Professional Idiots

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SpokenTruth said:

pleaserecycle said:

There's a surprising amount of depth to flat earth models that describes most of those situations, but I haven't heard a reasonable explanation for satellites.  They're typically written off as a large-scale deception created by the government.

Not that it matters, but the water stays in the bucket because of the force of the bucket on the water.  Gravity still wants the water (and the bucket) to drop on our heads.  :)

Actually, there is not.  The "depth" they offer is a mixture of conjecture, illogical conclusions, baseless presuppositions and a hope that their followers are too stupid to know better.

Occam's razor and the scientific method.  They fully ignore both.

I'd describe it as a selective use of physics; when a facet of the flat earth model coexists within the existing framework of physics, they make it apparent.  However, they conveniently avoid any collisions.  For example, if there is truely a universal acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2 then how do we explain the small weight differences between a person on earth and that same person in an airplane at cruising altitude?