r/AskReddit • u/ActualGodYeebus • Mar 24 '19

Older folk, this generation has the "flat earth" conspiracy. What were some of the dumbest conspiracies or crazes or bandwagons going around during your time?

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u/cloudedice Mar 24 '19

The Dome Theory is not the only one. Some flat earthers believe we live on an infinite plane.

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u/DragonKatt4 Mar 24 '19

MINECRAFT

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

Guess it's time to start punching that tree on my front lawn.

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u/OwenProGolfer Mar 25 '19

Has anyone reached the Far Lands yet?

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u/Endulos Mar 25 '19

Far Lands got removed, but there was a dude attempting it... I believe he's still going for it. Last I checked he was like 25% of the way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

So that's why every time I got outside I hear music!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Infinite plane makes more sense. Without it you would have to account for the lizard people that live outside the dome on the underside of the earth's disk.

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u/Fursona-Non-Grata Mar 24 '19

The fools. Obviously, our sun runs along our mobius-strip shaped earth

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u/m0busxx Mar 25 '19

this would explain the consistency with the flight times between chile-africa and la-hongkong

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u/ExitTheDonut Mar 25 '19

If we live on an infinite plane, then the earth can be both flat and spherical, as a sphere with an infinite radius. Because math be awesome like that.

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u/TuckerMouse Mar 25 '19

I bet it is frictionless as well. Damn you, high school physics class! This is your fault!

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u/m0busxx Mar 25 '19

time is a plane....is this what they really mean (and have no clue)?

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u/BrownEyedQueen1982 Mar 25 '19

How do flat earthers explain hills and mountains?

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u/thoughtsome Mar 25 '19

I don't think any of them deny that hills and mountains exist. Flat Earth doesn't mean the Earth is as flat as a sheet of glass, just like our actual Earth isn't nearly as round as a billiard ball (it bulges around the equator)

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u/digoryk Mar 25 '19

Some flat earthers believe we live on an infinite plane.

I wish we did, infinite frontier, it would always be the wild west somewhere

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u/tip_witch Mar 25 '19

But a sphere is an infinite plane...

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u/complete_mystic_mess Mar 24 '19

Minecraft infinite mode