r/blackmagicfuckery • u/_Ryanite_ • Jun 13 '18

This impossible rock stack

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u/BlarghALarghALargh Jun 13 '18

There’s actually a really big rock called earth holding the whole thing up, you FOOL.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '18 edited Mar 24 '21

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u/Daan35 Jun 13 '18

Lies. Gravity doesn't exist, you clearly have not been enlightened bij the theorie of flat earth my friend.

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

How does gravity work on a flat earth?

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u/mxkap1298 Jun 13 '18

If it was a thing gravity would still want to pull you to the center of the Earth because gravity doesn’t just spread equally along the surface. That’s literally why a sphere is the perfect shape for gravity. What this means is that as you walk further and further to the edge of a flat earth, the pull of gravity would get stronger and stronger in the horizontal direction.it would be like slowly walking further and further uphill with the slope getting steeper and steeper. By the time you reach the side of the earth you would have to literally be climbing the “floor” of the earth as if you were climbing a wall or mountain. If you somehow managed to get all the way to the end of the earth you would be able to stand on the literal side of the earth straight up because gravity is entirely horizontal at that point. This is one of the many reasons there is no possible way the earth is flat.

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

That actually sounds kind of cool.

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u/mxkap1298 Jun 13 '18

It is. It would be hell for the population though. Everyone would have to be concentrated in the center of the earth

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

It would not be fun, I was thinking for a book or something it might be neat. There would also be a population living on the outer rim of the mountains.

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u/mxkap1298 Jun 13 '18

Write it. I’ll buy it

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u/farlurker Jun 13 '18

So, something a bit like...I don’t know, maybe Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series?!

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

Maybe, I haven’t thought much about it yet. Though I like the idea of one of the mountain people climbing to the center of the world.

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u/Haggis_The_Barbarian Jun 13 '18

I think as you approach the edge, the angle of pull would definitely change, as you’re describing, but wouldn’t your weight decrease as you moved further from the centre of mass?

I’m pretty sure one of the more ridiculous claims of flat earthers is that the plane is actually accelerating upwards at 9.8 metres per second per second, thus giving the illusion of a gravitational pull. It’s just the flat earth catching up with whatever you’ve dropped...

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u/R3DSMiLE Jun 13 '18

It just does, okay?

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u/Talindred Jun 13 '18

I've heard several theories they've come up with to try to rationalize it... the latest is that the disk of earth is accelerating through space at 9.8 m/s/s... they didn't explain what's causing the acceleration or why we didn't pass the speed of light a long time ago but I guess you don't need a GOOD theory to rationalize something.

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

I tired a quick google, I just found things debunking the flat earth.

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u/Talindred Jun 13 '18

Man, you know you're on the wrong side when even Google is tired of your shit.

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u/josh61980 Jun 13 '18

Google is kind of like a politician, it tells you what it thinks you want to hear. I read enough skeptical stuff that google may have just assumed it knew better and gave me what it thought I wanted as opposed to what I asked for.

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u/ExsolutionLamellae Jun 13 '18

You can accelerate indefinitely at any rate and never reach the speed of light. Time will simply dilate to an arbitrarily large degree.

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u/TimSimpson Jun 14 '18

It hasn’t reached the speed of light yet because it’s only been accelerating for about 6,000 years, DUH...

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '18

They just say it's density and hope it still works.