This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.
The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can’t trust sources, especially official sources of course.
And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it’s very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.
PS: earth is definitely round, I’m not trying the defend their theory.
In the 1930s the majority of people believed in the elders of zion. Humanity has always been built up by a handful of geniuses.
I think with AI being able to teach and create interactive videos explaining complex topics we will get there, but we just need to reach an apex. Imagine asking an AI how white blood cells attack a specific type of disease, or how a CPU is made, with the ability to adapt the video to followup questions; the addictiveness is bound to turn out thousands of geniuses and I think it will be very neat.
Though those supposed geniuses dont titty tuck japanese milfs in 1440p with 360 degree field of view and 120fps.
I always daydreamed life would someday look like the cover of Somewhere in time by Iron Maiden:
(Meme from 2019)2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down
We can build the above picture but why would we, you’re creating tunnels where they aren’t necessary.
You are robbing the people going through these tunnels from the nature and daylight around it
We don’t have to worry about flat Earthers anymore, they all joined Q-Anon.
The future does suck. I think that’s mainly because all progress we made in productivity goes straight to the ultra rich.
Just think about what these billions of dollars could have done to our lives… We could have eradicated hunger and poverty, have a new golden age for humanity and science. Instead we have popstars in space and oligarchs controlling the politics.
Without a new ‘French Revolution’ that gets rid of the parasites, oligarchs, 1%, billionaires we will never get to a good future.
Man when i was a kid and i stared to see these assembly robot arms, i was like: woah, when i’m like 30, people probably don’t work anymore, because that’s what the robots do.
When i was 30 rich people crashed the economy and shrugged, and now ultra rich still try to get even richer, and kill the planet, because they don’t live that long anyway
Not only that but setting up the institutions of our society to prevent it happening again
We came so close to having the beginning of back to the future part 2. But instead, we have the second half of back to the future part 2 where Biff steals the sports almanac and Marty is unsuccessful to take it back.
He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?
I believe when they made back to the future that the character of Biff was meant to be trump.
Id love if they cared about sources, what
Technology made us regress
Only because people misuse it. As people of Earth, born and beholden to the dirt itself, technology and science should be used to better connect ourselves with nature and help facilitate relations between all things, for the benefit of all things. Instead, we use technology and science to distance ourselves from nature, coming from the false assumption that we are somehow seperate from or above nature. It is beyond human control, always has been, and it won’t be long until the relations and environment will cut those arrogant humans down to size in what they call “a catastrophe of global proportions.” We are not special, unless discussing how especially weak humans are - weakness to provide food for ourselves and relying on reason and intellect is what makes special. Humans only survived as long as we have due to our ability to understand the relations of our world, and our ecological niche is to help facilitate those relations not just between people, but the mountains and the water and the birds. Instead we turn that mountain into gravel and call it “development”, pollute our water by using it as coolant for a factory, silence the bird songs more and more each year, and reduce human beings into “workers.” This is true whether you’re right or left, capitalist or socialist, there is no “revolution” within that mindset, only continuation. Industrialism at all costs because “science will find a way” will doom us.
There is another way, a way that understands we have no right to take from mother nature. That wealth is meaningless unless you give it away. I dream of a solarpunk world where buildings are grown, where food grows literally everywhere, with massive urban metropolises that resemble rainforests, where cities are built to clean water instead of pollute it, where technology can genetically supercharge trees so that they grow solarcell leaves to power our homes, where education is exploration, where all animals have right to roam, where we understand our living biosphere so well we’re able to replicate that process on other planets. Why are we even considering space travel if we don’t even know how to live on our own planet? Why do we create these gadgets and gizmos only for competitive profits and not the betterment of mankind? Why do we require people to have money for food and teaching them how to obey their superiors at a workplace, instead of teaching people how to grow their own food and learning about the relations of natural things? Why aren’t we investing as much into lab-grown meat as we are into killing animals? It all goes back to our attitude towards nature, and this horrible religious mindset that thinks we are god.
You aren’t wrong. What I said was more of a joke than truth. What I should say is: social media driven by algorithms was the biggest mistake of all.
Yeah I’d put it up there with MTV reality shows of the 2000’s.
big if true
The fact that this is considered a political meme :(
To be fair, same thing happens to people who claim that earth is flat.
If the earth is flat, what is at the center? Is North America at the center? I once tried projecting the NASA high res earth texture onto a flat disc in blender, for a laugh, and quickly ran into that problem. If the earth is flat, then how are the continents arranged, such that travel times AND the travel of celestial objects and constellations makes sense?
The North Pole is the answer I’ve seen given. At least some of them believe that the azimuthal equidistant projection map on the UN’s emblem is what the world really looks like from above
Tried that one too. Shit gets pretty fucky with how celestial bodies traverse the sky, as well as equatorial and southern hemisphere travel times pretty quick.
Well no, it doesn’t make sense, but if that was an obstacle to them they probably wouldn’t be flat Earthers
Just ask a person who thinks the earth is flat to scientifically prove it. They can’t.
A person can use a lake and a pair of binoculars to calculate the circumference of the spherical earth.
Reminds me of Galileo being prosecuted for defending his belief that the planets revolved around the sun (heliocentrism). The earth isn’t flat, but turns out the universe is. One would hope that would be enough for them.
like the flat earther who accidentally proved the earth is round with a laser
They also proved it round with a gyroscope in the same documentary (Behind the Curve - a great watch)
… and still didn’t believe the earth was round.
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid’s relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World’s Fair.
I’ll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I’ll happen to be there, but it’ll be hard to maintain any real optimism.
On point 😂😭
