Some new amazing photos of Earth from space

Flat Earthers will say the photos are faked.

This is me in the picture. I can say with absolutely certainty it is faked!

I'm not a flat earther, but I don't see how flat pictures can prove the earth is not flat.

Having flown between Asia and America numerous times, I think that I have seen the earth's roundness and indeed the flight path and travel time/speed only make sense if the earth is a sphere. Why else would I fly over Alaska on a direct route from Japan to LA?

I think we should welcome knowledge of the Flat Earth movement and similar conspiracy tropes. Before the internet we were, perhaps, unaware that the planet was home to so many fools and charlatans. Now, at least, we are forewarned.

SpiritualBeing said:

I would welcome that knowledge if there were evidence. Even a photograph or video would be sufficient yet we sit here and one has yet to surface. Hundreds of humans have witnessed the Earth from space yet not one ever reported seeing a flat Earth.

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Either I do not understand you, or you did not understand me. Try it this way:

I welcome the knowledge that the Flat Earth movement, etc exists, since it reveals there are a boatload of dummies floating around the planet (metaphorically) and we can thank the internet for making that fact evident.

If that was what you did understand me to mean, then what does your post mean?

SpiritualBeing said:

The consipiracy of the flat earth existed long before the Internet. My point was, how can you welcome knowledge of a flat earth if there is no evidence that it exists?

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OK, I'll try again.
I welcome the knowledge that the Flat Earth movement, etc exists,
I welcome the knowledge that the Flat Earth movement exists.
I am pleased that we know there are group who think the Earth is flat.
I welcome that knowledge.

I agree that my original statement, in an earlier post, was ambiguous, but my second (the emboldened one above) seems clear enough.

The Flat Earth movement in the 60s and 70s was a collection of mainly eccentric Englishmen who were, almost certainly, just taking the proverbial. Now that the internet is here the movement has both grown and become serious.

SpiritualBeing said:

The consipiracy of the flat earth existed long before the Internet. My point was, how can you welcome knowledge of a flat earth if there is no evidence that it exists?

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I think you are still misunderstanding. He's not saying that he welcomes the knowledge of a flat earth, he welcomes the knowledge that the "movement" exists because it shows how stupid people can be.

Most flat earthers are not what one would really call unintelligent. They are just incredibly paranoid, iconoclastic, and have an incredible level of cognitive dissonance.

Even if a flat earther was sent into space to view our Globe earth, they would come back still believing it was flat!

Strathos said:

Most flat earthers are not what one would really call unintelligent. They are just incredibly paranoid, iconoclastic, and have an incredible level of cognitive dissonance.

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Well, I know there are spades and I know there are shovels, but you can dig a big hole with either. To me someone who is "incredibly paranoid, iconoclastic, and [has] an incredible level of cognitive dissonance" is unintelligent.

Ophiolite said:

Well, I know there are spades and I know there are shovels, but you can dig a big hole with either. To me someone who is "incredibly paranoid, iconoclastic, and [has] an incredible level of cognitive dissonance" is unintelligent.

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What I'm saying is that this kind of thing is compartmentalized. In many other fields they might be very intellectually adept, but they simply are unable to apply those skills to certain beliefs that they hold, as they will assume that anything that seems to disprove it is part of the conspiracy.

Strathos said:

What I'm saying is that this kind of thing is compartmentalized. In many other fields they might be very intellectually adept, but they simply are unable to apply those skills to certain beliefs that they hold, as they will assume that anything that seems to disprove it is part of the conspiracy.

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This could easily develop into a deep discussion on semantics, the definition and measurement of intelligence, the psychology of conspiracy theorists and more. I think it would be better to agree we have marginally different views on the mental condition of such, but that we are aligned in thinking their hypotheses are crazy.

I saw Stanley Kubrick on TV explaining that the Apollo moon landing was faked - he explained how he filmed it.

I thought Kubrick had been drinking'

Anto9us said:

I saw Stanley Kubrick on TV explaining that the Apollo moon landing was faked - he explained how he filmed it.

I thought Kubrick had been drinking'

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Are you sure you aren't referring to this?

Lol

I had not seen that bit, that it w as ant Kubrick at all

Anto9us said:

I saw Stanley Kubrick on TV explaining that the Apollo moon landing was faked - he explained how he filmed it.

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No you didn't

Peter J Barban said:

I'm not a flat earther, but I don't see how flat pictures can prove the earth is not flat.

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All pictures are flat. How do you know your head is round? You've probably seen pictures of your head from different angles and can piece it together into a whole.