The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

HOOO BOY,
that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.

Why did we ever put lead in gasoline? Now I have to live in this reality.

So the world is flat so we can't fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

But the sun, moon, stars and planets don't fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

It's great to read, as is most fantasy.

I'm trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is.... magnets???

shouldn't have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my "personal" ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, "oWnEd tHe LiBs" content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, "silver nitrate", and trump hat bs.

I love that they explain the seasons, and reference the hemispheres 😂

You don't know what I'm working with though

My 3 year old can too

Ignoring that ancient mathematicians were able to calculate the size of the earth with pretty good results, considering their "world spanning empires" are what we'd consider regional now.

Also that you can literally watch a ship come over the horizon, seeing it's sails first before the body actually moves into view. If the earth were flat the entire thing would be visible the entire time.

You can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into.

They also point out that passenger aircraft don't fly above 60,000ft, only to ignore footage from other types of aircraft ascending above the stratosphere and clearly showing the globe

They're just lying to themselves, doing mental gymnastics, or whatever you wanna call it. Thus no point in arguing with them

My brother is a flat-earther. He talks about it all the time. One of these days I'm gonna throw him right off the edge.

Netflix has entire documentaries about these clowns. I wish the idea of a flatearth was something that I only heard about on Reddit or Lemmy.

It stops working whenever the drivers are updated?

Heliocentrism didn't come about just from observing the sun. We also had to observe the planets and figure out why they would suddenly change direction in the sky. After centuries of increasingly complex models that decently described the planetary motion with geocentrism, some calculating and new models that put the sun at the center made a lot of the models much more consistent.