real or just a troll campaign?
      2. Who started this nonsense?
      I think this video got it right and addressed the relevant points. Simon doesn't attempt to debunk flat-eartherism because there is no need (as noted in the video, no educated person has believed in a flat earth for over 2,000 years).

  • @RealDonfromBroward
    @RealDonfromBroward 3 года назад +175

    My dad is a hardcore flat earther and I work in the GIS field. Needless to say, the mental gymnastics that I've witnessed him pull off over the years has been astounding lol. The very foundation of my job/career is based on the proven fact that the Earth is spherical. He doesn't think I'm a part of the global conspiracy though (lmfao) but he does claim that I'm being tricked by my employer...because.....you know.....they can manipulate all the tools I use to map the Earth. Anyhow, my real point really is that our relationship is somewhat weird based on the fact that I view him as someone who is living in a delusion...but it's my dad. I would imagine there are many ppl out there with similar experiences based on family/loved ones who believe really outlandish things that aren't based on evidence.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 года назад +13

      Show him the videos of Professor Dave Explains. HIs 4-parter is AIRTIGHT.

    • @greyrock9747
      @greyrock9747 2 года назад +35

      Yeah, I have a PhD and do GIS for a living. It doesn't matter how well educated you are or how well you can explain science. People living in delusion will find a way to dismiss you as being a dupe if you interfere with their fantasy.

    • @roxannepearls901
      @roxannepearls901 2 года назад +18

      I’m so sorry about your dad. I feel your pain. My brother is a sovereign citizen so I understand delusion.

    • @Mylork
      @Mylork 2 года назад +4

      religion?

    • @rais1953
      @rais1953 2 года назад +12

      He's your father and has special rights for all that he's done to raise you. Not equal to your mother but special all the same. You are doing the right thing to humour him. When COVID dies down try to bring him for a vacation in a country he thinks can't exist. Apparently we Australians can't exist in a flat earth.

  • @brokentombot
    @brokentombot Год назад +5

    I used to think it was round, then thought it was flat, then came back around.

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 8 месяцев назад

      What caused you to think the earth is flat?

    • @panckreous
      @panckreous 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@ankhpom9296 required for the joke to work ;)

  • @JH-qy7zw
    @JH-qy7zw 2 года назад +330

    I've found that most flat earthers I have spoken with stems from a deep distrust of the government. Majority of them believed in the globe, but it was something the government did that led them to begin expecting the opposite to be true.
    For example: your video exposing Japan's refusal to acknowledge their actions in WW2, when a japanese person finds out the truth, they become disillusioned. This can lead them to questioning everything they had ever been taught by government.
    Flat earther's, from my experience, have become disillusioned by government lies (example: WMD's etc.), and at some point, they fight everything the government tells them. Honestly, once I figured out it was a reaction, or a symptom if you will, it gave me a lot more patience.
    "I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I can't believe you" - neitzsche

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 2 года назад

      The dangerous thing is that those who profit from conspiracies are actively working to further corrode trust in any official institutions. Did you notice how the WHO and CDC were under constant attack by anti-vaxxers saying they were part of the Big Vague Conspiracy? Do you notice how the Trumplican strategy is to attack the legitimacy of the Democratic government based on spurious claims of election fraud, therefore legitimising their own extreme rhetoric and political violence from their supporters? Do you notice how the far-right politicians love to claim they're not actually politicians like the corrupt liberal Establishment?

    • @GameTime-yj6qv
      @GameTime-yj6qv Год назад

      Makes sense. Flat earthers do have a mistrust of the government. They believe in many other conspiracies and basically don't believe anything the government says.

    • @michaelandrews5499
      @michaelandrews5499 Год назад

      Great point. And I’m afraid in the era of all the lies around Covid this distrust has gotten much worse

    • @hedwigugla8836
      @hedwigugla8836 Год назад +3

      Word

    • @ldubt4494
      @ldubt4494 Год назад +22

      And that's true for ALL conspiracy theories.

  • @catherinemorrison1909
    @catherinemorrison1909 3 года назад +292

    If the earth was flat, there would be tourist trips to 'the 'edge' and probably bungy jumps off the side

    • @ordinarysavage
      @ordinarysavage 3 года назад +12

      LoL. . . Perfect summation!

    • @michaelcoll433
      @michaelcoll433 3 года назад +20

      Flat earthers have incorporated into their theory that the military mans the ice walls of Antarctica and will shoot to kill if you approach.

    • @Vyz3r
      @Vyz3r 3 года назад +28

      @@michaelcoll433 They should test it out. They should go to this supposed ice wall and if they come back alive, they were wrong the whole time.

    • @Karizma231
      @Karizma231 3 года назад +6

      Apparently your actually not allowed to roam around the south pole freely, its heavily controlled by various governments.

    • @michaelcoll433
      @michaelcoll433 3 года назад +16

      @@Karizma231 this has been disproven so many times and the flat earthers claim it's fake. What can you do?

  • @angryhairpeice
    @angryhairpeice 4 года назад +264

    My friend was a Flat Earther. We watched a few videos. One was about a plane that left China heading to LA. An emergency (Pregnant woman went into labor) forced them to land in Alaska. On the map it looked like they made a hard left and flew twice the distance as LA would be. We went to a store. Found a globe, used my lanyard to plot the closest distance from the two points on the map. It almost went over the southern tip of Alaska. I watched the Flat Earth drain out of his brain in real time.

    • @squidjpeg9925
      @squidjpeg9925 4 года назад +22

      Sometimes I wish I had a flat Earther friend so I can bully him out of his ignorant belief 😆

    • @angryhairpeice
      @angryhairpeice 4 года назад +84

      @@squidjpeg9925 I bullied no one. I educated him.

    • @oddimusprime1769
      @oddimusprime1769 4 года назад +6

      Awesome

    • @SRWill64
      @SRWill64 4 года назад +13

      Yeah, that's why aviators and navigators use a special map called a Mercator map which makes the landmasses and such look bigger the closer to the poles one gets because the Earth isn't flat! They use it to be able to accurately navigate a course.

    • @RayleighCriterion
      @RayleighCriterion 4 года назад +2

      So you're saying the globe is just a spherical projection of the flat Earth?

  • @Banana_Cognac
    @Banana_Cognac 4 месяца назад +3

    The irony of flat-earthers saying we trust fake science, while utilizing that same science to post their commemts on the internet

    • @dragonoftheeast695
      @dragonoftheeast695 Месяц назад

      One thing I can say that might go with flat earth theory is
      If this world is a simulation like some theoretical physicists suggest
      Then we might ALL be right
      It’s flat AND round
      AND BOTH NOT REAL
      😂

  • @christiandtorres9843
    @christiandtorres9843 3 года назад +216

    i have to say, i admire him for being able to keep a straight face during the whole video and not busting into laughs

    • @jo-annebotha9609
      @jo-annebotha9609 3 года назад +10

      you should see his video on the 'moon landing was fake' conspiracy theory - he couldn't manage it there.🤣

    • @Spectre-wd9dl
      @Spectre-wd9dl 3 года назад +5

      They edited that part out.

    • @fiazc846
      @fiazc846 3 года назад +1

      What's there to laugh? A majority of people agreeing upon a lie doesn't make it a truth. I firmly believe that the earth is flat and no one can change it cause I am not one of you sheeps who agree with everything the government says. They are controlling you wake up.

    • @christiandtorres9843
      @christiandtorres9843 3 года назад +1

      @@fiazc846 i actually encourage people to think differently and yes, you are right, different opinions and believes are not to be laugh upon. i happen to live on a country where the government canot even control its own way of thinking, let alone the thinking of the people of the country, so the government, at least the one here, has nothing to do with the way i think. i firmly believe that earth is round (a geoide actually) and i do it because i my rational thinking and the things i have observed around the world led me to that conclusion. if you believe differently good for you, i might laugh out of sheer humor, just as you can laugh at me for my way of thinking, i wouldnt take it as a disrespect, we just agree to disagree. thank you for thinking differently, great discoveries have been made thanks to people that had the courage to think outside of the box. sadly here there is nothing new to find, earth is the way it is and thats it (whatever way you think it is). maybe earth is flat.... its just that nothing finds a reasonable, understandable, accurate and absolute way to probe it. being round has been proben in all sort of reasonable, understandable, accurate and absolute ways. you sir have a great day! all the bests!

    • @Spectre-wd9dl
      @Spectre-wd9dl 3 года назад +13

      @@fiazc846 I wasn't aware the US government was around 2000 years ago when some Greek dude figured out the circumference of the earth. Just wondering who was president when Jesus was born.

  • @IXxKINGxXI
    @IXxKINGxXI 5 лет назад +259

    If the earth is flat, then how has my life progressively gone down hill?

    • @TomHaroldArt
      @TomHaroldArt 5 лет назад +20

      It's that dark matter, man. You gotta let go of that aetheric wind.

    • @jamesstaggs4160
      @jamesstaggs4160 5 лет назад +5

      I'm not sure how that would speak to the shape of the planet, flat or ball. Maybe if it were a pyramid.....wait a minute.......the ball earth theory is a NASA psyop.....the flat earth theory is a CIA psyop......but the pyramid.....it's right there on the money isn't it????? Oh shit......the earth is.......a triangle! No wonder Alt J says triangles are his favorite shape.....mystery solved everyone we can all stop arguing now.

    • @ParkerUAS
      @ParkerUAS 5 лет назад +5

      Its tilted, towards Australia I think.

    • @SteelsCrow
      @SteelsCrow 5 лет назад

      Well, if going downhill is progress for you, perhaps something you really wanted to do in your life was
      roll a ball down a hill.

    • @ballsrgrossnugly
      @ballsrgrossnugly 5 лет назад +1

      @@ParkerUAS Fuck that, we don't want the world's garbage, we have to vote for some of our own garbage every 3 years, that's more than enough for us!

  • @Huildnotreal
    @Huildnotreal 5 лет назад +227

    Flat Earthers - "Only accept that which we can see with our own eyes and prove with our own efforts"
    Also Flat Earthers - "The Earth is surrounded by an ice wall which we can't prove because NASA is guarding it"
    logic

    • @tulkdog
      @tulkdog 5 лет назад +1

      Alvin Tay
      Freaking NASA!

    • @t.b.5115
      @t.b.5115 5 лет назад +18

      And how can they prove specifically NASA is guarding it? It hurts to think about the bullshit. NASA isn't a global police force. FFS.

    • @Claytone-Records
      @Claytone-Records 5 лет назад +8

      Admittedly NASA no longer does much, but they are going to guard a wall...of ice. Where did this wall of ice come from?

    • @Spartan0430
      @Spartan0430 5 лет назад +11

      @@t.b.5115 they don't need to prove it, they just need to sound convincing enough to confuse the layman

    • @t.b.5115
      @t.b.5115 5 лет назад +8

      @@Spartan0430 True. Maybe we could convince people large dogs are small horses. See where that takes us.

  • @solkatlol
    @solkatlol Год назад +3

    Crazy thing is, there doesn't "still" seem to be people who believe this, but people who believe this "again"

  • @Scififan926
    @Scififan926 4 года назад +187

    Navigators more hundreds of years ago: Considering the way a ship disappears off sight and the height of constellations depending on the location the earth is probably round
    Random middle aged conspiracy theorist 2020: The earth is flat because I can't see the curve where I live

    • @Zeldahol
      @Zeldahol 4 года назад +6

      Dipshit Probably lives in the woods.

    • @RayleighCriterion
      @RayleighCriterion 4 года назад

      Both of those phenomenons have been explained with optical experiments.
      Sailors from centuries ago who never went to school and knew nothing about physics and optics, so their misinterpretations of what they were seeing is excusable.

    • @nonamerequired55555
      @nonamerequired55555 4 года назад +3

      This is as logical as claiming the earth is a cube because I am sitting inside a dark box and can't see out. So it must be!. Try harder! Strain those little flat peepers of yours.

    • @hypothalapotamus5293
      @hypothalapotamus5293 4 года назад +5

      Roughly 2000 years ago, Greek (more broadly Hellenistic) astronomers made a careful study of the earth, moon (eclipses and half moon phases), and sun. Likely the simplest of these measurements was Eratosthenes' measurement of the earth's circumference, which was repeated by Posidonius using the star Canopus (and basically got the right answer).
      More complicated geometric arguments obtained the distance from the earth to the moon (60-70 earth's radii away by Hellenistic measurements, which is not bad ) and reasonably close estimates for the moon's radius (roughly 1/3 that of the earth). Probably the only thing they got very wrong was the distance between the sun and the earth, where the measurements needed were pushing the limits of the naked eye.
      Their equipment was very primitive, but their way of approaching the problem and trying to verify results with several types of measurements was strikingly modern. A modern approach to a problem or question can often overcome primitive technology.
      In contrast, flat earthers prove that a primitive approach to a problem can render modern technology useless.

    • @tomtucker2450
      @tomtucker2450 4 года назад

      Measure the curve. Theirs like a $100000 reward if you can prove the curve

  • @conradgittins4476
    @conradgittins4476 3 года назад +89

    On his return from space Yuri Gagarin was asked 'did the earth look round', to which he replied 'yes, but I don't think it saw me'.

    • @alvaronavarro4895
      @alvaronavarro4895 3 года назад

      And that means.....?

    • @thomasmaughan4798
      @thomasmaughan4798 3 года назад +8

      @@alvaronavarro4895 "And that means.....?"
      It's laugh out loud funny! A slightly more correct reading is "did the earth look around" did YOU look around to see what there is to see?

    • @alvaronavarro4895
      @alvaronavarro4895 3 года назад

      @@thomasmaughan4798 OOh I got It now!

    • @wouldntyouliketoknow1477
      @wouldntyouliketoknow1477 3 года назад

      Did he say it in English?

    • @siebenzwei87
      @siebenzwei87 3 года назад +2

      @@wouldntyouliketoknow1477 no I think he said that in Russian

  • @Miyanoai14
    @Miyanoai14 4 года назад +967

    Conspiracy theory: everyone who believes the Earth is flat is just waiting for a free opportunity to be sent to space to be "proven wrong".

    • @wallaceluna6241
      @wallaceluna6241 4 года назад +112

      Yep now im a flat earth believer. Gotta send me to space for free so i can see. mhmm mhmm

    • @markmarinas9418
      @markmarinas9418 4 года назад +41

      I guess I'm a flat earther now

    • @tinacaldwell7089
      @tinacaldwell7089 4 года назад +6

      Hey, u can believe this sh!TD!ck if ya want 2, so let's use all these complex formulas that a sumb!Tch from the bronze age came up wit. Then ask me how I could believe in the bible bc it was written soooooo long ago. Everything we think we know about the sun moon stars space comes from 1 organization, NASACAR, if I catch sum1 in lie(S) as in piles of em. I must reconsider all they said. NASA means 2 beguile in Hebrew, & means 2 greatly decieve in Greek. They have now added a hyphen 2 change the meaning & the word the word 4 lifted up is pronounced nawsha that ain't it. Just Google clouds behind the sun & clique on video & images

    • @dakrontu
      @dakrontu 4 года назад +19

      I am not generous enough to want to waste money on such people by sending them into space (even if permanently). They are not the hungry or sick waiting for relief. They are the wilfully ignorant, agents of their own misfortune.

    • @1un4cy
      @1un4cy 4 года назад +25

      That's been my main conspiracy theory
      waiting for someone at nasa to get fed up and give em a free rocket ride to orbit and back
      even then, they'd probably just say it was a really convincing digital simulation

  • @XionEternum
    @XionEternum Год назад +7

    They take Adam Savage's quote too far; "I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

    • @rosskwolfe
      @rosskwolfe 3 месяца назад

      He took that quote from the movie "The Dungeonmaster" aka "Ragewar".

  • @gyflies
    @gyflies 5 лет назад +2077

    Flat Earthers: We can only accept what we can see with our own eyes.
    Also Flat Earthers: The Earth is surrounded by an ice wall that no one's ever seen.

    • @arandombard1197
      @arandombard1197 5 лет назад +237

      Astronauts: I saw it with my own eyes
      Flat Earthers: I can't accept this!

    • @dwhyze5090
      @dwhyze5090 5 лет назад +16

      Random Ashe how naive are your people? Please provide one scientific proof that the earth is spinning!!

    • @gyflies
      @gyflies 5 лет назад +112

      @Yehudah Wayne
      Ummm...what? Are you a troll?

    • @dwhyze5090
      @dwhyze5090 5 лет назад +20

      Brandon MacLeod no I am not. Anyone that honestly research this topic instead of listening to guys like these on RUclips can’t come away thinking the earth is a spinning sphere!
      I’ve asked people for 3 scientific proof of earth’s movement and no one can provide it. It’s a historical fact that every attempt made by Globe Earth proponents to prove movement has failed!!
      That’s why they started creating theories. When you can’t prove something In Reality, you create a theory! You don’t need a theory to tell you the sun is in the sky, you see it everyday. You only need theories for things you can’t see or experience in reality!
      The globe earth is a fantasy supported by theories upon theories that has no basis in reality!!

    • @gyflies
      @gyflies 5 лет назад +208

      @Yehudah Wayne
      "You only need theories for things you can’t see or experience in reality!"
      Like the theory that the earth is surrounded by an ice wall?

  • @dudeatos
    @dudeatos 4 года назад +532

    "Prove the Earth is round."
    *Proves it*
    "No not like that."

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 4 года назад +8

      Prove angels exist ! 90% of humans on planet Earth will kill, fight, ask for blasphemy laws just to defend 4200 religious myths . The Earth is as flat untill all faith based virus are purged from human hosts .

    • @angsilaw
      @angsilaw 4 года назад +24

      nini v
      Okay boomer.

    • @dudeatos
      @dudeatos 4 года назад +37

      @@niniv2706 i have no idea what you're trying to convey

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 4 года назад +8

      @@dudeatos - ... ... ... Simple . I will use my best english as it is my third language .
      Anyone spending time dissing and exposing Flat Earthing for being ... FALSE !
      Should spend as much time exposing islam, christianity, judaism etc... for the 4200 other BULLSHIT ideologies based on faith out there .
      If one doesn't do this ... He is a ... FRAUD !
      Hey ... Is this simple enough ? Please tell me you didn't undertsand this .

    • @niniv2706
      @niniv2706 4 года назад +1

      @@angsilaw - Well, merci le jeune :)

  • @innercityprepper
    @innercityprepper 2 года назад +657

    My father, who is a retired college professor with several advanced degrees, used to be a member of the Flat Earth Society back in the 70's and 80's. At the time it was basically a mail-in fan newsletter, and was possibly the first ironic/sarcastic trolling comedy exercise. Nobody in the FSE actually believed it was flat, but they knew there were people that did, and they made the joke their own.

    • @hydrocarbon82
      @hydrocarbon82 2 года назад +99

      Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
      Many people can't grasp irony in person, and it's FAR worse for internet "info". Basically, a chunk of people are just plain stupid.

    • @johnmichaels4330
      @johnmichaels4330 2 года назад +44

      Right? All the people I met had pins and such and it was a big joke in the scientific community. Now there are idiots taking it real.

    • @rogink
      @rogink 2 года назад +7

      However well selected surveys are on this kind of question, I think you have to allow for many people not taking the question seriously. They give frivolous answers to frivolous questions, as with the classic - do you believe in alien abduction?
      I can see why some people might believe conspiracies like 9/11, based on their own prejudices. But there is no obvious need to believe that NASA, the Feds or the CIA - or the 'world government' are trying to hide the 'truth'.
      I've seen a couple of videos by 'Flat Earthers', going into a great deal of detail. My view is that they see flat earth theory as a kind of mental challenge. In a way, I can understand this. But of course as you say, there are those who will be hoodwinked.

    • @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter
      @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter 2 года назад +5

      Did they call it the FSE like you do?

    • @matthewweng8483
      @matthewweng8483 2 года назад +11

      …and in doing so somehow managed to convince a bunch of complete idiots that it actually was flat.

  • @timmeinschein9007
    @timmeinschein9007 Год назад +6

    As for sailors, if you are reasonably high up above the waterline you can actually see the curvature with your eyes.

  • @JasonTaylor-po5xc
    @JasonTaylor-po5xc 3 года назад +310

    I honestly thought this was a joke. A friend and co-worker many years ago told me he was part of the Flat Earth society - even had a card. He told me the math is just a little harder. Of course, he was joking. He joined because he thought it was funny. Since we are both in computer science - which are basically math majors - he thought I would appreciate the humor.

    • @sjs9698
      @sjs9698 3 года назад +38

      i think part of the reason it continues is the internet pranksters who pretend to believe it's flat & help the fools who really believe it to generate new & ever more ridiculous 'explanations' for common debunking... it's hilarious for the pranksters no doubt, but wildly irresponsible imo.

    • @phredphlintstone6455
      @phredphlintstone6455 3 года назад +24

      I like to argue with them and tell them that the earth is actually a cube

    • @newenergyexperience434
      @newenergyexperience434 3 года назад +8

      You have the first genuine response I've read
      Everyone else is just being a sheep quoting dead people looking for gotcha likes

    • @scienceforensics5215
      @scienceforensics5215 3 года назад

      JASON GLOBETARDS why the F* arguing - If you have Real Brains then answer these Rotation & Gravity questions ruclips.net/video/5Z7_p0-XFoA/видео.html

    • @anthonyg-7934
      @anthonyg-7934 3 года назад

      @@scienceforensics5215 🤣🤦‍♂️

  • @Gastell0
    @Gastell0 5 лет назад +341

    Flat earth society should be really worried about global warming, if the ice melts, there goes all our water over the edge!

    • @akehapkap6143
      @akehapkap6143 5 лет назад +1

      😂😂😂

    • @JackieWelles
      @JackieWelles 5 лет назад +20

      remember we are all living under the dome ^^ which means if ice wall surounding the edges will melt and whole water will rush in and flood all the continents. Unless the ice wall is outside the dome which would defeat all the porpoise of the ice wall.

    • @MissBlueEyeliner
      @MissBlueEyeliner 5 лет назад +10

      Jeeeeeez Didn’t you know that global warming is a hoax

    • @JackieWelles
      @JackieWelles 5 лет назад +6

      @@MissBlueEyeliner 😄 right totally forgot about like just like everything else is gov conspiracy

    • @MissBlueEyeliner
      @MissBlueEyeliner 5 лет назад +7

      Mr. Fox the government have made frogs gay to use a secret military weapon.

  • @stateofhibernation
    @stateofhibernation 4 года назад +435

    I have my moments when i think "I'm stupid..." but then i remind myself "well at least I'm not flat earther stupid."

    • @Bladeofwar94
      @Bladeofwar94 4 года назад +17

      Kudos man. If you ever feel like an idiot just watch a flat Earther and just be amazed that you're not an absolute moron!

    • @stateofhibernation
      @stateofhibernation 4 года назад +12

      @@Bladeofwar94 i have, it instantly makes me feel better 😃.

    • @manoman0
      @manoman0 4 года назад +1

      We always have our priests, man.
      There were times when our priests said the earth is flat.
      Then came along a guy....
      He became the new priest.
      You are not half as smart as you think you are. Even you remind yourself that you're not flat-earth-stupid.

    • @Bladeofwar94
      @Bladeofwar94 4 года назад +16

      @@manoman0 This comment shows your ignorance in spades. The difference b/t a priest and a scientist is one uses mathematics, rationales, and observation to deduce and discern the natural world. A priest says my holy book from 2000 years ago says that a magical sky daddy made everything and that you will burn in hell if you don't believe in it.
      Honestly not arrogant enough to assume i'm smart, but compared to a flat earther I can confirm that i'm not a moron.

    • @stateofhibernation
      @stateofhibernation 4 года назад +2

      @@manoman0 it was a joke... I know I'm stupid 😂👌

  • @KevinVenturePhilippines
    @KevinVenturePhilippines Год назад +6

    "Join the Flat Earth Podcast coming to you via satellite radio and heard all around the globe!"

  • @glennlaroche1524
    @glennlaroche1524 5 лет назад +738

    I ascribe to the theory that if the Earth WAS flat, cats would've knocked everything off the edge by now.

    • @sciencetroll6304
      @sciencetroll6304 5 лет назад +15

      Yep, still the best proof.

    • @ovizcarra8667
      @ovizcarra8667 5 лет назад +2

      Even though i think the earth is round you are wrong the stupid people's theories say there's a wall around the wall(edit)I mean earth

    • @subliminal81
      @subliminal81 5 лет назад

      No one knows what is the truth about our planet.
      We can believe in something...even if sometimes it called science.

    • @rshelburg
      @rshelburg 5 лет назад +2

      Damn. You one original sum bitch.

    • @famouslastwords0791HR
      @famouslastwords0791HR 5 лет назад +2

      Can we retire this comment already?

  • @Remmy81
    @Remmy81 4 года назад +977

    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

    • @tohrovin6693
      @tohrovin6693 4 года назад +4

      Oh...

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 4 года назад +28

      Remco DH
      Seems George Carlin wasn’t aware of the difference between average and MEDIAN... 🙄

    • @vengefulspirit99
      @vengefulspirit99 4 года назад +33

      Celisar1 apparently you don't understand the difference between mean, median and mode either because you just used "average" to insult someone. How do you know he wasn't referring to median? Last I checked, all three of those are averages.

    • @vladutcornel
      @vladutcornel 4 года назад +6

      That's not how averages work. Einstein was pushing the average up. People who quote comedians are pulling it down.

    • @starcitizen890j5
      @starcitizen890j5 4 года назад +5

      I have been in the bottom 4% of my peer group 2 years running according to the UK statistics for degree classification. I still believe the earth is a globe 🌍. Not so sure I believe in statistics though 😂

  • @rsg1963
    @rsg1963 4 года назад +659

    Wait...so only believe what you see, but if you can't see the Ice Wall, that's an exception? Flawless logic.

    • @blizzbee
      @blizzbee 4 года назад +43

      They saw it in RUclips... So it counted.
      But never see the round earth with bare eyes ... So not count.
      ALL the round earth in "RUclips" are fake. LOL

    • @josevides8628
      @josevides8628 4 года назад +5

      😂😂😂

    • @jpviegas
      @jpviegas 4 года назад +50

      Their "You only believe what you see" feeds directly on "you only see what you believe" and the other way around

    • @geared2cre8
      @geared2cre8 4 года назад +43

      You don't need to see the earth to know it's round.
      That's why we have science and math.

    • @pamelaalbertus9129
      @pamelaalbertus9129 4 года назад

      🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

  • @CaptFoster5
    @CaptFoster5 2 месяца назад +3

    Wait, so today's modern-day flerfing was started by a dude who stopped his formal education at nine years old ... now it all makes sense! 😂😂😂

  • @Andrew-ep4kw
    @Andrew-ep4kw 5 лет назад +391

    "Never argue with an idiot - they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience" - Steven Wright

    • @Sunshine_Daydream222
      @Sunshine_Daydream222 5 лет назад +28

      Never argue with an idiot, it's like playing chess with a pigeon. They'll shit on the board and walk around like they've won 🙃

    • @surprisedchar2458
      @surprisedchar2458 5 лет назад +16

      I thought that was a Mark Twain quote.

    • @ericdaniel323
      @ericdaniel323 5 лет назад +8

      Don't wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and, besides, the pig likes it.

    • @mareksajner8567
      @mareksajner8567 5 лет назад +1

      just... stop!... why do people even say this stuff? how the heck am I supposed to know better?

    • @alwaysflat7996
      @alwaysflat7996 5 лет назад +3

      Andrew Don't argue with an idiot because they might make you see the truth that you have been rejecting for so long, who's to decide what is an idiot? You think he is an idiot he thinks you are an idiot so what gives you the authority to be right? You're just an idiot in his eyes as he is in yours.

  • @wavebye1
    @wavebye1 4 года назад +864

    Arguing with a "flat earther" is like playing chess with a pigeon. It sh^ts on the board, and then promptly walks around like it just won the game.

    • @haladisch
      @haladisch 4 года назад +19

      Jajajajajaja, I laughed so hard, I may have to “steal” this comparison to share it among my friends 😂

    • @littlemissmisses2981
      @littlemissmisses2981 4 года назад +9

      That’s glorious

    • @christydunn4800
      @christydunn4800 4 года назад +3

      No pigeon ever done that

    • @Killerbee4712
      @Killerbee4712 4 года назад +15

      @@christydunn4800 its an analogy

    • @christydunn4800
      @christydunn4800 4 года назад +1

      @@Killerbee4712 yea it doesn't make sense

  • @pleaseclap3335
    @pleaseclap3335 5 лет назад +188

    "... no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century BC onward believed that the earth was flat." Flat earthers just got roasted by a historian

    • @elemu3653
      @elemu3653 5 лет назад +2

      Mic drop 🤗

    • @geroffmilan3328
      @geroffmilan3328 5 лет назад +6

      But of course the Flatheads just think this proves their superior historical knowledge too.
      You could challenge them to a battle of wits, but they are of course unarmed.

    • @jaydunbar7538
      @jaydunbar7538 5 лет назад +9

      @woof beast when your "opponent" thinks the Earth is flat, laughing and making jokes about their intelligence is the only available option. Thinking the Earth is flat is akin to thinking people can breath water like a fish, it's just so blatantly obvious that attempting to debate the topic is hysterical bringing out the juvenile inside.

    • @archiebaldthefat755
      @archiebaldthefat755 5 лет назад +1

      You are a fucking tool. Do you not know that almost everyone in the world believed in the flat earth in those times? Simon has a lot of trouble telling the whole truth when he wants to speak about politically incorrect things.

    • @nordic5490
      @nordic5490 5 лет назад +2

      Archiebald The Fat nope, dream on mate. As soon as you start throwing insults your argument is lost. Try again.

  • @MrG9002
    @MrG9002 9 месяцев назад +6

    Additionally there is a restaurant in Hope B.C., Canada that hosts the monthly meetings of the flat earth society, there is a small plaque next to some booth's. I thought this was people having a laugh until the restaurant was on the news for not adhering to COVID regulations. I found another restaurant to go to now.

  • @bplup6419
    @bplup6419 3 года назад +363

    "It's a NASA conspiracy."
    Every other space agency on Earth: "Why did we get left out?"

    • @shimitty
      @shimitty 3 года назад +82

      Because obviously The United States is the only country that exists. All foreigners are clones with implanted memories made to take our jobs! (Please tell me there isn't someone out there that actually believes this.)

    • @bplup6419
      @bplup6419 3 года назад +21

      @@shimitty Now someone does. Oof.

    • @Shadowdreamer4
      @Shadowdreamer4 3 года назад +44

      Right? When I hear "The government is trying to fool us" ok, which one? ALL of them?? 🤦‍♀️

    • @mrpedrobraga
      @mrpedrobraga 3 года назад +11

      @@shimitty I love how the government is all somehow all powerful, but are trying to steal the jobs???? from their own citizens in the most inneficient way possible

    • @ruhan4204
      @ruhan4204 3 года назад +2

      @@Shadowdreamer4 the word government is LITERALLY = to GOVERN your MENTality...time to wake up Tera

  • @FEEDTHESTRAYMUSIC
    @FEEDTHESTRAYMUSIC 3 года назад +798

    This was quite literally a 22 minute passive diss on flat earthers intelligence, and I'm cool with it.

    • @Dr.Zoidberg087
      @Dr.Zoidberg087 3 года назад +28

      you should check out professor dave. it's not passive at all and it's hilarious

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 2 года назад +12

      IT DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SURGEON TO FIGURE THAT OUT !!

    • @sourpatchkiiddoo1582
      @sourpatchkiiddoo1582 2 года назад +4

      Ah, but every video abt flat earthers passive aggressively dissing them

    • @robertgary3561
      @robertgary3561 2 года назад +2

      Flat earth is fun.

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 2 года назад +5

      @@robertgary3561 IT DOESNT TAKE A ROCKET SURGEON TO FIGURE THAT OUT !!

  • @khathaway414
    @khathaway414 5 лет назад +958

    Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

    • @Theo-ev6yu
      @Theo-ev6yu 5 лет назад +46

      You mean Congress?

    • @florencegomer7937
      @florencegomer7937 5 лет назад +34

      POPULISM is a very very dangerous thing. Millions have died because of it.

    • @ImTheJoker4u
      @ImTheJoker4u 5 лет назад +19

      Thank you George Carlin.

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz 5 лет назад +9

      Stupid people are the only type that exist. We each have a sphere of expertise we feel superior about while we each ignore those areas we are unfamiliar with and are therefore stupid about. None of us wants to be called stupid and we all feel the need to identify people we consider stupid.

    • @THETRUTHZ
      @THETRUTHZ 5 лет назад +6

      THE ONLY STUPID ONE HERE IS YOU , HOW DID THEY MAKE YOU STUPID YOU ASK ? SCHOOLS AND TELL/LIE/VISION HOW DO YOU BRAINWASH A HUE'MAN "WHAT THEY READ 'SEE'AND HEAR" WHAT DO THE TV AND SCHOOL DO ?

  • @nilsnyman6767
    @nilsnyman6767 8 месяцев назад +1

    Arguing with a flerfer is like playing chess with a pigeon, the pigeon's just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut around like it won the game. You can't argue with people who can't think critically.

  • @MrSitemaster2
    @MrSitemaster2 4 года назад +419

    "There are two types of flat-earther: those that sell the t-shirts and those that buy the t-shirts". - Bob the Science Guy

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 4 года назад +3

      ITS FLAT !! WE HAVE PROOF . WE HAVE MEETINGS AND EVERYTHING !

    • @MrSitemaster2
      @MrSitemaster2 4 года назад +36

      @@flatearth9140 Of course you have meetings, that's where you guys buy and sell t-shirts.

    • @flatearth9140
      @flatearth9140 4 года назад +1

      @@MrSitemaster2 WE DO THAT TOO !!

    • @MrSitemaster2
      @MrSitemaster2 4 года назад +3

      @@flatearth9140 We know.

    • @boterlettersukkel
      @boterlettersukkel 4 года назад +7

      @@flatearth9140 You are just a troll.

  • @eightapeach2861
    @eightapeach2861 3 года назад +732

    If the earth was really flat, flat earthers would swear it was round.

    • @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima
      @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima 3 года назад +9

      I think youy mean ''spherical'' don't you?

    • @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima
      @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima 3 года назад +4

      ​@Pat Mahon If you'd had a brain you would have realised that the ''them'' you speak of are and was, specifically, in this instant ONE OF YOU sphericalists, or, if you prefer a ''roundist'? Mmmmkay?

    • @GopherBaroque61
      @GopherBaroque61 3 года назад +39

      Are you a practicing member of the Church of Flatter Day Saints where your motto is "We have nothing to fear, but sphere itself".

    • @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima
      @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima 3 года назад +3

      @@GopherBaroque61 Yes, i am, who isn't?

    • @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima
      @drnoahjuvalhararihackableanima 3 года назад +2

      @Pat Mahon Do trolls exist then? You'll be telling me that the easter Bunny and the tooth fairy are real next...

  • @asivoria9
    @asivoria9 4 года назад +518

    "Your ability to speak does not make you intelligent." -Qui-Gon Jinn

    • @HeartsofSound
      @HeartsofSound 3 года назад +5

      In general it makes me more intelligent than those who do not have that ability.

    • @human_bot_
      @human_bot_ 3 года назад +9

      Yeah, but thinking the world is flat doesn't make you intelligent either...

    • @cartoonraccoon2078
      @cartoonraccoon2078 3 года назад +5

      @@HeartsofSound You assumption he was speaking to you counters your argument.

    • @dinoschachten
      @dinoschachten 3 года назад

      Yesssss!

    • @piermariobarozzi
      @piermariobarozzi 3 года назад +2

      Misa wants to go to the outer wall!