this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024

867 points (98.5% liked)

Science Memes

10988 readers

1998 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

[email protected]

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

867

PR🌚🌚F (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

68 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 18 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 148 points 7 months ago (10 children)

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Thank you for posting the truth. It really hurts the heart to see all this disinformation being thrown around.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

No, sorry for the mixup. I don't know who labeled this. The shadow here was from my massive dong.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If the earth is flat, how thick is it?

Are we walking across a massive dinner plate, or standing on the end of a bit of cosmic re-bar?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's at least as thick as humans have drilled down cause we can see that. Probably another layer of artificially pressurized lava under that.

Er, I mean I yam beliefer in globe earth fellow cuckold. Pray tell, where is the nearest shit-eating station so I may sate myself on our governments...truths?

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Centrifugal force moves the Earth's mass outwards, so it's thick at the edges and thin in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hmm; so like a Frisbee? Do we live on top with the edges curling down, or on the bottom with the edges curling up? Maybe more like a pizza with really thick crust?

Can you see the edges if you stand in the middle?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No to seeing the edges from the middle, I've been to Kansas and couldn't spot the edges.

As for the shape, my theory is more like a pizza with a thick crust. I haven't been able to verify though, NASA keeps rejecting my proposals for investigating further.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Kansas is the center of the world? Interesting. You learn new things every day.

Haven't been there myself, so I'll take your word on that one.

Thinking back, this hasn't really answered my original question: how thick is it?

It could be a disc, slowly getting wider and thinner. But it could be a long pole like object, growing fatter but shorter as it spins... Or anything in between.

I hope you and NASA can work out a way to get some photos. A good distanced shot should clear things up pretty quick, I'd think.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When I was in like grade 10ish in high school one of our teachers showed the class this meme or a similar one and one of the other kids went "wait, does that happen?" in a genuinely confused tone. Almost the entire class just stared laughing and the teacher had to explain that no, it doesn't happen because the earth is not, in fact, flat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are there any flat-moon conspiracy theorists? I feel like there's way more evidence that the moon is flat. We see the same side all the time. If it were round, wouldn't we see different parts of it? We're supposed to believe that it's a spheroid orbiting us at the exact rotational speed required so that the same side is facing us all the time? Be serious.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We see the same side all the time.

Not completely same all the time:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Dang, that's honestly really compelling proof that the moon is round. I'm trying to think of things that aren't definitively proved by this 5 second gif and I can't think of any. Flat Earthers can't even claim it's fake, they can do this test themselves in their backyard.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The wibbly wobbler.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You're drunk, Moon. Go home.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lunar eclipse! So it would be that instead of the red, dusky moon we get. I believe a solar eclipse would look the same on earth if it was flat and the sun/moon were overhead. Different pattern though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would be more a square than a line, I believe, since the only way we'd see it is if it were facing the side of the planet we lived on. That is also assuming the shadow cast were smaller than the moon. If it were bigger, my guess is it'd look mostly the same, just with a flat line instead of a crescent during partiality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's assuming it's a square. It could be a triangle... Or round, I guess.

load more comments