Do people really believe this still?

[Elliott18t]

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/

wtf is this ...


ahhhhh... open at your own risk.

[Elliott18t]

http://www.theoriginofspeciousnonsense.com/index.html



yup. the world will end soon.. i knew it.

[DC2.2GSR]

f***ing idiots... every one of them.

[rodder]

I just don't know what to say. I spent a good hour or so browsing the site and forums just being flabbergasted (perfect word) by the refusal of any of the proponents of this "theory" to respond to opponent's questions with any kind of actual logic, facts or evidence.

This particular post is astounding in both it's stupidity and the fact that proponents of flat earth theory link to it as evidence to support their "theory".

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/f...148#msg1026148

Originally Posted by Saddam Hussein

It was. Ten years ago my country embarked on a great quest. It was my intention to remove the world's perceptions of Iraq as a backwards third-world country and bring us into the space age. Work began on a secret space program. I hired some of the greatest astrophysicists in the world to make my dream of reaching space a reality. Around this time I also gave up on creating weapons of mass destruction. I realized that as things stood my greatest legacy would be that of a butcher and warmongerer and it was my intention to change that. I also stopped torturing and killing my own people, and started some humanitarian programs in my country, though this fact wasn't recognized widely by the world's media.

In late 2002, when I was close to reaching my goal, I received an unusual message. I was mailed a letter that said simply 'Stop the space program now or there will be consequences.' Accompanied with this letter was a card with that curious symbol on it. Attempts to trace the mailing proved futile. I ignored it, and that was perhaps the greatest mistake I've ever made.

It was around this time that the United States and the United Kingdom accused my country of still having stockpiles of WMDs. They even released an intelligence report that supposedly outlined exactly where they were being kept. Imagine my surprise when I saw these reports and found that the areas outlined were areas where research and development of my space program were being conducted. Perhaps at that point I should have just given up. But how could I know that there was a vast Conspiracy covering up the true shape of the earth, and that I had made myself a target?

The space program continued as scheduled and our first launch was planned for February of 2003. We pulled it off, but there were problems. We were able to reach space, but we could not achieve orbit. We reached a maximum height of 120 kilometers before the craft started just falling. It actually crashed into the ocean not far from where the launch had taken place. Our predictions indicated that it should have landed much further away, but that wasn't the strangest thing about all of this. We had a video feed on the craft going to the central headquarters of my space program, and the images it returned just didn't make sense.

As the craft exited the earth's atmosphere, there was never any curvature recorded of the earth's surface. The higher the craft went, the more of the earth's surface was visible. Incredibly, we were able to see the outline of an Antarctica that stretched around an earth that was shaped very differently from what we were used to seeing, and what we were expecting. We couldn't see all of what I now recognize as the Ice Wall, just an arc that grew fainter in the distance. Indeed, the earth itself seemed to grow fainter the on the edges of what was visible until it was covered in darkness. We could see a circle of earth, but not one that corresponded to a hemisphere; our calculations indicated that it was actually a circle whose midpoint was the sun.

We had a feed on the sun itself during the launch, and my top scientists were stunned to see that it swelled to double its apparent size as the craft reached its maximum height. At that point, they reached a conclusion that defied all logic. They concluded that the earth was actually flat.

We intended to go public with our discovery. But war was on the horizon and we needed to prepare for that. Over the next couple months, the scientists involved in my space program started disappearing; then on March 20th my country was invaded. I was forced to flee Baghdad. By this point I had come to the conclusion that all my troubles were caused by the space program but there was nothing I could do about it. In December of that year I was captured.

One of my top scientists was able to flee the country. During my trial he was able to get in contact with the Flat Earth Society and he told them what we had discovered, and his belief that it was this discovery that had led to the war. Together they concocted a plan to free me from prison since I was such an aid to their cause. In March of 2006 they were finally able to break me free, replacing me with a clone.

[c0nfl1kt]

What about cylindrical earth society?

[renn]

do people really think that site is serious?

[rodder]

read through the forum posts... they are dead serious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

[Elliott18t]

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yet posts from 2005?
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/f...hp?topic=456.0

lol

[rodder]

and here is the flat earther's theory for how one can travel around the earth in an airplane:

When you fly around the world, you're departing from one copy of your life and arriving at the next. Since the other copy of you left this location as you left home, it would appear to your new family as if you'd just arrived home from a trip.

I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

[is300bklyn]

Originally Posted by rodder

and here is the flat earther's theory for how one can travel around the earth in an airplane:



I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

hahahahaha......he is telling the truth!!

[renn]

most of their replies seem to be pretty facetious, i wouldn't take it too seriously.

[c0nfl1kt]

Originally Posted by Elliott18t

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yet posts from 2005?
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/f...hp?topic=456.0

lol

The forums used to be hosted on alaska.gov

[RSX Type-Slow]

my brain hurts. I just spend an hour or so on that dumb site. Their dumb enough to think the earth is flat, but dont think more believable "conspiracies" like NWO exists? My mind cannot grasp the stupidity..........

[jpalamar]

I found fellow believers lol

[Snoozie]

I didn't bother clicking the link, BUT, I thought you might enjoy the fact that my parents believe that Earth is only about 3,000 years old.

My mother also told me I need to repent before 2012.

[Rush]

I'd love to hear their explanation of why we have weather, if they really believe the world is flat.

[Snoozie]

Duh, rain is really God's tears!

[angdefeo]

if rain is God's tears, what is snow?

[mitsuboost30]

wow what idiots

[camopaint0707]

and I'm done