This Modern World - Why should we believe the earth is round, just because scientists say so?

[kpete]

Why should we believe the earth is round, just because scientists say so?
By Tom Tomorrow



http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/02/26/tomo/index1.html

[BlueJazz]

1. I I have Proof that the Earth is flat. I'm serious here.

I'd like the scientists to answer this question.

If the world is round why don't the people in Australia fall off the planet?

I rest my case.

[TahitiNut]

2. As in many, many things ...

... they wonder the same about us. :silly:

[WinkyDink]

5. Because they're on top. Now where was I... WHOOOOPS!!

[whopis01]

7. The myth of Australia

is equivalent to the idea that there are bones from giant animals that lived before man buried in the ground.

I've never been to Australia, so you can't fool me into thinking it is real. Either take me there and show it to me or go back to your ivory tower with your anti-christian arguments.

[karlrschneider]

11. They already did! Why do ya think we call it 'down under'?

:rofl:

[SayWhatYo]

17. Go ask that question at the flatearth society forums...

I go there and play the devote flat-earther. It's quite fun too... Well, if you're immature and easily amused like me.

[BlueJazz]

22. Actually..that sounds like fun...!

[Cirque du So-What]

3. 'I'll believe ANYthing that annoys a liberal!'

I moderate a liberal discussion board that accepts members from all political persuasions...and allows them to stay as long as they follow the rules. One libertarian fellow has been on a rant about the scientific validity of global climate change for the past couple of weeks. More recently, he's launched into a tirade about secondhand smoke. The longer he persists in his fruitless efforts to discredit scientific evidence, the more I believe that he clings to these straws simply for their 'aggravation factor.'

I've posted Tom Tomorrow in my forum numerous times, and this one is going to be subtitled, 'Sound like anyone you know?'

[sweetheart]

4. steel melts with fossil fuels

Thats why jet engines are made from fire brick
and the world trade center melted in a mushroom cloud.

[karlrschneider]

12. Make a building out of titanium...it won't melt.

:eyes:

[sweetheart]

14. gosh, i was thinking towards lard

given how steel has proven so unreliable, lard melts at a much higher
temperature, and only had the WTC been insulated with animal fat, the
buildings would have survived!!

Or, had they used butter on the outer columns instead of that silly high
tensile 6000 steel and those tinfoil weak spandrels. Butter is strong
enough to hold a butter knife!!! strong as a rock when frozen. A new
tower needs be constructed of frozen clarified butter, then no fire or
explosions will affect it.

[karlrschneider]

16. I hope you aren't looking to a career in humor.

:eyes:

[sweetheart]

18. the gears of time grind slowly,

but they grind exceedingly fine.

[karlrschneider]

19. Ah, so they do, grasshopper. And with a soupcon of luck

they will grind away the tinfoil nutters.

[sweetheart]

20. then tinfoil away

and we're left with ?

war.

[ozymandius]

21. but only if it's organic butter

Butter made from cream tainted with growth hormones will weaken the supple butter tensile strength. Clarified butter, as you point out, removes harmful contaminants. This makes the structure more solid, compact and easier to recycle into hot pastries when the building is demolished under controlled circumstances.

I solicit for your perusal my synposis of effortless, durable cream emulsion construction. Here is a model of Atlanta's proposed Lactose Station:



The color is derived from a small amount of carotene. This natural coloring also makes frozen butter chunks ideal for dentures. Here's Tom Cruise modeling my latest clarified butter rendering (shortly after Brooke Shields force-fed him his uppers and lowers).


The next step is to keep them cold enough while being worn so that the wearer doesn't have to sport a bib.

[Swamp Rat]

6. The Earth is...

MINE!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Damn right - here's what the earth really looks like

For the fount of all knowledge: Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe

[Martin Eden]

9. LOL K&R n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. Plenty of people believed it long before the scientists. You can watch a ship

slowly "sinking" over the horizon is a pretty broad hint.

A little knowledge is dangerous, especially if it's taken for a wonder of science.

[sakabatou]

13. It's sary that it hits very close to home

[WindRavenX]

15. fucking hillarious

:rofl: