Well, I still see stuff on the other side of the ice wall and I thought that was supposed to be the edge of the Earth, so wouldn't we see outer space or something? I thought the edge of the world was ice. Where exactly is this edge of the world? The government doesn't have anything to worry about, I'll keep the ice wall a secret.

This post has been edited by Plenoptic: Sep 25 2007, 02:03 AM

Might I add a little something to the topic?

Yes, turtles carried the earth for quite some time, and that explains the hard shells they still have to this day...

http://mlafever.jlhaslip.trap17.com/turtles.html

LOL alex u just my day again with that ice pic LOL. I too have went on the adventure to find the ice wall.

Look at your own risk nijas might attack you if you look for more than 3 seconds

And another reason I think that the government don't close their website is maybe they think this doesn't matter million of people head and also refer to the freedom of community too!

Interesting idea, but still false. But it is wise to challenge the government.

There are so many holes in the flat earth theory it's not even funny. How do S-Waves which are triggered on the opposite side of the world travel to the other side of the world, with noticeable slowdown in the center where the core is? How do we travel from New York, to Australia, to Africa without chaning direction? When plate tectonics is in effect what's going to happen to the plates as they move? Do you really think they're going to fall off the face of the Earth? What about the fissure in Africa which shows that the tectonic plates are shifting? How is water contained, or does it float out into space? That ice wall just proves that there was a shift in the crust somewhere in its history causing a dip and reattatching. How did the Japanese sail to America through the Pacific, and the Europeans through the Atlantic if the Earth is flat? How did Shackleton make it to the south pole, and Byrd in the north? How do you explain the change in seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres while the equator stays constant? How does wind blow in a generally consistent direction (the westerlies, the trade winds, et cetera)? Where are the magma pools for volcanoes? Why do different stars show up in different seasons, and the stars shown in each hemisphere differ completely (well, there might be one or two of the same stars)? How does the moon crescent and how do lunar eclipses occur? I'm sure more qualified people could give you even bigger holes.

And why would the government want you to believe this? There isn't a good reason why they'd want you to believe this. It doesn't rake them in any more money and it doesn't rake them in any bigger than they are now. Heck, people are complaining of cuts due to the Iraq war even though they don't really do anything productive anymore.

And how would NASA fabricate Blue Marble in the 70s? They'd need a Michaelangelo to get that much detail, perhaps more, and painters like him aren't exactly walking down the street every day. Even better is how did they fabricate this without a frame of reference?

I call shenanigans on this. It's just a nutty conspiracy that scientifically doesn't make sense from even a geological point of view. I can take the a banking conspiracy but this doesn't even have any basis whatsoever on anything other than centuries of superstition, and I'd like to see a bit more proof into the whole banking thing as well.

Once you give me something that doesn't look like some generic crevass, you lay out solid evidence, you conduct an expiriment, and follow the scientific method to create a respectable theory, maybe I could believe you, but I can't because there isn't anything that you have proven.

@Tetracta
If you haven't noticed yet I was being quite sarcastic and I don't actually believe that theory, but there are people on that forum that i linked to who actually do believe it! I was in a way making fun of them

I'm not suprised I screwed up on that. I've always had trouble detecting sarcasm.

I've seen that forum before on digg, and people blasted so many holes through that theory it makes me wonder why they still believe it in the first place unless they were die-hard conservatives.

The Earth is flat, huh? Well, I have made a few observations from the ground. Tell me what you think, okay?

Why do the sun and moon move in arcs across the sky? Is it possible that these round objects are circling a flat rock? Hm-m-m-m

Who made the first observation that a ship slowly disappeared, from the bottom, up, as it moved further and further away?
Could that possibly indicate a round surface (at least, in that one location)?

But there does appear to be, at least, one paradox in the universe. Maybe, you can answer this puzzling observation that I have made on numerous occasions.

Why do I look at some people, who have somewhat round heads and think,
“What a flathead!!!”