Yeah. If the earth were flat the edge would be a tourist attraction.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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oh for real.. I've always wanted to ask them what they thought the underside looked like. I picture their simple minds imagining something like loose dirt clods falling off and maybe some roots and shit sticking out like I would have when I was a kid...
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Ha I should have known someone else here would have the same first thought as I did. Didn't turn out so well for me and my buddy though - our stuff and our boat is still somewhere in the void.
many laughs and screams to be had. build a base and drop your stuff off. catapult from mountains nearby for epic shenanigans
Would you even fall "down" at all, if it's at the edge of space? Wouldn't gravity cause you to just continue walking down the edge like it's another surface--how "thick" do they say the flat earth is? Have they ever described what the edge is supposed to be like and why no one has found it yet? Or do they maybe say there isn't an edge, but then what do they claim the earth's shape is supposed to be beyond the 2-D term "flat"?
I've seen a few "debunking" videos refuting some claim or another but I've never seen either the flat earthers or the debunkers address some of the most obvious questions about it. Usually they just demonstrate the curvature of the earth or something.
Dude. I just set a marble on the ground and it didn't roll to the bottom of the globe like it would if it were REALLY round!
Flat earthers believe that we are on a disc but are accelerating 1g per second per second. So if you jumped off the edge the earth would leave you behind forever never to return.
