Perkil8r Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 They walk among us....... And yet we still allow these folk to procreate! It beggars belief. +Ibbo, Sneakybrit and BAZ 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I'll watch that later as I have to take my unicorn for a walk first. BAZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 We really do need a facepalm emoji that adequately reflects this. "We just can't imagine this", while the video is actually showing it. I am going for a short lie down......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 I do worry that there are still folks out there who think this. It seems like they are growing in number too but then I guess it might just seem like it because it's easier to find the nutters thanks to the way the internet has developed over time. For sure before platforms such as facebook etc it would have been harder for them to spread such drivel. I can live with folks who doubt the Moon landings happened, even though they are wrong. Flat Earth nutters no, that is a step too far and puts them in the same category as people who say they were abducted by aliens and probed. Come on, if intelligent life exists they are not going to visit Earth in rural locations and pick up Donald Trump wannabe redneck hicks who think it's acceptable to marry their cousins pig. Anyway, if the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now! Right, I'm off to check my horoscope. Big Al 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Looks like the FB site Virtual Astro has got them in the crosshairs too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Hmmmm.... flat Earth'ers..... fundamental misunderstanding of gravity, Newtonian motion, and... errmm.... well physics/astronomy as a whole really. BAZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 13 hours ago, Ibbo said: I'll watch that later as I have to take my unicorn for a walk first. Thanks to a newly discovered skull fossil found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, we now know that the unicorn — or "Elasmotherium sibiricum" — roamed the planet roughly 29,000 years ago. So Steve unicorns are real, I wonder if all the unicorn stories are based on these animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Heres my take on nutters- There has always been a percentage of nutters to sane types. In the past only a few outspoken nutters have had a voice and these had either been ignored or they started a world war. Because the world population has increased to high levels the number of nutters have increased also. Still in similar proportions I reckon Unfortunately the nutters now have a voice in which to reach the world - the internet and social media. This allows even minor nutters to have a voice. Unfortunately the number of thick gullible types has increased also in line with the population and these types perceive what the nutters are saying as truth. I shall stop there for my own sanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Well I'm just pleased to learn about the ancient unicorns, even if they were a bit less elegant than present day ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 I reckon the percentage of stupid people has increased, mainly as a result of health and safety. Previously Darwin would have looked after the numbers but now we are defeating natural selection by such things as warning people that a packet of dry roasted peanuts "may contain nuts". Seriously, if folks need that amount of help to avoid accidentally coming into contact with nuts I would suggest they must be allergic to themselves being that nutty. Yes, I can understand warnings on say for instance a fruit cake warning of nuts but a packet of nuts?..... Come off it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 http://www.darwinawards.com/ BAZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 this is more like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 In a 4-dimensional space, the Earth IS flat, just as a circle is flat in 3 dimensional space. I have great difficulty in considering what a 4-dimensional "sphere" would look like! I have written this message because the Moon is clouded out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 This will settle it... they say... http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/23/rocket-launch-will-prove-earth-is-flat-california-man-says.html but I think it has been rescheduled... ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 4 hours ago, Perkil8r said: I reckon the percentage of stupid people has increased, mainly as a result of health and safety. Previously Darwin would have looked after the numbers but now we are defeating natural selection by such things as warning people that a packet of dry roasted peanuts "may contain nuts". Seriously, if folks need that amount of help to avoid accidentally coming into contact with nuts I would suggest they must be allergic to themselves being that nutty. Yes, I can understand warnings on say for instance a fruit cake warning of nuts but a packet of nuts?..... Come off it! But surely they would have heard of the saying "as nutty as a fruit cake"? If they got rid of all the nutty people, I'd go with them. I mean who in their right mind would stay up until 3AM in March to complete the Messier Catalogue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakybrit Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Well that gave me a laugh. Thanks needed cheering up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 On 03/12/2017 at 10:54, BAZ said: We really do need a facepalm emoji that adequately reflects this. "We just can't imagine this", while the video is actually showing it. I am going for a short lie down......... Any of these do? BAZ, tuckstar and Perkil8r 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Fair enough, you won the internet with that post Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Watson Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 03/12/2017 at 15:17, Tweedledee said: Well I'm just pleased to learn about the ancient unicorns, even if they were a bit less elegant than present day ones. Dont know about you, I cant move for present day Unicorns...Even see them at gymkhanas...! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 12/3/2017 at 15:57, Perkil8r said: I reckon the percentage of stupid people has increased, mainly as a result of health and safety. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein On 12/3/2017 at 00:22, Ibbo said: I'll watch that later as I have to take my unicorn for a walk first. ...and we all know what that means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 12 hours ago, Big Al said: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein ...and we all know what that means... But IS the universe infinite? If we think in more than 3 dimensions, we are on a 3-dimensional surface of a 4-dimensional object or higher dimensions. Consider a football. You can travel as far as you like on its surface but cannot move off of it. It has no centre and has no edge. This goes against the everyday notion of Euclidean geometry but neither cosmology nor quantum mechanics make sense in any everyday sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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