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On Dec. 30, 1930, the first-ever photo of the Earth's curvature was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Albert William Stevens, who was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and an aerial photographer.
This photo is one Williams took over South Dakota in 1936 during a record-breaking balloon flight, which also shows Earth's curvature.
(Image credit: National Geographic/Albert William Stevens 1930)
Awesome document! I never realized it was only so late, I guess there is a difference between balloons and "serious record-breaking ballons"!
Meanwhile scientists still haven't built a mirror large enough to capture your moms ass
The world is flat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrRaJYvRzY0
edit: When I made this years ago a friend warned me that some folks would not recognize it as satire. I didn't believe it possible for anyone to be that stupid.
Satire only works if it’s outlandish enough not to reflect a widely held belief, even if it's a stupid one.
I don't think the flat Earth idea is nearly as widely believed as it appears. I think most of the proponents are just trolls.
no need to introduce yourself
Trump wants to protect us from those socialist pedophiles.
That aged well.
I get that it's satire, but that was an instant downvote the millisecond an acoustic guitar became visible.
Would you like some sulfur to go with your pseudoscience, fascism, and stupidity?
here we are, in the the astronomy community, that should attract rather smarter people, but most of you are as lazy as average flat-earher and did not bother to even click the link before following in steps of the first downvoter. if that person jumped off the cliff, i am afraid most of you would follow, because it is easier than to use your own brain.
i made myself sad on new year.
(for the extra lazy ones who don't have time to listen to the lyrics of his social commentary, he put that blackboard there with kepler's 3rd law to give you hint he might not actually believe the earth is flat. but that would require using at least 10 of your brain cells. good luck next time when you complain about stupidity of the "other side".
columbus saw the ocean
he sailed far and wide
just to get a cup of spices
from the other side
he knew he would die for sure
if he should reach the edge
but that's okay cause long before
he'd starve to death instead
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
earth's an oblate spheroid
revolving around the sun
spinning on its axis
which is tilted just for fun
that explains the seasons there
and the changing length of day
but here's an inconvinient truth
you can't explain that way
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
trump won re-election
he won it by a mile
only to protect us
from the socialist pedophiles
but biden wants the mail and ballots
counted and at what cost
he is so out of touch
he can't admit when he has lost
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
endless interventions
never-ending war
all to please the oligarchs
and economic horse
but lower taxes on the rich
and do it really quick
my ship is coming in soon
and i don't want to pay for it
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
Just in the interest of cheering you up a bit, I'd like to point out that many people simply refuse to click on YouTube links. Personally, I have no desire to engage with video content, especially when it's shared with little to no context. It's not out of laziness, but more out of a conviction that far too many people have outsourced their thinking to random vloggers, and believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.
believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.
unfortunately that is definitely a trend. but then you also have the person who grabs one rhyme out of context and comments it aged like a milk, meaning they did open the video, listened to it and absolutely did not understood.
i am also not going to watch every 60 minutes long video someone posts me in a discussion, but if i am invested in the discussion so much i care about answering or voting on something, i at least try to understand the concept of the video and what it is trying to say.
the headline in this case did not help, but i rarely see such an example of crowd behaviour concentrated in such short time as was the case with this link.
People aren't lazy, we just all live in a social media landscape where, when someone posts a link with an intentionally provocative title, it's rarely worth the effort to engage with it enough to find out if they're being sarcastic or sincere.
Sometimes this means that well-meaning people get downvoted. Oh well. Learn to read the room.
I'm pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should've been a dead giveaway.
and from the native speakers, i'd like an opinion - is he singing oblate spheroid at the beginning of 3rd paragraph? or is he singing old blade, which is what i hear, and is it some strange poetic phrase?
It is "oblate spheroid."
thank you
Thank you more! I can hardly believe you went all that trouble to transcribe my stupid song.
joke and sarcasm is unfortunately lost on dumbasses who can't read more than 4 words of headline 🤷♂️
My friend that's a yt video, what the fuck are you on about?
well that's the right burn, now you got me. because everyone knows there are no words in youtube videos, especially in song texts. 🤦♂️
Ah yes, please read this video to me, don't forget the headline 🙃🫠🤣🤪💩
the fact you probably truly believe you are delivering some burn is the sad part here.
as per your request, let me read the video to you (if you have trouble reading, you can always listen to itm but it still requires turning on your brain):
columbus saw the ocean
he sailed far and wide
just to get a cup of spices
from the other side
he knew he would die for sure
if he should reach the edge
but that's okay cause long before
he'd starve to death instead
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
earth's an oblate spheroid
revolving around the sun
spinning on its axis
which is tilted just for fun
that explains the seasons there
and the changing length of day
but here's an inconvinient truth
you can't explain that way
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
trump won re-election
he won it by a mile
only to protect us
from the socialist pedophiles
but biden wants the mail and ballots
counted and at what cost
he is so out of touch
he can't admit when he has lost
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
endless interventions
never-ending war
all to please the oligarchs
and economic horse
but lower taxes on the rich
and do it really quick
my ship is coming in soon
and i don't want to pay for it
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat
the world is flat