I’ve heard this, and it mostly seems to be “it can’t be a coincidence, so they must be designed to be the same size.” Some people see coincidence as evidence of design or conspiracy.
I’ve long thought that the extreme similarity in apparent size is the most miraculous thing in the world. Both in chances of it occuring and its global immensity. It loses a few miracle points for not really meaning anything, though. And at that, it’s not very miraculous considering there isn’t anything more miraculous. It’s sort of the exception that proves the rule of a lack of designer. There should be a lot more of those coincidences.
The alternative to “troll” is “maliciously stupid.”
Pick ‘em.
That too, but definitely also ‘how can they be different sizes when they look the same?’
As mentioned above, I think that everyone understands that big things look small far away.
But I may be overestimating the intelligence of some of these people.
You definitely are haha!
That’s easy. I’ve “proven” the flat Earth by using a little trig and you get a distance of IIRC just under 4000 miles to the Sun.
Of course that distance changes if you change the distance between the measuring points. But that’s because NASA lies.
I suppose there’s knowing a thing and knowing how and where to apply it.
If you asked them if the faraway cows look small, they’d probably say yes (although if there are no cows in sight, they might just argue that cows are cow size). If you ask them to figure out how that applies to astronomical observations, you probably won’t get a coherent answer.
They might even just divert onto some other track entirely, such as asking ‘how can we even see the sun if it’s 93 million miles away?’ - that’s a genuine flerf question. Some of them think there is just some arbitrary limit to how far we can see. Nothing to do with obstacles or anything in the way, just ‘humans can’t see that far’.
please don’t start connecting dots - please…
Helps you get out of explaining why you can’t see things below the horizon, too.
You know, I’m kind of curious.
I’ve seen plenty of conspiracy theorists postulate stuff that sounds wacky, but where they could easily accuse someone of, basically, having more money due to the super-secret cover-up.
So: what do these guys think was the profit motive for concealing the flatness of the earth with this elaborate hoax to make everyone think the world is round? Like, if it’s the 1500s, and guys on sailing ships keep ostensibly circumnavigating the globe (a) by gradually sinking out of sight over the horizon, tip of the mast last, (b) while those in the know note that, er, as it happens, all that time at sea is actually being spent on a flat sea, then — who’s making more money if that’s the case? Who’d make less money if the truth got out, in the 1600s or the 1700s or whatever, that, uh no; it’s all flat, see?
Follow The Money, they say. Okay: to whom?
Far more often than not ‘They are hiding God’.
Also ‘They are hiding all the other land that if we had access to we’d have endless free everything’.
C’mon, who is it always?
…where?
No, seriously: if you were a flat-earther, and you showed me a globe, and then you showed me a flat-earth map of the world, and then you held that map right next to that globe, then: where, exactly, is the spot that you couldn’t reach on one but could on the other?
You can’t reach beyond the Antarctic ice wall on a globe.
Well, I’ve now learned something new; much obliged.
And the folks who believe that they know the truth about the map don’t set out for the land where there’s access to endless free everything because…?
Query: it sounds like a lot of you folks have had actual contact with flat earthers. Is that right? Personally, or just by browsing the internet?
Because I’ve never had any contact of any sort. Am I just living in a bubble?
Mostly, a completely spurious reading of the Antarctic Treaty.
Google YouTube is your friend gateway to brain damage.
Wear your oven mitts! (Facepalm protection.)
Wait, what? That groovy map of the flat world looks like it has a huge gap for sailin’ through if you set out straight from the California coast — Antarctic to the left of you, Antarctic to the right of you, and a great big wide open opening smack dab in front of you — and their spurious reading of a treaty is that they can’t go where the land isn’t?
A flat bubble.