Yeah, that’s how I’ve seen them describing near-equator orbits more than once. (Back when the entire thing was an internet joke, the models were very funny.)
It’s polar orbits they have an issue with.
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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Well hold on. I may have just woken up, but, if earth were a disc, couldn’t the disc just be rotating and or flipping?
marcos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I’m significantly more awake and just realized this is a shitpost. The human mind is an interesting thing.
Do you still have evidence of the old posts or any of the old models of how orbits work?
marcos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s a comment in another thread here with a video.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
This is because flat earthers don’t understand anything about science or physics or basic common sense and as a result believe the most insane things.
Explain the entire time trying to come up with increasingly convoluted ways that a flat earth could work rather than just accepting that the simplest explanation is the did in fact isn’t. The explanation for why you can’t see mount Everest from the top of any reasonably high hill anywhere else on earth for example involves throwing out all scientific thinking back to Aristotle and starting again, don’t believe in geometry.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 2 days ago
According to flat earth supporters, if the earth were moving in any way at all you would feel it. Since we don’t feel any motion obviously the earth is stationary
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is why airplanes and trains are also stationary for most of the trip.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s where you get a lot of the real 🤯-tier pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
Dinosaurs and lizard people are down there. Nazis and Communists are down there. Mole people. Atlantis. The Garden of Eden. The sky is the limit.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Lmao jfc, they might as well say the undesirables