• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    I’ve tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn’t make it work.

    I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you’d insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.

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      I have never through of that…how is day an night supposed to work on a flat earth? Like Minecraft they just…rotate around? What about the underside of the earth? The other side of the coin…do people live there too? Can we visit them if we dig a hole?

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        The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions

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        The sun is apparently more like a flashlight than an orb. That would be the only way this could work, but even Terry Pratchett knew that this doesn’t make any sense

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          …wait and how does it become night? Like the lantern gets turn off? What about when it’s night in a place but morning on another?

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        Well the sun is in fact a flash light that is just hitting the right area of the earth. Of course it somehow isn’t circular it just hits the plane earth that it is like we observe.

        The moon is on the same hight and glowing of course! There are no eclipses and moon cicles! This is all just a conspiracy

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        And like… they just accept there is an ice wall there? Why are we not trying to get to the other side? Aren’t they curious?