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      The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

      HOOO BOY,
      that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

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        I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.

        Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world

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        After reading that, I’ve felt like I lost many wrinkles from my brain.

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        I like how they take into account special relativity by saying, that earth will never reach the speed of light because of it. But then they forget, that this will lead to less acceleration as earth gets faster and faster (and heavier and heavier).

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        I sure hope a hydrogen atom doesn’t get in our way and destroy the multiverse with the collision.

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      Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.

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      So the world is flat so we can’t fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

      But the sun, moon, stars and planets don’t fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

      It’s great to read, as is most fantasy.

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        They consider them “luminaries” whatever those are supposed to be. Not actual objects. Cause that makes sense.

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      I’m trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is… magnets???

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        Fucking magnets, how do they work?
        Idk.
        They’re magic, they can do anything.

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            Magnets have small amounts of gravity in them, duh. They come from the ground which has lots of gravity in it. I didn’t even graduate elementary school and even I know this. \s

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        Basically, there is no flat earth model. Every time they present one, there’s an easily observable fact that blows it apart. This from the people who constantly bleat “believe your eyes!”

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      Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?

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        Wouldn’t you sort of expect that in a spotlight-style moon?

        I say sort of, because what you’d actually expect, at least if I’m picturing it correctly, is that the moon would be rotated by about 130°. To be fully upside down you’d want to be off the coast of South America. And even then it’d be a rotation of 180°, which is not the same as a reflection.

        diagram

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        Yeah it has something to do with magnetic abberation or something that flips images or whatever

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      shouldn’t have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my “personal” ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, “oWnEd tHe LiBs” content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, “silver nitrate”, and trump hat bs.

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        Hell yeah, siphon that money out of them

        Every time you see one of those ads is one time that someone else won’t see it

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          There are folks that dedicate a good amount of effort into wasting these ads, I hear you can even automate that.

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          Most of the time, I would rather have the company requesting the ad keep the money rather than Google. This is one of the rare instances where I would rather have Google and Facebook get the money.

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      they really think the sun is this small star (not big or bright enough to light the entire Earth), and that spins over Earth. Amazing.

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      It would be trivially easy to disprove it if it were worth the money to load them onto a plane and circumnavigate the globe in multiple directions, showing that there is no “wall of ice” and you always end up back where you started eventually. But it’s not, so they can continue to be idiots.

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        One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.

        Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or “refraction”. Images from space? CGI.

        At one point a flat earther launched himself into “space” with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.

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        I’ll give them one thing which is that they’re very creatively stupid

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      Dont you love it when you use a light bulb outside and it instantly becomes day time from all the light you are projecting. Good times.