Submission Statement: I´ve been seeing a lot of Flat Earth stuff here and even more distressingly, I´m actually starting to run into educated people in real life who are telling me they think that the earth might actually be flat. So, more for my real life than for Reddit, I´ve scraped up everything I could from my junior college level knowledge of physics to come up with my official debunk spiel. I´m going to try to make gravity be the most complicated term I use. And really, gravity is key. So, here goes.
Large objects attract smaller objects. Gravity. If the smaller object is fast enough, it gets away from the larger object. If it is too slow, it gets sucked into the larger object. Sometimes, if the small object is too slow to escape, but still too fast to be sucked directly in, it will maintain a permanent circular holding pattern around the large object called an orbit. Eventually the circular nature of its path and the forces pushing against its edges give the satellite a round shape. Earth is a satellite of the sun and the moon is a satellite of the Earth. Gravity holds everything that we know, trapped to the Earth. And not just to the Earth, but to the Earth DIRECTLY beneath it. Jump up. What´s the first thing that happens next? You fall, right. The moment you stop standing on your two magnificently designed pillars of support called legs, what happens? Even a handstand requires significantly more energy and dexterity. So pole vault, slam dunk, do cartwheels all you want. No one escapes gravity on Earth. Not for one second. Ever. Not even vapor escapes. Sure, it´s lighter than air and never falls to the ground, but instead rises. Only so far, though. Know how the air gets thinner and oxygen gets harder to find in high altitudes? That´s because, even though lighter than air particles, and they are all tiny, dont´t get sucked down to the spot directly below them, they don´t have the energy to break free from the Earths gravitational pull either. So they are all still here, fighting the Earth´s gravity every day of their existence. Every step you take just gives you a brand new master, the spot of earth directly beneath you. Everything on the ground and in the air until you leave the Earth´s atmosphere is responsible to the master 180 degrees below it all times. Stop standing, flapping your wings, turn off your jet engine or propellers and your master will claim you instantly. When you are on a plane, drop an apple and a pen at the same. They still fall directly downward at the same speed. You have not come close to escaping gravity. That is why the speed and movement of the Earth´s orbit and rotation don´t give you any speed bonuses or penalties when you travel by air. The powerful engines only let you make up for the fact that you are heavier than air. You are still pegged like refrigerator magnet to the spot 180 degrees below you, just like the birds in the air and the clouds in the sky, and you all travel with that spot until you walk, fly, or sail to the next point on the map which becomes your new owner. So, even, if you are actually on the bottom of the world, it doesn´t matter, you are literally stuck to the ground below. Now, it is actually the predictability of the orbits of satellites that give us the biggest clue that we are dealing with a global planet. Every culture on earth since the dawn of man, even this one, has people who tell time by looking at the position of the sun in the sky, the length of shadows on the ground, how much of the moon is visible, the position and relationships between planets, stars and constellations, etc. This is only possible with a global Earth. And this area of human knowledge is so refined that even technologically primitive societies all throughout human history have been able to accurately predict equinoxes, solstices, eclipses up to events that only occur once every 20,000+ years. The whole thing about Copernicus and the church was about it being made common knowledge that the world was round. The serfs of Europe had basically been kept slaves to the land for a good thousand years at that point. The great masses were not even barely literate, but the Gutenberg press had been invented mere decades before, and a lot of knowledge that had once been the exclusive dominion of the Catholic Church and nobility were about to at least be available to the masses. A whole lot of stuff happened in the 1400s. Coincidentally, it was also a golden era for navigation. In a nutshell, the Flat Earth theory has always been used to impose ignorance, not enlightenment. It is only the sorry state of our educational system at all levels that allow this hoax to have any traction.There is a gentleman who´s stuff I´ve been seeing around here lately who seems to have some idea about the motivations of the current movement. I, myself, have always considered it a psyop.
Submitted January 22, 2018 at 09:24PM by badbackjack http://ift.tt/2F0BgR9 conspiracy
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