Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @notmni
    @notmni 4 года назад +6576

    hi , im a 10 year old and i have watched every single of your videos they are lovely
    as my interest in heavenly and interstellar bodies i love to hear you talking about so much of information
    thx a lot for sharing all this knowledge
    ;w;

    • @jesusvasquez4734
      @jesusvasquez4734 4 года назад +485

      It would have been awesome to have sabine's videos when I was a kid, I used to read the same astronomy book over and over, it was my only sceintific knowledge source.

    • @Bldyiii
      @Bldyiii 4 года назад +346

      I’m 33, with a BS biology & PharmD.
      Also watched every video and learn something new each time.
      Danke schön Dr. Hossenfelder

    • @smellymala3103
      @smellymala3103 4 года назад +107

      You are doing right by yourself and your peers on earth to be learning so much! 34 y/o stranger very proud and impressed by your statement.

    • @Melomathics
      @Melomathics 4 года назад +142

      Your vocabulary is really good for a 10 year old.

    • @luckabuse
      @luckabuse 4 года назад +37

      dude, Moon is flat!

  • @stephenjones9746
    @stephenjones9746 4 года назад +2715

    Question everything...but be prepared to accept the answers.

    • @stephenjones9746
      @stephenjones9746 4 года назад +261

      @Flat Eric Because that's how knowledge works.

    • @stephenjones9746
      @stephenjones9746 4 года назад +39

      @Flat Eric OK...I missed that!

    • @handtech3423
      @handtech3423 4 года назад +8

      Yes even if the answers are assumptions, non-scientific, misrepresentation

    • @stephenjones9746
      @stephenjones9746 4 года назад +108

      @@handtech3423 Of course not. That's what you have a brain for, to sift through the rubbish and come to a conclusion.

    • @handtech3423
      @handtech3423 4 года назад +22

      What conclusion did you come too. A pressurized ball next to a vacuum spinning and we came from monkeys.

  • @heckyes
    @heckyes 2 года назад +3194

    15:30
    "To me, therefore, flat earthers, are a warning sign that scientists should take seriously. The more difficult scientific experiments and arguments are to follow for non-experts, the more care we must take to explain how we lead those arguments."
    That's an incredibly well put conclusion.

    • @cbboegh
      @cbboegh 2 года назад

      @@TheQuranIsTheWay
      ruclips.net/video/aB2RTRd46us/видео.html
      I tried it myself, and sure enough - hilarious 😅
      Unfortunately, Google have since de-ranked their preferred top result. Still pretty funny.

    • @travisbarton4288
      @travisbarton4288 2 года назад +66

      yea its an interesting dichotomy. To a layman like me I often find scientific topics over my head to fuel my sense of wonder and curiosity, whereas other's view the same with skepticism or even fall back on supernatural explanations which - to me - seem even more implausible..

    • @fredman1085
      @fredman1085 2 года назад +36

      The hard part is scientists would have to take into account the varying degree of intelligence of the audience and perhaps more frustrating, their degree of accepting evidence disproving their personal thoughts or feelings. For flat earthers, a lot of them just don’t want to believe anything coming from any government agency or religious entity.

    • @heckyes
      @heckyes 2 года назад +15

      @@fredman1085 I agree, that's the challenge, a challenge which could have been lessened or avoided if the education systems were improved. Obviously there is many factors involved in why so many people today seem to doubt many established truths despite not being able to understand the evidence.

    • @EL_mann
      @EL_mann 2 года назад

      The Earth has NO curvature.
      CONVEX EARTH THE DOCUMENTARY
      CONVEX EARTH TECHNICAL DATA
      (Convex Earth - youtube chanel)

  • @HemiDad1963
    @HemiDad1963 3 года назад +4043

    Someone once said that: “If the earth was flat then cats would have pushed everything off by now”

    • @futsinen
      @futsinen 3 года назад +80

      They do anything for a bit of attention don't they!

    • @boosie5501
      @boosie5501 3 года назад +25

      My cat tries to act seductive to get attention but now it just hides in the cupboard since my father pushed his powerful stem right in its little brown button

    • @cabbagefart7432
      @cabbagefart7432 3 года назад +16

      And somebody else said: Risus abundat in ores stultorum.

    • @zed1stwizard
      @zed1stwizard 3 года назад +12

      @@cabbagefart7432 To which I reply. respondeat superior. And since you are not one. You should learn to listen​ meus puer discipulus. I'll take it, you have no explanation or understanding of the standard model. IT is always a bore to see claims made that never have any scientific bases. Be advised young one I have no such shortcomings. What would you like to learn?

    • @outerlands3382
      @outerlands3382 3 года назад +16

      it's flat all right the horizon is at least 5 times further out than it should be . the horizon test is the test for flat earth and the globe fails badly every time . the horizon does not move from its position , which is at least 20 miles away , to where it should be which is 3 and a half miles if you're 8 feet above the ocean . no curvature to the ocean - flat

  • @Rachie-nj3oi
    @Rachie-nj3oi 6 месяцев назад +111

    Ex flat earther here. For some like myself It's lack of knowledge, lack of understanding, thinking you know something you don't for example how the physics would be when it isn't. For example...we rotating 1000mph at the equator... no that's tangential speed and we don't feel speed (when you mention the higher speeds for eg going around the sun etc then they think we should feel the movement...
    Some are honestly lost especially the newcomers... those who have been in it for years and had things explained and demonstrated many times and many different ways are just liars, trolls and grifters, possibly some with biases and cognitive dissonance they can't or won't overcome or even realise they have. I realised my lack of knowledge and understanding and biases and cognitive dissonance and along with the help of others and chatgpt and fixed it.
    There's also those who look up to some as idols and want to impress them and so will not disagree with them in the slightest and stay stuck in fe.
    Oh and one more thing attacking flat earthers name calling etc doesn't help it only puts the walls/defences up more.

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 6 месяцев назад +15

      The problem is that even being nice to flatters doesn't matter - they just "fake", "CGI" and "perspective" whenever they are at a loss for words. It's been my experience that flatters here just like being anti-, i think it finally gives them a sense of "smartness".

    • @JimSmithInChiapas
      @JimSmithInChiapas 6 месяцев назад +4

      Thanks, Rachie. Having been active in this debate for over 10 years, I know that all too many debunkers have become so emotionally invested in their mantra of "FEs are irremediably inferior to us 'smart people' and will never reach a level where they can be reasoned with", that they (such debunkers) would prefer not to be told of ex-FEs like yourself.
      But for the benefit of debunkers who want to be more effective, could you give us a few example of people and resources who were most helpful to you?

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@JimSmithInChiapas : How about flat earthers at least attempt to do research into their claims about their own model? That is, without just making stuff up or complaining about why should be expected to prove anything.

    • @JimSmithInChiapas
      @JimSmithInChiapas 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@kitcanyon658 I can't control what FEs do, so I'm asking what *_we_* can do. Starting with listening to ex-FEs like Rachie.

    • @xeedsenterprise505
      @xeedsenterprise505 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@kitcanyon658No...the flat earthers are biased lot.They are very dangerous people because they just assumed on what they see only...seeing in believing is their motto.

  • @DerFailer
    @DerFailer 3 года назад +319

    Zeteticism: A spoon is cut while half submerged in a glass of water and is rejoint when you take it out.

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 3 года назад +11

      An apt allusion.

    • @MidnightTea7
      @MidnightTea7 3 года назад +43

      Look, look, water on the desert! What do you mean by 'mirage' - I SEE water!

    • @sacr3
      @sacr3 3 года назад +7

      Lmfao, exactly.

    • @xaigoart
      @xaigoart 3 года назад +21

      "There is no spoon"😌

    • @orangeheartguy
      @orangeheartguy 3 года назад +7

      No it actually just bends 🤷😏😝

  • @Wulfdane
    @Wulfdane Год назад +433

    Rather then being entirely dismissive, you make an effort to understand people’s thinking, even if they’re wrong. You’re respect toward others is admirable, you educate rather then insult - insults only hardens people’s hearts and minds.

    • @Eduardo_Espinoza
      @Eduardo_Espinoza Год назад +2

      This is why i like her videos, it's not what you think!

    • @LesssThanAverageJoe
      @LesssThanAverageJoe Год назад +4

      Wish I could like this twice.

    • @doranmcferran9663
      @doranmcferran9663 Год назад +6

      Surely after all this time we must have reliable photo images of earth from far out it space. If not, then I suppose flat earthers have a good case that there is a conspiracy going on.😮

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Год назад +10

      @@doranmcferran9663
      The science of Earth is called Geodesy, Earth has been measured and is not flat.
      Any alternative idea about Earth must:
      1) provide argument and evidence what Geodesy does wrong
      2) provide better models than Geodesy/Astronomy models which is very hard since the current scientific models are very good at explaining all related natural phenomena

    • @doranmcferran9663
      @doranmcferran9663 Год назад +2

      When and how can the earth (it's really big) be measured?

  • @billyt8868
    @billyt8868 3 года назад +366

    “no one cared…… he died.” omg sabine is peak german humor.

    • @crashfactory
      @crashfactory 3 года назад +19

      totally agree! The first couple videos i thought she was dry and humorless; didn't like the videos much. Then it struck me, she's actually quite the comedian, just *incredibly* dry and wry. I love it.

    • @jeremybasil241
      @jeremybasil241 3 года назад

      Hillary Clinton would be proud.

    • @averiWonBTW
      @averiWonBTW 3 года назад

      @@jeremybasil241 DA LIBERALS ARE BAAD !!!!!11111!!!!! FOX NEWS SAID SO!!!!111111

    • @jeremybasil241
      @jeremybasil241 3 года назад

      @@averiWonBTW the Aliens are comming 😆😆

    • @freed4700
      @freed4700 7 месяцев назад

      10:55 The “it is not” caught me off guard it was so funny

  • @haroldelrod3318
    @haroldelrod3318 10 месяцев назад +13

    Well put ma'am!! You are absolutely brilliant! Thank you for your time in putting this video together! Thank you for having the ability to articulate, communicating, in a brilliant, fair, reasonable, explanation of the flat earthers, and how they are most likely thinking.

  • @brucerogermorgan2388
    @brucerogermorgan2388 3 года назад +205

    Well, I'm 71 and I have only watched a few of your videos so far, but I love the fact that you've shown me that I am still capable of learning - and enjoying it. Thanks again, Sabine.

    • @napoleonbonapathy6943
      @napoleonbonapathy6943 3 года назад +1

      I am an aerospace engineer and private pilot supporting the fact the earth is flat and stationary. Education is indoctrination. Big bang, evolution, relativity, gravity theories are all lies designed to sell the fake spinning, moving globe to the masses.
      Hollywood is a great keyboard on which the government can play. It is also a mighty wand from which spells are broadcast.
      ‘Govern mental’ literally means ‘mind control.’ Universities kill diversity.
      Attitudes, behaviors, thoughts, mannerisms, memes are mass controlled through the broadcast.
      Simultaneous levels and layers of programming are being broadcast into the population telling them who to worship, inverting right and wrong, true and false, displacing reality to replace it with a virtual and alternate reality as far as the mind of the population can be manipulated, which is very far.
      People are extremely malleable. Children are even more impressionable.
      Einstein meant it when he said that imagination is more important than knowledge. He wanted for us to stay asleep in the imaginary, inverted world that they created for us; some call it the matrix, others call it the zeitgeist, this erroneous perception of our world and universe. Yet this perception is part of the collective consciousness that was put together through the broadcasting of spells. As long as whatever inhabits the mind of the population is imaginary and detached from reality then the controllers have nothing to fear as far their control system goes.
      From birth, the population is tuned in to the wavelengths the authors of the system (i.e. the authorities) broadcast from their Hollywood wands. As the RHCP once said, space may be the final frontier but it's made in Hollywood basement. Only by awareness of this manipulation can you resist the big inversion.
      They live, while we sleep. Food for thought. Bon apathy.

    • @richrichy3015
      @richrichy3015 3 года назад +7

      ☝️An aerospace engineer that denies the physics one needs to have knowledge of in order to be a successful aerospace engineer.
      You cannot make this stuff up. 🤣

    • @marindancirco6498
      @marindancirco6498 3 года назад +4

      i'm 60yo but still curios

    • @brucerogermorgan2388
      @brucerogermorgan2388 3 года назад +3

      @@marindancirco6498 I'm 72 now, and the only thing I'm curious about here is how some people can still maintain that they believe that the Earth is flat. It defies logic. They're either liars, deluded, or mentally deranged.

    • @fransverschoor8135
      @fransverschoor8135 3 года назад

      @@napoleonbonapathy6943 Your world view is dark and sinister. Keep it to yourself.

  • @Dragonblaster1
    @Dragonblaster1 3 года назад +504

    When I was 5 years old, my father looked enormous, When I was 18, he was 2 inches shorter than me. Therefore he gradually shrank over 13 years. Of course, it also meant that the shelf I could never reach gradually moved down the wall until I could reach it, my clothes grew smaller as time went on... and, well round about my mid-teens, my senses adjusted so that I seemed to get bulkier and stronger as I played rugby and cricket and ran cross-country, but obviously this was a myth. All the people around me just got frailer and weaker, the furniture shrank, as did streetlights, buildings and animals.
    It's the only thing that makes sense, since I am the centre of the universe, and the essential founder of reality.

    • @sacr3
      @sacr3 3 года назад +47

      I am simply a bot to make your existence more real.
      I am honored as a bot to meet the actual real individual!
      Now to pretend to do stuff to make your existence feel more real

    • @camrouxbg
      @camrouxbg 3 года назад +80

      This is probably the best example I've seen of this philosophy taken to its obvious conclusions.

    • @DarkyBoy
      @DarkyBoy 3 года назад +22

      @@sacr3 hello fellow bot. I agree we should make our founder of reality feel comfortable with us. So we need to act like similar to him

    • @someotherworldlybeing3167
      @someotherworldlybeing3167 3 года назад +10

      @@DarkyBoy hello other fellow bot, my shrinking device is not working, May I request an update as my communication to the hive mind is also broken.

    • @DarkyBoy
      @DarkyBoy 3 года назад +8

      @@someotherworldlybeing3167 request accepted meetup at the base in at 10 lunar time

  • @fernandobernardo6324
    @fernandobernardo6324 3 года назад +572

    There are flat-earthers who sell the t-shirts and the others that buy them.

    • @bethymears2648
      @bethymears2648 3 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @thebatman6201
      @thebatman6201 3 года назад

      Well said

    • @lelouchlamperouge8560
      @lelouchlamperouge8560 3 года назад +10

      There is no business like flat earth business.😂✌️

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 3 года назад

      Good for them.

    • @buneter
      @buneter 3 года назад +12

      Flat earthers don’t sell the shirts, someone just saw a way to make easy money

  • @derekcoaker6579
    @derekcoaker6579 9 месяцев назад +9

    What a fantastic way to look at it, and these ideas. Much respect. We could all use a bit of this toward those who don't think the same as we do.

  • @julianbauschlein3564
    @julianbauschlein3564 Год назад +292

    In my opinion, this "trust"-problem is not only true for scientific topics, but also many other things in our society. We get so specialised that there will be a point where you have to rely on another person. This doesn't mean you should trust them blindly - but if you want to check everything yourself, right down to the basics, it would be a never ending story.

    • @JoshuaMartinez-ml5hl
      @JoshuaMartinez-ml5hl Год назад +24

      Absolutely. One thing I've started understanding as I went through college is how almost everyone could help me my freshmen year, and now my teachers struggle to help with some of their own assignments.
      Another thing has been the realization that there are people a lot smarter than me, but due to our different fields, I know a lot more about my own field than they would ever care to know...but they still think they can do it better than me than I can. I have no doubts that they could if they put the same time I did, but they invested their time somewhere else, and there just isn't enough time in a single lifetime for anyone to be good at everything.
      It's okay to be good at one thing, just as long as you have others to trust to be good at their thing

    • @Mr05Chuck
      @Mr05Chuck Год назад +1

      Amen

    • @HTMangaka
      @HTMangaka Год назад

      Absolutely true. When it comes to simple things like the Earth being round, that's easy to verify. Launch a drone, send it way up.
      It becomes more difficult when there's a global pandemic and a small group of people tell you to put something in your blood that they won't tell you what it is. Distrust arises. =\

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Год назад

      Google and RUclips are one sided on FE Videos.Only Debunkers of FE are allowed on their pages.Monopolize your brain with Scientific Speculation designed for low IQ's.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Год назад +1

      @@JoshuaMartinez-ml5hl Donald Trump...exception to your rule.

  • @norvillerodgersspeaks
    @norvillerodgersspeaks 3 года назад +494

    This is the most polite and conscientious response to the flat earthers I have ever seen. Bravo. You are truly an excellent science communicator and go to great lengths to respect your audience and potential audience.

  • @maximusironthumper
    @maximusironthumper 4 года назад +2113

    Beautifully clear and well communicated viewpoint - a far better rebuttal of flat earthers than the 'Hey everyone, let's laugh at these idiots' stance that many out there take. Thank you for taking the time and effort!

    • @dirkardostevergreen4827
      @dirkardostevergreen4827 4 года назад +91

      You know that laughing at idiots is a time honoured tradition?

    • @maximusironthumper
      @maximusironthumper 4 года назад +129

      @@dirkardostevergreen4827 Be that as it may, I was thanking Sabine for making the effort to educate rather than mock.

    • @jacobmarley2417
      @jacobmarley2417 4 года назад +4

      Many you say? Shirley you jest!

    • @jonny__b
      @jonny__b 4 года назад +1

      Woah Max, didn't expect to see you! Patreon subscriber here :D

    • @eldo4rent
      @eldo4rent 4 года назад +65

      I believe all the FE/Globe stuff all started with genuine people seeking truth and rebutting flawed logic. But FE died a few years ago. Now all that is left are people making money on FE, people making money making fun of FE, and poor misguided souls who get caught up one way or the other in the money making machine. The biggest names on both sides spend a lot of time rebutting each other in an attempt to dive viewers to each others channels. They often guest star on each others channels to 'debate'. Its just a pointless exercise that will continue as long as there is money to be made. FE stars of today cannot admit they were wrong because its their job.

  • @fatthor2117
    @fatthor2117 10 месяцев назад +146

    I appreciate how you treat people with respect and do not just dismiss people as being stupid. You are a great educator and truly care about helping people understand science.

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 10 месяцев назад +4

      Albert Einstein said that human stupidity is infinite. When you consider him living during the time of 2 world wars, his comment is understandable.

    • @theplacebeyondthelies2429
      @theplacebeyondthelies2429 8 месяцев назад +2

      it's just a show, she is deceiving you

    • @sayakafermi5725
      @sayakafermi5725 8 месяцев назад +2

      Another example is Susan Blackmore, who writes critically but sympathetically about those who've had anomalous experiences that they interpret in nonscientific ways.

    • @theplacebeyondthelies2429
      @theplacebeyondthelies2429 8 месяцев назад

      in regards to theory of relativity, albert einstein also claimed that gravity is a "Scheinkraft" (which is german for "it appears to be a force of its own when it's not") so why do you quote these people if you have no idea about them or physics... that's exactly the stupidity Einstein was referring to. @@bobs182

    • @jimgutt749
      @jimgutt749 7 месяцев назад

      But, flat earthers ARE stupid... 😆

  • @have_a_nice_day399
    @have_a_nice_day399 3 года назад +744

    A calm and precise rebuttal without mocking-- that signifies the quality of a well-established scientist. Great talk!

    • @manofculture8666
      @manofculture8666 3 года назад +13

      Unfortunately, it will do absolutely nothing to some Flat Earthers who aren't looking for reason.
      Anything against their philosophy is fake news regardless of how much sense it makes.

    • @psychohist
      @psychohist 3 года назад +5

      Would be interesting if she would address climategate. She'd lose half her viewers and her job, though.

    • @TheAndrejP
      @TheAndrejP 3 года назад +4

      @@psychohist I'd say her thoughts on the topic were sufficiently expressed here though: ruclips.net/video/-fkCo_trbT8/видео.html
      Also, I'd say you're overstating the importance of the topic. The thing in question pretty much mostly concerns people who are trying to prove a point by any means necessary (a.k.a. conspiracy theorists) and some people who are genuinely interested in the topic but don't understand the subject material enough to be able to decipher it. The latter are probably the majority of the people, but I'd say the vast majority of them has no strong feelings on the topic so I really would not expect many unsubscribes either way, but at the same time, she is a German scientist, working for a German private-public institute called Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. They do not deal with climate science so I highly doubt they would even care about her videos at all, let alone would they believe it somehow impacts on her work which is in a totally different area in the first place.

    • @shellderp
      @shellderp 3 года назад +2

      @@manofculture8666 so what? who cares?

    • @manofculture8666
      @manofculture8666 3 года назад +6

      @@shellderp When we live in a world where kids believe the Earth is flat, we'll care lol. Their community is growing.

  • @ShadowTigerKing
    @ShadowTigerKing 2 года назад +37

    There's no Top Gear or Grand Tour special about going to the edge of the world. That's pretty good evidence for a round world.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 10 месяцев назад

      NO edges on our Flat Realm.Its infinitely Flat.

  • @melissaberman8244
    @melissaberman8244 7 месяцев назад +3

    Excellent argument for effective educational programs (like this one 🤓). Thank you, Sabine! 🙏

  • @hiallen72
    @hiallen72 Год назад +51

    This is billowing my mind. I think a humble yet unanimously vital point is this: if one wants to communicate, which is arguably so much important in societies, he or she needs to take scientifically inconsistent but partially rational arguments seriously. Scientific education should strive to reveal a healthy attitude and how to take sciences “scientifically”. You are a true communicator.

    • @ofdrumsandchords
      @ofdrumsandchords Год назад

      You are talking about good pedagogy. But flat-earthers have another problem, besides their "partially rational arguments", their lack of scientific education, and their intellectual limits. They don't want to learn about reality.
      For obvious psychological reasons. Arguing with a flat-earther is a real challenge. If you succeed, you totally destroy his universe, the spine which sustained his whole life. To replace it by what ? The awareness of his emptiness ?

    • @shereef3823
      @shereef3823 Год назад +1

      thank you. I have no doubt about my education, and life's experience's. My father was an airline pilot, i was privvy to many jet excursions...more proof of a circular Earth!

    • @lisakuntzman7834
      @lisakuntzman7834 Год назад +1

      She sounded uneducated in the hood

    • @shereef3823
      @shereef3823 Год назад

      Interesting comment...why do you say that?

    • @ofdrumsandchords
      @ofdrumsandchords Год назад

      @@shereef3823 Who are you talking to ? Is it Lisa ? By the way, spherical would be better than circular. Flerfs never could measure their pizza, that should have alarmed them !

  • @tomivar9469
    @tomivar9469 2 года назад +456

    It is very refreshing to see someone refuting flat earthers in a non condesending manner. Great work!

    • @alvinilmuwanpemain7204
      @alvinilmuwanpemain7204 2 года назад +13

      I don't think that's the correct spelling of condescending

    • @1FeistyKitty
      @1FeistyKitty 2 года назад

      it's very condescending and most of it is not even true. No modern FErs believe the earth is accelerating up. The number of FErs in the would is more like 10 million than 10k. This is very slick propaganda and written by a team of people.

    • @dusermiginte4647
      @dusermiginte4647 2 года назад +64

      They should be ridiculed and laughed at btw..

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 2 года назад +2

      When that happens let us know.

    • @mateonikolic6984
      @mateonikolic6984 2 года назад +28

      @@dusermiginte4647 they shouldn't. At least they show that they think even if their thought process is wrong.

  • @headlights07
    @headlights07 2 года назад +70

    Wow, that is an incredibly poignant argument of why flat earth "science" is really a failure to accept others' past observations. The can of soup analogy, trusting that your smart phone will work, trusting that society (generally) works is so important and hits home. I normally don't take the effort to comment on videos but for this excellent, excellent video I'm making an exception. Well done!!!

    • @robust.revelations
      @robust.revelations Год назад +1

      Wake up!🤦‍♂️

    • @kfm908
      @kfm908 Год назад +2

      have you ever tried to prove we live on a flying spinning water covered ball?

    • @zetmoon
      @zetmoon Год назад +2

      @@kfm908 can you prove we’re not?

    • @kimchristensen2175
      @kimchristensen2175 Год назад +4

      @@kfm908 I've sailed across the ocean. Done navigation with a sextant, etc. It's definitely round.

    • @tylerdurden3722
      @tylerdurden3722 Год назад +7

      @@kfm908 you can't prove a preconceived conclusion, by attempting to prove something else isn't the case.
      Instead, you should first accept you don't know, and then try to discover the truth...until then, you don't know.
      E.g. Let's say I have the preconceived notion that if a bag of bananas doesn't have 5 bananas, the only other possible logical conclusion is that that small bag has 900 trillion bananas. No other possibilities could possibly exist. Only my preconceived conclusion of 900 trillion bananas is the default alternative.
      So all I have to do to prove my theory, is prove there aren't 5 bananas in the bag, and then I've automatically proved there are 900 trillion bananes in the bag.
      This is obviously not logical, all I've done is discover I don't know how many banana's are in the bag, apart from the fact that it's definitely not 5.

  • @ritchiejacobson3324
    @ritchiejacobson3324 7 месяцев назад +5

    So well presented-like all of your videos. Appreciate your effort to make science understandable for most of us.

  • @Rc3651
    @Rc3651 2 года назад +114

    This is incredibly well put! Instantly subscribed. I think this issue of rejecting evidence for illogical reasons has been really growing in recent years, especially in the US. I think many of these points could be used even outside of arguments regarding the shape of the earth.

    • @waltmagic
      @waltmagic 2 года назад +5

      The woman in this video has obviously never tried to explain a spherical earth to a flat earther.

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад

      In the US the rejection of science has obviously become a part of rightwing doctrine. Less obvious, yet nonetheless true is the rejection of science and rational thought in the far left. I am convinced that both are simply opposite sides of the same coin. Unfortunately I doubt that rational argument is of any use.

    • @alsto8298
      @alsto8298 2 года назад

      US has well known education problems and science rejection cases for political reasons.
      You know the phrase "I'm not an american" means "I'm not extremely stupid to be unable to understand a simple thing".

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 2 года назад

      No Common Sense.

  • @osamobility
    @osamobility 2 года назад +22

    You make some excellent and refreshingly thoughtful points. Your perspective of openness and non adversarial resolve are the stuff of a healthy humanity. I'm glad I discovered your channel today, and look forward to exploring your library.

  • @brianmulholland2467
    @brianmulholland2467 2 года назад +209

    A friend of mine blew my mind a few years ago when he announced that he was 20% open to the idea of Hollow Earth and about 5% open to the idea of Flat Earth. Now, this guy has always have a bit of a conspiracy theory bent to him, but he's NOT dumb. He's an electrical engineer and very smart. Like Sabine said, it's not driven by stupidity.
    I think like any group there's a diversity of motivations, but for him and those like him. I think there's a dopamine hit that comes from feeling like you know something other people don't. When presented with an argument that human wisdom is wrong, his mind WANTS to believe because of how cool it would be to be among those who 'find the truth'. And as any con man or psychic will tell you, the easiest people to fool are the ones who WANT to be fooled.
    I tried debunking the hollow earth claims via an email...that I learned he never read. I rebutted some of his flat earth claims in person...but they didn't really take. He seemed to have second thoughts when I told him that the classical greeks knew the earth was round and described the experiment they used to measure how big it was and that they came shockingly close for how imprecise their tools were. But that quickly faded and had no lasting impression. It was confirmation bias in action. He couldn't let go of that belief that maybe, JUST MAYBE....everything we know is wrong. And how cool that would be to discover.

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 2 года назад

      no electrical engineer that isn't suffering significant mental problems could ever fall for flattardia. flat earth arguments are something that no intelligent, educated person could ever fall for.

    • @brianmulholland2467
      @brianmulholland2467 2 года назад +29

      ​@@johnqpublic7608 But see, that's exactly the conclusion that is easy to jump to that Sabine was cautioning against. And I would have been right there with you...until my friend 'came out' to me on the topic. I promise you, he IS a smart guy, and if you met him, I promise you would agree. He's worked on some pretty interesting contracts and projects too over the years.
      I'm not denying that SOME flat earthers are just in it because they're dim, or others because they think it supports their religious views...but those aren't this guy. I think it's an example that just because someone is smart, doesn't mean they aren't vulnerable to the biases and emotionally driven responses that can cloud everyone's thinking. Being smart doesn't mean you always reach the correct conclusions, and not everyone who reaches correct conclusions is smart.

    • @Matuse
      @Matuse 2 года назад +23

      @@brianmulholland2467 No, he's not a smart guy. He's broken inside, severely.

    • @andrewthorpe3377
      @andrewthorpe3377 2 года назад +14

      ​@@brianmulholland2467 I'm in a similar boat as your friend in regards to Hollow Earth Theory, but for me it's more a thought experiment than a belief. I have similar feelings about other 'alternate explanation' theories. For example, I don't actually believe Noah's Ark or the Garden of Eden are anything more than religious fairy tales, but I still entertain thoughts about the 'Mars Eden' and 'Noah's Ark Spaceship' theories.
      Some other theories I like thinking about are the idea that dragons depicted in medieval art might have been some smaller dinosaurs that could have survived the meteor that killed them off only to be hunted to extinction by knights in the name of glory (there are historical records that talk about dragons as if they were real- sometimes going as far as to discuss their anatomy-and some depictions are no bigger than large dogs) and the idea that there might have been other inteligent species that evolved alongside humans only to be hunted down because they were different (because of how the 'uncanny valley' makes some people feel uneasy, and because I think it sounds like something humans would do).
      If you held a gun to my head and asked if I could provide concrete evidence for any of these things, I would say of course not- they're just fun to think about sometimes.

    • @brandonthompson1856
      @brandonthompson1856 2 года назад +6

      Fire dragons were recent inspirations by Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims view on hell creatures. Dragon of ancient folk tales in Africa, Eastern Asia, Australia, and the Americas all depict snakes that cause rain and live in rivers. You are insightful in recognizing Medieval knights needing heroic stories 😂

  • @micahwahlquist9485
    @micahwahlquist9485 10 месяцев назад +6

    Such a great video ❤ I love the meticulous approach while keeping things simple 👍

  • @rogergauss7877
    @rogergauss7877 2 года назад +138

    I often ponder the possibility that humanity could be stuck in a perpetual Stone Age if not for language and it’s capacity to store and accumulate knowledge. We would then have to learn everything on our own as she says.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 2 года назад +14

      The other side of the coin for language is the effect that once ideas are written and labeled "God words" there will be people taking those written words as actually spoken by a God.
      And doesn't help the fact Gods never recorded any word since the invention of recorded sound...

    • @KCUFyoufordoxingme
      @KCUFyoufordoxingme 2 года назад +1

      Uh, yep.

    • @dimitristripakis7364
      @dimitristripakis7364 2 года назад +2

      This absolutely true. What people do best is learn from each other.

    • @ethanpschwartz
      @ethanpschwartz 2 года назад +8

      Fun Fact: One of the earliest written records we have is instructions on how to domesticate horses. If language were never invented, horse domestication would have likely never been able to be learned and reproduced, eventually dying out with whatever generation didn't learn it or pass it on.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 2 года назад +12

      @@ethanpschwartz Well no the generation would pass sit on to the next as practice or orally, as they did before writing was invented. Then another generation would probably discover it again.
      It would depend on how useful it was. Practices that don't get used are forgotten, and much of the knowledge that goes with them.

  • @clapdrix72
    @clapdrix72 3 года назад +434

    "..they refuse to decode difficult sensory input." I guess we have different definitions of stupid.

    • @juanausensi499
      @juanausensi499 3 года назад +59

      Stupid is a too much broad term. It's more a trust issue. Mixed with narcissim and a little paranoia.

    • @juanausensi499
      @juanausensi499 3 года назад +48

      @Vinnie P Imagine you have trust issues so big that you literally don't believe anything and anybody except what you see with your own eyes. Imagine how that can affect your beliefs.
      The problem with flat earthers (and in common with other conspiracy theorists) is not that they believe in a flat Earth, the real problem is that they honestly believe that billions of people are trying to fool them.

    • @rodschmidt8952
      @rodschmidt8952 3 года назад

      @Vinnie P And the giant-wall-of-ice theory is "stupid" because why?
      Is the giant-wall-of-ice theory really an inherent part of every flat-earth theory? I am aware of two such theories (thus they are contradictory, of course). I don't see why an ice wall would be necessary "so we can't fall off"

    • @watervirgin4575
      @watervirgin4575 3 года назад +4

      I'm fine for flat-earthers or any human beings being stupid because they can learn someday. But being delusional or constantly paranoid, you need medical attention.

    • @juanausensi499
      @juanausensi499 3 года назад +6

      @NexusGen Inc. I agree, but i think that condition is closer to narcissism than to megalomania.
      Narcissists only know two subjects: themselves and the world. They have a tough time imagining how other people interact without him. For them, two people conspiring and two million people conspiring is all the same.
      Of course, it's much possible to be a narcissist AND a megalomaniacal.

  • @KeepingOnTheWatch
    @KeepingOnTheWatch 3 года назад +263

    Schrödinger’s Canned Soup - it is simultaneously edible and inedible at the same time.

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 3 года назад +2

      I like it!

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 3 года назад +4

      - Too bad the video is old and Sabine won't see this. Really funny, dude 😄

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 3 года назад +10

      What about Schrödinger’s cat food?

    • @KeepingOnTheWatch
      @KeepingOnTheWatch 3 года назад +3

      @@oldmusician5236 Ah, yes! The canned food that cats both like and dislike.

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 3 года назад +1

      @@KeepingOnTheWatch Yes. I stole your idea, but refined it so that it relates to cats. You get the real credit.

  • @OfentseMwaseFilms
    @OfentseMwaseFilms 10 месяцев назад +23

    One of the best videos I’ve ever seen💯

    • @ryans.7426
      @ryans.7426 9 месяцев назад +3

      Really? Did you drop out of school before science class?

    • @bobs8005
      @bobs8005 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ryans.7426wow so rude. It’s obviously the first RUclips video they have ever seen…

    • @abcsmail1
      @abcsmail1 8 месяцев назад

      You must have only watch about 3 videos

    • @dannystefanovski5513
      @dannystefanovski5513 8 месяцев назад

      NASA ~ De Classified Documents
      Prove " FLAT NON ROTATING EARTH "
      Physicist, Neville Thomas Jones, Ph.D.
      writes, "furthermore, no experimemt in all physics has ever demonstrated the globe theory, nor demonstrated that the World moves around the sun, or that it rotates on an axis". #1207
      entitled Derivation and Definition of a
      Linear Aircraft Model assumes the
      Earth is flat and not rotating. Produced
      in August 1988, the publication details
      obscure concepts such as "Rotational
      Acceleration" and "Earth-Relative
      Velocity. " Or to a layman, how planes
      lift off, fly over, and land upon the
      Earth. Immediately following the cover
      page and index on the very first line
      Hnder Summary we see this: "This
      report documents the derivation and
      definition of a linear aircraft model for
      a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying
      over a flat, nonrotating Earth." The very
      same line appears again in the
      Introduction (2nd paragraph), and
      again under Concluding Remarks
      (Page 30), and finally, on the Report
      Document Page (Page 102, Section
      16). Here is the link to entire
      report: nasa.gov/
      centers/dryden/pdf/88104main_H-
      99+
      A

  • @DarrylLearie
    @DarrylLearie 3 года назад +154

    “Few people cared - he died in 1971” omg, that cracked me up 😂. I’m a 47 year old with just a High School Diploma but I continue to learn from you Sabine. Your awesome!

    • @Fabelaz
      @Fabelaz 3 года назад +3

      Scientific channels on RUclips do not beat a degree, but they sure can entertain one's curiosity.

    • @shawnchong5196
      @shawnchong5196 3 года назад

      The amount of sarcasm in her comments are hilarious, she's basically giving the finger to these people, hahaha.

    • @jamesn7305
      @jamesn7305 3 года назад +6

      @@Fabelaz I'm not sure what having a degree has to do with anything. People have degrees but still believe in flat earth so ...

    • @Fabelaz
      @Fabelaz 3 года назад +7

      @@jamesn7305 what I meant is having a higher education is better than getting small snippets of information on same topic from youtube videos as former is more complete. My statement wasn't about flat earth, but I doubt anyone with higher education diploma (a real one) in physics-related area can believe in flat earth.

    • @srobertweiser
      @srobertweiser 3 года назад

      Hopefully, you can find a RUclips video to continue to learn English grammar.

  • @samagog
    @samagog 2 года назад +84

    Thank you! This can apply to much more than flat earthers. Very thought provoking.

    • @Lilmiket1000
      @Lilmiket1000 2 года назад +5

      My thought exactly! This mindset seems to be a pleague spreading around the world. and not just with flat earthers.

    • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
      @LiveFreeOrDie2A 2 года назад +2

      I feel flat earthers fall into two camps.
      1)those with prominent online followings/RUclips channels who occupy a niche, cynically peddling content to an audience ready to passionately consume it.
      2)their audience, made up of individuals who for one reason or another feels society has rejected them or lied to them; and so now, they completely reject society and view everything that is mainstream common belief/knowledge as just another lie they are now too wise to fall for. It gives them a feeling of superiority and power. They aren’t “conspiracy theorists”, as they rarely if ever articulate a “theory” of their own to go with the conspiracy. They like it vague, they don’t want answers, they only want to make all of reality, history, etc as confused and uncertain as they are.
      They aren’t “conspiracy theorists”; they are, for lack of a better term, “conspiracists”. And by that I mean “conspiracy and nihilism taken on as a worldview and religion”.
      They will latch on to anything and nothing at all as long as it means rejecting mainstream beliefs. The earth is flat, the pyramids were power plants, the sphinx is 50,000 years old, Atlantis was an advanced global civilization, mudfloods, the moon landing was faked, on and on..

    • @jamescat2386
      @jamescat2386 2 года назад

      yes, I'm not a flat earther myself, but I do believe the moon is flat. I'm a flat mooner.

  • @servit0r
    @servit0r 3 года назад +71

    This video has renewed my trust in canned food, thank you.

  • @emmahardesty4330
    @emmahardesty4330 6 месяцев назад

    Another really great one from Sabine. Excellent and clear, plus most of the comments are great also. This has given me a better start to my day.

  • @Clough42
    @Clough42 4 года назад +45

    I think the treatment of "science" in the media hurts here, too. Too often, the view we have is of countless surprising outlier study results that are sensational enough to warrant speculative reporting. This food is bad for you. That one weird trick will make you live longer. This gives the distorted view that science is just smart people reporting new discoveries. When lots of those astounding reports are later contradicted, it looks like evidence that science doesn't work, when really it's just evidence that a single data point isn't sufficient for full understanding.

    • @reeepingk
      @reeepingk 4 года назад +5

      This so much. The media is... awful. They often report things like "Fuel cells/solar cells/super batteries/super capacitors are coming next year with this new technology." And while that new technology MAY exist, it's likely impossible to commercialize or would be so expensive as to not be economically viable. People have to accept that the world runs on money, and if something is too expensive to produce, the general public won't fund it/buy it. Of course science has technologies that could and would produce cleaner energy. But these technologies were produced using the most expensive materials and most expensive techniques. Often precious metals make up significant parts of batteries/other energy producing technologies that scientists study. I can't produce a battery that's 25% gold by weight and expect the public to pay a premium to use it when they can go to their local wal-mart and buy a normal battery, with likely half the capacity, for 1/1000ths of the cost. Science is burdened with the job of producing something CHEAPER than we currently have. And since things typically get cheaper the more they're used, fossil fuels are SO... UNGODLY CHEAP right now. (I'm using energy as an example, but the same idea applies everywhere.)
      Basically, the media is constantly undermining science even when they're trying to be useful. Furthermore, the media OFTEN misrepresents scientific publications because the media articles are written by idiots who have no idea what they're talking about, so they'll cherry pick a sentence and then say "this is what this entire paper is about." When in reality the scientific author was using that sentence as an example of something completely different. I've seen it happen more times than I can count.

    • @dailytact1370
      @dailytact1370 4 года назад +4

      Yeah, take something like global warming. If you only learn about global warming from the media and build what they say in to a scientific hypothesis then it's incredibly easy to pick apart and disprove as a hoax even if you lack a university education. Meanwhile if you take the actual science instead of the medias portray of it it's so far impossible to disprove. The fundamental problem is that you need at least 5 years of university studies (or more) to accurately understand all the science behind it to the point where you're capable of "making up your own mind" fairly. You need to learn everything from fluid dynamics and complex system analysis to quantum mechanics to be able to really understand every different part of it and how all of it interacts. But climate change as portrayed by the media? Well disproving that would make for a nice elementary school research project.

    • @earth.is.a.plane.
      @earth.is.a.plane. 4 года назад +1

      Here's a report that will not be "later contradicted." Water finds level. Level is a *_plane._* Earth is established on the *_same_* plane as water, a fluid, settled into a calm flat surface in a basin; i.e. a swimming pool for example. Basin size does *NOT* change water's nature to rest calm with it's surface a perfect plane once settled into a basin of *_any_* given size.

    • @reeepingk
      @reeepingk 4 года назад +2

      @@earth.is.a.plane. No. Just... no. Water does not find a "level". Water finds its place equidistant from the center of the mass that the water is attracted to (aka elevation). The ocean is not level. It is simply equidistant from the center of the earth. You're confusing "level" with "elevation." Over a sufficiently short distance, this will appear to be on the same plane. It is, however, not. I just don't... get it. Flat earthers can see and agree that the other planets/moons in our solar system are spherical. Including moons that have oceans of liquid on them, yet they dispute that oceans can exist on a sphere, yet they can... see... them. Oh of course that's assuming they don't think that space is all a conspiracy theory perpetuated by all of the governments of the world for... some... unknown.... purpose.

  • @sleepy314
    @sleepy314 4 года назад +245

    I bought a shovel and am going to build a duplicate of the LHC in my backyard so I can check their findings with my own senses.

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  4 года назад +79

      Ha :)

    • @GonogoBonobo
      @GonogoBonobo 4 года назад +50

      It won't be your own senses but the detectors data. Nobody ever seen atoms, least subatomics particules. In fact nobody ever seen anything except photons scatered by objects colliding with retina cells. Wait we don't see photons but our brain only construct an internal model of objects from retina excitation from photons colliding with retina cells. And so on ...

    • @deepstariaenigmatica2601
      @deepstariaenigmatica2601 4 года назад +1

      @@GonogoBonobo and that model is accurate and enough. definitely don't need ugly xray or gamma or radiowave senses...and those excitations count as seeing with our senses...

    • @GonogoBonobo
      @GonogoBonobo 4 года назад +13

      @@oakpope , This is my point, what does it means "to see" or any other sense. We never know the reality, but only know the experience of it. What we can reality is in fact only a construct of the mind.

    • @GonogoBonobo
      @GonogoBonobo 4 года назад +6

      correction: What we call reality is in fact only a construct of the mind.

  • @thebatman6201
    @thebatman6201 3 года назад +48

    I approve of your tactic of not simply dismissing the other perspective. But instead humoring it and allowing it to attempt to stand on its own. Socrates would be proud

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 3 года назад +1

      She never brought up the most relevant FE points.No rebuttal.Shes Old School and only exists to calm down wishywashy Ballers what they want to believe.Swallowing other people's ideas instead of actually researching on their own ,comforts Lazy Globeheads.

    • @rigby0world1
      @rigby0world1 3 года назад +5

      @@ronpapi9539 K.

    • @PeacefulCountryLife
      @PeacefulCountryLife 3 года назад

      @@ronpapi9539 Which are the most relevant FE points ?

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 3 года назад

      @@PeacefulCountryLife The Earth's Stationary and immovable.No Ocean Curvature and unproven Gravity Theory.That's just 4 points out of 200.

    • @PeacefulCountryLife
      @PeacefulCountryLife 3 года назад

      @@ronpapi9539 Thank you. Do you have a website / article link were all of these are fully listed and explained?

  • @rskeyesful
    @rskeyesful 9 месяцев назад +18

    I've found, when teaching a subject, it helps to have an extensive number of ways to explain the same concept. Re-Teach the subject until they GET IT. I love the job you're doing.

    • @JimSmithInChiapas
      @JimSmithInChiapas 9 месяцев назад

      Of course you probably include participation in relevant experiments as part of your teaching. Regarding the Earth's shape, a good one is the worldwide Eratosthenes project, in which schools participate each year on the equinoxes.

    • @warmachineuk
      @warmachineuk 9 месяцев назад

      You can only teach someone who wishes to learn. Flat Earthers need to believe you're a 'sheep' and they're the actually smart people.

    • @yannickduchene305
      @yannickduchene305 Месяц назад

      And never forget we do not know everything on everything for sure.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Месяц назад

      @@JimSmithInChiapas Failed project.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Месяц назад

      @@yannickduchene305 The JWSTelescope is proving Physics wrong.Scientist need to start over with new information and dump what they thought they knew.Sad!.

  • @BlaineCraner
    @BlaineCraner 3 года назад +184

    I love it how an actual scientist isn't just about mocking people that are wrong. We need more people like you.

    • @chunkybuttz844
      @chunkybuttz844 3 года назад +19

      it really doesn’t matter how you address individuals who aren’t listening. Flerfers are the child with his fingers in his ears tongue out

    • @AlanHowellphotovideo
      @AlanHowellphotovideo 3 года назад +5

      @Captain Bruh exactly. Mockery can be properly used as a catalyst to help them change and see the errors in their thinking when they reject all evidence and fail to listen. Satire can often be an example.

    • @bxdanny
      @bxdanny 3 года назад +23

      @@AlanHowellphotovideo No, mockery just makes people angry and redoubles their determination to stand up to the mockers. Sabine has the right idea. Engage with people respectfully and show them why they are wrong.

    • @timq6224
      @timq6224 3 года назад +5

      coddling the idiots is why why are going through this now...

    • @timq6224
      @timq6224 3 года назад +8

      @@bxdanny actually no, when you show respect to someone who is wrong, you engender confidence in their beliefs. When they seek out like minded idiots, you have lost the battle completely. I have watched Hitchens lovingly explain to religious people exactly where they are wrong, and those same people then return to their own and publicly berate him.

  • @Mojojojo85757
    @Mojojojo85757 Год назад +26

    I will say one thing Sabine - you hit the nail on the head. It’s a trust issue. If you cannot trust the methods, foundations, sources, or agendas… everything else crumbles.

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Год назад +5

      it's not a trust issue. it's a paranoid delusion issue.

    • @Mojojojo85757
      @Mojojojo85757 Год назад +2

      @@johnqpublic7608 potato potáto. Tell that to the paranoidly deluded.

    • @Programm4r
      @Programm4r Год назад

      Round earth is a dogma to them. Many things within the scientific community ought to be challenged. A round earth is not one of them.

    • @ThatBillmanGuy
      @ThatBillmanGuy Год назад +5

      Which is odd, because they trust the methods, foundations, sources, and agendas of random RUclips videos and the flat earth society...

    • @Mojojojo85757
      @Mojojojo85757 Год назад +3

      @@ThatBillmanGuy do they? I’m not a flat earther honestly so I’m not sure where the foundation of their thinking lies…. But for the ones that I’ve met that seem really hardcore about it, it’s more driven by biblical interpretation than RUclips videos. There are also those that aren’t religious however, and in those cases I’ve noticed just a general mistrust in NASA as the motivating factor. I ponder the flat earth thing a lot, I would like to pick their brains a little more … it seems so strange that anyone would believe something like that in this day and age… and yet we have entire “societies” dedicated to the premise, and what seems to be a growing sentiment that what we’ve been taught to be scientific “facts” are often times rooted in problematic theories. The line between theory and truth has been extremely blurred by the scientific community… but maybe another ten years of modifying string theory will bring us all the answers to the universe we’ve been seeking . I won’t hold my breath 😂

  • @kodoy
    @kodoy 3 года назад +28

    if everyone had to build their own computer from scratch before learning anything else about them, none of us would be here right now

  • @stanislavstoimenov1729
    @stanislavstoimenov1729 6 месяцев назад +1

    Very insightful, Sabine! Thank you!

  • @kloboklonz9589
    @kloboklonz9589 4 года назад +253

    I am really impressed about the objective method Sabine is tackling this phenomenon of flat-earthers and the way she is presenting us an even deeper insight of why some people are thinking these strange ways: actually it is all about missing trust... Thank you very much!

    • @nachoijp
      @nachoijp 4 года назад +6

      I would argue that she didn't use an objective method,on the contrary,it was very subjective. She put herself in the mindset of a flat earther and understood how they feel about science. She did explain it objectively though, so her reasoning can be seen by everyone else.

    • @chaukeedaar
      @chaukeedaar 4 года назад +9

      Yes, missing trust, and that's pretty reasonble these days towards politics, but in many cases also towards science in general; but also missing good education. Most of them probably also did not have the chance to travel around the world. How can we tell someone to recalculate the movements of the planets if they have no handle on geometry?

    • @kloboklonz9589
      @kloboklonz9589 4 года назад +5

      @@chaukeedaar good education! Yes, I totally agree!

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 4 года назад +5

      @@chaukeedaar You don't need to be fairly confident the earth isn't flat (I'm not sure if you meant to imply that it not). Just watch a ship vanish bottom-up over the horizon. There are innumerable pieces of evidence because the earth is pretty ubiquitous as far as things go. ;)
      How would this work on flat earth?
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave
      How would pilots navigate? What moves a compass needle? It goes on and on ... Then, of course, there's the fact that a flat earth map does not exist--flat maps are all projections!

    • @RWin-fp5jn
      @RWin-fp5jn 4 года назад +7

      Well, actually Sabine , like most physicians, deliberately always likes to pick out the 'flat Earthers society' from the more serious critics of mainstream science. Why? Well, by making flat Earthers Movement appear more widespread or influential than they really are, mainstream science is generalizing all opposition to mainstream science to be equally dumb as this somewhat slightly retarded Kumbaya bunch. It kind of makes maintream sceintists look real smart (which they are in comparison) and moves attention way from the problametic, flawed and at sometime ridiculous theories, mainstream science has developed on their own over the years...

  • @dat2ra
    @dat2ra 3 года назад +172

    I taught University Earth Science every semester for 30 years. 60 times I went step-by-step through the evidence for Plate Tectonics. Each time it still gave me chills. It was beautiful in its conclusions and as an example of the scientific method. The students really liked it too rather than merely being taught that the plates move.

    • @MarsStarcruiser
      @MarsStarcruiser 3 года назад +6

      @@napoleonbonapathy6943 Are you spamming, really!?

    • @zed1stwizard
      @zed1stwizard 3 года назад +7

      @@MarsStarcruiser Yup and the so-called pilot can't answer basic questions.

    • @MarsStarcruiser
      @MarsStarcruiser 3 года назад +3

      @@zed1stwizard I kind of figured😅

    • @bishbosh1962
      @bishbosh1962 3 года назад +10

      @@napoleonbonapathy6943 No, no you're not what you claim to be. If you are then show me you flying a plane and doing your job as an aerospace engineer.

    • @FoxyllAkora
      @FoxyllAkora 3 года назад +5

      @@napoleonbonapathy6943 🤡

  • @jannepeltonen2036
    @jannepeltonen2036 3 года назад +81

    Wow. I grew completely bored about the flat earther bashing videos and never got around to watching your video on the subject - and you actually communicated an important both practical and philosophical point of view in it I haven't seen anyone else make. So better late than never I guess, for me to watch this awesome video.

    • @MrOneNye
      @MrOneNye 2 года назад +1

      Good review. One amongst many. I'll watch cause of it.

    • @BlueZirnitra
      @BlueZirnitra 2 года назад

      I really feel you about getting bored. It would seem that as a lover of truth and science those videos ridiculing flat earthers would be entertaining but the truth is many of the people rebuking or debating them are disappointing in their behaviour and approach. They often seem bitter and ego driven and it is rare to see any real respectful interaction between participants. This kind of non-antagonistic approach is refreshing and ultimately more valuable and effective I think.

    • @Kumagoro42
      @Kumagoro42 2 года назад

      @@BlueZirnitra To be fair, Flat Earthers are extremely antagonistic. They come from a position that society at large doesn't accept, and they feel like an oppressed minority that has a right to get angry and combative to defend their beliefs. My personal reaction is that they scare me. If we ever plunge back into a middle age, it'll be partially because beliefs like this will have spread among the dissatisfied and the persecuted that are seeking vindication.

  • @ah1548
    @ah1548 7 месяцев назад +1

    old, but still an excellent video. thank you, Sabine!

  • @guilhermem413
    @guilhermem413 2 года назад +338

    Here in Brazil, a group of flat-earthers held a laser and mirror experiment and accidentally disproved the flat Earth. Yes, they refuted themselves.

    • @1FeistyKitty
      @1FeistyKitty 2 года назад +55

      maybe they were globers acting flat

    • @edholohan
      @edholohan 2 года назад +2

      Good

    • @1FeistyKitty
      @1FeistyKitty 2 года назад

      Have you seen the GoFast rocket launch? ruclips.net/video/001IXnp0ogc/видео.html. It goes 73 miles up and suddenly and at the same time you here a THUD it goes from spinning fast to slow. As it spins, slow it down and you will see the moon which looks TINY from that distance. Ask yourself, why/how could the moon look so tiny from 73 miles up. You can see in the video the launch is around mid day. They published the date of the launch.
      So the look up where the moon was at that day and apx. time..... OVER INDONESIA!
      Sorry, that is CHECKMATE! NOT ONLY is it impossible to see the moon over Indonesia from 73 miles over NV on a ball earth on that documented day/time but it ALSO explains why the moon is SO SMALL and far away! --- AND there is NO OTHER EXPLANATION for the moon looking so small (and far away!) If the earth is an 8k dia. ball, Indonesia is directly on the opposite side of the ball from NV..... sorry chump.

    • @anonymes2884
      @anonymes2884 2 года назад

      Did they then change their minds ? Or did they just come up with some post hoc reason why their experiment didn't _really_ provide evidence for a globe Earth ?
      Because that's the difference between _actual_ rational skepticism and merely propagating pseudo-scientific conspiracy theories - the former follows the evidence.

    • @andrea585ny
      @andrea585ny 2 года назад +1

      Lol 🤣 groups here in the US have done the same. Check out the documentary Behind the Curve, they disprove their theory several times then refute the results. Cheers!

  • @SkywalkerSamadhi
    @SkywalkerSamadhi 4 года назад +256

    So... Their argument goes basically like this...
    "You can't accept science saying the world is round just because someone tells you it is. You have to go out and see it for yourself. The only evidence you can believe is what you yourself see."
    Where did you get that idea?
    "Saw it On RUclips."

    • @mangalvnam2010
      @mangalvnam2010 4 года назад +25

      "The only evidence you can believe is what you yourself see": well, they do not see the sun coming up very tiny at the dawn, increasing in size until noon and then shrunking back to a point at sunset, like it should necessarily be the case if Earth was a flat disk and a smaller sun orbited over it like they claim! If their senses are showing them that, then I suggest that they stop eating allucinogenic mushrooms with a expired date or that they go and search for more pure weed or lsd, for their dope then seems to be toxic garbage... lol

    • @jorgepeterbarton
      @jorgepeterbarton 4 года назад +14

      If you go too far with it i think is just solipsistic. And dangerously close to psychosis..although psychosis is due to biological or trauma-related illness not just stupidity.
      And yes, this video did not convince me any more that its not stupidity. Its a better debunk as its a full understanding.
      Like, i get trusting only your own senses but they think seeing the moon in the day as if that has been a hidden fact is evidence.
      If they do not understand the round earth model, or gravity they cannot 'debunk' it.
      So for that inconsistency i would say sabine is being unusually kind for some weird reason. She absolutely rips very sensible deductive hypothesis...

    • @konradbentgislason3835
      @konradbentgislason3835 4 года назад +8

      @@jorgepeterbarton Go and take a flight with a plane, - aaand you will see for yourself!!! 10 km up, you can clearly see that earth is not flat!!

    • @jorgepeterbarton
      @jorgepeterbarton 4 года назад +4

      @@konradbentgislason3835 and you too have eyes! to read the comment you are replying to before clicking enter! LMAO

    • @Sonship1000
      @Sonship1000 4 года назад

      Dude.. try and think for yourself for once..

  • @nicholaschampagne1976
    @nicholaschampagne1976 4 года назад +100

    Keep up with all that You do. I love that you did this about flat earth

    • @ZackWolfMusic
      @ZackWolfMusic 4 года назад +3

      Earth is flat

    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 4 года назад

      @@alanlowey2769 You can't tell the location of any place on earth. ^^
      It proves what you are and hasn't much to do with shapes.

    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 4 года назад

      @@RealmsandRealms If "space is fake", what's the alternative. and how do you know that?
      You're a bit late, spamming. It's a dead horse for some time...

    • @RealmsandRealms
      @RealmsandRealms 4 года назад +1

      @@manuell3505 Many Maps Are Used in Video's to Demonstrate the Workings of "Flat Earth Realm Models."
      These are Just "2D Paper Maps" of Are Known Continents, going up to Coast of the Antarctica.
      Please Don't Confuse them for A Flat Earth Model, They don't Go Beyond That, But "Flat Earth Realm" Models Do. )
      *Also I can't Stress Enough, Flat Earth is Not some Shape of Earth, it's A Realm.
      It's not something Floating in Fantasy Outer-Space. It's are Known Continents/Lands inside A "Pond/Colony" Sourrounded by some kind of Barrier known as the "Firmament" many Speculate to be A "Dome, Force Field, Van Alan Radiation Belts, Etc...
      Me Personally... A Closed Stargate Firmament, somewhat like A Particle Accelerator.
      And All Stargates Hold Water... 😉
      What's Outside is Known "Aetherial/Premordial Waters of Creation" and more Lands Beyond what we're in, that are Possibly Infinite in this "Cosmic Womb/Universe."
      Anything Showing A Flat Earth as Something Separate or Floating in Space, is False Information and has No Cosmology, Ancient Origins or Herstory/History. That's Propoganda Lies and Fake Information from the Government's "Fake Flat Earth Society." I Hope Everyone has this Understanding.*✌️😁
      *Think of this "Flat Earth Realm" like it is, A "Pond in A Park or Stadium in A Town/City" Then Think of How much more their is Beyond/Outside of that "Pond/Stadium" and the Possibilities.*
      It's in All those Video's You'll Find Information and Links to Everything you Need to "Watch or Read or Do Experiments for Yourself."
      I Did the Homework by Posting that Here, Now you don't Even have to Search Hard and Long for All of these, that are Being Censored and Shadow Banned! 😁
      *The World's Biggest Religion, Scientism!
      "Yeah, you even have Religious People that Believe it, So it's the Biggest."
      "Scientism" is Sci-fi Fantasy Pseudoscience and doesn't use the Scientific Method at all, it's Anti-Science.
      They Use the Illusion of Fantasy "Mathamatic Equations" as A Substitute for the "Scientific Method."* 😠
      THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
      *Observable, Measurable, Repeatable, Testable Experiments.*
      (Practical, Demonstratable, Empirical Science with "CAUSE and EFFECT.") 😉
      PSEUDOSCIENCE:
      *Corporate Social Science and Education are Full or Theories and Assumptions that are SCIENTISM Religion* 😂
      THE CODE OF SCIENCE:
      ECNEICS - is science backwards.
      "Practicality, Realism, Reliability, Discipline, Sincerity, Experience. 😉
      *You Come Up with your "Hypothesis and Theorys" and You Test them with the Scientific Methods* ✌️😁
      *The Scientific Method that the "Globe and Heliocentrism" Fails on All Accounts.* 😂
      FLAT EARTH COSMOLOGY LINKS: ✌️😁
      1. *This Website has Incredible and Important "ANCIENT to MODERN" Knowledge of this "Flat Earth Realms" Cosmologys*
      Link below:
      nasiresearch.com/2017/02/22/israelite-cosmology-calendar/
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      Link below:
      duckduckgo.com/?q=flat+earth+cosmology&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images
      3. *Flat Earth Maps and Ancient Maps*
      Link below:
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      4. *Flat Earth: More Land Beyond*
      duckduckgo.com/?q=flat+earth+land+beyond&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
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    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 4 года назад +2

      @@RealmsandRealms You didn't answer my question: if "space is fake", what's the alternative and how do you know that?
      Regarding the flat earth map: how come you can't tell the location of any place on earth, nor the position of anything in the sky at any moment?

  • @markpalaszewski9712
    @markpalaszewski9712 9 месяцев назад +47

    My own experience tells me, by watching ships sail over the horizon, by driving towards the mountains and watching how they also look small then taller and taller as we go over the curvature of the earth and get closer to them. And looking at the other planets and a simple understanding of gravity tells me that we are on a globe.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 8 месяцев назад

      You're confusing Perspective watching Ships disappear. It's just mans limited vision over distances.The Water is always level and the Sun doesn't rise or Set.The Sun is always level when it comes into view.It travels parallel to the Flat Earth until it is no longer visible to the human eye.Globeheads call that Sunset.Wrong!

    • @C_Becker
      @C_Becker 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@ronpapi9539Just shut up.

    • @mollykeane2571
      @mollykeane2571 7 месяцев назад +6

      Yes, we all thought exactly like you at one point.

    • @alexc-man7711
      @alexc-man7711 7 месяцев назад +14

      Take a high-zoom camera and what do you know... that ship that appeared to have gone over a curve can be zoomed right back into plain view. Tried, tested and demonstrated many times over and is an indisputable fact.

    • @C_Becker
      @C_Becker 7 месяцев назад +14

      @@alexc-man7711 Nope. It does not. And it is not.

  • @panostriantaphillou766
    @panostriantaphillou766 4 года назад +39

    You can bend a spoon easily by dipping it in a glass of water.
    Unfortunately you have to keep it there (and refill the glass periodically) or it will become straight again. :)

    • @SomaFlly
      @SomaFlly 4 года назад +2

      You can also bend it with your mind

    • @emh8861
      @emh8861 4 года назад +1

      Good one

    • @boobylinks
      @boobylinks 4 года назад

      Uri Geller wants a word with you.

    • @_IronLion_
      @_IronLion_ 4 года назад +4

      There is no spoon.

    • @mangalvnam2010
      @mangalvnam2010 4 года назад

      @@_IronLion_ There is no bend, the bend is an allusion... Likewisely, the sky also is not bent toward one side like it should be if Earth was a disk and you looked up from a place significantly distant from the center of that disk...

  • @formfaktor
    @formfaktor 2 года назад +26

    I love these explanations, not so much about the flat earth part per se, but the philosophical aspects described about science itself and the role of scientists having to make science tangible again.

    • @FLPoetry
      @FLPoetry 2 года назад

      She missreresting flat earth. If you look for a curve you can't find it. If you try and detect motion you can't sense it. If you look at the pictures you'd think there made by Hollywood. Oh wait they are. There is no proof that the earth is a ball. Everything you have is theory and then you want to debunk our theory with your theory. Its completely different. First understand your theory.

    • @earthenscience
      @earthenscience 2 года назад

      Agreed. Most of the quantum physics videos uploaded on youtube are quite handwavey with large gaps where the explanations should be. And with some science videos on youtube, some of the people uploading don't even understand the physics themselves. Because of this, whenever I upload a video I make sure to have at least have a decent understanding of most of the physics in the video. Also, I must admit, many years ago I got in a debate with a flat earther. I tried to prove the earth was round, but the flat earther was so persuasive, and had so many convincing arguments, that I started to wonder if it was actually round or flat. Of course the next day I came to my senses and realized a strong argument of why the earth cannot be flat. Anyway, back to quantum physics. What fatigues me about quantum physics education is that there is so little visual proof of subatomic particles in motion, electron behavoir and quarks, that it seems a lot of it is based on conjecture. I like working with stuff I can see.

  • @justbpostin
    @justbpostin 2 года назад +38

    "In 1954 Shanton created the flat earth society. Few people cared, he died in 1971." Damn! Shanton must've felt that burn from beyond the grave.

    • @ElonMusk-tb2yi
      @ElonMusk-tb2yi 2 года назад

      🤣😂😂

    • @PeterLGଈ
      @PeterLGଈ 2 года назад

      That was such a fantastic dismissal 🔥

    • @nathanfugate8210
      @nathanfugate8210 Год назад

      That was EPIC!!! God I love this woman! 🤣

    • @davidwest5177
      @davidwest5177 Год назад

      LOL....one day Sabine Hossenfelder will die, her followers will post eulogies and 2 weeks later they will have forgotten she even existed....

    • @PeterLGଈ
      @PeterLGଈ Год назад

      @@davidwest5177 who are you again? Oh, yeah. Nobody.

  • @abates226
    @abates226 6 месяцев назад

    That was amazing. Clear, factual, compassionate to those who grew up without a lot of intellectual stimulation. I’ve known a lot of these people, seen them figure out complex problems, but aren’t starting with enough of the building blocks of science to know what to believe and what not to and how to figure that out.

  • @o0xTHEcoPlayerx0o
    @o0xTHEcoPlayerx0o 3 года назад +24

    this video goes way beyond explaining flat earthers... i started watching thinking this would be pretty dumb. but i actually learned alot about myself and will definitely be proactively trying to be aware of this going forward!

  • @kiikaala
    @kiikaala Год назад +38

    I agree that it's about trust, or lack of it. But at the same time they have enormous trust in the governments ability to keep such a huge conspiracy hidden.

    • @proband15
      @proband15 Год назад +7

      I think it's more of an enormous trust in other people being more studid/sheepish/ignorant than themselves. The "Truth" is out there but others are just "not willing/able" to see it. Plus a whole lot of other reasons. A scientific approach to understanding the mind of flatearthers or other conspiracy theorists is as difficult as any scientific topic. Glad this video tries to do this.

    • @mke_gal
      @mke_gal Год назад

      It goes beyond that though. I recently saw a video where this woman was saying that she and her husband would scoff at flat-Earthers, only to start "researching" themselves and finally arriving at the conclusion that the evidence IS there and the Earth is flat after all. I don't know what evidence she's referring to, but lots of flat-Earthers do actually claim there is evidence; to them, it is not just a matter of distrust in the government.

    • @sethtenrec
      @sethtenrec Год назад +1

      “The government is hiding space aliens!”
      The level of ignorance, as Sabine mentions, went to crazy levels with the advent of social media. Allows the popularity of Donald Trump as well.

    • @BeatenTrackUK
      @BeatenTrackUK Год назад

      Yeah because government and media aint in cahoots anyway?
      Do you really think a wshitleblower with enough evidence that would take out the Government and Media (Flat Earth, 9/11, Moonlandings, etc..) would be allowed to give such evidence on the same media outlets that collude w Government?
      No well informed person would trust what they are being told about this by Government or "science".... btw most "science" is educational brainwash and entereteinment brainwashing headed by the Rockerfellers... the ones that benefit the most from this delusion... also the ones that fund free education and many universities and think tanks.
      They take some real science but use that to confuse you w formulas and numbers.... if the stars were as far as they claim then guess what? u couldnt see the ones u see w the naked eye... they are simply too far and your eyes shouldnt be able to see them at all, the moon is way too bright to be reflecting light from the sun... science says that.
      You ever see the sun and moon out at the same time and notice the shadow on the moon is wrong? is not at the angle the sun/earth should be at to get the shade you see.... this happens many times in a year... impossible on a Globe.
      Maybe those that give education benefit from this lie? oh yes they do... but you trust their theories because they paste them in all their movies and series... and then groupthink dynamics take over.
      Is Flat and I distrust those "officials" saying is a Globe w every cell in my body as they have sooooo much to benefit from this lie and because their lie has led us to world wars, hunger and so much suffering.

    • @e.l.wagner9766
      @e.l.wagner9766 Год назад

      That's the thing that puzzles me about anti-science conspiracy theorists. They have little trust in or respect for the abilities of scientists and most science-based professionals. They actively subscribe to the idea that scientists are absent minded, socially unskilled, impractical dorks with tons of theoretical knowledge but little wisdom or common sense. Yet they believe scientists are organized, socially skilled, and clever enough to concoct these elaborate hoaxes about the shape of the planet/evolution/vaccination/climate change/Covid-19 etc. (presumably to keep themselves funded and employed), and to successfully bamboozle the masses with them.

  • @robertb1138
    @robertb1138 3 года назад +179

    This is exactly the right reaction to flat earthers. It is a crisis of trust, and there's simply no way everyone can re-trace all scientific discovery. It is an important question for all scientists to communicate properly to the public. It is also important to carefully respond to bad actors who intentionally disrupt this chain of understanding.
    Of course the problem is that, from time to time, people in official positions do, in fact, betray trust and make errors. But even here, we know this because of evidence we can see. We have to embrace the demonstration of error as a positive. What would really be a problem is if errors were never dealt with.

    • @vjwebster
      @vjwebster 3 года назад +1

      Very well said!

    • @sahil5217
      @sahil5217 3 года назад +14

      Really good example is the way things are explained in popular science today. We hear comments such as "believe in the science" as though it's like a modern day version of theology. There is barely any genuine effort put to actually get the point across to regular folk.

    • @mmccrownus2406
      @mmccrownus2406 3 года назад +8

      Science and scientists are as corrupted as politics and law etc

    • @mawnkey
      @mawnkey 3 года назад +8

      This is exactly the problem that came to my mind. Flat Earth advocates had no audience until science in the public sphere clearly became corrupted by political interests. If scientists are frustrated by the lack of trust present in groups like Flat Earthers they have only themselves to blame.
      I say this as a person certain Flat Earth ideas are ridiculous: stop allowing scientific interests to be even remotely influenced by political interests and trust from the general public will once again be restored.

    • @rodshop5897
      @rodshop5897 3 года назад +8

      @@mawnkey "science in the public sphere clearly became corrupted by political interests." Curious what you mean by this? Care to elaborate?

  • @moknmey7782
    @moknmey7782 6 месяцев назад +3

    i really appreciate the spirit of this video, as when approaching radical ideas its always important to give understanding before judging. unfortunately though, flat earthers are a particularly ignorant bunch.
    i’m sure there are a handful of them who are genuinely interested in the shape of the earth, and are simply misinformed about science and history, but if you’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with these people, you know most of them are just not equipped to understand what they’re talking about, so they lash out at the people and organizations that do. the vast majority are fuelled entirely by youtube conspiracy theories and a chronic distrust of scientific authority, a strange mindset that probably shouldn’t be given any leeway in the modern age of science and reason.

  • @AdamGenesisArt
    @AdamGenesisArt 4 года назад +138

    Sabine needs her own TV series!!!!!!!!!!

    • @randyzeitman1354
      @randyzeitman1354 4 года назад

      @@harriehausenman8623 exactly.

    • @randyzeitman1354
      @randyzeitman1354 4 года назад

      @@harriehausenman8623 exactly.

    • @carlosmejia5728
      @carlosmejia5728 4 года назад

      Nope...tv is for the dumb .

    • @tbrown3356
      @tbrown3356 4 года назад +1

      She could call it Strawman Arguments that deceive Globies. Lol.

    • @Robert08010
      @Robert08010 4 года назад

      We have quite enough people on TV who are woefully ignorant of the topics they present.

  • @PraniGopu
    @PraniGopu Год назад +108

    This is epic. I love that you addressed the underlying philosophical issue rather than only focusing on the factual claims of flat-earthers.

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Год назад

      flattards are not swayed by facts.

    • @yvesandrethevenot3489
      @yvesandrethevenot3489 Год назад +9

      This is not a philosophical issue. Denying reality is stupid.

    • @BLoodyEx
      @BLoodyEx Год назад

      @@yvesandrethevenot3489what? Ofc it is. It‘s 100% Philosophy. Go read some Descartes or watch Matrix since u didnt understand it at its core

    • @heybro345
      @heybro345 Год назад +6

      ​@@yvesandrethevenot3489hi there. It is a kind of philosophical issue. I assume you are aware of Plato's cave analogy. If one person saw the truth, that doesn't mean others would be willing because it would rattle their whole upbringing, their attitude towards living and slings them into an identity crisis.
      Dismissing them makes the matters worse.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Год назад

      @@heybro345
      you: "Plato's cave analogy"
      The Plato's analogy only apply partially to the anti-science flat-earthism cult.
      In Plato's analogy the people in the cave can't see the real world, they have no access to any information outside the cave, they have no way to compare different "science".
      This is false for modern open societies.
      Furthermore most the flat-earth propaganda is top-down where dishonest people are spreading willfully false information through social media and other sources.
      The people in the cave are honestly convinced of their own "truth" because they can see directly the evidence. They don't know the evidence is limited by their physical situation.

  • @jamiegagnon6390
    @jamiegagnon6390 4 года назад +128

    There is a basic distrust in all forms of authority at this point in time. Doctors and scientists are seen by some as just another group of authorities telling you what to do.

    • @arctic_haze
      @arctic_haze 4 года назад +35

      And still they use GPS navigation, Internet and electricity, the very things the scientists offer them. Should they rather shun all evil technology and return to the caves?

    • @pdxdragon7479
      @pdxdragon7479 4 года назад +15

      You can replace "NASA" with "CDC" and "Illuminati" with "Democrats" and you find anti mask arguments are very similar to flat Earth arguments.
      Some shadowy group is trying to control us.

    • @jamiegagnon6390
      @jamiegagnon6390 4 года назад +8

      @@arctic_haze You expect consistency from hooman beens?

    • @jamiegagnon6390
      @jamiegagnon6390 4 года назад +1

      @Cherry Lane I don't know, some of these flat earth types have put a lot of work into their delusions. So have race supremacists. It may be misdirected but it is work.

    • @Mosern1977
      @Mosern1977 4 года назад +11

      Who can blame them. Lots of science is bogus or politics at the moment. Not in the "hard" fields but in the "soft" ones.

  • @ninjatech5813
    @ninjatech5813 Месяц назад

    Dr Sbine, I appreciate this video and I know it has been 4 years but as I watched this video I see that you were answering one flat earth model and I don't expect you to answer all Flat Earth Models because it is not practical. However, there is a different model which is also one of the prevailing and disagrees with the Flat Earth Society's model. I also want to say that I appreciate you being absolutely unbiased in saying flat earth science maybe wrong but not stupid. Thank you for that. I hope maybe one day we can see you in a conversation with some flat earthers like Flat Earth Dave, Austin Witsit, and others in their circle but a conversation with these 2 would be eye opening to the listeners. Thank you Dr. Sabine I love your videos by the way even though I am a Flat Earther myself.

    • @Matuse
      @Matuse Месяц назад +2

      There are zero flat earth models. Flat earth is incredibly stupid.

  • @KibbleDog007
    @KibbleDog007 Год назад +55

    What an interesting presentation, Sabine. I worked as a NP in Health Care and had to come up with many ways to explain complex topics to some of my patients. It can be frustrating, but when you get the job done, it is quite rewarding. I am a lifelong learner who also enjoyed physics and cosmology, reading books by Carl Sagan, Timothy Ferris, and others. It is refreshing to hear how you approach this subject, and it is actually as amusing as it is intellectual. You have a very unique way of presenting your ideas, and I can see that you are concerned about scientific matters and decided to do something about it. Great job - will keep an eye on your channel for more interesting content. Best Regards. Gary

    • @shereef3823
      @shereef3823 Год назад

      Carl Sagan was another who 'appeared' to truely want to share science, but he was the first of many in astronomy that distorted the truth!

    • @pahsalarm7552
      @pahsalarm7552 Год назад

      There's nothing scientific about her presentation.
      ruclips.net/video/S972tpMDHMI/видео.html

    • @uzul42
      @uzul42 Год назад +1

      @@shereef3823 That's intersting! I googled Carl Sagan and distorting the truth and all I could find is a theistis (christians, muslims and some hindus) complaining about how Sagan in their view lied about their gods and holy texts. Carl Sagan was a prominent atheist, so it's no wonder that people with a different ideology don't like what he had to say about the supernatural.
      Is that what you are refering to? If not, please help me find articles or books of Sagan distorting the truth about scientific matters. I would like to read up on that.

    • @shereef3823
      @shereef3823 Год назад

      @@uzul42 well, you made my point when you first commented that you 'googled' Carl Sagan. I would like to tell you how much knowledge a person acquires from ...LIVING. I am 65 years old, been watching the world since I was born...watching the WORLD since I was 5...I observed President Kennedy shot ...in Dallas...in his motorcade, by the CIA in this USA. And, the films were ALL the same...maybe a few different angles. I have visited Dallas subsequently, and heard 'many' of the 'hypothesis'. I've ...like you...watched documentaries and Movies on the sudbject...and I will tell you it was a CIA plot...with George H.W. Bush making a name for himself. B$ he was appointed head of the CIA. Living can teach us MUCH, if we LOOK! Or, you can 'google' and you will get any number of 'lies'. Don't believe WIKIPEDIA either! Created and run by another of Klaus Schwabs graduates from his 'school of Globalism!'

    • @shereef3823
      @shereef3823 Год назад

      @@uzul42 Of course that is ALL you found! What I am saying...Sagan was an Athiest...he was their 'model' for the type of world they wanted everyone to believe in...Godless! He played the role, and was probably paid well for it.

  • @LostofConsciousness
    @LostofConsciousness 4 года назад +43

    I've been waiting for so long for you to take on this subject.

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan 4 года назад +2

      Janusha there is more to science than just pure scientific research and theory. Communication as philosophy are deeply important.
      You don’t do science in a vacuum. The aim is to understand the natural “world”, which humans and society is very much a part of.
      I feel maybe you didn’t quite follow the messaging in this video?

    • @RealmsandRealms
      @RealmsandRealms 4 года назад +1

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    • @RealmsandRealms
      @RealmsandRealms 4 года назад +1

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    • @Juan-lf6qo
      @Juan-lf6qo 4 года назад

      very controversial subject

    • @Juan-lf6qo
      @Juan-lf6qo 4 года назад

      @Janusha I mean, cause there is even a movement pro-flat earth

  • @bearofthunder
    @bearofthunder 3 года назад +92

    If you take a time lapse photo of the sky in the northern and southern hemispheres you get a pretty good impression to prove the earth is a ball. You will see two rotational centers, and you will see that you see different stars in the different hemispheres. This is something you can just look at with your own eyes. No need to trust science to observe this.

    • @NothingPicksLocks
      @NothingPicksLocks 3 года назад +12

      The flerfs (flat earthers) say that those are lights being projected on the dome that we live under. They will argue that that is proof that the Earth is flat. Those people do not accept reason and have no common sense it is pretty sad when you watch most of the flat earther videos and arguments.

    • @bearofthunder
      @bearofthunder 3 года назад +6

      @@NothingPicksLocks I guess it means a lot to them to hold on to this then... maybe is feels amazing to make believe this way...hehe :)

    • @katanasteel
      @katanasteel 3 года назад +2

      This kinda gets in the way of the philosophy to which they ascribe, as Sabine eluded to. Many of them don't have the needed funds to travel across the equator to perform the observation. And for them to believe it as fact they would seem to want/need to make the experiment them selves.

    • @bearofthunder
      @bearofthunder 3 года назад +4

      @@katanasteel I am sure they could all chip in to send a courier to make the experiments. After all, they do trust each other, otherwise they would not get anything from watching each others videos. Most flat earthers I have seen are flat earthers because they think it confirm some literal interpretation of the bible somehow.

    • @katanasteel
      @katanasteel 3 года назад +5

      @@bearofthunder sorry to say... even when some of them pooled funds to aquire an optical ring laser gyroscope to try and prove that the earth upon which they stood/stand wasn't moving... they somehow failed... or calls the guy out to be a faker, because the experiment when performed correlated exactly with the earth spinning 360 degrees per 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour

  • @BrokePencil
    @BrokePencil 6 месяцев назад

    I absolutely loved your conclusion!
    I like digging into the crazy-sounding quantum physics and sometimes crazier astrophysics (not often crazier). I absorb the theories, enjoy reading about the observations and postulating on what this or that might mean if the scientists are wrong.
    But I can't do the math (or at least, I'm not invested enough to learn to do the math). The more abstract math became as I progressed through high school, the less it interested me.
    If scientists would figure out how to dumb down the methods they use to come to conclusion, I'm betting we could have accomplished so much more (recycling nuclear fuel reactors, much fewer climate change skeptics, the tidal wave of questions about dark matter and energy, vaccine acceptance, why my big toenail curls so much making it difficult to clip).
    channels like yours are an excellent first step. And I'm glad to see you made convincing arguments without denigrating the believers of flat earth, even though (to me) that's not what this was about.

  • @harmlesscreationsofthegree1248
    @harmlesscreationsofthegree1248 3 года назад +140

    When I was 9, my neighbour helped me calculate the circumference of the earth, from measuring shadows cast from a stick. If a 9 year old with a stick can work it out, these adult flerfs really should have figured it out by now...

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 3 года назад +33

      Indeed. When I was ten, my father built an equatorial sundial with my brother and me, and explained how it worked. That alone was enough to prevent me from ever becoming a flat Earther.

    • @salesmcsaleson9285
      @salesmcsaleson9285 3 года назад +6

      @@therealzilch Sun dial works on flat Earth. You're welcome.

    • @salesmcsaleson9285
      @salesmcsaleson9285 3 года назад +5

      Circumference of Earth is proven wrong on the average persons daily commute to work. Do the Math. Look into the distance, and notice how nothing is leaning backwards even at 100 miles etc. You apparently enjoy living in your comfortable lie or are just lacking intelligence. Not to be offensive. I presume you also wear a mask and think Covid 19 Sars 2 Cov is a real threat....

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 3 года назад +69

      @@salesmcsaleson9285 How many sundials have you built? An equatorial sundial shows that the Sun apparently moves across the sky at 15 degrees an hour, no matter the time of day or year, no matter where you are on Earth. That shows that the Sun must be very distant, not the nearby Sun demanded by flat Earthers, which would move faster when overhead than when near the horizon, thus rendering the sundial useless.
      And how far back should buildings be leaning at a given distance, if the Earth is a globe? it's easy to do in your head: the circumference of the Earth is about 25,000 miles. Divide that by 360 degrees and you get about 70 miles per degree around the globe. Thus, a building 70 miles away- which would only be visible with a telescope under exceptional conditions- will be leaning away from you about a degree, which you would not be able to see or even detect with instruments, unless you had a laser interferometer or something.
      Any questions? Cheers from overcast Vienna, Scott

    • @harmlesscreationsofthegree1248
      @harmlesscreationsofthegree1248 3 года назад +25

      @@salesmcsaleson9285 well no actually, because I live in South Australia and we have no lockdowns or mask mandates. We’re clean and socially responsible round these parts.
      As far as your ‘evidence’ for a flat earth, you make the classic mistake of thinking the earth is way smaller than what it actually is. It is ludicrous to think you could see a building leaning noticeably from the curvature of the earth. The earth is so massive, it is effectively flat. Just because you can’t grasp this concept, doesn’t make it false. There is such a preponderance of evidence for the globe earth, and has been for millennia, that in order to deny that evidence you have to be wilfully ignorant, not just stupid.
      Best of luck...

  • @biogoo
    @biogoo 3 года назад +41

    People steadfastly rejecting evidence that's right in their face? Not limited to flat earthers.

    • @리주민
      @리주민 3 года назад

      Fake news 😏😋

    • @bfreeman8786
      @bfreeman8786 3 года назад

      @@리주민 trusting of all MSM news or some?

    • @averagesauceenjoyer7209
      @averagesauceenjoyer7209 3 года назад +1

      Like religion. a lot of things are fake news. we have the right to be skeptical of the form of where we live. btw we see one side of the moon. allways one side.

    • @bfreeman8786
      @bfreeman8786 3 года назад

      @@averagesauceenjoyer7209 yes- just the one side of the Moon & it is Very Active!! Bruce Sees All (his channel is all telescope mirrors for watching the Moon and he finds Amazing stuff!!) Looks like a space port with a war going on. So much activity and buildings IF U KNOW where to look........ I've heard stories about the dark side... not sure what it's like now, if the stories were true....

    • @sigismondP
      @sigismondP 3 года назад +1

      @@bfreeman8786 OMG LOL the creativity of scammers is endless xD

  • @haraldschuster3067
    @haraldschuster3067 3 года назад +117

    As for relying on your senses only: Any magician who uses sleigh of the hand approves of that approach because human senses are oh so reliable.

    • @Robert08010
      @Robert08010 3 года назад +21

      I once had a quarter hiding in my ear and didn't know it.

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 3 года назад +10

      Sleigh of hand, that's no doubt the magic trick that Santa uses to get everyone their presents. Or at least, that's my hypothe-is.

    • @averagesauceenjoyer7209
      @averagesauceenjoyer7209 3 года назад

      Your argument is so so lame I don't want to answer...

    • @averagesauceenjoyer7209
      @averagesauceenjoyer7209 3 года назад +1

      empiricism is observation.
      all these guys demand is their own empiricism. and not the concentration of observation tools and methodes in the hands of the few. A bit like the god with privately inspiring only some people. It end with people have different results. Or force themselves into cohersion to agree on one thing.

    • @fuckednegativemind
      @fuckednegativemind 3 года назад +6

      @@Robert08010 What's terrifying is that you don't know how long you had this quarter behind your ear before this magician took it! An who put it here?!

  • @CroAglo
    @CroAglo Месяц назад +1

    I love this video. Scientific objectivity and honesty at its best! Thank you!

  • @catearth8864
    @catearth8864 3 года назад +166

    As someone who toyed with this idea back in 2016 I managed to prove the globe using star rotaions, the moon, sunsets and shadows on the equinox. No science or nasa etc required. But as someone trying to share this with the flat earth community I realised the majority of these people are very lonely and have found a community of friends in the flat earth and so it was very difficult to get them to listen. This is becuase anyone who goes against the flat earth is isnstanly shunned and shamed by that community.

    • @teebosaurusyou
      @teebosaurusyou 2 года назад +13

      It makes them feel special.

    • @deanmuhl7417
      @deanmuhl7417 2 года назад +21

      Funny that you left out the most obvious way to prove that the earth is a globe. Measured curvature! Kansas is flatter than a pancake and it isn't even the most flat state. Where is all the necessary curvature?
      Earth is a non-rotating plane.

    • @catearth8864
      @catearth8864 2 года назад +2

      @@deanmuhl7417 Well I didn't really need to go that much effort to figure it out but that is also an option.

    • @liebebile6515
      @liebebile6515 2 года назад +19

      You make a very, very good point here. It's not about philosophy, nor scientific education, as much as it is about being lonely and in need to feel to be part of a community. Sabine Hossenfelder obviously takes this approach because she's a great scientific communicator, but I actually think these kind of people just need to believe and to feel important, regardless of any kind of rational argument presented to them.
      In other words, this kind of logical reasoning will not convince any flatearther to rethink their logical approach on the matter, because that's secondary to the fact that they NEED to believe in that.

    • @deanmuhl7417
      @deanmuhl7417 2 года назад +12

      @@liebebile6515 People believe in flat earth because they are lonely? That is a silly notion. People can be apart of many different communities and organizations to help with loneliness regardless of the beliefs of the community.
      People like me believe in a flat plain motionless Earth because all evidence points to it and the history of heliocentrism is absolutely absurd.

  • @MohammedKhaledElsheikh
    @MohammedKhaledElsheikh 3 года назад +193

    “they refuse to decode difficult sensory input” has to be the most elegant way to call someone stupid.

    • @thethinkingman-
      @thethinkingman- 3 года назад +1

      if it is they would of proofed it by now!!

    • @MrDgf97
      @MrDgf97 3 года назад +2

      @@thethinkingman- I can’t tell if you’re joking with that spelling or not

    • @Zenit321
      @Zenit321 3 года назад +5

      I'll definitely use that in some arguing sometime someday. Sounds so polite...

    • @thethinkingman-
      @thethinkingman- 3 года назад

      @@Zenit321 exactly. people dont realise there is 2 sides to the coin so the jury is still out.

    • @ibuttchuglsd6668
      @ibuttchuglsd6668 3 года назад

      @@MrDgf97 they commented again. I dont think they were joking.

  • @anna9072
    @anna9072 2 года назад +11

    Excellent summation. I’ve only just discovered your channel, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of it.

  • @garylovan630
    @garylovan630 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very lovely example of logical argument. Has a kind of beauty.

  • @ute.fritzkowski
    @ute.fritzkowski 3 года назад +112

    I live in a steep valley. So the world is rather V-shaped and not flat at all. I always have to go uphill to get anywhere.

    • @dreamdiction
      @dreamdiction 3 года назад +13

      When it rains do you live in a swimming pool.?

    • @Amu_LEGEND
      @Amu_LEGEND 3 года назад +1

      @@dreamdiction xd

    • @yestervue4697
      @yestervue4697 3 года назад +1

      The world is shaped like the internet to your generation...whatever it tells you. Great thinkers used to live here...zombies took over. You sound like one...

    • @ute.fritzkowski
      @ute.fritzkowski 3 года назад +7

      @@yestervue4697 "My generation"? I don't think you understood my posting at all.

    • @yestervue4697
      @yestervue4697 3 года назад

      @@ute.fritzkowski ruclips.net/video/wEU50wGHOa0/видео.html
      I don't think anyone ever really grasps mine...

  • @dshack4689
    @dshack4689 Год назад +91

    This is a most beautifully constructed and reasoned presentation of the topic in a way that I hadn't considered - empathy.
    How powerful it is to consider that their trajectory of thought does coincide with science from hundreds of years ago, and if they had the time to themselves recreate all the experiments, learnings and improvement of centuries then, eventually, they'd catch up to our current level of capability.
    I love the example of evidence for being able to use something like a tin can of soup isn't that we had to have direct control/witness of the steps ourselves, but that we have evidence of the controls that are in place (such as standards, legal systems, punitive responses) that are valid evidence when we aren't able to be the direct witness ourselves.
    You've inspired me to think about Flat Earthers in a whole new way that offers respect for their "verify" thought process without buying into the incorrect conclusions they've come to.
    If the whole human race could learn from your immaculately considered empathy, so much hate, violence, and war could be avoided. Thankyou!

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 Год назад

      flattards are willfully ignorant. they will reject anything that contradicts their lies and ignorance. they can watch a sunrise and sunset and lie to you and themselves about what causes it.

    • @flipshod
      @flipshod Год назад +3

      Yep. The remarkable thing about this explanation is how humane and kind it is.

    • @dbomber03
      @dbomber03 Год назад

      The problem that a lot of us fight with is the fact that we are being deceived at the most quintessential level in almost every aspect of our lives from the authorities who have violated every anti-trust law there is. The authorities mock us boldly and it is an absolute abomination. Psychiatric science is all based on grand illusion. They have been using AI and satellite based technology/weaponry have been deployed to control our lives in so many ways that it is a literal outrage. The field of medicine, history, space exploration are a complete illusion. The whitehouse is a charade. People are realizing that most of our perceptions that have been established by “the establishment” is founded on an unbelievable amount of lies. With out opening up Pandora’s box I can say with 100% certainty that almost every aspect of our lives is controlled and most of our knowledge is based on grand illusion. As hard as it is to believe almost everything we have been taught is a lie. That being said true scientific process can reveal certain truths that would otherwise be hidden as well. So knowing this to be the truth I can fully understand how people who realize our blight would have no issue with disputing what we were taught by the totalitarian programming institution we all recognize as the public schooling system. I have indisputable proof of everything I claim to be lies taught by the authorities in our current system. It was all put in place by the people who control our centralized banking system. If you wish to have a respectful informative conversation dm me or respond to my post. It seems this post has a lot of intelligent people on it. We face an enemy today like no other that has ever existed in the fact that they have the technology to honestly establish world domination. Sounds a little like “dominion” right. I know there will be those who are fervent in their dispute regarding the thought if our great nation bring insidiously destroyed from with in, however it has happened. And I can explain how and I can expose a lot of the illusions. Ultimately you will have to choose to listen. The truth does not care about your beliefs.

    • @sunsetlights100
      @sunsetlights100 Год назад +1

      Lol its flat

    • @pahsalarm7552
      @pahsalarm7552 Год назад

      Not really...
      ruclips.net/video/S972tpMDHMI/видео.html

  • @sstidman
    @sstidman Год назад +67

    While I think Dr. Hossenfelder has always been a gifted explainer of complex topics, I fell like she has really gotten extraordinarily good at it. I guess it's from all the practice over the course of her previous videos. She seems to be one of the few people who can talk about contentious topics fairly without injecting emotion.

    • @shyladare
      @shyladare Год назад

      A true scientist

    • @outerlands3382
      @outerlands3382 Год назад

      that may be but she is wrong to say flat earthers are wrong - they have a mirror a foot above the water and the flashing mirror is seen by a camera that is a foot above the water six miles away on a big lake 6 miles gives you a whole lot of curvature 15 feet so this proves there's no convexity to the water and also the fact the horizon does not move inwards as you move lower as you get to 1 foot above the ocean the horizon should be 1.2 miles away

    • @nobodyimportant7804
      @nobodyimportant7804 Год назад

      How is flat earth contentious? It is provably wrong.

    • @earthervsearther5978
      @earthervsearther5978 Год назад

      she's wrong the horizon does not move inwards as you move lower towards the water , no inwards moving horizon means theres no convexity to the water

    • @WJV9
      @WJV9 Год назад

      @@earthervsearther5978 - If you can figure out why light houses are tall or placed on tall cliffs near the shore then you know that the ocean is not flat. By climbing higher you can see further out into the ocean to see boats you can see from standing on the beach.

  • @jerrymac1795
    @jerrymac1795 5 месяцев назад

    Your understanding goes way beyond science and that is so valuable considering how contentious this can get.

  • @chartaiwan
    @chartaiwan Год назад +12

    There is a kind of magic in the way the content is delivered. Straight forward and clear. The accent really helps too. Thanks for your great work

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 8 месяцев назад

      Vodka infused!Typical....

  • @johnsensebe3153
    @johnsensebe3153 3 года назад +16

    A lot of Flat Earthers don't believe Earth is accelerating, but instead believe what we perceive as gravity is actually due to buoyancy, ignoring that gravity is necessary for buoyancy.

    • @ashroskell
      @ashroskell 3 года назад +2

      Their arguments are less circular than they are, “spherical,” ironically enough. That’s how you get to be a, “global,” movement these days. 🙄

    • @bezzyboy6
      @bezzyboy6 3 года назад

      this is a bold faced lie lol

    • @johnsensebe3153
      @johnsensebe3153 3 года назад +1

      @@bezzyboy6 Really? I've seen them argue it in videos.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 2 года назад

      Accelerating where?Their is no NSE or West in Space.No up or down. either.See how foolish you Globeheads are.

  • @tjthill
    @tjthill Год назад +14

    Thanks, and not just for this one, for near as I can tell all of your work.

    • @NEMOZAC
      @NEMOZAC Год назад

      Im in Adelaide SOUTH AUSTRALIA and on a ball earth the moon follows the equator never leaving the equator fact------------- but the moon at some stage is directly overhead of Adelaide at mignight neither east or west and neither north or south straight above now that would mean that Adelaide is directly below the moon on the equator which is north of Australia north of Adelaide ==================GET YOUR HEAD AROUND THAT because ADELAIDE CAN NEVER BE ON THE EQUATOR we are ckoser to the south pole it could only happen on a flat earth

  • @AstroCloudGenerator
    @AstroCloudGenerator 8 дней назад +2

    If a flat earther is confident enough in their theory and energetic enough to create a RUclips video about it. They should be capable of observing the night sky for a while. For me my senses tells me unequivocally that the earth spins on an axis that I can see is aligned roughly with the North Star and that the stars I see on the horizon change over time and when I go on holiday to the Mediterranean in a totally predictable manner.
    It’s all there to be seen (sensed), and seeing this for myself has been and continues to be one of the greatest joys of my life.
    I urge everyone to take time to sense the spherical nature of our planet, for me it is utterly awe inspiring and never gets old.

  • @leashsb
    @leashsb 2 года назад +79

    Thank you for the clear and articulate talk, this serves as an example of how we should communicate with each other. I feel like you got to the root of the issue without resorting to degrading comments which do nothing to educate, and server only to fuel disagreement and hinder logical debate.

    • @stolearovigor281
      @stolearovigor281 2 года назад

      Logical debate with most globers is impossible. You believe in cartoons we want empirical evidence. You believe to clowns like this naza puppy. We look for experiments.

    • @LJ...69.
      @LJ...69. 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/rebktApD31I/видео.html

    • @phildavenport4150
      @phildavenport4150 2 года назад

      Have you ever tried to engage flattards in logical discussions regarding the shape of the Earth? Doesn't seem like you have.

    • @joshuaallen707
      @joshuaallen707 2 года назад +2

      EVERY WORD SHE SPEAKS IS DISRESPECTFUL. SHE IS A FULL ON LIAR AND MANIPULATOR ALONG WITH BEING MENTALLY ILL. GET A LIFE.

    • @stolearovigor281
      @stolearovigor281 2 года назад +1

      @@joshuaallen707 or just a paid actor. A mentally ill actor.

  • @pedrinrj7251
    @pedrinrj7251 3 года назад +76

    "It's increasingly important that scientists provide evidence for how science works, so that people who cannot follow the research itself, can instead rely on evidence that the system provides correct and useful descriptions of nature." - That is just perfection.

    • @worldaswar3784
      @worldaswar3784 3 года назад

      This is just an idiotic statement meaning you must follow the info i am given? :D what? :D

    • @pedrinrj7251
      @pedrinrj7251 3 года назад +3

      @@worldaswar3784 No, it means that IF scientists provide evidence for HOW science works, than you can rely on the information that the system (the scientific system, the system that generates the evidence) provides, because even the people that can't or won't follow the actual research, still understand and trust it, as they understand HOW the system operates, as in "they understand the scientific process".

    • @worldaswar3784
      @worldaswar3784 3 года назад

      @@pedrinrj7251 you have just described a Blind FAITH. I believed blindly and was dissappointed. Please. Keep your slave mentality to yourself.

    • @pedrinrj7251
      @pedrinrj7251 3 года назад +1

      @@worldaswar3784 So, if you have an explanation on how something works, and you understand and can fact-check if the "how" works as described, the sub sequential trust in the information that comes out of that "how" is blind faith?
      I thought the blind faith was the acceptance of something without any evidence.

    • @jesicavila1300
      @jesicavila1300 3 года назад

      @@worldaswar3784 if you don't believe in what you have been told then you can not live in society and their progress. When you get sick do you go to the doctor?? Do you take the prescribed pills? You can't possibly know all of the information a doctor has, you can not fact check all of the science behind your everyday experiences. The cars you use, the electric energy you use everyday , etc are the result of science advances. And there is no better proof that science works than the fact that atomic bombs can be made, computers, smartphones, rockets, huge bridges, etc. You can perceive with your own senses the existence of all that and it is proof that science works.

  • @jimparr01Utube
    @jimparr01Utube 2 года назад +8

    Very good dialogue Sabine. Especially your point about why scientists should take such diametrically opposing viewpoints seriously. Copernicus and Galileo were on the outer once upon a time, despite the fact that THEY themselves were not the ignorant party.

  • @madogg152
    @madogg152 4 месяца назад

    Your Input is WONDERFUL! You had more important mission than your intended schooling.

  • @marketingsimplified
    @marketingsimplified 2 года назад +32

    One of the most respectful and clear explanations I've heard!

  • @iridium8562
    @iridium8562 4 года назад +37

    This is so satisfying! I am 16 years old and i watch your videos along with self-educating to achieve my dream of one day becoming a good physicist, you are one of my biggest inspiration!

    • @RealmsandRealms
      @RealmsandRealms 4 года назад +1

      We are Are the 100's of Millions in the Flat Earth Community, We are Not the Fake Pizza/Disk Government Owned Flat Earth Society! 😂
      *To Beat The CENSORSHIP and DEFAMATION of FLAT EARTH on RUclips and Google, Here's my PLAYLISTS* 😁👇
      *Please Copy and Share Everywhere.*
      ( Flat Earth is A "Realm" and Not A "2D Paper Map - Pizza/Disk" Floating in Fantasy Outer-Space.
      No Flat Earth Believe's That! )
      1. Outer-Space is Fake and NASA and All Space Agency's are A Hoax! PLAYLIST:😁
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      2. THE BEST OF FLAT EARTH!
      PLAYLIST: 😁
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      4. Globehead Liars and Deceivers Exposed! ✌️😁
      "Dubunking and Exposing Government Globe Shills and Liars."
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      *RUclips's Authoritarian Moderators, Following the Orders of Corporate Fascists, have been Freezing the View Count on my Playlists* ☝️😡

    • @iridium8562
      @iridium8562 4 года назад +4

      Elijah Castle No one is freezing the view count of your playlists sir, no one is actually interested in them, i did read your comment fully, yet i never had the slightest thought of opening the links, flat earth is done.
      I don’t even know how you people think, physicists out here built physics from the ground up, they dug all the way to the fundamental laws of nature till things started not even making sense to our primitive human minds, but we are trying, but you people out here with your « gravity is fake » WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT? Physics is interconnected, it’s whole model, every step of it required sleepless nights for some genius and hundreds of experiments, physics is not HYPOTHETICAL, scientists didn’t just say « oh gravity exists and here are the equations » EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DERIVED YOU GOD DAMN IDIOT
      Now go read a book, i don’t think that you’re smart though, but atleast try, and when you come back but you still have the same views, we would have an excuse for calling you a fucking moron.

    • @jthepickle7
      @jthepickle7 4 года назад +3

      I'm 66. I dropped out of school on my 17th B-Day and have never regretted it. Persevere son, the world needs the autodidact.

    • @Sasukej2004
      @Sasukej2004 4 года назад

      @@adamlangton1967 they just want a free trip to space bro thats what i think😂

    • @joshuapray
      @joshuapray 3 года назад

      @@jthepickle7 Good lord, please do not ever advocate dropping out of school to teenagers. What a malicious and ignorant thing to do. Whether you're happy about your decision or not is immaterial to the growth, maturity and education of children. Jesus.

  • @traywor
    @traywor 2 года назад +26

    I just found this channel a week ago, and I love your style of explaination. It is clear cut and easy to follow. While I love watching, how flat earthers are disproved, for example by Flo+, the point you make, about taking them as a warning sign, is super important and wasn't clear to me before.
    Your communication skills are on point :)

    • @waltmagic
      @waltmagic 2 года назад +4

      I see it as a warning sign of one the many harms of social media and modern search engine algorithms...pseudo science. Feed people what they "want" for more clicks has become more important than accurate information.

  • @peterr5494
    @peterr5494 6 месяцев назад +9

    It is 100% wrong to dismiss the earth is a globe just because you can't perceive it as such. To believe that only you are the arbiter of truth is 100% nonsense. If I had to rely on a random person on the street to understand calculus without me explaining it to them, NOTHING on this planet would ever get accomplished! Everyone would have to derive EVERY scientific discovery for themselves before they could work on anything new.

  • @alfern1770
    @alfern1770 2 года назад +46

    What a superb video, Sabine! Keep the remarkable job of bringing educational scientific videos, AND the fact you make them fun to watch! You are such a gift to audiences like us. Please never stop!

    • @aitorjara100
      @aitorjara100 2 года назад

      fun to watch XD

    • @ShawnJonesHellion
      @ShawnJonesHellion Год назад

      What explains the clones as if I can summon 98% replicas of humans almost on command sometimes? An the whole other humans speaking my mind or answering its questions to their friends across the room or walking by. An then me hearing it? Thinking anything science says is real does not.
      Also the being blamed for covid by the person who made me ask for parts of it. Who had no purpose to appear in my gym. An then the humans shutting down an shifting their society. As if they were put into a deep slumber an entered an entirely different dimension seemed pretty odd.

    • @elizabethmitchell2963
      @elizabethmitchell2963 Год назад

      I’m a new subscriber and have enjoyed some of your videos…until this. I find it completely disingenuous to perpetuate “flat earth model” lies. Anyone with half a brain does NOT believe we are on a “flying disc” discounting gravity. 🤦🏼‍♀️ The claim is that all can be explained by density and buoyancy instead.
      The first model shown is what most Flat Earthers believe: Earth is the land mass surrounded by oceans/seas water that is held in by a 200+ ice shelf known as Antarctica.
      The magnetic North Pole is in the center which is why a compass always points North. The Antarctic Treaty is the only treaty never to have been broken amongst nations because it is not a continent but the southern most ice shelf where the firmament meets the ice (think snowglobe).
      Research Admiral Byrd’s discoveries and journal entries.
      We also all believe in a round plane…just NOT a Globe! The sun, moon, & stars are local and within the firmament. Outer space is a total lie and NASA is a black budget operation siphoning billions of dollars per year. Landing on the moon is impossible and so is colonizing Mars. Werner Von Braun & Walt Disney were BFF’s who “sold” the concept of outer space to the masses. They were ex-Nazis who found asylum in the USA after WW2. (Check out Disney’s logo & WVB’s 🪦 headstone inscription for major clues!) They were occultist FreeMasons who ultimately worshipped Lucifer. Yes, the rabbit hole it deep and dark. For anyone ready to challenge their cognitive dissonance, I recommend watching Aethereal by TTISTF on YT, as it’s a great conceptual overview of how and why the Copernicus lies started and were perpetuated through the Vatican. The Holy Bible is true and explains our realm. Don’t buy into the lie that Scientism sells!

    • @phildavenport4150
      @phildavenport4150 Год назад

      @@elizabethmitchell2963 And you believe this shit?

    • @pillowtalk__
      @pillowtalk__ Год назад

      @@elizabethmitchell2963 mediocre bait

  • @blackjackvtx
    @blackjackvtx 2 года назад +15

    How so very gracious, kind and thoughtful you are ,to pause and take the time to address this issue in such a non judgemental way . I am deeply moved 😎

    • @elizabethmitchell2963
      @elizabethmitchell2963 Год назад +1

      I’m a new subscriber and have enjoyed some of your videos…until this. I find it completely disingenuous to perpetuate “flat earth model” lies. Anyone with half a brain does NOT believe we are on a “flying disc” discounting gravity. 🤦🏼‍♀️ The claim is that all can be explained by density and buoyancy instead.
      The first model shown is what most Flat Earthers believe: Earth is the land mass surrounded by oceans/seas water that is held in by a 200+ ice shelf known as Antarctica.
      The magnetic North Pole is in the center which is why a compass always points North. The Antarctic Treaty is the only treaty never to have been broken amongst nations because it is not a continent but the southern most ice shelf where the firmament meets the ice (think snowglobe).
      Research Admiral Byrd’s discoveries and journal entries.
      We also all believe in a round plane…just NOT a Globe! The sun, moon, & stars are local and within the firmament. Outer space is a total lie and NASA is a black budget operation siphoning billions of dollars per year. Landing on the moon is impossible and so is colonizing Mars. Werner Von Braun & Walt Disney were BFF’s who “sold” the concept of outer space to the masses. They were ex-Nazis who found asylum in the USA after WW2. (Check out Disney’s logo & WVB’s 🪦 headstone inscription for major clues!) They were occultist FreeMasons who ultimately worshipped Lucifer. Yes, the rabbit hole it deep and dark. For anyone ready to challenge their cognitive dissonance, I recommend watching Aethereal by TTISTF on YT, as it’s a great conceptual overview of how and why the Copernicus lies started and were perpetuated through the Vatican. The Holy Bible is true and explains our realm. Don’t buy into the lie that Scientism sells!

    • @phildavenport4150
      @phildavenport4150 Год назад

      @@elizabethmitchell2963 And you believe this shit?

  • @big-j-rizzo7381
    @big-j-rizzo7381 Год назад +14

    Wow… that was a very well put together video. I really hope it falls on the proper ears for those to hear it. Great job!!!

    • @pamelapamper
      @pamelapamper Год назад

      No it wasn't. She lied and misrepresented the main flat earth model which is not a disc floating in space but instead it's an infinite plane where antartica is an ice wall which extends forever and that encases the north pole and the continents around it. How someone of her supposed intelligence could not do the bare minimum research to understand and properly represent what she is trying to debunk is beyond me. Just another $cience charlatan.

    • @benjaminroe311ify
      @benjaminroe311ify Год назад +1

      It won't. At least for the most part. The people that follow her videos are those that generally are passionate about learning more about Physics and Scientific concepts and indeed some scientists themselves. Very few Flat Earth Hypothesis enthusiasts would really watch this video and it may be pretentious of me, but many of them if they DID find it would not understand it or get bored.

    • @theoptimisticskeptic
      @theoptimisticskeptic Год назад

      That would be nice but the problem is, the loudest voices in the Flat Earth community are too invested in making money off of the gullible folks that pay for their content and watch their videos. They are going to continue to ride this cash cow as long as they can since they know it can only last so long.

    • @big-j-rizzo7381
      @big-j-rizzo7381 Год назад

      @Benjamin Roe The shame too is that's exactly what it is. those leading the flat earth "thing" know it's not true. but honestly I don't feel bad for those that spend their hard earned money on supporting it, and giving it to individuals like that. crazy!

  • @ewanllewelyn9443
    @ewanllewelyn9443 9 месяцев назад

    The most intelligent video that I have watched in many years. Thank you!!

  • @alcyone1349
    @alcyone1349 2 года назад +14

    You can only appreciate how reasonable and respectful Sabine toward this sensitive topic. Good job!

  • @mensaswede4028
    @mensaswede4028 3 года назад +24

    Let’s be honest, believing that the earth is flat, is indeed stupid. Excluding all evidence except “personally observed evidence” would leave us with crippled minds. Which is stupid.

    • @brainloading5543
      @brainloading5543 2 года назад +1

      Thanks for running for president

    • @3DGamer2B
      @3DGamer2B 2 года назад

      Haha 😄 🤣 tell the NBA that ..and I bet you couldn't. 😏

  • @spinner669
    @spinner669 4 года назад +515

    If the world was flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now.

    • @ErnestBondarenko
      @ErnestBondarenko 4 года назад +11

      Well, that argument can work with flatearthers :)

    • @Robert08010
      @Robert08010 4 года назад +14

      I've seen that joke a half dozen times in the last 2 weeks.

    • @dementus420
      @dementus420 4 года назад

      Lol. True.

    • @gordonsflash8612
      @gordonsflash8612 4 года назад +4

      Thats about as funny as screen doors on a
      battleship...

    • @spinner669
      @spinner669 4 года назад +8

      @@gordonsflash8612 Actually, I think it's "That's as funny as screen doors on a submarine".

  • @backonlazer791
    @backonlazer791 29 дней назад +4

    I've never understood the argument: "Your senses tell you the Earth is flat." I've seen with my own eyes things that make no sense if the Earth was flat. I see on clear evenings a shadow climbing from bottom up a tall water tower on top of a hill. This makes no sense if the sun's light is some sort of a cone moving away. I also see clouds and airplanes lit from below and the sun and the moon not increasing/decreasing greatly in size during the day/night, and these are just a few things I can see here in my home town.

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 28 дней назад +1

      As you may know, flat Earthers can invoke magic to explain all this, in the form of what they call "perspective", but really should be called "flerspective". Their magical bendy light creates sunsets, shadows, eclipses, and more, in just such a way that the Earth looks like a globe. Almost as though God were messing with our brains. Wouldn't be the first time.