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Any flat earthers here?

Just curious...

Freddie Francis ● 2606d24 Comments

I don't think so - for the most part, apart from a few stirrers, most contributors seem sane.

Roy Robart ● 2606d

If anyone is looking for flat earth in Putney he/she won't find it on the pavements of Chartfield and Larpent Avenues. The footpaths there are a mess of cracked slabs, gravel-decorated potholes,  bitumen mini-hillocks created by spreading tree roots and drive-way entrances smashed up by lorries going in and out of adjacent building works and never put right. Result: people walk on the road. The nearest thing to flat earth in the vicinity is provided by Larpent and Granard Avenues where pavement repairs in recent months have produced sidewalks you can walk on without tripping.

Alexander MacLeod ● 2606d

What is the reason for the question?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2606d

"What is the reason for the question?"I'll bet that he is a cyclist who is just fed up with having to cycle uphill.

David Ainsworth ● 2606d

Just a bit of fun, until someone outs themselves that is. You never know. Might explain some of the stuff that gets posted here ;-)

Freddie Francis ● 2606d

There are one or two on here who dislike what the mainstream media, BBC etc report and prefer to get their news from social media, youtube etc, where you can basically find any 'news' article you like which happens to align with what you believe.  Perhaps not Flat Earthers in the literal sense, but Flat Earthers in what the term represents.

John Gorst ● 2606d

Apparently the number of "flat earthers" has increased recently. That's supposed to be because of fake news and alternative "theories" on social media. Allegedly there was an advert for a flat earth meeting announcing that speakers would be coming from around the globe ... (sorry, I lost the reference 😶) Apparently Patrick Moore was a member of the Flat Earth Society for a while, although this is usually put down to irony, I suspect it was also so he could attended their meetings and have a good argument ...

Michael Ixer ● 2606d

The Flat Earthers seem to be rather gullible types and may also believe fantasy stuff like Elvis is on the moon, the moon landings were faked, Area 51 is where the USAF keep captured aliens, and so on ...  oh and they’re also anti-vaxxers, which is quite dangerous as it allows infectious diseases to spread more easily.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2606d

Flat earthers are both entertaining and very concerning in equal measure. Did you see the TV documentary where they offered to 'prove' the earth's flatness by using a long straight canal, posts measured to be equal heights above water level and a very expensive laser, only to 'disprove' their theory? You couldn't make it up!

Freddie Francis ● 2606d

Elvis is still alive Jonathan ;-)

Lucille Grant ● 2606d

Seems John Humphries has recently outed a culture of flat earthers at the BBC.

Bunny Payne ● 2606d

Oh wow!  But not on the moon surely??

Jonathan Callaway ● 2606d

Too bumpy.

Bunny Payne ● 2606d

Jonathan: and believe climate change is a hoax ...

Michael Ixer ● 2606d

Or deny man went to the moon

Sean Hodges ● 2606d

We may have to reassess our views on the solar system 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2598d

You have solved Brexit

Ruth Pates ● 2597d

I fear the Johnson solution for Ireland is even more contrived  than that ...

Michael Ixer ● 2597d

Is it time to remember Palmerston’s quotable quote on the Schleswig Holstein question?  “The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.”There were two wars over this region before the border was finally agreed and even today there are Danes in Germany who feel the line is too far to the north.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2597d

With the way the planet is going, what with fake news, global warming/climate change and mop-head blondes in Washington and London who have issues with honesty and inclusiveness, perhaps the flat-earthers whoever they are represent the last bastion of left-field thinkers and are to be embraced ...

Clifford Cowell ● 2597d

I once went to a flat-earth rugby game. It turned out to be frisbee.

Matthew Tiller ● 2596d

There is a novel the idea of which makes my head spin, as does looking at the text itself."Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions." (Wikipedia)Of course it may help towards a solution of the Irish Border problem. As may the Japanese game of "Go".

David Ainsworth ● 2596d

Yes - good jokes of course- it’s a global phenomenon :)However be careful when reading some of the well researched literature on the subject- you might not come back the same ...if nothing else it’s a beautiful thought experiment and your knowledge of physics and mathematics will be upgraded exponentially (can’t be bad?)

Andrew Lucas ● 2595d

Of course science can be stranger than fiction. One of the latest theories is that the first 10^(-43) seconds of the universe was like a two dimensional hologram - I guess it operated on the Planck scale as referenced in another post 🙂 (Sorry, can't do exponents properly on the forum.)

Michael Ixer ● 2595d