happy new year, motherfuckers!

[zorkan]

Of course the earth is flat.
Go to Peterborough, Crowland or Spalding and see for yourself.
If it wasn't we'd all fall off as the earth cascades through space at 60,000 mph.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/20876221.settling-bet-fens-shape-earth/

[billy rubin]

you should look up thr earlier bedford level experiment, zorka.

cant repeat either, as some parts of the canal have sadly been drained

[zorkan]

Yes but the winner was Alfred Wallace.
He believed in the spirit world.

"Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, became a fervent spiritualist after a transformative séance in 1865, believing spirits could communicate and that natural selection couldn't fully explain the human mind, which required a spiritual intervention"

He also thought the earth was round.

[billy rubin]

i think the earth is round as well.

but i cant prove it. its one of those things people take on faith, like religion.

maybe hes right about the human mind. i cant explain consciousness either.

[zorkan]

Earth is not round.
It's an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles.
If the universe behaves like a giant hologram, then the 3rd dimension does not exist.
Nobody can fully explain gravity or inertia.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-universe-a-hologram-physicists-debate-famous-idea-on-its-25th-anniversary1/

[billy rubin]

in my experience, 99.9 percent of everybody are unable to explain 99.9 percent of everything, zorkan. dont stop with gravity or inertia. ask the gent next to you on the train to explain how a refridgerator works, or why aspirin dissolves in water, or whether australia is real.

everything we believe to be real that isnt backed up by personal knowledge and experinece is something we take on faith. peopel denigrate solipsism, but when hard logic is forced into the discussion, its the only firm foundation that exists for our interpretation of the world, and lays out a clear line between things we actually know and things that are convenient to believe.

[zorkan]

No one person even knows how to make a pencil, let alone a universe.
As for Australia, been there a couple of times and can confirm it's unreal.