Comments by "Kevin Skinner" (@kevinskinner4986) on "Why People Think the World is Flat" video.

  1. So, did you catch the part in Level where Eric's cronies try and claim that you "can't see the light source from the dark" - with the rim of the flashlight between the bulb and the camera, blocking the light. Eric Dubay thinks you're too stupid to realize that light doesn't pass through solid objects..... and you are.
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  2. ....... but EVERYBODY DIES if the firmament is broken, because the water will rush in through the cracks and drown everybody. In the REAL world, the Illuminati Freemason Lizardmen would collapse from bloody infighting as the members who desire the accumulation of power and wealth declare war on the nihilistic doomsday cult because their goals are opposed. You do not rule anything if you and everybody else are dead. Furthermore, how exactly do they plan on "breaking through the firmament" when the sun's supposed to be inside the firmament and the sun's supposed to be 3,000 miles high? That means that the firmament itself has to be 3,000 miles high, more than 2,000 miles above the location they're bombing at? Did you really think people wouldn't notice that contradiction? And if they really wanted to destroy the world, why don't they take those rockets, fill them with warheads, and fire them into the sun? Seems much easier. YOU are the great deceivers.
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  3. Questioning everything means question EVERYTHING. Question the Flat Earthers. Question the conspiracy theorists. Walk up to Eric Dubay and ask him to his face why his new Level video contains such blatant lies as pretending that "you can't see the light source from the darkness" while the reason that the camera is in darkness is because a SOLID OBJECT is between the bulb and camera. But you won't do that, because "questioning everything" means rebelling against authoriy. Only question the official story. Anybody that questions "the truth" and doesn't believe the alternative claims without question is a sheeple.
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  4.  @XxlightxX  Genesis 1:29, God tells man that he gave them all fruit-bearing trees to be used as food, then neglects to mention that He created highly poisonous ones too. Bet it was a real riot when man found the manchineel and died a horrible death after their insides were corroded from chemical burns.
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  5.  @XxlightxX  No, he didn't. he warned them about the Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He didn't say jack shit about any of the mundane poisonous plants.
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  6. No, globe was not created in the 1400s. Before Copernicus, western scholars used the Ptolemaic model, which had a spherical geocentric Earth. That story about how "Columbus proved the Earth was round" is for small children. Scholars knew the Earth was round. Columbus was an idiot that miscalculated the size, and had he not run into the Americas out of pure blind luck, he would have starved to death at sea long before reaching his destination. By the way, the 1400s is a very strange time to start this "big lie". The 1400s is the spice trade and early colonization of the Americas, an era of history where wealth and power are determined by your naval prowess. If you went to The Elite and told them about this brilliant idea to deceive the masses, then they would have executed you themselves because they will LOSE money and LOSE power if their ships carrying all of their slaves, colonists, soldiers, and super expensive exotic trade goods never arrive because they wound up hundreds or thousands of miles off-course from following fake maps.
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  7. Flat Earth requires pretending that half the planet doesn't exist to avoid a paradox where the stars are in multiple places at once that should be overlapping but not overlapping in opposite directions at the same time when drawn on your map
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  8. If you're referring to the interview with astronaut Alan Bean, the "we didn't know it existed" wasn't the Belts themselves. Those were discovered a full decade before Apollo. He was talking about the shooting star streaks that astronauts saw while going through them. The ones that the hoaxer pretend were discovered when the Space Shuttle went too high, but which were discovered DURING Apollo, as they went through them, and which Apollo 16 and 17 took special helmets to try and measure. Also, that interviewer, Bart Sibrel, is a sleazebag that's been caught faking evidence. It's highly suspected that one of Bean's strange answers about "not knowing if they went that far" was the result of Sibrel asking Bean about his trip on Skylab, America's first space station, then editing the footage to try and make it seem like it was about Apollo out of context.
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  9. Just so that you're aware, you do realize that you're Tesla quote is NOT actually from Tesla, right? It's a facebook post from 2016 that contained a quote from Tesla. Wow, such wisdom, a random nobody on the internet.
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  10.  @louisbuzzi869  Does it matter? The Bible's supposed to the infallible Word of God, authored without mistake by a perfect god incapable of lying, is it not?
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  11.  @stevenwelk1901  You can have a 4 pointed pyramid. They're used to make 4-sided dice, which are used in D&D which as we all know is the gateway to occult. They are also second only to legos as makeshift caltrops, so we can see how evil they actually are.
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  12.  @syvadcram  By the way, Bernadean University is a Diploma Mill. If you don't know what that means, it's a "school" that gives easy fake degrees so people can pretend to be credentialed when they aren't.
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  13.  @XxlightxX  The Father of Lies is God Himself, right? He lies to man on the first page of the Bible.
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  14.  @XxlightxX  No pain and agony..... so Adam and Eve could have jumped off thousand foot cliffs and walked away unscathed like they're on the Loony Tunes? And could plunged their hands into acid without being harmed? And neither would any of the animals that might try and eat the fruit, despite the fact that animals cannot sin and cannot fall?
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  15.  @hypocrisystinks2860  You know that the term 'glass ceiling' has nothing to do with your fake dome, right? It's a slang from the 70s for businesses denying women and minorities equal pay and promotion to white men.
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  16. Flat Earth cannot physically model the movement of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere. If you try and draw them on their map, you wind up with a sanity-inducing impossible geometry nightmare straight out of the reject notes of H.P. Lovecraft.
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  17. Just so that you're aware, the pear-shape is a difference of less than 50 miles You're looking at a quibble over half a percent of difference.
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  18. An object launched from another moving object maintains is forward momentum and travels at the COMBINED speed. This is readily visible and tested in all sorts of moving vehicles and you can see it in action by jumping on one of those moving walkways at large airports. You'll land on the tile you jumped from even though it has moved forward, not the position in the hall.
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  19. Hey Chris, most Flat Earthers depict Flat Earth as a circle. Circles don't have corners either.
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  20. And who believed in magic, monsters, human sacrifice to ensure the rising of the sun, and medical practices that are outright barbaric.
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  21. If you were a flat earther, being flown into space and dropped out the window wouldn't convince you either.
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  22. ..... but the Book of Job claims that it "hangs from nothing" - meaning it floats suspended in midair (or whatever medium it's in). An object cannot both be resting on pillars and hanging; they are contradictory terms.
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  23.  @out2fun  Flat Earth required pretending that half the planet doesn't exist to avoid a paradox in the Southern Hemisphere where the stars are somehow in multiple places at once. I am not open minded to the point of accepting magic.
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  24. But a cube has six corners. A pyramid, however, can have four corners. And there's a pyramid on the dollar. THEY KNOW!
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  25. You realize that we have liquids, made from water, that stick to the exterior of magnets and create spinning water balls, right?
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  26. Of course! It's pure word salad, but he's got a Dr. on the name so it must be true. Hey, you should go ask your Dr of Astronomy why the stars in the Southern Hemisphere are magically in opposite directions at the same time when drawn on the Flat Earth map.
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  27.  @syvadcram  Going to ask you a question: do you actually understand a word of that or not?
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  28.  @Alan-nq5xg  Please, we all know that your experiment doesn't prove anything. After all, the great scam.... er, guru himself gave the most perfect "debunking" of that claim. "You can't learn anything about the shape of the ground beneath your feet by looking at the sky." - Eric Dubay, in response to comments about star circles and other astronomical claims on his $10,000 challenge. Never mind the fact that this immediately discredits all of the "Polaris and the constellations don't move" claims.
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  29. They claim that this was done on the first round Antarctica trip and it was "larger than the globe says it is so it's definitely flat". What they don't mention is that Cook, in the middle of it, did several loops through the South Pacific looking for a fabled lost continent east of Australia that wasn't there.
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  30. But doesn't the "limits of the human eye" you people talk about prevent people from doing that on a Flat Earth unless he's less than five miles away?
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  31. Clouds appearing "behind" the sun and moon is an illusion. What's actually happening is that they're so bright that image exposure is bleeding over the thin objects in front of them. Note that the highest clouds are about 50 miles high and those are NOT the type of clouds in the pictures. If the sun were below that height, it would mathematically be sitting on the ground from anyplace more than few hundred miles away.
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  32. Most ancient civilizations also had beliefs on magic and ghosts.
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  33. Just so that you're aware, the stars in the Southern Hermipshere circle around an empty point in the sky in the middle of Octans that, like Polaris, doesn't move. Care to explain this considering that A. it is physically impossible for a spinning dome to create star circles in any location except the center and B. this results in objects being 20,000 miles apart in opposite directions at the same time on multiple axes when drawn on YOUR map because it is physically impossible for the same objects to be south of Australia, South America, Africa, and the Pacific Islands at the same time. No seriously. Answer the question. At least attempt one. If you can't come up with one and you have to stick your fingers in your ears and go "Lalala, I can't hear you" like a five year old when confronted with a massive, massive problem outside of your community approved talking points, that's a good sign that you need to step back and think about whether or not you're correct.
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  34. Eric Dubay, and none of them will accept. They claim it's because "NASA will murder them" or some bullshit, but really they know that once they're proven wrong, they can never appear in public again because if they say what they saw, their followers will turn on them. Thjey'd probably take the cowardly way out and either suicide or fake their death and try and frame The Man so they can prtend that they were "shut up".
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  35. Everything you know about how disease works is less than 200 years old. People were still curing colds using leeches in the 1800s. I guess that bloodletting being practiced from ancient times until the Industrial Revolution proves that it's correct, regardless of what modern medicine says about it huh?
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  36.  @i.d.modisett9176  So fun fact that most people don't know: compass needles don't naturally sit flat. The south end is actually weighted to keep the needle balanced and counteract the natural tendency to point up or down, depending on where it's manufactured. If you take a compass to the wrong part of the world, it doesn't work right. By the way, gravity exerts force based on the mass of the two objects multiplied together. That means that the heavier an object is, the more force is exerted on it. Electrostatic force works the same way with charge, just FYI.
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  37. Flat Earth literally requires pretending that half the planet doesn't exist or matter. If you map the observed and recorded motion of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere to a Flat Earth map, it results in the same objects being magically 20,000 miles apart in opposite directions at the same time on multiple axes. Asking questions is one thing. Blind belief and rejection of The Man is completely different.
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  38.  @libertypltd4198  You say the sun's movement can be tracked. Okay. Why does the sun rise and set completely in the wrong direction in the sky from where your map says it's overhead from places like Australia?
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  39.  @libertypltd4198  "This is a good question" Refuses to answer Go on, "waste my time". Explain why the sunset in Australia has been observed 45 degrees in the wrong direction according to your own side's apps. You can't, that's why you won't.
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  40.  @libertypltd4198  Your precious "sun highlight on clouds" does not answer the question. By the way, you get a highlight on the BOTTOM of the clouds during sunrise and sunset. I'm going to guess your video doesn't show or discuss that. Answer the damn question. Why does the sun set and rise 45 degrees in the wrong direction? Why is the sun in a completely different location than it appears to be in the sky. If you don't know, stop deflecting, stop trying to claim that something answers it when it doesn't, stop pretending that it'd be "wasting your time." Be HONEST and say "I don't know."
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  41.  @Redboi-sp6pi  "You only believe the world is round because of what NASA told you so what makes the research the ppl are doing on it being a flat earth less credible?" The fact that you people routinely lie more often than NASA does? I liked the part in Level where they showed "you can't see the sun from the darkness" using a flashlight, when actually they performed a cheap con where the reason the camera was in darkness was because there was a solid object the rim of the flashlight) between the camera and bulb. That's what your "truth seekers" actaully think of you: a spit in the face designed to impress the gullible, stamped with Eric Dubay, the False Prophet's, personal seal of approval.
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  42. The Bible makes a great many claims that no man has ever witnessed and expects us to believe them not because of evidence, but because they were revealed in visions and dreams. Can you prove that any of it actually happened?
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  43. Um...... Flat Earth requires pretending that half the planet doesn't exist or matter because the observed and recorded motion of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere, when drawn on YOUR map, results in objects being magically 20,000 miles apart in opposite directions in multiple axes at once. Your model has holes large enough to swallow the sun and yet not one of you has the balls to discuss them.
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  44. Flat Earth requires pretending that half the planet doesn't exist or matter because the observed and recorded movement of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere, when drawn on YOUR map, results in objects being magically 20,000 miles apart in opposite directions on multiple axes simultaneously. If you have to lie and deliberately ignore problems because your model violates three dimensional space worse than the wildest wet dreams of M.C. Escher, it's not science.
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  45.  @flatearth5821  By that, you mean believe everything the Flat Earthers tell me and ignore problems that make it impossible for your model to actually exist, right? Why are none of you willing to talk about the fact that your model violates three dimensional space? What are you cowards afraid of? Why isn't a single one of you man enough to stab at the paradoxical singularity that I'm apparently supposed to ignore?
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  46.  @flatearth5821  For starters, the Earth has TWO celestial poles. The stars in the Southern Hemisphere circle around a fixed point in the sky in the middle of the constellation Octans that is due south of every location in the Hemisphere just like the Northern stars circle around Polaris First of all, it is impossible for a spinning dome to create a circle around any location except the center. It can NEVER create one outwards. You can test this with a colander, which is a bowl filled with holes for draining food. The explanations your side tries to give for this amount to throwing made up bullshit at the wall and praying that it will stick and generally don't address point 2. Second, take a look at your map. You see how Africa, Australia, South America, and the Pacific Ocean (which has a bunch of small island chains along the bottom of it) form a big X? Because you can see the stars from 2-3 of these locations simultaneously (depending on the season), this means that the same objects are located tens of thousands of miles apart in mutually exclusive directions, and rotated, simultaneously. Explain how it is possible on a flat plane for the same object to be in front of you, behind you, left, right, and every direction in between, vast distances from you, AND rotated accordingly, at the same time. Preferably without invoking "God Moves in Mysterious Ways". This only makes sense on a globe or other three-dimensional object, as these directions then point towards each other. I'll wait. If you somehow get an answer, which I doubt you will, I have more problems with your model making no geometric sense.
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  47.  @flatearth5821  If I wanted to read that scam artist's book, I'd pirate it. It's not like he deserves the money considering that he himself is a proven plagiarist. You realize that Dubay himself is one of the "throw shit at the wall" people I mentioned and that he has been confronted about this before, right? His response was, and I quote, "You can't learn anything about the shape of the ground beneath your feet by looking at the sky." Oh. Okay then, you people can stop talking about Polaris and the constellations not moving then, because your Great Messiah himself says it doesn't matter. You haven't even attempted to dispute me, at all, beyond going "you haven't done your research". If I wanted to have a discussion consisting entirely of "Nuh-uh!" I'd go to the local kindergarten. Answer the question. Prove my statement wrong with your own brain, instead of trying to get me to buy your cult leader's secret manuscript of hidden wisdom.
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  48. Just making sure, you are aware that Flat Earthers are overwhelmingly Republican right? These are YOUR voters bucko.
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  49. How? Flat Earthers will just claim that it's fake.
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  50. I know one thing for absolute certain: pineapple does, in fact, belong on pizza.
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  51. No they won't. They'll call the space flights fake like they do with tourist packages to Antarctica.
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  52. If the Earth were really flat, why do your Flat Earth false prophets need to deceive people and lie about their evidence?
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  53. And yet many, many of the Flat Earthers are Bible-thumping ultra-Christians. Aren't those usually on YOUR side? Are conservatives always so inherently dishonest that they lie and blame anything they don't personally agree with on "liberals"? Because it seems to happen a lot.
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  54. So, GreaterSapien has a video where he takes your "weird emergency landings" and actaully shows them on a globe using a piece of foamcore board to act as a straight edge. Turns out that the hoaxers are lying about them being way out of the way; most of them are fairly close to great circle.
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  55.  @charlieburke1529  .... why? The camera would be upside down too, genius.
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  56. Politically, however, they're more frequently bible-thumping ultra conservatives. You know, the type that are currently trying to use the conservative Supreme Court to push Christian Creationism in science class again and spreading lies about how the election was rigged to prevent Trump from revealing the fake moon landings.
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  57. Looks like it's all of youtube. I can't imagine why anybody would want to "cnesor" the dislike counter for... say... Defunctland, Wheel of Fortune, or Nyan Cat.
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  58. I remember somebody tried to convince me with a hodgepodge of NASA fakery claims. One of them was a "spacesuit bubble" clip. He got very mad when I pointed out that because the "bubble" was already visible in front of the helmet on the first frame of his video, it was impossible to tell if it actually came from the suit or was just an shard of ice or something that was passing by from off-screen and called him out for dishonest editing. The "land line" call isn't anything really spectacular. Nixon called NASA on the landline, and NASA relayed the call over their radio communications. This isn't really any different than using a land line to call a cell phone or calling into a radio station to request a song on the air.
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