"How can we stick to the bottom of a ball?" - Up & Down Confuses Flat Earthers

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  • Many Flat Earthers ask the question of "how can we stick to the bottom of a ball" ... the problem with this logic is where is the bottom of the ball?
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  • @DjVortex-w
    @DjVortex-w ปีที่แล้ว +451

    "Why don't people fall off from the bottom of the Earth?"
    "Because of gravity."
    "But gravity doesn't exist!"
    "So why would they be falling off the Earth, then?"

    • @SamualRobotham-IWasOnlyKidding
      @SamualRobotham-IWasOnlyKidding ปีที่แล้ว +18

      👍

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was dumb what u said

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      If solar system is true, then Venus should not be visible in the night sky. But it is visible, because earth is flat and motionless, everything revolves above us. Solar system is a lie.

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A ball wrecking question to globe slaves:
      According to you, earth is a giant treadmill, right? Because "it's spinning" you say. So any vehicle traveling at 100 kmph in the east direction for covering 100 km distance should take a longer time than covering the same distance in the westward direction at the same speed.
      Because earth spins from west to east, so while traveling west, the destination comes to you at 1600 kmph speed. So you should reach the 100 km westward destination much quicker.
      But in reality it takes exactly 1 hour to reach 100 km destination at 100kmph speed in both directions. This clearly scientifically proves that the earth is NOT spinning.
      CHECKMATE. Accept the flat reality, you won't regret.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Almighty_Flat_Earth facts then when ask to debate us they no where to b seen

  • @johnholland9371
    @johnholland9371 ปีที่แล้ว +894

    It's terrifying that this needs to be said out loud to adult humans.

    • @ub-4630
      @ub-4630 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Who can vote, have freedom of speech, and can teach our children.

    • @notcrediblesolipsism3851
      @notcrediblesolipsism3851 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      I asked my 6 year old son why people don't fall off the bottom of the earth and said "err, gravity".

    • @leokrissandy5579
      @leokrissandy5579 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      more terrifying if that adult humans has power and authority like catholic church back in 1600

    • @yummytea19
      @yummytea19 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      But are they really adult and/or humans?

    • @coryv5679
      @coryv5679 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I mean people have believed in Magical space wizards for over 4,000 years. Surprised people believe in something like the flat earth?

  • @wickedlee
    @wickedlee ปีที่แล้ว +251

    I blew a person's mind once when I told them that wherever you are on the globe, it could be the top, bottom or side. They just couldn't wrap their head around it. I think a lot of people have trouble with 3d. I'm like you and refer to up as away from the centre of the earth, and down as toward it. I'm an Aussie and I'm definitely not hanging upside down as I ride my kangaroo to the shops.

    • @muskyoxes
      @muskyoxes ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Every time someone is accused of having trouble with 3D, they turn out to have trouble with 2D. A circle is all that's needed to illustrate your point

    • @billytaylor6604
      @billytaylor6604 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You are on a Spaceship approaching Earth, which way is "up"? Which way is "down"? THAT is a thing FlatEarthers can't understand.

    • @shaneeslick
      @shaneeslick ปีที่แล้ว +7

      G'day Wicked Lee Goods,
      I quite often need to carry big heavy items that wouldn't fin in my kangaroo's pouch so got one of those metal Kangaroos with the pouch in the back that we call a ute 🙃👎

    • @phildavenport4150
      @phildavenport4150 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very dangerous having sex with a kangaroo - if you get out of step.

    • @fleetadmiralauto6506
      @fleetadmiralauto6506 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah I see you're a Sniper main

  • @chasebh89
    @chasebh89 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    My geography teacher had a game to make us learn directions; he would point to the map and say "direct my hand to (country)" but his trick was if someone said "up" he would lift his finger off the map and if someone said "down" he'd reply with "I can't poke through the map" so that we *had* to guide him using north south east west lol

    • @JokisenTontsa
      @JokisenTontsa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what if someone said left and right?

    • @rickbrockman497
      @rickbrockman497 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I did something similar teaching Earth/Space science. Discussion plate tectonics, or Earth, when anyone said, “up,” I’d say, “point north.” And they would. I’d say, “Point down.” And they would.
      Then, “are those the same?”
      And except for one or two odd children over the years, they’d say, “no.”

  • @UdarRusskihPudgei
    @UdarRusskihPudgei ปีที่แล้ว +243

    From my experience, whenever you talk to a flat earther, you just have to define "bottom" as a "direction where things fall". This is very hard to argue about, and leaves them very little room for that weird 'ball on water & stuff' arguments.

    • @JonasColorado
      @JonasColorado ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Do you mean the weird "show me water sticking to a ball" thing?(You said ball on water) It's really stupid.

    • @UdarRusskihPudgei
      @UdarRusskihPudgei ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ​@@JonasColorado yes, I meant exactly that. But I guess "ball on water" might still be somewhere among those flerf arguments, if you search long enough.

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The thing we use to sit on.

    • @kamikeserpentail3778
      @kamikeserpentail3778 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@JonasColorado Even funnier is that surface tension can cause a small amount of water to stick to the bottom of a ball.

    • @dylansawyer3446
      @dylansawyer3446 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kamikeserpentail3778 Setting the scalability of the experiment aside one thing that I think adds to the comedic effect is (and this is entirely eyeballed because I am too lazy to do the math right now. The earths oceans average some 2 miles deep and the atmosphere is about 60 miles thick. That means that the depth of the ocean is roughly 1/30 as deep as the atmosphere is thick. I have heard the thickness of the atmosphere as relative to earth is nearly the same as the relationship in between an apple (an apple being roughly the same size as the balls that they use for their inane demonstration) and it's skin. The thickness of an apple skin is roughly 180 μm so carrying over the relationship to the same scale. If the skin of the apple is assumed to be the atmosphere than the thickness of the ocean in proportion to it would be just 6 μm. Again this is just 3AM head bullshit but, if a flat earther did this demonstration and at any point on the ball the remaining layer of moisture were equal to or greater than just 6 μm then they would (by their own rules of study and neglect for basic principals of observation) in fact be proving a stronger effect than we see present on earth as it would pertain to the attractive force exerted on the oceans.

  • @outputcoupler7819
    @outputcoupler7819 ปีที่แล้ว +501

    It's always fun watching flerfs do their best to not understand this very simple concept. And I do believe it requires active, conscious effort on their part to remain ignorant. There was a very telling moment in the first debate between McToon and Jin (I think it was Jin?) where Jin said "down is where your feet are", then immediately had to run away from it because he realized that this was incompatible with his "confusion" about how people in Australia don't fall off the planet.

    • @ziploc2000
      @ziploc2000 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      There was also the guy who pretended not to understand clockwise and anti-clockwise, regarding apparent rotational direction of the night sky.

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@ziploc2000 Tony Naoum was that guy. He was bonkers and out of control.

    • @melsop54
      @melsop54 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      What becomes blatantly clear over time is that Flerfs function entirely on the purposeful ignorance of things like scale, common sense, basic thinking.

    • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
      @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It's a treacherous existence, always having to argue with one eye on whether the new claim exposes any of the other ones you're trying to develop.

    • @erikstolzenberger1517
      @erikstolzenberger1517 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yeah...I mean, "up" always means the absolute opposite to the center of gravity...

  • @jasonmohn1472
    @jasonmohn1472 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Another simple way to show this is to have two people face each other and tell them to both to point left. They are both pointing left and they are both pointing in different directions and they both probably not pointing in the direction that is left to you. This is why in theater you have a stage left and a stage right, because telling a character to go left or right can be confusing since it matters which way the character is facing in a scene. Using the stage as the single reference point fixes this. Earth is the reference point, up is the sky and down is the dirty, doesn't matter on the orientation you are actually in.

    • @christophsiebert1213
      @christophsiebert1213 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Since I'm not a theater guy, could you enlighten me? How is "stage left" and "stage right" less confusing than just "left" or "right"? Because depending on where you face on the stage, its left or right could change again. Are those referencing the audience looking at the stage? What's the reference frame for "stage left/right"?

    • @itsaboutthattime4425
      @itsaboutthattime4425 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@christophsiebert1213 It’s referenced by the stage crew. Their left when facing the audience is Stage left for everyone and vice versa. It’s also marked a lot of the time, above the exit/entrance.

    • @briansomething5987
      @briansomething5987 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@christophsiebert1213 Stage left means left to a performer on the stage facing the audience. It is always the same. House left means left to a person in the audience facing the stage. Similarly there is 'up stage' which means the part of the stage farthest from the audience, and 'down stage' which means the part closest to the audience.

    • @sigisalmen2399
      @sigisalmen2399 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks to all of you, guys! Very interesting. I've learned something new. 👍

    • @DRPowell
      @DRPowell ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “Exit… Stage Left” - Awesome album!

  • @darrenberkey7017
    @darrenberkey7017 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    People have always used the phrase, "That person is so confused, they don't know which way is up", but I never thought we'd reach a point in humanity's existence where such adults actually existed outside of suffering the effects of strong drugs or a severe head injury.

  • @justamessenger4577
    @justamessenger4577 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The fact that flerfs need to be told what is up and what is down says it all.

    • @revjimbob
      @revjimbob ปีที่แล้ว

      Well put.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Who told u y all not coming to us let's debate anybody on this chat can get it

    • @justamessenger4577
      @justamessenger4577 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FlatEarth-q1f
      Do you know what up and down means?

    • @FlatEarthKiller
      @FlatEarthKiller ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FlatEarth-q1fWhat is weight to you!

    • @ididsomeunspeakablethingsa4899
      @ididsomeunspeakablethingsa4899 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@FlatEarth-q1f why do you think something is false because you don't understand it

  • @dyamonde9555
    @dyamonde9555 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "People in Australia should fall off into Oblivion." what absolute nonsense. if anything, they should fall off into Skyrim!

    • @xczechr
      @xczechr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People in the western hemisphere should fall off into Morrowind.

    • @bjornfeuerbacher5514
      @bjornfeuerbacher5514 ปีที่แล้ว

      Skyrim is in the north, Australia is in the south. So I don't think this would work. ;)

  • @jmclaugh
    @jmclaugh ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Until flerfs understand that the gravity vector DEFINES up and down, they’ll never get it.

    • @johnchapman8131
      @johnchapman8131 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gravity vector?? I do not lack the mental capacity to understand anything science teaches. I do however lack the mental capacity to regurgitate false information as facts

    • @johnchapman8131
      @johnchapman8131 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So is it gravity vector that holds water down to the spinning ball while allowing us to walk around

    • @johnchapman8131
      @johnchapman8131 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gravity Vector. That's now one of the most laughable made up scientific terms I have heard. What a steaming crock of bull

    • @paulomarinho1963
      @paulomarinho1963 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Density vector, if you mention gravity you will immediately lose the flerfer, thus rendering useless your effort to explain reality.

    • @TumultTenacity
      @TumultTenacity ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@johnchapman8131 Your personal incredulity is showing.

  • @SgtD85
    @SgtD85 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    "because they think".... that would require them to think

    • @stigandrmyrardalur5208
      @stigandrmyrardalur5208 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      True words 👍🏻

    • @devlin9871
      @devlin9871 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I have a theory that the average flat earther has the same mental limit as a potato and any thoughts harder than that hurts and shorts them out. (Average human 10 watts of power, average potato 0.8, but only stable around 0.2)

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If Flatty's IQ were measured on the Kelvin scale, they'd be on par with the Cosmic Microwave Background Emissions.

    • @hughjanus2781
      @hughjanus2781 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devlin9871 Most flat earthers are just science denying religious apologists. They have these same never ending arguments about evolution also. They lie deny and act incredulous all to keep their comforting beliefs alive.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Y all doesnt think at all u go by he say she say us flat earthers show work and do research by using critical thinking and logic

  • @stewartjeffery311
    @stewartjeffery311 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When you zoomed out of the ball to reveal up I would have loved you to zoom out again to reveal you were hanging upside down in a room ! 😆

  • @gearsmoke
    @gearsmoke ปีที่แล้ว +112

    The flerf's inability (or outright refusal) to grasp this concept is both funny and horrifying.

    • @miraqen7801
      @miraqen7801 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I feel bad for their offsprings (if that's even possible). I bet they believe that babies came from pelican express or something.

    • @PhaQ2
      @PhaQ2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miraqen7801 It's a statistical fact that those who exist on the left end of the bell curve often reproduce at a far higher rate to those on the right.
      I believe it's the ability to understand and utilize delayed gratification, that those on the right often don't reproduce until later in life.

    • @mijimonmaster
      @mijimonmaster ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's scary knowing they walk among us

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      If solar system is true, then Venus should not be visible in the night sky. But it is visible, because earth is flat and motionless, everything revolves above us. Solar system is a lie.

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      A ball wrecking question to globe slaves:
      According to you, earth is a giant treadmill, right? Because "it's spinning" you say. So any vehicle traveling at 100 kmph in the east direction for covering 100 km distance should take a longer time than covering the same distance in the westward direction at the same speed.
      Because earth spins from west to east, so while traveling west, the destination comes to you at 1600 kmph speed. So you should reach the 100 km westward destination much quicker.
      But in reality it takes exactly 1 hour to reach 100 km destination at 100kmph speed in both directions. This clearly scientifically proves that the earth is NOT spinning.
      CHECKMATE. Accept the flat reality, you won't regret.

  • @anderstroberg3704
    @anderstroberg3704 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Fun fact: The phrase "to orient a map" or "to orient yourself" comes from the practice of having Jerusalem at the top, or, in other words, "The Orient".

    • @xczechr
      @xczechr ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Orient comes from the Latin oriens, meaning rising/east.

    • @defenestrated23
      @defenestrated23 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oriental, occidental (west), boreal (north), austral (south)

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Orient was meant to be Jerusalem? Wow. Neat!

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@defenestrated23 Hmm. Yes. Aurora Orientus lol.

    • @TheUltrahypnotoad
      @TheUltrahypnotoad ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Interesting. I'm learning stuff!

  • @alanjm1234
    @alanjm1234 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Another one that bugs me is the "spinning ball" argument.
    I've tried to explain that earth rotates half as quickly as the hour hand on a clock.
    Trouble is I don't think they know which one is the hour hand.

    • @Danikar
      @Danikar ปีที่แล้ว +6

      pretty sure they all just look at their own hands in confusion

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ball earthers are so delusional that, the sun, moving across the sky everyday, isn't.

    • @alicebatbar1
      @alicebatbar1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      1000 miles an hour at the equator.. sure

  • @paulpeterson5147
    @paulpeterson5147 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My favourite was when a flerfer told me the moon landings where on the visible side of the moon yet all the films show them on the top.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Y r they fake CGI and fotoforensics y can't we go to space an experience this great discover that NASA did. Explain to me where is the curvature how high and how far do I need to go

    • @suzannepottsshorts
      @suzannepottsshorts ปีที่แล้ว

      🤦

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clearly, the astronauts were on top of the moon!! People are so dumb! I mean they knew this when they heard it on the radio....

  • @stephenhammond1745
    @stephenhammond1745 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's a miracle that the flat earth was made the right way up, otherwise all the flerfs would be falling off.

  • @BlazeSLK
    @BlazeSLK ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Another classic case of the entire Southern Hemisphere ruining the flat earth model

    • @MeerkatADV
      @MeerkatADV ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And reality as a whole ruining flerfers.

  • @capq57
    @capq57 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    All my life I've been trying to claw my way to the top, only now to realize I've been there the whole time. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

    • @ShadowlordDio
      @ShadowlordDio ปีที่แล้ว

      The highest Place? Is everest. The deepest one is the Marian sea trench. The more far away to the north? North Pole.

  • @cheetahobscura1165
    @cheetahobscura1165 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This got me thinking about when I worked as a travel counselor for an auto club and helped people plan road trips. When working with a customer, we would turn the map so that it was right side for them, so from my perspective the map was south facing up. I got so used to working with paper maps with south up, that for the longest time when I was using one in the car or such (these were the days before commonplace Google maps and directions and all that), I would have to flip the map upside-down so it was correct for me.

    • @dutchdrifter8740
      @dutchdrifter8740 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here.

    • @kamikeserpentail3778
      @kamikeserpentail3778 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I just played a lot of videogames.
      In some the map rotates and the representation of your character always points up.
      In others just your pointer rotates.
      And then there was Descent, which had no problem letting you turn the 3d map so a wall was down while your ship was oriented so the ceiling was down.

    • @emilschw8924
      @emilschw8924 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Whenever I need to read a map, I first orientate it so that north is at the top, and from there on I proceed with reading the map. Creates a single frame of reference for myself.
      If neccessary, I can also create another point of reference from a physical landmark, and compare it to the map, and then orient myself to these landmarks. From there, it is plain sailing.
      The mistake most people make with reading maps is by not having one (or two) reference points, and they confuse themselves.
      Interestingly, Tolkien put the East of his maps at the top.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If u have to turn the map doesn't mean its a globe no matter what u do u r still travel horizontal how far do u have to go to c curvature

    • @emilschw8924
      @emilschw8924 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@FlatEarth-q1f this idiotic statement is not worth my time and energy.

  • @MelodicTurtleMetal
    @MelodicTurtleMetal ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Australian here - they're correct. Been falling into oblivion for quite a few years now

  • @parintelebaiazid80
    @parintelebaiazid80 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The fact that this concept still needs to be explained in the 21st century is tragic.

  • @josebarria3233
    @josebarria3233 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can confirm I've been falling for the last 25 years

  • @TorquilBletchleySmythe
    @TorquilBletchleySmythe ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You have obviously never been to Australia and have neglected to mention the daily struggle we go through here, just keeping from falling off into space. Why, just last week, our Finance Minister neglected to check his tether and was last seen in a sub-troposoheric orbit above Invercargill.

  • @consciousmindgame5047
    @consciousmindgame5047 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    It's such a simple concept, the fact that up and down are relative directions and need a frame of reference as you mentioned in the video, yet flat earthers somehow fail to understand that, that's really remarkable.

    • @ponypapa6785
      @ponypapa6785 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Left and right are relative as well, and most people - including those ignorant about any science at all - know this. That is why many get left and right confused. But, for some reason, "up" and "down" seem to be immutable objective spatial vectors (I hope I used those words right :D)

    • @MagiRemmie
      @MagiRemmie ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think the issue is people can't understand the concept of reality being relative.

    • @craigcorson3036
      @craigcorson3036 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here's what goes on in their heads when someone tells then=m the world is spheroidal - "Buh-buh-buh-but muh Bahbel!!!" Just about all flerfism is bible-based bullshit.

    • @MrNimbus420
      @MrNimbus420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MagiRemmie what do you mean by that?
      Do you mean that truth is relative or just subjective reality?

    • @purplefood1
      @purplefood1 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@MagiRemmie reality isn't relative, perspective is.

  • @mcg6762
    @mcg6762 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    It's beyond me that adult humans have trouble understanding these incredibly simple concepts. Most small children can grasp this after a little explaining.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Where is the curvature go live and show me the cruve

    • @mcg6762
      @mcg6762 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlatEarth-q1f There are probably thousands of video recordings showing the curvature of earth. And you believe they are ALL fake created by the greatest conspiracy of all time involving millions of people. Why the hell would you believe a recording I make??

    • @shwingleman
      @shwingleman ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@FlatEarth-q1f if you take a picture of the ocean horizon and compress it horizontally, the curvature is visible.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shwingleman show me

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shwingleman show a video of water curving by gravity. I can bend water its not gravity tho its, called cymatics meaning sound vibration fequancy

  • @johngrant5448
    @johngrant5448 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Being an old geezer from an age when education was first class, I would have thought that it would be obvious that there's no up and down in space.

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Being another old geezer, it's indeed distressing how educational standards are falling. But even good education has to fight against the pull of social media.

    • @oilslick7010
      @oilslick7010 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@therealzilch 'Educational standards are falling' Really? Ever noticed how most flerfers are also old geezers? How would that be possible if educational standard were so great back then? The only thing more annoying than Flerfers repeating their nonsense is boomers repeating the "Everything was better when I was young" mantra

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oilslick7010 Actually, having followed the flat Earth scene for several years now, I don't notice that most flerfers are old geezers. Most are younger, and most are obviously dropouts. Many are also crackheads.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@oilslick7010The only thing more annoying than flerfers is:
      The use of the, non existant word - flerfers.

  • @BirthquakeRecords
    @BirthquakeRecords ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gravity doesn’t pull “down,” it pulls _in_

  • @FawadAli_SST
    @FawadAli_SST ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I was teaching this to my six grade students. It's so terrifying that we have to explain this to grown adults.

    • @victorfinberg8595
      @victorfinberg8595 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I suppose it might comfort you to know that "flat earthers" don't actually believe that nonsense. Any "flat earther" that you are likely to meet is better described as a zombie that mindlessly parrots what some zombie handler said. You are unlikely to ever meet the zombie handlers (i.e. flat earth "content" creators)
      Or maybe that might terrify you more.

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      If solar system is true, then Venus should not be visible in the night sky. But it is visible, because earth is flat and motionless, everything revolves above us. Solar system is a lie.

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      shame on globe slaves for deceiving the world with photoshop images and fish eye lens videos. This is the year of waking up the globe dreamers. Earth is flat and motionless.

    • @Almighty_Flat_Earth
      @Almighty_Flat_Earth ปีที่แล้ว

      A ball wrecking question to globe slaves:
      According to you, earth is a giant treadmill, right? Because "it's spinning" you say. So any vehicle traveling at 100 kmph in the east direction for covering 100 km distance should take a longer time than covering the same distance in the westward direction at the same speed.
      Because earth spins from west to east, so while traveling west, the destination comes to you at 1600 kmph speed. So you should reach the 100 km westward destination much quicker.
      But in reality it takes exactly 1 hour to reach 100 km destination at 100kmph speed in both directions. This clearly scientifically proves that the earth is NOT spinning.
      CHECKMATE. Accept the flat reality, you won't regret.

    • @EBDavis111
      @EBDavis111 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Almighty_Flat_Earth "So any vehicle traveling at 100 kmph in the east direction for covering 100 km distance should take a longer time than covering the same distance in the westward direction at the same speed."
      No, since the vehicle is travelling along the "tread" in this analogy. lol. Were you just pretending to be stupid by asking this question? Or did you really not see the problem with your own analogy?
      "If solar system is true, then Venus should not be visible in the night sky"
      No, you'd be able to see it just fine in the solar system. If you couldn't, astronomers would have figured that otu by now.

  • @windypup8845
    @windypup8845 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    To fall off the underside of the earth would mean there is a gravity source below earth and if there was then the earth would also fall. The truth is gravity is like a magnet in the center of the earth sucking everyone to it, like a magnet sucking up iron filings all over it's self.

  • @scottfraser9114
    @scottfraser9114 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Ever since I was a little kid, I would go out at night when the moon was exactly half full. I would align my head and (as best as I could) my body with that line on the moon, and imagine myself standing "sideways" on the Earth, trying to get a gut "feel" for the relative positions of me, the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. Given the shadow on the moon, where is the Sun right now? It's a fun exercise in geometry. 🙂

    • @cogs7777
      @cogs7777 ปีที่แล้ว

      i guess the moon points at it

    • @mallninja9805
      @mallninja9805 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude that reminds me of one particular sunset about 15 years ago, the sun had just gone down and Venus was high in the west, and both the moon and mars were in the east, and I just "got it" - like I could _feel_ my place in the solar system. I pulled my kids out into the yard and pointed like a crazy person. "LOOK! Venus! Earth! Mars!" It was a profound moment for me

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I pretend or imagine I'm on the bottom, upside down and about to dive deep, headfirst into the universe...
      (I don't think the earth is a ball.)

  • @ethribin4188
    @ethribin4188 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "How do we stick to the bottom/underside of a ball?"
    Me: A ball has no underside -.-
    Or it wouldnt be A BALL.

    • @redstonewarrior0152
      @redstonewarrior0152 ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts exactly

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      That was dumb prove the globe and tell Dave stop running

    • @Mark73
      @Mark73 ปีที่แล้ว

      A ball has an underside if it's being pulled towards some external source of gravity. The Earth _is_ our local source of gravity, so the term "underside" can't be applied to any part of it.

    • @Mark73
      @Mark73 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@FlatEarth-q1f We've been proving the globe over and over every time you idiots show your faces. Don't blame us just because you refuse to listen and don't even understand what "proof" or "evidence" even mean.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What?

  • @anlumo1
    @anlumo1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I admit that I too was confused by this… at the age of 6.

  • @derptomistic
    @derptomistic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Flat earthers stopped paying attention in school at around grade 2
    If they hadn't, they'd understand that gravity is a thing and space is big

  • @kevbishop12
    @kevbishop12 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Up is up, down is down and the Earth is always round.😊

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How come when I say the earth is curving up, people get upset?

  • @traildoggy
    @traildoggy ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.”
    - Philip K. Dick

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I stopped believing:
      Now I see the sun moving!

  • @romanvonungern-sternberg813
    @romanvonungern-sternberg813 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It is happening... Devolution of humans as the result of individuals with lower IQ reproducing faster resulted in accumulation of people with Intelligence of a three year old. A toddler asking "if earth is round how come we don't fall off" is cute. An adult asking the same question is terrifying...

    • @Schmidtelpunkt
      @Schmidtelpunkt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It also makes one wonder, why that adult as a toddler never has asked the question. Which shows their character: void of any interest in the world in any other way than to find evidence of their self-perceived brilliance.
      And this attitude is coherent - it is the same when they encounter the shadows on the moon, utterly surprised that shadows get distorted by the surface they are cast on and the perspective of the observer, another observations toddlers tend to make.

  • @OfnionGidnir
    @OfnionGidnir ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They can't believe people can be "magically" attached to the surface without falling down, but they can believe the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars can be "magically" floating above us without falling down?
    Do they believe everything's hanging from the cosmic ceiling by strings or smth?

  • @notpublic8961
    @notpublic8961 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At what point do we simply write off flat earthers as a waste of time and stop spending time on this?
    For instance, if someone wanted to argue that 2 + 2 = 5, I couldn't be talked in to spending more than 3 seconds explaining why they're wrong.
    Life is too short to be wasted on people who are trying desperately to be ignorant.

    • @allthingsbing1295
      @allthingsbing1295 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed, this topic is easily settled by measuring the flatness of the surface of a lake. Never curved

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@allthingsbing1295
      But it is curved as has been demonstrated repeatedly.

    • @CNCmachiningisfun
      @CNCmachiningisfun ปีที่แล้ว

      @@allthingsbing1295
      *LYING* flunts!

    • @Mykst
      @Mykst ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@allthingsbing1295 The question was about people like you. I guess you missed that important fact.

  • @badensnaxx5804
    @badensnaxx5804 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A flerf, giving a "lecture" on stage at a flat erf convention, claimed if we lived on a globe, in Scotland, & wanted to travel to London, you should be able to freewheel a car all the way there.
    You are going South, he said, so you should be going downhill & not need the engine running.
    It was one of those poe moments, surely no one could be such an eejit, he had to be trolling them. Alas no, he was deadly serious & very proud of his discovery.

    • @daveg2104
      @daveg2104 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have you heard the claim that starting at a beach at sea level (0 feet) and driving across the UK (other locations can be used) and arriving at another beach at sea level (0 feet) proves the Earth is flat? Poe, troll or eejit? Who knows.

    • @badensnaxx5804
      @badensnaxx5804 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, that's a really good one I've never heard, but something I can definitely see them believing.
      McToon has started a website, a wiki where you can register & add to content. All these flerf claims need to documented there, so future generations can laugh at them, too.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Prove the globe then show me where is the curvature go live

    • @daveg2104
      @daveg2104 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FlatEarth-q1f Troll. lol .Where's your flat Earth map. You know, one that works for the Southern HemiSPHERE. We've been waiting a long time for it, still nothing.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@daveg2104 lol easy go outside and look at the ground u walk on. Look at horizon line that meet eye level or how even it is in the sky so with ur research how high or how far do I need to go to c curvature

  • @notenoughcalories
    @notenoughcalories ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Simplest way to trigger a flat earther to collapse in on themselves is to ask why northerners can only see the northern star Polaris, and southerners can only see the southern cross, the Crux.

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      their excuse is a magical personal dome that hovers over everyone’s heads. 😂
      try asking them how lunar eclipses work.

    • @ayo-7772
      @ayo-7772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@9_1.1 unfortunately you get lame and tone-deaf answers like "well nobody really knows how that works"

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ayo-7772 one guy told me it was a “function of the moon itself”, and then couldn’t explain how it works or where he heard it from 😂

  • @retroonhisbikes
    @retroonhisbikes ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Of course the world is flat, how else does it balance on the backs of 4 elephants, stood on the back of a giant turtle. D-er!

    • @laser_uhhhh
      @laser_uhhhh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that ones funny

    • @slimsadie6491
      @slimsadie6491 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don’t give them ideas if they can have them

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @retroonhisbikes
      @retroonhisbikes ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tsudico disc world fan than

  • @sendintheclowns7305
    @sendintheclowns7305 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Most people learn this as a child, flat earthers haven't advanced that far.

    • @andrejg4136
      @andrejg4136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some people just throw out anything they learn in school as being useless. We call those people various flavors of ignorant. And then there are some people who, despite showing they know better, continue to engage in a bad faith argument because they gain from it in some way (in concrete money or through prestige in a niche group).
      Basically Flat-Earthers are either willfully stupid or deliberately obtuse.

    • @Mark73
      @Mark73 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They probably did learn it as children but regressed.

  • @sunuspek5028
    @sunuspek5028 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sometimes I think people forget how small humans are compared to the size of the earth

  • @soulcrewblue8629
    @soulcrewblue8629 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Up and down confuses flatearthers".... tieing shoelaces confuses flatearthers. They really sre comedy value only.

  • @louisavondart9178
    @louisavondart9178 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was born in New Zealand. We all had to wear divers weights until the age of 10, when we became heavy enough to stay on the ground. When I moved to Europe in the 90's I had to wear divers weights for 6 months to avoid floating away. You get used to it.....

  • @AustralianGrizzly
    @AustralianGrizzly ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Being an Aussie I have always only known the Rabbit in the moon's shadows. So I have never gotten the "man in the moon" that northen hemis see.
    Until that pic in the middle. I finally saw him. While the Rabbit is the dark bit, the man is the white.

    • @isaacbruner65
      @isaacbruner65 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun fact the dark bits are called maria, they're basaltic formations from volcanic activity. Yes, the moon used to have active volcanoes. For some reason almost all the maria are on the near side of the moon, and there's no widely accepted explanation for why the far side would have been much less volcanically active.

    • @elih6087
      @elih6087 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait, I'm European and to this day I never knew that that was what the "man in the moon" was referring to. I always thought it was just a random bedtime story to tell kids. Funny thing is I can see the rabbit but can't see the man now that I look at it.

    • @AustralianGrizzly
      @AustralianGrizzly ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elih6087 In the image of the two moons, the left is the Northen Hemi view of the moon. Directly in the middle, with the 'Rabbits' head acting as hair. He is looking left.

    • @alistairgrey5089
      @alistairgrey5089 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@isaacbruner65 I thought it was explained by how the moon was formed? Since a planet crashed into Earth and caused the moon to fly off the side closest to the Earth would have been the part of the earth that was deeper in the planet and therefore much hotter.

    • @MichaelOnines
      @MichaelOnines ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alistairgrey5089 The current theory does not involve a large intact mass becoming the moon. All the different chunks of earth/moon that were thrown out coalesce into the moon somewhat randomly.

  • @Meninx87
    @Meninx87 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It really hurts my head trying to contemplate the stupidity that flat earthers have to force upon themselves just to keep their beliefs.

  • @brianbarber5401
    @brianbarber5401 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Let’s be fair - science, geometry, and reality confuse flat earthers.

    • @matthewmitchell3457
      @matthewmitchell3457 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amen! As someone else pointed out, their logic is essentially "I don't understand it, therefore it's false."

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      None of what u said goes with the globe

    • @Mark73
      @Mark73 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@FlatEarth-q1f Everything he said goes with the globe. You have no understanding of what those words even mean. Every piece of evidence we have, every observation practically screams that the Earth is a globe.
      While all you idiots can do is stand there and go "Nuh uh!" over and over again. You don't care about what's true or real, all you care about is believing that you're smarter than everyone else and that you've figured out some big secret that has everyone else fooled. And if you have to profess some of the most moronic ideas that anyone has ever come up with and ignore what's in front of your own eyes, well you're just fine with that.
      Flat earthers are inherently dishonest, to yourselves most of all.

    • @charliecuthbert9611
      @charliecuthbert9611 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlatEarth-q1f so science doesn’t go with the globe then 👀

  • @RyoHazuki224
    @RyoHazuki224 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always think of it like this: On Earth, "down" is strait toward the center of mass, the core of the planet. "up" is the opposite direction, away from the center of mass.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which way does the earth curve?

  • @cptmalcolmreynolds3623
    @cptmalcolmreynolds3623 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Their main starting problem is that they can't think in 3d. It is hard as a 4 year old, but after that, it's not hard

    • @redstonewarrior0152
      @redstonewarrior0152 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or at least it shouldn't be.
      Some people just like to be outliers.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Alcoholics have a hard time thinking in 3d.

  • @Praktical_
    @Praktical_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am an Australian and I can confirm I fell and I am currently drifting through the void of nothingness and distance that is space.

    • @peterrenn6341
      @peterrenn6341 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glad you've still got a wifi signal at least🙂

    • @MrMarcusIndia
      @MrMarcusIndia ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pffft! We all know that Australia doesn't exist and that anyone claiming to be Australian is just an actor. (There's *no way* that accent can be real for a start, and Foster's is obviously something just pretending to be beer). Your lies can't fool me!

  • @DansplainingVideo
    @DansplainingVideo ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is my favorite channel for frerf debunking, because Dave calmly and definitively explains why they’re wrong instead of just showing clips of flerfs saying silly things and then laughing at them (although, that can be entertaining, too).

    • @chrisantoniou4366
      @chrisantoniou4366 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Clips of flerfs saying silly things"?... Don't you mean "clips of flerfs saying things"? "Silly" is implied. :D

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrisantoniou4366 everything about flat earth is silly

    • @chrisantoniou4366
      @chrisantoniou4366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@9_1.1 Yes, except for all the things that are stupid, illogical, absurd, ridiculous, untrue, or just plain wrong... 😂

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is definitely is wrong hell a wrong

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlatEarth-q1f assuming you’re a real flerf, may i ask that you explain lunar eclipses on a flat earth? (asking a question back isnt an answer btw, its a red herring. i will answer any question you have AFTER you answer mine.)

  • @skidmo
    @skidmo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "frame of reference". Nope - too big of words for flerfs to understand.

  • @That70sGuitarist
    @That70sGuitarist ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I actually enjoy most Flerfer's attempts to debunk our quantifiable shared reality. I find it hilarious just how pitiful their grasp of that quantifiable shared reality is. Whenever a Flerfer asks for video of "people walking upside down in Australia," I am once again reminded of how incredibly stupid they are.
    Thanks for making the rest of us look that much smarter, Flerfs!🤣

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      just ask them to explain lunar eclipses and watch them scramble. 😂
      edit: a great example is the guy who literally named his channel “flat earth” right below these few replies.

    • @That70sGuitarist
      @That70sGuitarist ปีที่แล้ว

      @@9_1.1 Oh, I've had Flerfs try to tell me that "lunar eclipse aren't what you think they are," and other such pathetic excuses. Apparently, they suffer from (among other things) the delusion that the Moon's phases are caused by "reflected shadows from Earth."🤣
      The truth is, you can't really "explain" anything to Flerfers; they can't accept *any* evidence that disproves their precious "beliefs."🤣

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@That70sGuitarist i had one guy tell me that lunar eclipses are a “function of the moon itself”, but when asked to explain how it works, they ghosted me. 🤔

    • @That70sGuitarist
      @That70sGuitarist ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@9_1.1 That "ghosting" process is their fragile ego's way of protecting them from their own immense stupidity.🤣
      Eventually, it's bound to break down one way or another, after which they'll probably need treatment to avoid harming themselves.🤣

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@That70sGuitarist i really wanna have an in person debate with a flerf, prove them wrong and not let them run away, and see what they do. i guarantee they would do ANYTHING but admit to being wrong. 😂

  • @gonzofonzo5814
    @gonzofonzo5814 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the human mind is amazing , flat earthers show us how it can fail even with the most simple concepts

  • @mbrsart
    @mbrsart ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have seen flerfs in the same breath 1. acknowledge that in the globe model, gravity pulls toward the center of the planet, 2. question how water could stick to the underside of the "ball," and 3. act like the Nile flows against gravity because it flows north. There just isn't any helping these people.

  • @FreddieStarWars
    @FreddieStarWars 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    as an australian I can confirm I have to constantly fight gravity

  • @ugsita
    @ugsita ปีที่แล้ว +3

    North is up, otherwise Italy would be an upside down boot 😅🤣😂

  • @nathanbishop5614
    @nathanbishop5614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Every time I see a flat earther post one of those idiotic "Upside down Australia photo" memes in one of the Flat Earth Debate groups on Facebook, I ask them,
    *Why is the photographer "right side up" if everything else is "upside down?"*
    I've asked the question at least 8 times and I've yet to receive an answer.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you know the photographer is rightside up and he/she/it isn't just holding the camera upside down?
      You can't really answer your question as asked.

    • @labbeaj
      @labbeaj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's a bad question.
      Make it better and maybe you'll get answers.

  • @christianhohenstein1422
    @christianhohenstein1422 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It always bother me, that space ship in scifi always encounter another on the same plane and orientated in the sam direction. Not once did the Enterprise encounter another spaceship "upside down"

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The entire time the Enterprise was actually upside down.

    • @christianhohenstein1422
      @christianhohenstein1422 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dogwalker666 Well, but then so was everybody else. :D

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@christianhohenstein1422 indeed. 🤣

    • @markwood1159
      @markwood1159 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that problem. That, and the infinitesimal odds of _ever_ accidentally encountering another spaceship in interstellar space, even if I assume such travel is commonplace in the universe. In sci-fi it happens often but in reality, it would be so unlikely that it would be safe to say it would _never_ happen.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@markwood1159 they explain it by the fact that they use “Trade Routes” but as you say in reality it would be a flurf IQ to one that you would meet another ship.

  • @PatricRogers
    @PatricRogers ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Flat earth," like so much denial of reality, makes no sense to me, because it's such an incredible waste if energy trying to come up with excuses to justify how "round earth" can't exist, while "flat earth" fails to have any model at all to explain anything at all. "Flat earth" is such an unproductive waste of so many people's lives; I pity them their loss.

  • @dat2ra
    @dat2ra ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Trying to reason with a flerfer is like trying to argue with a drunk.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      U never talk to an flat earther either u hear she say he say prove the globe then

  • @siege8688
    @siege8688 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If earth is round then how come bottom of my shoes if flat?

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's disturbing that this still has to be explained to adults in the 21st century.

  • @dirkardostevergreen4827
    @dirkardostevergreen4827 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As an Antipodean, I find it offensive that we are considered to be "at the bottom". It's blatant bigotry and I demand change.

  • @davidpawson7393
    @davidpawson7393 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If a flerf falls down in the woods can he hear me laughing?

  • @noneofyourbusiness7055
    @noneofyourbusiness7055 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    People have explained this, to all flerfs who bothered asking. And never stopped asking, because they cannot accept the answer as it functionally invalidates the thing they _want_ to believe.

    • @maxlevel1489
      @maxlevel1489 ปีที่แล้ว

      People have explained this, to all globies who bothered asking. And never stopped asking, because they cannot accept the answer as it functionally invalidates the thing they want to believe.

    • @MrMarcusIndia
      @MrMarcusIndia ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@maxlevel1489
      Explain how tides work on your Flat Earth. Why do we get two high/low tides per day? Why do they occur at different times around the world? Why don't they occur at the same time each day at the same location? Why do we get Spring Tides? Use your Flat Earth 'model' to provide tide forecasts for any location around the world.
      Coz the heliocentric model works just fine. Nothing "functionally invalidated" there whatsoever.
      You presumably think that parroting people's words back at them is clever but... and at the risk of stating the obvious... Flerfer's ain't clever by definition.

    • @noneofyourbusiness7055
      @noneofyourbusiness7055 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are websites that use the globe model to predict eclipses (20 April, S/E Asia) years in advance. You can look up where the ISS is, then... _look up_ and see it's accurate for yourself. I have multiple apps on my phone that accurately simulate the location of sun, moon, planets and stars in a 3D _sphere_ of augmented reality around me, lining up with the camera. All of this is available for free. Meanwhile, there is no flat Earth model that reflects basic aspects of reality. Invalidation, you say?

    • @CNCmachiningisfun
      @CNCmachiningisfun ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maxlevel1489
      *DOPEY* flerfs!

  • @wiggles7976
    @wiggles7976 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Is the target audience of this video primary school students, or flat earthers? It's hard to tell.

    • @alexmicco
      @alexmicco ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Videos like these are for a few audiences. The primary group is people who are curious to get a look into the thought process of people who choose to deny such a basic fact like the shape of the earth. Next is people who like to engage with flat earthers and are looking for the debate tactics. Lastly is people who may be on the fence about flat earth and could still be swayed by reason.

  • @EdOeuna
    @EdOeuna ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This lack of understanding opens up a whole chapter of flat earth science. Planes having to flip over when flying to Australia. Planes cruise at 10k but have to fly over a 20k bulge in the earth to get to the Southern Hemisphere. Water falling off the underside of the earth. FE science is just so amazing.

  • @frogisis
    @frogisis ปีที่แล้ว +3

    People being unable to comprehend this is the one that really drives me up the wall. No one's asking them to calculate geodesics in curved spacetime, literally just to understand that "up" and "down" on a massive body like a planet are merely what "inward" and "outward" look like to you from any single spot on the surface. It couldn't be simpler, but they _just don't want_ to understand it, because being able to accept the existence of outer space makes the universe too huge and intimidating, with all these overwhelming implications for humanity and themselves that disgust and terrify them, and so they'd rather pretend that almost everything that exists out there in the real world is fake and they live in a nothing but a stupid little magic snowglobe with a universe painted on the walls. What a waste.
    At least they're right to distrust power and institutions and elites, but even then they can't accept it's not because of Satan or Freemasons or some insipid fantasy of a cultural agenda-Power doesn't give a shit about any of that-It's just about _money._ Quarterly profits, value for shareholders, reducing labor costs, opening new markets, etc., and every consequence is someone else's problem-That's _it,_ that's the _entire "conspiracy."_

    • @olivercharles2930
      @olivercharles2930 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is honestly less irritating to argue with a brick wall than to argue with a flat earther.

  • @DavydAtkins
    @DavydAtkins ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Ender's Game movie actually mentions this twice. Early in the film the character Ender comments that another character is trying to orient themselves 'down' when there is no up or down in zero-g. Later in the film Ender realises that for them to coordinate in a game, they need a frame of reference, so states "The enemies gate is down" highlighting the fact that up and down are completely arbitrary.

    • @hatti...
      @hatti... ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember being pretty young when I watched it and it helped me to understand that up and down pretty much entirely depends on ones perspective

  • @red_orange2971
    @red_orange2971 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would suggest Flat Earthers should play a video game, called "Star Citizen" that has Planets on 1/6th scale. When you are on the planet, irrelevant if it is southern or northern hemisphere it looks normal just like on earth. They can even make their own game with a big ball and just walk on it, it'll look flat but it's a ball just like earth. Shouldn't be that hard.

  • @wearywanderer7018
    @wearywanderer7018 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Watching Daves debunk flat earthers is a new hobby.
    Hello my second science Dave.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      He didn't debunk nothing go live and prove it

  • @bobsurface908
    @bobsurface908 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "But gravity is just a theory"... FFS
    Flerfs seem to think that "fact" is "above" theory - like a thing which is "true" is more "true" than a theory.
    When "facts" are just observations: not the REASON FOR THE OBSERVATION TO BE OR EXIST.
    I get so tired arguing with Flerfs - but they vote and reproduce, so I have to try.

  • @Desertphile
    @Desertphile ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome. Thank you. We orient maps maps because east used to be upward.

  • @cartimandua_
    @cartimandua_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm gobsmacked by this - this clicked with me at school when I was TEN years old in a lesson about the earth and Australians. How have they not got this yet!?? 😳

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      At ten u been lied to parents lie to their children if they didn't know either show me where the curvature is located at

    • @Ddozsoy
      @Ddozsoy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlatEarth-q1fyou r 8 years old max

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ddozsoy go live and prove me wrong then if not shut up while grown folks r talking

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ddozsoy even religion copied off ancient cosmology and all over the world saying its flat go do ur research

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ddozsoy go live and prove me wrong or u gonna b a coward and run

  • @bobblum5973
    @bobblum5973 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dave, take your small blue ball and place a stick-figure person on the "top" (uppermost point in the screen view). As you rotate the ball, animate that stick-figure to walk along the surface, so it remains in that same point of relative viewpoint regardless of the orientation of the ball.
    You described the relative "up" POV, placing a figure there just emphasizes it.
    _(Oh, and nice video, sir!)_

  • @Nate_Higgins
    @Nate_Higgins ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's my favorite flat earther misconception. It just blows my mind that they don't get this. I remember being 5 years old playing with a globe and thinking this. It didn't take very long to figure this out.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Go live and show me where is the curvature

    • @RainIndex
      @RainIndex ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@FlatEarth-q1f im gonna show you the curvature of deez nuts

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FlatEarth-q1f If I draw a squiggle, you can't say that the curvature is at x point. Indeed, curvature-measuring at a given point requires taking two other points arbitrarily close to the initial point and to follow the shortest surface-path. The three points is sufficient to define a circle. The curvature along that direction is 1/[circle radius]. The curvature on the point on the surface is the product of curvatures of perpendicular directions. If the perpendicular lines curve in the same direction (i.e., away or towards each other), then the curvature is positive. If they curve away from each other, it's negative. If one or both directions are flat, the curvature is zero

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Anonymous-df8it stop talking and go live outside an prove it its so simple to do

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Anonymous-df8it where can i go to see curvature u better not say water either cause when u drive for miles and miles u on water u don't see it

  • @ziploc2000
    @ziploc2000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One reason I enjoy playing No Man's Sky and other space games is that I will never encounter a Flerf, their brains cannot grasp the very simple concepts required.

  • @marconatrix
    @marconatrix ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If the Earth is a disk, what stops the oceans from running off the edge ???

    • @MrOttopants
      @MrOttopants ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The whole ice wall thing kind of implies that we live on soup bowl Earth. Then again, there are the Tartaria people who think that there are lands beyond Antarctica, but they're being kept secret from us so that the Freemasons can keep the resources and have unlimited vacations there. Seems silly, but it's a rough approximation of their thinking.

    • @intensellylit4100
      @intensellylit4100 ปีที่แล้ว

      The ice wall! Duh!!! You darn globertards don't know a damn thing about reality! Think! Wake up! Or should I say, Wake away from the globe!

    • @marconatrix
      @marconatrix ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrOttopants Aye, that makes sense ... for one meaning of sense ;-)

    • @raoulduke7668
      @raoulduke7668 ปีที่แล้ว

      why would the water run off the edge? Like, earth spins once in 24hours

    • @intensellylit4100
      @intensellylit4100 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bco-fm5qu the one created by NASA sorcerers

  • @727Phoenix
    @727Phoenix ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Buckminster Fuller proposed we replace _up_ and _down_ with _out_ and _in._ "In" towards the Earth's center, "out" as the opposite direction. *That* applies everywhere on this planet. That's why I refer to outer space as being "out there" instead of "up there."

  • @studentjohn
    @studentjohn ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There's a demo I do for my kids: I rub a 1/4 inflated balloon (a slightly slack surface works better for the next bit, I've found) on their hair until it picks up a static charge, and then I hold it next to a reeeaaallly thin stream of water coming from the tap. The water bends it's course and 'falls sideways' towards the balloon, raining onto it's surface. Once there's a bit of water on the balloon you can shake off the excess (by spinning it fast around your head, to make it relevant to flat earther's, if you like), and see some thin finger-wide patches of water clinging to the balloon due to surface tension. (also, ultimately, an electric force).
    I can then get a dry section of the balloon (or another balloon if the water is all over it), carefully rub that to give it some charge, and pick up some pits of tissue paper or tiny plastic beads.
    It seems to work quite well to explain that 'down' just depends on which way the forces acting on you are pulling - if there are forces acting towards the balloon then water can rain onto it, and form shallow water bodies there. If you were a little creature, a very small bug for example, you might get pulled onto the balloon by the static and held there with the water - to bug-you it'd seem like you were on a bug-sized planet, with water that fell 'down' onto it and pooled into lakes on the surface, and where beads and bits of paper fell 'down' to the balloon surface too.

    • @penguiin12
      @penguiin12 ปีที่แล้ว

      this has nothing to do with demonstrating how gravity or a globe model works lol

    • @studentjohn
      @studentjohn ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@penguiin12 I think I covered that with: "It seems to work quite well to explain that 'down' just depends on which way the forces acting on you are pulling - if there are forces acting towards the balloon then water can rain onto it, and form shallow water bodies there".
      But, to elaborate: it's more fundamental than that - the point is that what you, or even water, 'feels' as down changes depending on what forces are acting on you. You can get a more visceral demo of this on a big fair ground centrifuge, or with a boat floating on a bucket of water you spin around your head while filming into. But those are harder to do and messier. Still, the claims that 'water cannot stick to a sphere', 'things cannot fall 'up'', 'water always finds it's level', any attempt to measure down in an absolute way (say, with a spirit level), or even just 'I i/know/i which way is down' as an absolute... any of those demos show these statements to be fundamentally untrue - by observation, and by personal experience with the fairground spinner - before we even i/get/i to the idea of gravity as force. It's that fundamental that 'down' could be any direction, if the strongest force acting on an object, liquid, or person pointed that way.

  • @JebediahKerb
    @JebediahKerb ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You had me at "this is what everyone is taught" and using that on flerfers. It's what they always say- "the lies they've been teaching in schools..."

    • @ShizukuSeiji
      @ShizukuSeiji ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The response to that is "how do you (flerfs) know they are lies?"

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShizukuSeiji cause the globe were made by people that control ur soul

  • @luchagain3424
    @luchagain3424 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you for this. I talk about this all the time. Unfortunately flat earthers can’t begin to understand this or except it. They will just say, if what you just said, is true, we should all fall off, therefore proving flat earth.

    • @inyobill
      @inyobill ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So, wait, gravity is in the "up" direction, according to F. E.s?

    • @luchagain3424
      @luchagain3424 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@inyobill gravity doesn’t exist, according to most flat earthers.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Prove the globe

    • @luchagain3424
      @luchagain3424 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FlatEarth-q1f it’s been proven. Cave men proved it.
      Proof it isn’t a globe. Please.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@luchagain3424 show me who proved it

  • @DBZGazettE52
    @DBZGazettE52 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The IQ of flat earthers is beyond believable. My neighbor is a flat earther and he always surprises me with his silly arguments, and he thinks they are groundbreaking and he just destroyed all of science because he saw a video.

    • @Dr.Pepper001
      @Dr.Pepper001 ปีที่แล้ว

      IQ isn't all that big a factor. There are many smart people who have swallowed the fables of Scientology. It's a cult. They cling to their fables no matter what. Flat earthers are in a cult, and even though most probably are low in IQ, they won't yield that their beliefs are fables.

  • @paulmadryga
    @paulmadryga ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In my experience, Flefers tend to be easily confused by anything three-dimensional...

    • @ofdrumsandchords
      @ofdrumsandchords ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes. The apparent moves of the stars are more than enough to prove our Earth is a spinning sphere.
      Some dogs learn to open and close a door, some will never get it.

  • @grahvis
    @grahvis ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I always wonder where flerfs think objects would fall to.

  • @zoeherriot
    @zoeherriot ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Flat earthers remind me of the guy that said he invented a car that didn't need petrol. He put small tires on the front and big tires on the back so it was always driving downhill.

  • @chris_thornborrow
    @chris_thornborrow ปีที่แล้ว +4

    and these people can vote with an equal voice to you or I. We need a new form of deocracy where answering simple questions means your vote counts more.

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The main problem is that there'd need to be restrictions to prevent a question on political leanings from being used

  • @MarcF.Nielssen
    @MarcF.Nielssen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I once offered $ 100,000 to anyone who could, by mathematical calculation, predict an upcoming total solar eclipse, based on any one flat earth model. The offer was posted online hundreds of times. It stood for seven years. Nobody made an attempt to earn the money. And nobody requested the details of the challenge.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      U didn't offer to me and my people do that offer still stand

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      We will b going live today and I will send u the link if we do

    • @MarcF.Nielssen
      @MarcF.Nielssen ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FlatEarth-q1f
      Sure. Prediction derived from mathematical calculations based on a clearly defined flat earth model.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MarcF.Nielssen so r u going to go live and prove the globe

    • @MarcF.Nielssen
      @MarcF.Nielssen ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FlatEarth-q1f
      Nobody can prove anything to you. You're too stupid to understand.
      I already told you to use your kindergarten ruler on the ocean horizon. I guess you didn't understand that either.
      Bye now. Eat ginger. Beat your head against the wall. Something might work on your brain...

  • @BillHustonPodcast
    @BillHustonPodcast ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you, Dave! I find your videos to be some of the best in debunking these pseudoscientific idiots. 🙏🙇❤️🌹

    • @mittelwelle_531_khz
      @mittelwelle_531_khz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed 👍.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      He didn't prove nothing go live and prove the globe then

    • @mittelwelle_531_khz
      @mittelwelle_531_khz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FlatEarth-q1f Where do you live? Approximately - NOT meaning to dox you. I probably can prove the globe to you with ease and in a way so that you yourself can go and verify it.

    • @wiredforstereo
      @wiredforstereo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're not idiots, they're self deceived because they do not have a workable framework for discovering truth.

    • @BillHustonPodcast
      @BillHustonPodcast ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wiredforstereo i think we're arguing over semantics. 😉

  • @TheCarterKent
    @TheCarterKent ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...we AREN'T sticking to the bottom of a ball. We are sticking to the outer surface of a globular mass of sufficient mass/density/gravity which pulls us toward the globular center.

  • @Soundbrigade
    @Soundbrigade ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I guess one mistake the flerfs do is that they try to adapt their FE “flysics” and “geoglafy” to the real world. The FE pizza world cannot have gravetty, therefore gravetty on the real planet Earth.
    And things fall down on the FE because …. “things fall down”, therefore down most be down into the university “below” our blue marble planet in the real world.
    Another safe landing and great video.😊

    • @TheMjollnir67
      @TheMjollnir67 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      According to the majority of them pancakia cult members, things fall down because of density and buoancy. Allthewhile completely ignoring the fact the neither of both is a force and that in order to calculate buoancy correctly, you need the gravitational constant in the equation.

    • @chrisantoniou4366
      @chrisantoniou4366 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheMjollnir67 Nor can they explain why a sphere will always roll DOWNwards on an inclined plane in a vacuum where density and buoyancy are no longer a factor.

  • @TheRenofox
    @TheRenofox ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would pay to watch a stream of a flat earther playing Juno New Origins or KSP and just explain his thoughts as he takes off from what seems like flat ground, flies around a round planet, and then lands right side up on what also seems like flat ground.

    • @FlatEarth-q1f
      @FlatEarth-q1f ปีที่แล้ว

      Prove the globe lets debate I have been boding ur globe heads when they can't show evidence of a globe

    • @TheRenofox
      @TheRenofox ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FlatEarth-q1f 1. Bob the flat earther did a good job with that already, using a laser gyroscope to detect the 15 degrees per hour drift for himself.
      2. Bob also did the test of measuring the curvature over water using boards and a flashlight.
      3. Sextants work using the round earth model. There's an actual money prize for managing to show how a sextant would work on a flat earth, yet no one's even tried to provide a model for that.

  • @g0fvt
    @g0fvt ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If we were to assume that everything we have learnt about our planet being approximately spherical was false it woud be difficult to disguise the anomalies. My hobby (radio) allows me to observe effects that would not occur on a flat disc. This is the most frustrating aspect of dealing with flerfs, they need to get away from their computers and make their own sensible observations.

    • @pretzelbomb6105
      @pretzelbomb6105 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny, that's the same thing they always start saying when you show them any information with a modicum of scientific rigor. Of course, they also can't agree on what shape the solar system is. They're just POSITIVE the Earth can't possibly be round.

  • @MacDaddyRico
    @MacDaddyRico ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Flatheads believe gravity doesn't exist...
    I challenge any one of them to hold a bowling ball above their head for ten minutes...
    When their arms eventually tire out and the ball comes crashing down on their head...well...that's gravity...

    • @Globehoax
      @Globehoax ปีที่แล้ว

      Just because there is a gravity, doesn’t mean we live on a ball. You tripping

    • @MacDaddyRico
      @MacDaddyRico ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Globehoax Please explain the ocean tides...please explain the Lunar and Solar eclipses...please explain the four Seasons...I'll wait right here for your answers...

    • @MacDaddyRico
      @MacDaddyRico ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Globehoax Just as I expected, no response from the ignorant flat head...

  • @DaveQZ85
    @DaveQZ85 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just think of a fictional space battle. When ships all jump in, likely one fleet will not be oriented the same as each other. Each fleet’s “up” is only relative to their own ship.
    Flat Earthers, like in video games and movies, need everything to be visually oriented the same way because it’s simpler to look at and mentally process.

    • @grahvis
      @grahvis ปีที่แล้ว +5

      On the ISS, one particular part is regarded as the floor to help with orientation.

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The enemy's gate is down.

  • @cliveadams7629
    @cliveadams7629 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Up and down confuses flat earthers? Shoelaces confused flat earthers. Walking and breathing at the same time is pushing the envelope for flat earthers.

    • @allthingsbing1295
      @allthingsbing1295 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where evidence is lacking insults abound.

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 ปีที่แล้ว

      @allthingsbing1295 Yep. You try having a discussion with a flattard and all you get is abuse.

    • @allthingsbing1295
      @allthingsbing1295 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cliveadams7629 from this thread of comments the abuse is coming from the ballers

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 ปีที่แล้ว

      @allthingsbing1295 Well it's difficult not to mock bottomless stupidity. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to not understand gravity and why up & down is relative to the globe, not the space around it?

    • @EBDavis111
      @EBDavis111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@allthingsbing1295 So is all of the evidence. That's why the insults are fully justified.