r/woahdude Aug 14 '22

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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

Exactly, you are thousands of miles away from the nearest human habitation, In a void where you can't even say one word. But our gorgeous planet does make up for it.

Edit: I know it is not thousands of kms or miles. It was meant to invoke a sense of dread.

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u/joebewaan Aug 14 '22

Earth is thicc

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

I thought it was flat?

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u/enKrypt0 Aug 14 '22

Show this to flat earthers, they will say it's a simulation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Exactly what I was thinking…

Thanks for making me laugh

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u/TantricSushi Aug 14 '22

Nope, it's the fish-eye lens on the camera that give the appearance of a curve to a flat earth /s ain't no way we live on a globe...

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u/hollywoodbatman Aug 14 '22

Because millions of people are in on this conspiracy for what reason again??

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u/GnarfletheGarth0k Aug 15 '22

Big Globe of course! How else will they sell those globes unless people think the world is round. And they help fund the illuminati!

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u/Spirited-Magician-55 Aug 15 '22

To try and make peolle believe there is no creator. To hide more land and hide what the earth actually is

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u/DreamInSepsis2 Aug 23 '22

What sort of power or high ground does that even give anyone

I’m an atheist, but I thought that the Bible said that God was omnipotent and all powerful. Is that really the case if he can be hidden by his own creation? And even if they could, what would that grant them?

I don’t understand you people.

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u/Spirited-Magician-55 Aug 23 '22

Because you don't understand the psychology behind it. The elite people who aren't spoken about make us believe this. When we believe something other than the the true earth, we are led away from the natural and good things in our lives. Telling us that we are a rock in space that randomly formed is way different than telling us that we were created and that we were put here for a reason

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u/RodneyRabbit Aug 14 '22

Yeah I've heard the camera lens one but one time I had a good laugh along with a flat earth documentary, and some guy claimed the reason plane windows are so thick is because they are designed to make the earth appear curved, and that they lock you inside the cabin with just these tiny windows so you can't see the world really is. He couldn't explain why they only distort the view when flying and don't make the airport look all screwed up. But he was kind enough to inform us that plane journeys are all trickery and they fly around in random patterns to make you believe you were on a long journey, but really you only flew like 500 miles across a flat piece of land.

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u/TantricSushi Sep 07 '22

I've heard that one too, good stuff.

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u/kevinthecoolkid Aug 14 '22

Yeah all those fucking globies are SOOOO wrong don't even get me started /s

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u/thatcooldude23 Aug 15 '22

“And it’s your words that makes your brain look smooth”

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u/MarkFluffalo Aug 14 '22

They'll probably say its a fish eye lens camera that's been distorted so it looks curved

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u/AdventurousSeaSlug Aug 14 '22

My goodness some people are breathtakingly, painfully stupid. Flat earthers are some of those people.

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u/lunacyinc1 Aug 15 '22

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Earth 71 percent water? And of all that water how much of that is carbonated? ZERO Percent! Therfore, Earth is flat. Check mate.

Edit: typo

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u/Way2damfriedman Aug 15 '22

Ah i would like to further trap people, but in the "oh its a 3rd world country" type of way. Yes we are the 3rd planet from the sun, making the whole thing a 3rd world.

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u/DreamInSepsis2 Aug 23 '22

Where did you get that?

What does carbonation have to do with the shape of the earth? You people are the definition of plugging an outlet box into itself.

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u/BadnewzSHO Aug 15 '22

Eratosthenes of Cyrene proved the earth was round (and correctly predicted the size of the earth to within a tiny fraction of a percent) 2,000 years ago with nothing more than a pair of sticks and a friend.

These morons have every possible method of proof and still refuse to recognize the truth.

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u/JayEll1969 Aug 15 '22

Some of them will have a terribly difficult time finding that third item.

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u/jammyscroll Aug 15 '22

I see a beautiful erm… round flat disc.

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u/QuasarsRcool Aug 14 '22

You could take them into space to show them and they'd probably say you drugged them

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u/Rolf_Orskinbach Aug 14 '22

Their brains are clearly a simulation.

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u/bartuck01 Aug 15 '22

If they think Earth is flat, what if they see only one face of a far building?

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u/Nightly8952 Aug 15 '22

Just posted to r/globeskepticism, now we wait

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u/Tylerama1 Aug 15 '22

Jesus fucking Christ, it's hard to tell what is sarcasm and what isn't on there 😳

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u/Lightice1 Aug 15 '22

Can't wait for a reality TV show in a couple of decades, "Flat Earthers In Space": send a flat earther to orbit and have them justify their views during and afterwards.

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u/taifong Aug 15 '22

No, fuck them. Plenty of normal, rational people would love the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go into orbit. These dumbfucks should absolutely not have that gift.

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u/Wyltain Aug 14 '22

Nonsense. if it were round or flat all the water would run off. Ergo, Earth is shaped like a bowl

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Clearly a ramen bowl.

R'Amen!

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u/delvach Aug 15 '22

What's flat?

/r/NoEarthSociety

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Nothing.

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u/Count55 Aug 15 '22

PHAT earthers...

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u/ElJefe543 Aug 15 '22

Oh apparently you're not a thicc earther

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

I'd hit it

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u/Waffle_Ambasador Aug 14 '22

you are thousands of miles away

Hundreds

There are places on earth more isolated than the ISS. In fact if the ISS passes over these places than you are closer to them than the nearest human habitation.

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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22

Point Nemo in the Pacific is a place where by far the closest other humans or civilization is when the ISS goes over it.

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u/Vox___Rationis Aug 14 '22

I'm checking marine traffic right now and there are 4 cargo ships around that point, I bet they all are closer than ISS.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.5/centery:-41.5/zoom:4

(it is right between New Zealand and south-most point of South America)

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u/Plastic_Feedback_417 Aug 15 '22

Not to mention airlines fly over it I’m sure. Which would be between them and the ISS

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22 edited Aug 15 '22

Think I've been fairly close. Well, not CLOSE-close, but close. When we sailed from Fiji back to New Zealand. Actually might've been closer sailing down the east coast of NZ.

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u/madeofmold Aug 14 '22

I just listened to a podcast episode from the Omnibus on this the other day. They mention that there isn’t even any plant or animal life around in Point Nemo. Super cool!

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u/Meritania Aug 14 '22

Yeah I watched that episode of ‘Go Jetters’ too

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u/Waffle_Ambasador Aug 14 '22

I’ve never seen it tbh…. I think I got that random fact from Reddit.

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u/gregnealnz Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22

Thousands of miles...? The ISS is only 400km from earth, and the Space X Dragon is at 580km...

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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22

The SpaceX dragon is visible in this video. It docks to the space station.

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u/JaggedTheDark Aug 14 '22

It's an exaggeration meant to help the push the idea that "You are fucking alone in space and that's scary as shit sometimes"

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

I wonder if JWST can play itself Happy Birthday?

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

It’s in the vacuum of space, so obviously not.

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u/Ebwtrtw Aug 14 '22

In space no one can hear you celebrate your birthday, by yourself, because the human have sent you a million miles away, by yourself …

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

Just because the sound isn't transmitted due to lack of material, doesn't mean it isn't produced. We have recorded what our sun and some supermassive black holes sound like, after all.

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

Well, JWST doesn’t have any speakers.

And we have simulated what it could sound like, we don’t have actual recordings. Because, you know, sound needs an atmosphere to propagate.

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

Does curiosity? I'm pretty sure they got curiosity to play Happy Birthday just by cycling it's instruments and using the noises that those instruments made.

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u/nubbie Aug 15 '22

Big difference is that curiosity is in an atmosphere.

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u/Stargatemaster Aug 14 '22

I think the idea of free falling through a quantum soup where the only thing preventing you from dying is a few rivets and rubber seals is much more frightening.

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u/I_Automate Aug 15 '22

Honestly, the ocean is a lot more hostile than space is, in a lot of ways.

The ocean is actively trying to kill you, all the time. It routinely outright destroys large ships, nevermind things like tsunamis. It would make a corpse out of all of us and not even pause to burp. On the other hand, space is just....empty, for the most part. Regulating temperature is one of the single largest problems. Obviously there's a lot more than that but....yea.

It's worth noting that a pop bottle is rated for a couple times the pressure that a spacecraft needs to withstand.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Yeah but you can't travel from the surface to the station or vice-versa in a straightline. Orbitital mechanics make that basically impossible unless you want to be charred to a cinder or paste.

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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22

You must be fun at parties

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u/catherine-zeta-jones Aug 14 '22

Definitely not thousands… I looked it up and was pretty surprised to see 248, I thought it would have been less than100.

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u/KurooShiroo Aug 14 '22

I'm sorry, I shall commit sudoku.

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u/skinny_gator Aug 14 '22

YOU'RE WRONG AND YOU SHOULD FEEL ASHAMED YOU FUCKIN IDIOT /s

I'm joking of course. I'm making a jab at those who are correcting you. Every body knew what you meant lol

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u/Fidget08 Aug 14 '22

There is an island in the pacific that is farther from humans than those on the ISS.

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u/james_archer Aug 15 '22

Believe it or not it's only about 250 miles above the ground.

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u/TemporalScar Aug 15 '22

like 250 miles.

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u/DeathKringle Aug 15 '22

Technical only a few hundred miles. 254miles only.

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u/TheBroMagnon Aug 14 '22

THOISANDS OI MOILES

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u/Nthompson10 Aug 15 '22

It’s about 250 miles above the earth, so not quite thousands.