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DetlefK

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3. The sad thing is, they love talking physics but don't know physics.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:38 AM
Feb 2018

Some don't understand what inertia and momentum are.

They love pointing to scientific explanations that supposedly support Flat-Earth-theory, but don't understand these explanations and get all confused and angry when you try to start a discussion.

They spend most of their time inventing excuses and special properties of Flat-Earth, so Flat-Earth stays a possibility even if disproven by an experiment.

They have this conspiracy-theory that any evidence proving that Earth is round has been faked by somebody for reasons.

And as Flat-Earthers don't offer any hard claims what Flat Earth actually is like, it's next to impossible to disprove it. (They don't even have an agreed-upon Flat-Earth-map...)

Their evidence that Earth is flat is dubious experiments that were conducted 150 years ago. And eyewitness-accounts. But somehow none of these eyewitnesses has bothered to take a picture.





Those Flat-Earthers who actually want to find out scientifically what Flat Earth is like are the tiniest minority. (e.g. One guy is trying to calculate a map of Earth from the flight-times of planes.)

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