Famous cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky recently complained. And he was defeated by the flat earthers. When Ryazansky, while in orbit of the ISS, photographed the Earth and posted pictures on his Instagram, supporters of the Flat Earth theory attacked him in the comments. "Photoshop", photoshop," they commented on the photo and denounced the astronaut that in fact he was not at the ISS at all, but at home.
Not so long ago in America, the documentary comedy “Beyond the Bend” was released, which tells about the difficult life of people who believe in a flat Earth even in the 21st century. These people are not savages, not mentally ill, but ordinary citizens living in high-rise buildings or suburbs; they work, write blogs, in a word, they are no different from us. Pictures from the life of ordinary flat-earthers alternate with comments from scientists explaining what exactly makes them hold on to such a crazy idea.
Flat-earthers are firmly convinced that our planet is flat, and scientists and space agencies hide the edge of the Earth somewhere in the ice of Antarctica and diligently fake every photograph that captures the sphericity of the planet. Some statements are thought-provoking, others are fun to laugh at, and some seem like the height of absurdity, such as "The moon is a hologram" or "Australia is fiction."
In fairness, it is worth saying that some citizens do not seriously believe in the "flat earth", but because it is cool. But there are also stubborn adherents who are ready to defend their point of view with foam at the mouth. To prove: "The Earth is a pancake", they spend weeks of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars on expensive equipment. Moreover, flat-earthers are arranged in such a way that even unsuccessful research results manage to interpret in their favor. The film showed how flat earthers spent money on an expensive laser gyroscope, a device that can show the rotation of the Earth. The task of militant ignoramuses was to prove that the planet does not rotate. Naturally, the gyroscope did not play along with them, but the flat earthers were not upset, attributing the failure to "cosmic rays that spoiled the readings."
In America, flat-earthers turn out to be almost outcasts from society: none of the "sharovers" (as they called the dissenters) want to take them seriously, flat-earthers have poor relations with relatives and friends. In order not to get bored, flat earthers create their own dating sites and arrange conferences. Sometimes even international.
According to VTsIOM, three percent of Russians believe that the Earth is flat. Three percent may not seem like such a big number, if you do not think that it is almost 5 million people. There are programs about the flat Earth on different channels, the followers of the theory have groups on Vkontakte, numbering tens of thousands of subscribers, "counteracting pseudoscience that encroaches on the foundations of the biblical world order." The same pseudoscience that invented electricity and the Internet, of course.
Fight the Flat Earth Society
For a long time in the near-scientific environment, talk about the theory of a flat Earth has not ceased. Questionable views on the structure of the world are expressed by popular Western bloggers, athletes, and cultural figures. Russian cosmonauts do not take these claims seriously, but the authors of the global hoax are praised for their ingenuity.
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“In my opinion, flat-earthers are such a cool professional space trolling,” cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky is quoted as saying. "I don't believe that people can be such idiots," he added during a direct line with the ISS. Another cosmonaut from Russia, who is in orbit, supported his colleague. "I don't even have anything to add to Sergei's words," said Alexander Misurkin.
A conversation about the supporters of the flat Earth theory took place at the presentation of the first ever panoramic video filmed in outer space. “It seems to me that this is a great technology, a great idea. We are very happy that we, the Russians, were the first to try this technology during a spacewalk,” Ryazansky said.
Patients together with REN-TV prove that the Earth is flat. Arguments divine... pic.twitter.com/rk75vMFv8l
Let's start with an example from my personal life: a few years ago, for the first time, fate brought together a distant relative. He used to drink heavily, but now he and his wife have joined the Sunday Adelaja sect. So we started talking to him about the stars. And it turned out that he and his wife were sure that the stars are holes in the dome of heaven through which God's light seeps! And this despite the fact that the apartment has a TV and the Internet, and two daughters study at the institute.
"What revolves around the Earth?". In France, on the program "Who wants to be a millionaire" the player takes the help of the audience.
Vitaliy Dubogrey writes: Recently, one of the commentators confused me. I won’t explain, I’d rather quote his words verbatim
"Yes, the globe is ridiculous... Given that everyone in maritime navigation and aviation uses a flat earth map (azimuth map). When will this truth be revealed and people will expose this lie?"
When asked why the globe made him laugh so much, I received the following answer:
"The fact that heliocentrism was invented 500 years ago by Copernicus, for a large payment. Prior to that, hundreds of maps and drawings were saved by people, in ALL cultures, about the opposite. The Bible also says about this. Now in the USA, the truth has been going on for a year, actively they talk about it and show it on youtube. Moreover, they are already conducting physical experiments, launching balls, taking measurements, and more than 200 facts have already been collected. It's just that people who have seen the globe at school since childhood are used to it. (+ Hollywood films)"
"P.S. Type in youtube "200 facts about flat earth". Believe it or not, it's up to you, just for yourself, study. P.S. The bigger the lie, the harder it is to refute it"Like this. In the 21st century, it turns out that instead of flying to other worlds, we are returning to the idea of a flat Earth.
I wondered what the 200 pieces of evidence were and found them. Ready? Go!
The horizon always looks perfectly flat for all 360 degrees around the observer, regardless of altitude. All shots from rockets, planes and drones showing a curved horizon are fake
Law of communicating vessels well at least he's not a fake). Here, like, if the earth were a ball, the water in the ocean could not be at the same level ( apparently the glass would be all to the south)
Rivers only flow downhill in any direction ( North South West East), and if the Earth were a ball, then many of the rivers could not flow, since it is impossible to flow upward ( north as far as i know)
Surveyors, engineers and architects never consider the assumed curvature of the earth when designing
If the earth were really a ball, then airplane pilots would constantly have to adjust their altitude, otherwise they would fly into outer space.
To summarize, it all boils down to this
The Earth is a flat disk 40,000 kilometers in diameter, centered at the North Pole.
- The sun and moon revolve above the surface of the earth. The same thing happens with the stars.
- Gravity arises due to the fact that the Earth moves upward with an acceleration of 9.8 m/s?.
- There is no South Pole. What seems to us to be Antarctica is an ice wall encircling the world.All photos of Earth from space are fakes
The distance between objects in the southern hemisphere is much greater. The fact that flights between them are faster than they should be according to the map of the flat Earth is explained by the fact that the pilots of the airliners are also involved in the conspiracy.
Who will tell me what it is?! How to perceive it?! Are we sliding into the Middle Ages?!
And here's some more beauty:
A popular canard about North Korea is the story that in all the media in the DPRK there was news about the landing of the first North Korean cosmonaut on the Sun.
Information agencies of the DPRK allegedly told the gullible inhabitants of the country about the immortal feat of a seventeen-year-old cosmonaut named Hung Il Hong, who was the first among people to land on the Sun and then return to Earth. In total, his flight lasted for eighteen hours. The news also says that Hung Il Hong's landing on the Sun took place at night so that the young astronaut would not suffer from ultra-high temperatures on the star closest to Earth.
The funny thing is that many people took the news quite seriously.
And who wants to become a millionaire in French with the question "What revolves around the Earth"? Suggested answers: Moon, Sun, Mars, Venus.
Media workers, obviously, did not study well at universities, because the reaction in the press to the trick of the Russian cosmonauts turned out to be unprofessional.
We, journalists, are used to digging into the letter of the law - fighting corrupt officials, schemers and other criminals. Fight what worries us here on earth and worries everyone.
But on the scale of the cosmos, our worldview is usually not enough. We cannot even imagine that there can be machinations with the cosmos itself. And they, global machinations, still exist, and the world is becoming more and more clearly convinced of this.
Here is one episode. In recent years, more and more questions have arisen about the so-called astronauts - about their function, in the shape of the Earth, about the evidence for the existence of space flights, etc.
And now the Russian cosmonauts in orbit told what they think about the theory of a flat Earth. It's not so bad that the Russian astronauts reacted to the theory with humor, calling the idea of a flat Earth "cool professional space trolling."
The main thing in the remark of space clowns is that one of them put it this way: "I don't believe that people can be such idiots." This is how Sergei Ryazansky, an inhabitant of the ISS, put it on the air. Alexander Misurkin also supported him.
The channel explained that “the astronauts made such a statement during the presentation of the SPACEWALK 360 project, the first panoramic video filmed in outer space.”
I am sure that readers will be interested to see what the Earth looks like in this panoramic video, so we offer you to look at this MIRACLE in the video below (from 9:03). I think EVERYONE will be surprised that the Earth in this design looks like a sprawling hyperbolic surface.
As for the antics of Sergei Ryazansky, it should be given a legal assessment. The fact is that this cosmonaut, on behalf of Russia, insulted many millions of people from different countries, calling them idiots. This is a crime. Freedom of speech and personal opinion is enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and in the constitutions of other countries, so no Ryazan has the legal right to distribute insults or make his own profane diagnoses.
If he believes that the Earth is round, then let him present at least one photograph of the round Earth. So far, the entire space industry in many countries has not been able to take a single photograph of the round Earth for more than 50 years of its existence.
On the other hand, spacemen have filled the media space with fake “video” and “movie” “materials, which should have long been qualified as fraud.
Sofia Naiman
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The “flat earth” theory, which, despite scientific achievements, has more and more adherents every day, is a large-scale trolling, say Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Sergey Ryazansky
Astronauts from the Russian Federation, currently orbiting our planet, discussed the "flat Earth" theory with the press during the presentation of the SPACEWALK 360 project.
According to them, the "flat earth" theory is nothing more than trolling, but high-class space trolling.
"I don't believe that people living in the twenty-first century can be idiotic enough to think the Earth is flat," Ryazansky said, echoed by Misurkin.
The flat earthers, meanwhile, are not letting up - one of their leaders, rapper Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. from the US, is raising money to launch space satellites that will somehow prove that our planet is disk-shaped.
“I will launch these damn satellites into your stinking space and then it will become clear to everyone what a hole we live in. I'll just collect the money, ”he says.
By the way, supporters of the “flat Earth” theory, in order not to look completely, in the words of our astronauts, “idiots to such an extent”, put forward various arguments, such as: “since there are flat stars (astrophysicists really discovered flat stars, that is, not exactly like a disk, but disk-shaped), which means that the planets can be like that.
It is a pity that the discussion is of a trolling nature, because people more interesting than rapper Bobby tried to comprehend the theory of the “flat Earth”, and there were many of them.
For example, in the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien says that when Atlantis plunged into the abyss (its inhabitants angered God with their pride), the Lord closed the paths of the world, and for us it turned out to be round. Although a straight path, if you look for it, may open ("The Silmarillion").
Stoic Posidonius, at one time, put forward the concept of "Earth - a shell in Oceanos." In Antiquity, people did not separate the waters of the ocean and the sky, calling it all together with the word Okeanos.
On the famous map of Gerardus Mercator (1569), an unknown mainland with a mountain in the middle, divided crosswise by four rivers, is depicted in the place of the north pole. The inscription made on it says that the map of the northern mainland is based on the testimonies of the knights of King Arthur, as well as travelers of the XIV century. So, during the early Middle Ages, there was no ice in the Arctic?! It turns out that travelers reached the polar limits through magic - this explanation of Mercator does not add clarity, from the point of view of modern geography ... Magical geography, a flat Earth, a direct path, sometimes opening as Tolkien wrote - all these are concepts of the same order, can be considered their fairy tales. For many centuries the Trojan War was considered a myth, and Homer's Iliad a collection of fairy tales - until Schliemann brought them back to our world.
