Last week I fell asleep watching a YouTube video about something quite inconsequential. When I woke up several hours later, YouTube was still going. Somehow a program setting on my system got ticked that automatically plays the next video in the queue on the right side of the screen, creating an endless loop.
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Anyway, when I woke up I found myself back at the JFK assassination. Over the next several days I leafed through a lot of conspiracy videos on many different subjects. The one that sticks out is the one mentioned above in the thread header.
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Over the last several months it seems the topic of the earth actually being flat has become quite the thing. I was wondering who here might have come across this themselves, and what their ideas on the topic might be.
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Apparently, back in the 1500's a group of intellectuals formed "The Flat Earth Society." It looks like the organization has been in continuous existence since its founding. The basic premise was that all the arguments and "scientific" proofs offered to support the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system cannot be actually observed. Instead, they choose to retain the previous geocentric model.
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To spice things up, a competing organization was founded long ago that ostensibly supports the idea of a flat earth. Unfortunately, the information and publicity they put out is deliberately designed to be easily debunked. This subverts the work of the original organization, and serves as a early version of the typical disinformation campaign we so often see in operation these days.
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The latest batch of individuals who are currently popularizing this theory are a mixture of ex-NASA employees, fundamentalist Christians, seemingly legitimate scientists, and some conspiracy theorist types whose "research" led them to stumble upon and latch onto this theory.
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I seem to fit into the latter group. So far I've watched quite a few of the YouTube videos on the subject but haven't had time to digest the information or come to any conclusions of my own. It's easy to spot some of the bigger "kooks." There are also quite a few lurkers who seem to be devoted to "debunking' the more legitimate sounding proponents of the idea.
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One proof offered to support the flat earth theory is the fact that the horizon does not actually behave the way it should according to the laws of physics. Basically, at a distance of 6-8 miles, the curvature of the earth's surface should prevent an observer standing on the surface of the earth from seeing the object. It can be demonstrated that's just not the case.
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The conspiracy encompasses the role of NASA which is claimed to be a NAZI organization. That's something many people won't accept; myself, that's definitely a prime cornerstone of my current world view. It's a known fact that Project Paperclip was created by American fascists to make it possible to bring NAZI scientists and intelligence officers into the USA. Once here, they continued the work they had been doing for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland, and made an inordinately large impact upon the shaping of American domestic and foreign policy. Today, we live in a nation where the "homeland" has replaced the notion of "fatherland," Constitutional freedoms have been curtailed, and corporations control the government for their own benefit at the expense of the individual citizen.
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At the root of the flat earth theory is the concept that the earth is a flat disk shaped like a polar projection map showing the North Pole at the center. The oceans and continental land masses are bounded by a wall of ice several hundred feet high that encircles everything else. On the spherical projection of the earth we see on a globe, this wall becomes the continent of Antarctica.
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As it stands, there is an international treaty administered by the United Nations that limits access to Antarctica. Warships from several nations prevent unauthorized persons from going there. It is suggested by some that beyond the wall of ice lies new uninhabited lands, and that the boundaries of the earth extend far beyond that barrier.
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The bottom line is that our current satellite technology and efforts to put man into space is a dog and pony show to keep the masses believing the intellectualized concept of reality we were brainwashed into believing as children by the education we received.
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Any takers on this one?
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Anyway, when I woke up I found myself back at the JFK assassination. Over the next several days I leafed through a lot of conspiracy videos on many different subjects. The one that sticks out is the one mentioned above in the thread header.
-
Over the last several months it seems the topic of the earth actually being flat has become quite the thing. I was wondering who here might have come across this themselves, and what their ideas on the topic might be.
-
Apparently, back in the 1500's a group of intellectuals formed "The Flat Earth Society." It looks like the organization has been in continuous existence since its founding. The basic premise was that all the arguments and "scientific" proofs offered to support the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system cannot be actually observed. Instead, they choose to retain the previous geocentric model.
-
To spice things up, a competing organization was founded long ago that ostensibly supports the idea of a flat earth. Unfortunately, the information and publicity they put out is deliberately designed to be easily debunked. This subverts the work of the original organization, and serves as a early version of the typical disinformation campaign we so often see in operation these days.
-
The latest batch of individuals who are currently popularizing this theory are a mixture of ex-NASA employees, fundamentalist Christians, seemingly legitimate scientists, and some conspiracy theorist types whose "research" led them to stumble upon and latch onto this theory.
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I seem to fit into the latter group. So far I've watched quite a few of the YouTube videos on the subject but haven't had time to digest the information or come to any conclusions of my own. It's easy to spot some of the bigger "kooks." There are also quite a few lurkers who seem to be devoted to "debunking' the more legitimate sounding proponents of the idea.
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One proof offered to support the flat earth theory is the fact that the horizon does not actually behave the way it should according to the laws of physics. Basically, at a distance of 6-8 miles, the curvature of the earth's surface should prevent an observer standing on the surface of the earth from seeing the object. It can be demonstrated that's just not the case.
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The conspiracy encompasses the role of NASA which is claimed to be a NAZI organization. That's something many people won't accept; myself, that's definitely a prime cornerstone of my current world view. It's a known fact that Project Paperclip was created by American fascists to make it possible to bring NAZI scientists and intelligence officers into the USA. Once here, they continued the work they had been doing for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland, and made an inordinately large impact upon the shaping of American domestic and foreign policy. Today, we live in a nation where the "homeland" has replaced the notion of "fatherland," Constitutional freedoms have been curtailed, and corporations control the government for their own benefit at the expense of the individual citizen.
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At the root of the flat earth theory is the concept that the earth is a flat disk shaped like a polar projection map showing the North Pole at the center. The oceans and continental land masses are bounded by a wall of ice several hundred feet high that encircles everything else. On the spherical projection of the earth we see on a globe, this wall becomes the continent of Antarctica.
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As it stands, there is an international treaty administered by the United Nations that limits access to Antarctica. Warships from several nations prevent unauthorized persons from going there. It is suggested by some that beyond the wall of ice lies new uninhabited lands, and that the boundaries of the earth extend far beyond that barrier.
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The bottom line is that our current satellite technology and efforts to put man into space is a dog and pony show to keep the masses believing the intellectualized concept of reality we were brainwashed into believing as children by the education we received.
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Any takers on this one?
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