Responding to Flat Earth Comments 

I had a flat Earther comment once to me that "anyone with half a brain knows the Earth is flat". He deleted his comment before I could give him the obvious response!

Your teacher is best.

Half brain , the earth is flat 😅😅😅😅

@@O3177O Prove it.

@@adventureswithdogs2251 HAHAHA now that's _sick!_

I sent him an email. I'm hoping to hear from him at some point.

@Hell N Degenerates Making an observation from 3.5 ft over water water means trying to exploit the highest level of refraction. Was the ship then fully visible? Or just the most part of it? Is there evidence that he really shot the image from the declared elevation? I wouldn't be very sure if a flat earther, naturally prone to lying tells me that. With a polar level of refraction (that is unlikely but not impossible in most cases), a ship 146 ft tall outside of the waterline (air draft) would be visible for the most part (with only 22 ft missing. In the same image, it there was an island behind the sghip, and it wasn't possible to see the shore, that would be an image disproving the flat earth, unless there are waves that reach 3.5 ft of elevation. Usually any "we see too far" image is always much more a "we don't see far enough" image that disproves the flat earth. Any case of horizon that hides something behind is an image that disproves the flat earth.

Why would he need a rebuttal? Matthew conceded that he cannot provide emperical evidence that the earth is a globe. Matthew is free to believe whatever he wants and so are you, just as long as you know it's not empirical evidence.

@@tbrown3356 "However, personal experience, observations and experiments are not the only source of truth. It's OK to take things on authority if you trust the source be reliable". Translation: he didn't say that he cannot provide empirical evidence, but that other trustful people have done just that before in the most thorough and extensive way possible just that. He contested your criterion, he didn't say that there is not empirical evidence. But you are bound by your criterion. So I ask you: what is your personal empirical evidence that the earth is flat?

@@psalux18963 Sounds like you are in a cult. Get out!

On the few occasions when they have performed experiments themselves with any degree of competence, the results supported the globe, and are certainly not consistent with a flat earth.

"15 degrees of drift". Thanks, Bob.

@@sophierobinson2738 Yep. Another good one, beside Bob's 15° drift, was one by another Flerther using a laser. He tried proving the flat Earth by shining a laser over a flat body of water at a target of equal height some distance away. On a flat plane the two points would match, on a globe the laser would go over the target. Two guesses where the laser went, lmao.

I think they'll tell you they do an experiment every time they don't feel the earth spinning at hundreds of miles an hour.

Hypocrisy, the whole lot of them!

I think you're correct, that this is probably part of their motivation. In fact, I wonder if everyone on Earth thought the Earth was flat, if some of them would be the "globe conspiracy people" just because it was different. That said... there are many of them who are sincere, and genuinely think the Earth is flat, not only due to a contrarian nature.

I used to think all Flatheads were jut people who liked to have arguments on the internet, until Mikey climbed into his homemade rocket and killed himself trying to get photos of the flatness.

@@pizzedahff3127 There have been friends of Mad Mike's that stated he only used flat Earth as an additional source of income. I don't really care either way, but the possibility is there since he wasn't plastering posters and pamphlets everywhere.

Or wait for them to fall off the edge of the earth... lol

Ranty flipped. But he was actually asking his fellow flerffers some tough questions on occasion.

Bro shut up. Focus on the discussion and take your details and investigation and SHOVE IT

@@VILLAINOFYOURDREAMS lmao you're rude to people for no reason at all. adorable. also, it's show, not shove.

@@kibukaj2956 do you even know the meaning of shove? Are you blind? Are you deaf? Or both?

@@kibukaj2956 but be careful, he is a villain.!! No sorry, THE villain.

@@VILLAINOFYOURDREAMS yes i do. i can even give you an example of usage if you want

Thanks. That's a good reminder. I don't let them get me down. (And anyway, the vast majority of the comments on my channel are very kind, which I appreciate.)

I'm not sure the goal of a video like this one is to please everyone.

He will punch you before you get to the punchline.

Buzz told an 8 year girl they never went to moon ...is he lying 🤥

@@O3177O Have you actually watched the interview? The girl's question was "Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?" He also then went on to say, "In the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past that we wanted to keep it going." Don't be silly.

@@O3177O Yay. You can parrot lies without checking sources. Sit down and listen. The adults are talking.

@@doofismannfred4778 have watched in full 🐴🤡

Surely he is a fake phd.

@@psalux18963 I couldn't say either way. I just mentioned the PhD in the video because his RU-vid username said "Dr John D." I'm not going to question someone's self-reported education. I suppose you could ask him why there's a "Dr" in his username.

@@MatthewWeathersif my was dr. Mc sex would you still think i had a phd

Someone said that the Earth is smoother than most balls

@@Hans5958 not as smooth as flat earthers

I don't think hills have anything to do with this topic. Nor mountains for that sake.

@@Finnec123 it's a joke sir

@@Finnec123 whooosh

Odds are, you're correct.

since the advent of social media??? most people thought the earth was flat before the advent of social media. People who said otherwise were killed

For example, that Galileo guy

@@paradiseexpress3639 ABSOLUTE BS! Citations demanded! 1000's of years ago, people had already noted how ships disappeared over the horizon, how we could see further, the higher we got and how during a lunar eclipse, the Earth's shadow always had a rounded edge. Not being unthinking morons, they had long ago inferred the shape of the Earth. Eratosthenes had measured the circumference of the Earth in 240 BC and came within 50 miles of the actual polar diameter. He did this using simultaneous observations of the sun's position from two separate locations. In the 10th century, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, this time using trigonometry, also calculated Earth's radius. Telescopes were invented in the 17th century and were used by Galileo to observe the craters on the moon, the Milky Way, 4 of Jupiter's moons and the phases of Venus. So LONG before the advent of social media, the shape of the Earth was a well known, indisputable FACT and NO ONE was killed for believing that. The ONLY debate concerning Earth's status, was whether the universally acknowledged GLOBE Earth was the center of the Universe, with the moon, planets, sun and stars, orbiting it or whether we orbited the sun. This GEOcentric model, with the SPHERICAL Earth at its center, had been around since ancient Egyptian and Greek times and was only superseded by the Heliocentric model in the 16th century. So, once again, mankind KNEW we lived on a sphere LONG before RU-vid came along and allowed avaricious con men to easily spread BS to ignorant suckers, who valued the self-serving lies of science illiterate grifters, over millenia of incremental progress, by thousands of scholars, over thousands of years, with theories, research and observation, building upon previous discoveries, and all the while a constant refinement of those theories and ideas so they give predictable, accurate and repeatable results.

@@CarbonTech19 This is neat. Check out the upper middle article just below the word 'County'.

They have (poor) counterarguments to all these.

I find his ignorance astounding. And here I thought in the "age of technology" people might use that to learn and grow,,, instead they're getting dumber.

@@debraallen63 I'm definitely feeling my original comment more and more each day. Nothing but respect for educators who can put up with stupidity, because I sure as hell can't.

@@Amblin80s You're living in complete ignorance. A society of fools believing everything their teachers taught them without question. In my schools the teachers lied about everything from Santa to Gravity!! I thank God for libraries and the love of reading!! You've got people willingly to get into thousands of dollars worth of debt to have a "title" (ie., Doctor, Teacher, Politician, Engineer, Etc!) when you can easily go to the library and learn it for Free!!! You've got people running around in fear of a virus because they don't know how their own bodies function and they Have to live in their body their whole life!!! But let's just "be-lie-ve" the Tel-LIE-vision and the "experts" on it!!!???!!! LIES keep you enslaved while the TRUTH makes you FREE. People are enslaved by the puppets on TV!! I threw out my Tel-LIE-vision over 14 years ago because it's a mass mind control device!!! Use your own brain or someone else will.

@@debraallen63 I get that you're upset for all the reasons you just stated, but who ever said that society categorically believes everything that their teachers taught them? One of the frustrations that you and I share is that people can believe things (from teachers, parents, the oligarchy, their peers, etc.) without having confirmed it through their own observations and/or experiences. Most will take other people's word for things purely because they don't have the life experience to reference. I personally wasn't taught about Santa in school, but rather from my kindergarten peers who were so excited to share this information with me. They were desperate for it to be true because that meant a lot to them. You and I both love libraries and reading, and I personally don't have any student debt to speak of, although I did go to college because I enjoyed it there. I also worked to pay off any tuition. I don't believe in COVID because what television and experts have told me. I don't even own a television. Most people in my generation don't. It's famously known as a Boomer/Gen-X device. I believe in COVID because in all the years I've been overworked by greedy bosses, knowing they were stingy about any days off even if unpaid (so I could catch up on my side job), suddenly I was getting some days off because of this virus! Finally. A tragedy, of course, but I've been working a long time and have never seen a "snow day" like the ones we experienced in 2020. You said "LIES keep you enslaved while the TRUTH makes you FREE. Use your own brain or someone else will." I respect your right to use your brain however you feel you should, but in all the accusations you leveled against me, an internet stranger, you seemed to have not used your own brain. Someone else has piloted it and is using to repeat their rhetoric almost verbatim. Everything you've written was parroted exactly the way I've seen it said so many times. As though there's no longer a unique human part of you that can communicate without falling back on the same phrases, same CAPS LOCK phrases, etc. It's really sad that you are so close to being on the right track (which is: don't trust everything you hear), but have somehow veered off into trusting the flat earth belief with vitriol against anyone presenting a thoughtful argument like Matthew Weathers has. Do I believe in a round earth? Sure. I've thought about it a while to make sure I wasn't blindly believing in it without question, but I believe in a round earth the same way that I believe my parents are my parents. (Was I there to watch them conceive me? Nope, and I'm very grateful for that.) I believe in a round earth the same way that I believe George Washington existed (probably). Was I there? Nope. But these are all things that don't harm me. It doesn't harm me or others to believe those things. I'm not losing out on the best things of life by believing that plants need the sun to grow. In fact, it enriches my life to know these things, because I can then build upon them and learn more. A lot of things in this world can't be proven, but I'd rather use my doubts and suspicions to fight the oligarchy and the poachers and all the awful things that do actually cause harm.

@@Amblin80s The globe earth Lies do cause harm and are causing harm as people believing the lies are sent to war to die when there could be peace instead. I don't believe that Earth is Flat, I know it is. There's a big difference between believing and knowing. What is the Proof of a Globe earth??

Lol

Ha! My empirical evidence was that I was getting tired of talking about it... There have been times (not often) when I got bored in the middle of teaching a class, and wondered if the students were getting bored, too.

@@MatthewWeathers I wish you were my teacher

@@MatthewWeathers you might be the only teacher who gets concerned😭 thanks

So is Australia.

@@minscandboo9749 or Molise in italy

And Finland doesn't exi- oh shit, that's an actual conspiracy theory!

So is walking on the moon..

The fact that some people actually believe this is the scary part.

Idk, but i want to know it too now

Given a computer model can't predict lunar eclipses in the heliocentric model and rather NASA still relies on the ancient Babylonian method, no doubt the eclipses would look the same, just without the millions of light year nonsense.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther Where did you get the "computer models can't predict lunar eclipses," nonsense? I highly doubt that. You can't even cite a source. And don't say that it came from other flat earthers, as I would like to ask for their sources too.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther Ever hear of timeanddate? You can predict lunar eclipses with exact times for 20 years in advance. The same site that will tell you exactly when sunrise and set, and moonrise and set, plus phases of the Moon with accuracy- all based on the globe model in a heliocentric system.

Steven Scott- with that comment, it's safe to assume you're a dad. Only dads like us would come up with something like that one!

Interesting point... you're right.

This is so true. flat earthers love the phrase "repeatable and demonstrable proof", yet it is the one thing none of them ever produce. All you ever get is a single image, or a single measurement, made under unusual and extreme conditions. No attempt is ever made to repeat the observation.

@deZordine Flat earthers have no idea what repeatable means. An unusual meteorological phenomenon could easily last several days or even weeks. Go to the same spot twice a day once at high tide and once at low tide, every day, for a complete year and take the same image. Then you need to demonstrate that it is not just a local meteorological phenomenon, so you also need find a similar scenario in a totally different location and repeat. If you get the same results then perhaps you may have a claim worth investigating.

@deZordine No, when I said flat earthers have no idea about repeatability that was not a request for you to repeat the same total twaddle a second time.

@deZordine Does light bend through a gradient? Yes or no.

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. They would explain this by saying that going East or going West is really just going in a counter-clockwise or clockwise circle around the North Pole, which is at the center of the Flat Earth. (Look up "azimuthal equidistant map" to get an idea of how this could work.)

One said it was like PacMan. Go out the left side of the screen, come in on the right.

@@MatthewWeathers Gotcha, thanks for the answer!

@@sophierobinson2738 oh, that's realistic 😂

Thanks! That's my goal. I like explaining things in a way that's understandable.

its a win win

Same here

Thanks, will do!

Thank you for the support, I really appreciate it!

@@MatthewWeathers you're always and most welcome, Sir! I've learned A LOT from you. And Im very grateful. May God bless you and your family in every shape and form ❤️

i.redd.it/r2rufezrikj81.jpg

If the earth is spinning at a speed you can feel, better wear suction cups as shoes to avoid getting catapulted (Not realistic but its a fun joke to do)

I agree, Earth is motionless and flat and one out of 3 is better than most theoretical scientist can get.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther Are you ever going to get around to explaining how else a gyroscope could be deflected _conveniently_ in the same way as it would if the Earth were spherical and rotating?

Fun fact: Flat Earthers use that footage (as long as it has a wide angle lens) in order to "prove" the horizon is flat, totally forgetting about all of that black stuff near the sun at daytime. Flat Earthers are not very observant.

It's also limited to the lens of the device in question.

@@sleepingwarrior4618 You can get rectilinear lenses for them, too. Mr. Sensible and Dwayne Kellum did. I'm just sayin'.

@@sleepingwarrior4618 For someone who claims to know the 'truth' of the shape of the earth, you're remarkably reluctant to answer one very simple but very pertinent question about it. Why is that?

Thanks! I'm glad you subscribed. I appreciate it.

@@MatthewWeathers you're becoming one of the flat Earthers favorite round Earthers, trailing only behind the actors Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson.

@@MatthewWeathers no problem bro

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther because you don’t understand science, you do not understand how they are ruining the basis for your belief system. Have you supplied empirical evidence to support a non-round Earth?

Ye

Fills me with determination

You're right, it doesn't work. However, you can understand why they're forced to deny that gravity exists: if it does exist, then everything would be drawn toward the center of their Flat Earth, and the farther you got from the center, the more slanted the ground would feel. So gravity and Flat Earth are completely incompatible, and they're forced to deny gravity if they want to say the surface of Earth is a straight line.

drop a helium balloon a marble and a ping pong ball over water. the marble hits the water and sinks. the ping pong ball falls then floats on water. the helium balloon goes up. its all relative density and bouyency, gravity is a made up force needed for the ball model to work. gravity does not exist

@@kunallusso Nice way to not science. None of that explains why the marble and the ping pong ball will fall at the same rate of speed and hit the water at the same time, despite having very different densities. Only the force of gravity explains that.

@@rat3072 🤣they don't fall at the same speed. The ping pong ball falls slower due to air resistance. Relative density is scientific fact. You cannot have gas pressure next to a vaccuum without a physical barrier unless you are scientifically illiterate if you believe you on a ball flying 515000mph through a vaccum with gas stuck on the outside. 🤣

@@kunallusso Gee... if only there was some sort of experiment that could be done to verify what rate of speed things fall at, so you could confirm your thoughts on that. Oh, silly me, there is! It's been performed likely millions of times by now, starting in most 4th grade science classes, since it's that simple of a concept to understand, and that simple an experiment to do. Of course, 4th grade level science is still way too advanced for any flat earth believer to manage.

You can't measure the entirety of our realm no matter the shape as it is being hidden and protected. There is no edge. There are no planets. The powers that be used this information to control the masses. You can't control people with the truth. You have to deceive the masses to control them. Are you an atheist? Most atheists will not properly investigate this topic because they are committed to evolution and do not want the personal responsibility of possibly being held accountable, If you make it through all the programming and conditioning and look at reality as an unbiased researcher, you will see very quickly that the realm that we live in could not have formed on its own. If the earth was spherical, flat surfaces would cause water to recreate the curve. Have you ever seen or measured that? And if what we are on was rotating, a simple drone over the axis and under Polaris would put an end to that speculation. Point a camera up and one down on the drone. If the earth moves underneath then the stars will stay the same. If the earth does not move then obviously it is the sky that is rotating. Are you willing to admit that you have never seen the earth move but you think that it is reasonable to still believe that it does? You can tell that you have not thought about this very much as your questions demonstrate. If I were you, I would not look into it. You will only find that this world is upside-down and inside-out and everything is a lie. At least flat earthers have the balls to stand up against and speak out against their government. That is because if you don't recognize the creator then you have no God-given rights. You get your rights from the government which makes you a little slave. Cheers Mate. Do not research the globe lie. It will not end well.

@@AskenEman wow !!

@@jonpale797 Sorry man. I can't tell if your curiosity is genuine or if you are just playing and would never actually consider that we could only exist on a stationary plane. We live on a grid. Grid's don't work on balls. If you like to bs about this stuff, fire away. If you think that I am a little too crazy for you, well, I certainly get that as well. I only care as I do not want to be deceived. Do not let this world deceive you Brother. Handle your business appropriately like an honest, confident man.

@@AskenEman the "wow" was to your passion on this topic and the length of what you wrote. I don't want to argue, or discuss.... and yes, I probably shouldn't comment in that case. I thank you for your insight and ideas. And I wish you all the best.!!

@@jonpale797 Cool. Crazy how you changed your tune so fast. That's the thing, its all fun and games until you realize that you've been lied to your whole life. You do not live on a ball, outer space is not a place that you can go to. Its already entered your mind now. You messed up. You can't stop it now. Peace to you homie. Good Luck!

I agree with your conclusion. You mentioned "When it is Summer in the southern hemisphere, then how can the entire antarctica be lit up by the sun at once." That's a good argument. Related to that is the fact that a 24-hour Sun has been observed from the South Pole in December, and this 24-hour sun rotates counter-clockwise (when looking up). It goes from right to left. In the far North, by contrast, a 24-hour Sun can be observed in June that goes clockwise and moves left to right. The only response to this that I've heard from Flat Earthers is that those videos of the 24-hour Sun must be faked. Or that you shouldn't look at the sky to inform you about the ground.

@@MatthewWeathers well flat earthers dont do any observations and live in their own small bubble far away from reality. Maybe they do this, cause its embarressing for them to agree, that they were wrong.

I don't understand the "moves left to right" bit. You mean the entire CW/CCW loop drifts left or right over a long period of time (while the pattern shrinks into view and then grows to overlap the horizon)? Or are you describing a section (top or bottom) of the CW/CCW loop?

@@fashnek ok first of all, what does cw mean and second of all, are you talking about the video link or my comment?

@@fashnek He was saying looking up from the ground at Antarctica, the sun appears to move counter-clockwise (or from right to left).

That's a great point. I watched the VSS flight, too. I was busy at the time, but I was able to watch the release and rocket burn, then later saw the landing. (The two most critical parts of the flight, I think.) I'm hoping to see the Bezos flight next week, too.

@@MatthewWeathers I just saw the way you were treated on a flat earth channel. My wife is a teacher. My family is full of educators. I am offended on your behalf. Nathan takes anything a guest says in an altered context. It is impossible to offer enlightenment. I applaud the attempt. Please at least be heartened by the terms flat earthers kids will have for your students. Like "boss." 🙂

What does EM propagation have to do with Earth curvature?

Yes, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know they might get dissected. I've been around philosophers enough to know how to say things deliberately. I like your analogy. I would add that it's not just the raw probability that matters, but the "expected value" or "opportunity cost" is a factor, too. If bird poop were instantly fatal, I'd wager that all of humanity would walk around constantly with umbrellas... or hats, or something.

Oh, there's many things observable without any really special equipment they can't explain. Solar/lunar eclipses, how the stars travel across the sky, what causes tides, what causes the phases of the moon... I'm sure there's some others I've missed/forgotten.

That might work. It would be easier to do by just going up on a tall mountain. The difficulty is that it's hard to precisely measure the angle to the horizon since it sometimes gets refracted. So it wouldn't be very precise. But I like the idea of a cord to a drone - since that would be a direct measurement of the altitude.

@@MatthewWeathers Al-Biruni did that. There's a sweet spot, though. To high and the horizon is to hazy. Too low and the accuracy isn't so great. Modern tools make it easier to pull off, though, and it certainly isn't the method we use today. But, it's still a method.

i dont get why they think its flat

@@gameplayz5847 cause they stoopid

@@davidenorbedo5555 I agree, thinking you're standing upside down on a scientifically impossible, spinning water ball is so much smarter. Next they'll be questioning them tracking Satan Claus on radar. The nerve of these people.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther 🤦‍♂️

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther The earth is rotating at about 0.0007 rpm and is about 0.05% water - but all you loons do is misrepresent reality to be able to reject it.

It's likely he doesn't really have a PhD... but I'm not going to be the judge of that. I decided to take him at his word, since he calls himself "Dr John D."

Obviously it won't equal 180 and has been done and documented numerous times, both vertically and laterally.

I agree, if I was going to be brainwashed by anyone in the public indoctrination system, I'd choose him as he makes the round Earth lies sound so convincing.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther lmao

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther Clearly, you have managed to avoid said indoctrination...

@@adventureswithdogs2251 not avoided, but overcome.

@@deeznuts8659 I can picture you rolling on the floor as you're laughing out loud like an idiot, which makes your name very appropriate.

is that what your husband tells you after completing a shoddy wood working project? I'll try using that in the future and see how that plays, thanks.

@@JesusIsaFlatEarther deep thoughts

Let's start a GoFundMe for that. ONE WAY TRIP TO PROVE YOUR THEORY, FLERF

@@stevelloyd5785 I'll contribute as long as they are strapped to the outside (to make sure that they get a good view and can't claim windows cause distortion).

Thanks. I hadn't heard of John D before seeing his comment last week. I've chatted on Discord some with Quantum Eraser (the "author" of the Black Swan) about it. I think the form of the argument is valid, but the main premise is missing a few key points. Most importantly: if the Earth is a globe *and light always travels in a perfectly straight line* then the horizon should be... etc. I don't think it's obvious at all that light traveling 1 foot above the ocean surface is going in a straight line.

@@MatthewWeathers Right. I always phrase my response as either the BS argument (funny coincidence) debunks a globe with a radius of about 3,959 miles and refraction does not exist, or refraction does exist and the BS argument doesn't debunk the globe. They can only choose one.

@@MatthewWeathers I liked your responses very much, I often make a similar argument to your Eiffel Tower but I tend to use China : ) . I have been following this for a long time and I think the temptation is often to get lost in the detail of providing evidence when the argument is mostly about epistemology in my view. Dr John D turned up a couple of years ago, claiming to have a PhD in Spectrophotometry (rather conveniently, at the time since there was a big argument going on about refraction). Since then he has said and done a number of mind numbingly silly things which certainly call into question his qualifications. His post was simply a collection of Nathan Oakley catchphrases gathered into paragraphs, it is difficult to believe that a person with a science doctorate would abandon everything he has learned about scientific rigor in favour of the lunatic screams of a failed actor on RU-vid. Just sayin' : ) .

@@Gempanda2012 I agree, it's pretty sure he's not a doctor of any kind. He's just like the alleged retired professors of maths, the pilots, the diving instructor that doesn't know the difference between Boyle law and ideal gas law, and wants to apply it to the atmosphere. All natural flerfers in disguise.

@@MatthewWeathers I've seen quite a bit of "Dr" John D's contribution to scientific understanding. I think his PhD is a lot like the unicorn that lives under my garden shed, totally imaginary.

They're not all fixed. They just move very slowly. For example, Vega, one of the brightest & closest stars changes declination by 286.23 arcminutes per year (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega). Also, Polaris itself doesn't have fixed alignment - it's declination is +89° 15′ 50.8″, not exactly 90°.

@@MatthewWeathers I don't believe you.

The earth orbit around the sun is nothing compared to the distance to the nearest star, its like if we stood 20 miles apart and i moved 0.5mm to the side, you wouldnt notice the difference, also all the stars you see with your eyes, orbits the center of the galaxy just like our sun, everything is moving along, and we dont see the same constellations in the sky all year.

@@cloroxbleach3809 I don't believe earth is flat, therefore it's not flat. That's exactly what you just said.

​@@cloroxbleach3809 FE in a nut(case)shell.

No, I teach mathematics and sometimes business and computer science. But I'm interested in economics. And my next video will be about Bitcoin.

@Hell N Degenerates That's fine: by the pictures we know the Ferrari exists. Maybe it's yours and you can sell it, or maybe not, but for sure it exists if there are pictures of it which cannot be proven fake or CGI.

@Hell N Degenerates And in any case no one would believe that you have a Ferrari.

@Hell N Degenerates No lad, you've got a Jaffa orange chav wagon with 'deez nuts' decals. And no spine.

Most Flatheads never made it to the 8th grade, so don't feel bad.

@Hell N Degenerates Another "brilliant" flat Earth argument: I've taken three pictures of my house and stitched them together, so now my house is fake.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Nah, it's a hexagon

I've seen a handful of Ranty's videos on his new channel, and have see the picture of the Blackpool Tower. I think it would be even better to find a place near a large city where two mountains line up in a similar manner (a close one and a far one), maybe from a vantage point near an ocean, so it's clear that the observer altitude is near zero... there are probably places like this.

Thanks, Scott. I appreciate it.

@@MatthewWeathers No problem, Sir. I should be the one thanking you for giving more insights and explanation that's easy to understand and great to watch. Again, well done. 👍👍

Because referencing eratosthenes experiment which works on both a flat or round surface and then spending 20 minutes breaking down the etymology of the word belief really is a good rebuttal hahahah wow he really put nail in coffin over here. Hahahah wow. He danced around everything hahhaahha.

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@@GerardMenvussa No

Mrs. Hartley: Thanks for your note. I agree about having "questions that cannot be answered rather than answers than cannot be questioned." That should be the goal of any good education, to teach students how to think for themselves and to question the answers they've heard. The topic of Flat Earth brings up strong feelings for a lot of people because it's seen as a classic example of anti-intellectualism. So for many people, when they hear someone say "The Earth is flat," it sounds like they're saying they're against logic, reasoning, and critical thinking, and people who believe in the value of education and science become angry at that. I don't think it's specifically "globe Earth" that's vehemently defended, but the process of thinking well, understanding science, and reasoning logically that they're vehemently defending. They see Flat Earth ideas as opposed to proper thinking and logic. As for the Wikipedia blurb you see under some videos: those are placed there by RU-vid for videos on certain topics in their effort to reduce the spread of misinformation (at least "misinformation" according to their definition.) Matthew

@@MatthewWeathers Wow! Thank you for the reply Mr. Weathers, great food for thought and a perspective that had not occurred to me, the defense of "thinking well," etc. I am daily amazed by some aspect of creation and have a desire to know and understand the earth as it actually is, as it was created. Thank you again, your videos are going to enrich the life of our family.

@@hartleyfamily5451 : Earth wasn't "created", it's a product of the formation of our solar system (see protoplanetary accretion disk), it's a bit worrisome to think you are homeschooling children by seemingly having such a low education level in science. What will they learn?

@@ThomasKundera It’s more worrisome to me that a large percentage of publicly educated children in the USA are failing in the areas of reading, writing, language arts, spelling, mathematics, etc.That is not hyperbole, these percentages are listed for every school district. My children have consistently placed (through standardized state testing) 1-6 grades above their current grade in every single subject. Children that are actually educated have critical thinking skills that will stay with them for life. Lastly, I received my “higher” education from a prestigious university and unfortunately still have the student loans to prove it.

@@hartleyfamily5451 : Thanks for answering, I understand some of what you said, but have some comments. _"My children have consistently placed [...] “higher” education from a prestigious university"_ Thus you should not compare your children to the average, but to the average of children from parents having a post-graduate diploma (home-schooled or not, that makes a huge difference, 'reproduction of the elites, etc. I hope you teach them some sociology too). _"actually educated have critical thinking skills"_ I dunno for your case, but afaik, home-schooled kids in the US are mostly from religious families, indoctrinating them in some form of a Bronze Age Jewish myth, with disregard for modern Cosmology, Evolution theory, etc. Or even, here, as it could be felt, flat Earth. That's not "critical thinking", but dogma. Of course, I may be wrong in your case. _"“higher” education"_ in an area is good, but hard to have it in all relevant area. Anyway, I can feel your dedication and proudness, and I'm sure you do your best; which is anyway to be acknowledged.

I'm absolutely certain man walked on the moon. SIX times.

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@@cloroxbleach3809 Awww look, you made a funny. How sweet, what else did you make in kindergarten today?

There are conditions that need to be met. The one that flat Earthers always seem to forget (and it's right in the definition they didn't read) is that the object in question must be in motion with respect to the rotating reference frame. So, yes, but there are limits.

It creates different effects based on latitude. (And that's why long-range rifle target competitors have to type in the latitude to their Coriolis calculators.)

You are mistaken to think long range rifles figure in earth coriolis. If they do consider coriolis it is ONLY the coriolis of the bullet.

@@nathanyamaha465 Wait. What do you think the Coriolis effect is?

@@doofismannfred4778 Coriolis effect is while observing from a rotating object another projectile moving in a straight line appears to curve. If viewed from an outside reference frame the projectile would be observed as moving straight. This deviation is called Coriolis effect. Long range bullets do not deviate because the ground moves beneath them. If this were true everything would deviate, including helicopters, airplanes, drones, hot air balloons. The consideration of long range shooters may consider the spin of a bullet actually called Magnus effect, it is not actually coriolis. Coriolis is a theoretical myth, never observed in any of the things mentioned above...

What?

Are you asking how astronauts use oxygen canisters?

@@paradiseexpress3639 No... I meant like in the VDO (min 0.29). I know that there are not air bubbles as Flat earthers claiming it. I just want to know what is it? Thanks.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u-bk7XB2KFs.html

@@naisony could be a rock, could be a screw

What you're seeing aren't air bubbles. Usually, they're pieces of paint or other small objects. You can tell that they aren't air bubbles because they travel in different directions. Air bubbles always go just one direction - up.

The horizon cannot be physical earth curve one day and another not physical earth curve. Obviously, the horizon is not earth curve ever. A physical curve cannot be in front of platforms one day then move through the platforms over 9 miles away to be behind them. That's not physically possible.

@@tbrown3356 The horizon is caused by earth curve, something else your puny brain can't comprehend.

@@tbrown3356 well we see both, so what bias causes you to choose flat? Refraction exists T brown. This explains what we see to a T.

@@tbrown3356 Ever heard of refraction ? Take a glass of water, and stick a pen in. It looks like it is bend. Is it actually bend ? No the light gets refracted.

Thanks. I'm glad to hear you liked my style of explanation. You may also be interested in my video about the size of the Moon from different cities as another piece of strong evidence that the Moon is the same distance away from everywhere on Earth.

Hey astro wana chat on film about flat earth??... you sound very sure of yourself.

@@InscentiveAdvice Nope - have better things to do. Well, thank you. Do you have arguments against what I posted?

@@astroartie1872 I'm sure I do go to my cram playlists where I have over 2000 vids on various topics including giants megalithic structures FE etc... I'd demolish u. I have better things to do also as I post vods of my boating on vacation and reviewing my $100k dollar fragrance collection. U should do a vid with me I'm getting bored n need new content!

@@InscentiveAdvice What is your best argument for the Earth being flat? And you'll need observable evidence for it (that other people can go out and observe) - because "what is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." Give me your best.

I'm happy

me too! This guy just got totally destroyed by Nathan.