Why does the flat earth community cling to the earth-curvature formula of:
8" per mile squared
This quadradic is NOT how the earth curvature is measured. If for example, you traveled the circumference of the earth, the real curvature formula would yield 0, because you end up right where you started. Yet the flat earth narrative claims 8" per mile squared would yield not zero but a VERY BIG NUMBER.
That's just an approximation that is practical only for short distances (say, up to 1000 miles). None of the curvature calculators use it, AFAIK. Here's a list of some of them:
I want you to notice HOW many comments there are on this particular thread as compared to ALL other threads. It's almost like, a flood the zone situation or a "massively coordinated forum slide". Because in any truly democratic 'conspiracy' forum there will be a diversity of opinion, and one very strong opinion is that FE is not worthy of spending time on, when there are so many other more germaine conspiracies in the political space exploding literally every minute.
That is how you know that some group is really is pushing this. They've shown their hand here. FE threads get disproportionate activity here in this particular conspiracy forum, rather than things that actually matter more.
Say that FE is true. That means we're not going anywhere right? SPace may not be real. Or if it is, what's space doing for US? Nothing right? Maybe we're under a big bubble, or in a simulation and the earth is flat.
If you believed that were true--that the earth is flat--then why they hell would you spend your precious time in this planar existence NOT talking about other conspiraices that affect you so much more. Like 9/11, OKC, who killed JFK. These affect you much more than FE or globe earth. Right? None of us here that aren't billionaires are NEVER. EVER> going to space if the earth is round OR flat. Space = irrelevant no matter how you stand on this subject.
So why spend your time talking about FE, instead of say, Russiagate? Or Machine learning Fairness at google? Or AI / AGI? Transhumanism? Or any of the other 'threats' than people trying to fool you into thinking that the earth is round?
Its like terence mckenna says, 'what is culture doing for YOU? Nothing is what.'
switch culture for flat earth vs round earth discussion
Here's a mega list of videos on Flat Earth I made.
https://communities.win/c/FlatEarth/p/141roCfDT4/resources/c
Anyone that feels like asking questions about the "flat earth model" feel free to shoot them at me and I'll answer as best I can.
Why does the flat earth community cling to the earth-curvature formula of:
8" per mile squared
This quadradic is NOT how the earth curvature is measured. If for example, you traveled the circumference of the earth, the real curvature formula would yield 0, because you end up right where you started. Yet the flat earth narrative claims 8" per mile squared would yield not zero but a VERY BIG NUMBER.
Isn't this a problem for the FE community?
That's just an approximation that is practical only for short distances (say, up to 1000 miles). None of the curvature calculators use it, AFAIK. Here's a list of some of them:
And here's a graphic that shows how the curvature is calculated.
The 8" per mile squared is the mainstream FE argument endlessly recycled on the YouTube videos.
I want you to notice HOW many comments there are on this particular thread as compared to ALL other threads. It's almost like, a flood the zone situation or a "massively coordinated forum slide". Because in any truly democratic 'conspiracy' forum there will be a diversity of opinion, and one very strong opinion is that FE is not worthy of spending time on, when there are so many other more germaine conspiracies in the political space exploding literally every minute.
That is how you know that some group is really is pushing this. They've shown their hand here. FE threads get disproportionate activity here in this particular conspiracy forum, rather than things that actually matter more.
Say that FE is true. That means we're not going anywhere right? SPace may not be real. Or if it is, what's space doing for US? Nothing right? Maybe we're under a big bubble, or in a simulation and the earth is flat.
If you believed that were true--that the earth is flat--then why they hell would you spend your precious time in this planar existence NOT talking about other conspiraices that affect you so much more. Like 9/11, OKC, who killed JFK. These affect you much more than FE or globe earth. Right? None of us here that aren't billionaires are NEVER. EVER> going to space if the earth is round OR flat. Space = irrelevant no matter how you stand on this subject.
So why spend your time talking about FE, instead of say, Russiagate? Or Machine learning Fairness at google? Or AI / AGI? Transhumanism? Or any of the other 'threats' than people trying to fool you into thinking that the earth is round?
Its like terence mckenna says, 'what is culture doing for YOU? Nothing is what.'
switch culture for flat earth vs round earth discussion