Comments by "Myles Platt" (@melsop54) on "Professor Dave Explains" channel.

  1. I can't get over the fact that a group of folks who, mostly, are terrified of the UN...use their logo as the flat earth map...
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  2. Used to be that guy. Was a AVID Hovind fan back in high school. Young earther, wouldn't even give the idea of evolution a chance. Still a Christian to this day, but having some Flat Earthers now in my family has REALLY pushed me to learn a LOT about the universe just as a matter of being prepared to speak to them if the topic arises. An open mind has been a life changing thing lolol
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  3. Was kinda odd how he was all about talking about the bible until Dave brought it up...lolol
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  4. That is 100% the mindset when you are at the point of "We can go see this together with our own eyes if you want?" and you get "Nope. It doesn't exist. Not real." The common sense response would be "Absolutely, lets go. You buy the tickets, I'll be there and history will be made." But the outright refusal to even take up that offer...means it's not so much that you think it's not real, but more so you are terrified of the reality of it being real and the implications it would have on your beliefs.
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  5. All blatant illogical explanations for things we see around us aside...the mere notion that through history, every pilot, ship captain (including your hungover Carnival Cruise captain for some reason, scientist, astronomer, airline steward and stewardess, tens of millions of people are in on a conspiracy that has cost more money than our entire national debt multiple times over, and lockstep commitment to secrecy over thousands of years...is just laughable. The issue is...either ALL of that is true...or YOU a flat earther, are wrong. I'd argue it takes much more gall to think that YOU, having watched over 5 whole Flat Earth youtube videos...are now more intelligent and informed than all of histories biggest minds.
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  6. I hate it so much. I have a relative that legit believes sun and moon are two entirely different light emitting objects. As in, the light on the moon at night is NOT from the sun...but from the moon itself. I don't understand how someone can abandon basic first grade science like this...but they have and it sucks.
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  7. This is fascinating as a Christian, because most of us simply ignore this information. But if I am to believe that God is responsible for this universe and all it's laws...I'd be ignorant to deny the very laws he created and what they seem to indicate. I've come to accept the age of the universe and it's beginning according to this video. I think where we all, regardless of our positions, begin to assume things is at the singularity that was once everything in this universe. If the universe does have a finite beginning, and a finite size, then it stands to reason that that singularity had a beginning. We can assume it does, or it doesn't and has always exploded, expanded, and contracted...but ultimately (in the absence of evidence of things prior to the big bang) we are making assumptions. If we are to accept it did have a beginning, then we must posture the existence of a beginner. Be it God or an alternate universe this one is contained within. With the alternate universe idea though, we'd have to assume that Russian doll of sorts can go on forever and ever...which would contrast with a finite universe. At any rate, I can say as a Christian, I have become able to reconcile my faith and Science in pretty huge ways. The more I learn, the more I see it actually doesn't effect the reality of my faith personally.
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  8. All of this is absolutely 100% insane. There are a number of very radical right leaning people in my life, and the shit they propose is beyond fucking mental. That being said, we have recently also seen FEMA itself recommend skipping over people for political leanings when it comes to offering aid. The insanity is all around. On the extreme ends of both sides no doubt. And we simply ALL need to return to a sensible medium that recognizes both sides, to a certain point, can and do have good ideas. But this shit where we each believe the other is inherently evil is just wild.
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  9.  @ct7853  Do you believe the Empire State building exists and that it stands very tall? Do you believe this despite never holding it in the palm of your hand?
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  10. The "you can ONLY claim the earth is a ball if YOU have seen it with YOUR own eyes" is a logic that can not be arbitrarily applied or not applied. It MUST apply across ALL things by default. If you have never met Will Ferrell then...you can not know he exists for real no matter how many of his movies you've seen. If you have never seen a kangaroo with your own eyes, it would have to be possible that everyone is lying about kangaroos and that all images of kangaroos and Will Ferrell are elaborate CGI scams. This is how you know the entire idea is stupid to begin with.
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  11. In general when someone hits you with "You can't prove me wrong, and also any evidence you do have is part of the conspiracy to brainwash you....", just walk away. That is textbook cult think. Literally "I am right. You are wrong. All evidence that I think proves me right is correct and all evidence that proves me wrong is part of the conspiracy."
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  12. 40:15 Dave's point made perfect sense. The skeleton of a human that didn't have children is not proof that no humans had children. That simple.
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  13. 51:40 Rather convenient how self professed "truth seekers"...immediately turn down the once in a lifetime opportunity to definitely seek the "truth" they are so adamant about being after. "If only people who agree with me were going...sure, I'd go." Fuckin stooge.
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  14.  @marknieuweboer8099  I appreciate that!
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  15. I have a relative that believes this crap and I posed exactly that question... How is it that this lie can be meticulously protected, funded, and maintained over thousands of years, by hundreds of millions of people, spending quadrillion of dollars...and yet a greasy haired 20 year old with a net worth of $1500 can manage to bypass it all with a $40 Walmart webcam?
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  16. No less after Dave literally and perfectly explained every possible basic with a globe hahahha
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  17. I love how THEY have the freedom to outright deny objective reality, but the notion of anyone else denying what they say is considered just insanely ridiculous. Self righteous much?
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  18. I wonder how Flerfers explain how the short wave radiation doesn't utterly destroy life on earth if the suns light is not being filtered through the atmosphere from outside of it...but rather that the sun is inside of it all shining down on us. You kinda have to ignore the reality of radiation...
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  19.  @stylesrj  It's rather convenient how they get to pick and choose which laws of physics and nature they accept like they are at a buffet...and then demand scientists meet every single check mark on the list at all times or they are faking it...
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  20. And shockingly, there are people who will take this literally lol! "PROOOF of flat earth! This man saw it! He battled the ogres and slayed the orcs to get to the other side! lolol! Well written story though hahah, for real!
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  21. I can see it. It's unbearable. The evidence can defend itself. No need for me to defend it.
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  22.  @ericb3157  All I asked was how we have lunar eclipses if the moon is its own light source. The very existence of a shadow on the moon dictates that the light on the moon is not coming from the moon.
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  23. In short, the desire to feel like you are privy to information not everyone has, and that you know a big bad secret...is REAL strong
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  24. 46:35 Please explain how a glass dome the size of the fucking earth (even if flat), with ZERO support structures around the pizza earth, manages to stand under it's own weight. Take a flight. You are arguing there is a dome that is likely at least several quintillion pounds of glass covering the earth....and somehow managing to stand up, as glass, under the pressure of quintillions of pounds of pressure pulling down on it...That is some Lord of The Rings level shit.
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  25. 52:40 It takes a special kind of asshole to publicly claim 24 hour sun is impossible, and then simply blame Satan when a 24 hour sun is inarguably proven. That is THE number one cop out of any Christian who knows what they preach doesn't line up with reality at all. Blame Satan. Fuck off. It's just as plausible to argue God himself ensured a clear sunny day to demonstrate the glory of the globe he created...Convenient that, at all times and in all ways, HE is right.
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  26. I can both believe the virus is very real, deadly primarily to certain people, and that washing hands and basic actions can reduce the spread of said virus...AND understand that a corrupt government will readily use said virus for their own gain if possible. In short, something that a LOT of people have somehow lost the ability to understand, two things can be true at the same time.
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  27. 46:25 That right there is the core of this bullshit. It's constructed in a way where they, in their own eyes, can NEVER be proven wrong. Sure, if what they say happens...happens, than every scientist and explorer for 1000's of years is proven wrong in an instant. BUT...if what they claim will happen...DOESN'T happen, that is just further proof they are right anyway because they have no concrete explanation for how anything works to begin with, so they can't possibly be pinned down to one answer. For a group of utter morons, that in particular is a wise move (if your goal is to manage a ridiculous ideology supported by the worlds most gullible people).
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  28. Dang. I've never even considered that the very existence of north and south on earth is proof of a globe itself. On the pizza earth...north would have to be toward the center of the pizza...and thus south is the opposite...toward the outside of the pizza in every direction...meaning what is south for people in Argentina is north for people in Australia on the pizza map. Unless we are to believe north can also be south...
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  29. I have a close relative that no only believes flat earth, but also refuses to believe the light on the moon at night is from the sun. I can't follow the thought process on that in the slightest as a wall and a flashlight easily explain this concept...
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  30. @PeakApex I gotcha! All good! I am a Christian, but I also recognize physics, laws of physics, and what those laws clearly indicated about the age of the universe, shape of earth, etc. Also, I don't get offended by much of anything.
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  31. If the sky is the daylight...what does the sky go dark when the sun goes out of sight? Why wouldn't the sky just stay daylight forever?
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  32. Flerfs 2 weeks ago: The 24 hour sun does not exist. It can't exist on a flat earth. it doesn't exist. Flerfs from now on: The 24 hour sun exists and we can prove how it has always been able to work on a flat earth...
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  33. 30:00 Dude is really trying to argue that you can stand back to back with your spouse in the living room, open your eyes, and be looking the same wall because of magnetic declination....
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  34. 19:28 Seeing as you can 100% take a trip TO this place AT this time, the easiest way one could prove it is fake is by simply GOING there and SEEING it with your own eyes. GO SHOW US it's fake. That's all you gotta do. But you won't. Because you KNOW what you will see, and you can not risk seeing anything you can't explain away.
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  35.  @sinoist742  I need only time and the cost of a plane ticket. It's available for anyone wishing to go. Private citizens. Also, the endless private sector videos of the place are plenty enough evidence for me. I don't HAVE to see everything with my own eyes before believing it.
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  36.  @sinoist742  My whole point being that the entire argument that no private citizens can go there because top secret military flat earth cover up...is absolutely bullshit.
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  37. Tis the way cult ideologies operate. All lack of proof serves to confirm the truth of the ideology...and also all proof against the ideology only serves to confirm the truth of the ideology. There is a centuries long lie held up by hundreds of millions of people, costing quadrillion of dollars, to convince us the earth is a ball...and also the literal physics of the universe that prove this all wrong...are just fake and part of the lie. A literal "Watermelon is blue inside until you cut it open" thought process...
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  38.  @Krugis  Exactly. If the moon were it's own light, it would sorta ALL have to emit light at all time...like the sun. But somehow, an inanimate object like the moon not only has an unlit half, but it also appears to shut off its light in sections through the month.
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  39. Going to be absolutely amazing to watch the "THERE IS NO 24 HOUR SUN!" people become "THE 24 HOUR SUN DOES NOT DISPROVE FLAT EARTH!" people. It will happen.
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  40. 23:00 That this dude actually thinks the flerfs that went would not IMMEDIATLEY sound the alarm to all their followers that they were actually taken to Vegas for this and brought in to the sphere...Jesus fuckin Christ. I have to choose to believe he is trolling here because the thought of someone being THIS stupid is to painful to accept.
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  41. This may get me flack here, but I'll say it anyway. I'm an Evangelical Christian myself...but I also understand, if I am to hold that position, that God created the laws of physics that govern the universe we are in, I am obligated to accept what those physics indicate lest I deny the work of God himself. I am of the belief that God created the incredible machine between our ears, so I must not just dismiss what that machine can figure out. If the speed of light has never changed (and there's no reason for us to think it has), I am forced to acknowledge the age of the universe as measured based on distances between objects in space. Which also means I am forced to further think about what I am reading in Genesis with regards to creation. If it is a literal historical record of the origin of the universe, or if it is more poetic and parabolic. I compare this to the concept of tithing. Any Christian will agree that tithing can not only be practiced by growing a crop today and bringing the first fruits of it to the storehouse. We are happy to concede that that scripture was written by an agricultural society that mainly bartered and traded cattle/food. As such, they described the underlying truth of the tithing concept from the perspective they had. We SHOULD be able to apply that throughout scripture. At any rate, I'm ok with whatever flack I may get here for maintaining the Christian worldview, but I am also happy to accept the irrefutable evidence that science provides.
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  42. This guy: "Science is doctrine!" Also this guy: "It's the energy of the heavens man..."
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  43. ​ @MrXantrias Exactly. No big deal if you don't agree with all the moderators opinions. Or any of them. That's life. It was a debate. World's a boring hell hole if you only even remotely associate with people you 100% agree with.
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  44. It's like "200 examples of how balls are round" being the title of the book, and then half your "examples" being 1. Basketballs are round 2. Baseballs are round 3. Soccer balls are round... and the other half being 190. Basketballs are not flat 191. Baseballs are not flat 192. Soccer balls are not flat...
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  45. 51:00 "I'm looking for the truth!" Bullshit. If this were true, instead of simply claiming the 24 hour sun is fake in Antarctica, he could very easily just GO THERE and confirm for himself, in person, that it is fake. He will NEVER do that because he KNOWS he will see exactly what the video shows. He is NOT looking for truth, he is DESPERATELY looking for anything at all that even appears to validate his beliefs. They claim to be able to prove its fake, but they REFUSE to do the ONE thing that would prove it beyond question...going there in person like they do NASA all the fuckin time, and seeing it for themselves.
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  46.  @stylesrj  That's a fair assumption hahah!
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  47. My only hope is that the flat earthers who were there, to see it with their own two eyes, using their senses to determine the reality around them as they have ALWAYS been told they had to do...can now see how utterly STUPID and dishonest their fellow flers actually are. They just have to.
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  48. 17:00 Revealing fact there. They make their living pumping this garbage out. So, their options are continue to pump it out against all available evidence to the contrary because it keeps them from having to quit and get a job to pay the bills...or they admit they were wrong, stop producing the content knowing they'd be lying, and instead go get a job. They HAVE to keep it going now because it pays the bills.
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  49. So for this world encompassing ice wall...does ice not float? This being the case, the ice around earths edge on this flat earth, being in eternal contact with the water it's supposedly holding in, would endlessly apply a force on said ice so that it floats. Also, we are to believe that NO WHERE along this earth wide wall have ANY cracks EVER opened ANYWHERE in which the ocean water constantly pressing on it would immediately seep in and attempt to split the wall apart. What is it that causes the ENTIRE wall ALL the way around to remain PERFECTLY frozen at all times?
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  50. One thing is obvious. His gimmick is being an asshole. He doesn't have to make sense. He can sound dumber than dog shit, but his attitude of seemingly "sticking it to the establishment" is what attracts brainless amoeba followers. I know many people that are HIGHLY attracted to people like this (attracted in a social media following kinda way).
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