Flat Earther Tries to Debunk Brian Cox!

[@gotaminutereviews]

It's almost frightening how proud he is of his ignorance.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

It's not almost frightening, it's is totally scary as hell. It seems to be an affliction that effects more people than ever these days. All these people are also covid denier's, antivaxer's, antimasker's, religious fundamentalists, QAnon supporters, many are racial bigots and holocaust denier's, among other dangerous conspiracy theories. They are an unhinged group of increasingly dangerous people hell bent on denial of reality. This past year has proven how real a threat they really are. It really shouldn't be taken lightly anymore.

[@snapperjessen]

lack of self awaerness?

[@thunderflare59]

Not like he has anything of merit to be proud of.

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Well Cox would be wouldn't he.

[@theheartlessknight2426]

Right??! It's maddening! I was just thinking about that listening to this... *playground insult redacted on the basis of higher ground* It's like listening to a Gungan reading Tolstoy high on crack

[@Robert_Browne]

I'm starting to think his last girlfriend left him for a keyboard player.

[@violenceisfun991]

😂😂

[@mikewilson9601]

love that ! brilliant !

[@Robert-dB]

Heh! Naa, I'd bet on no girlfriend and a quick scan of Wikipedia. Brain Cox played in a band while he was at Uni. AIUI the band was interfering with his Phd too much so he dropped it.

[@phildavenport4150]

@@Robert-dB With his capacity I'm surprised that the band interfered a great deal. He probably has a number of competing interests, and with his intellect they are likely to have been both numerous and at a high level. Maybe the band wasn't challenging enough and was dropped off the end. I just wish I had the skill set.

[@thebluntedcarguy7163]

The keyboard that is played like a guitar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mathew66]

This is the type of guy who doesn’t believe in germs because he can’t see them.

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

😂

[@Lystr0saur]

Yeah, you CAN see round planets, germs, atoms, and other "government lies", however you cannot see God, or supernatural forces, or anything like that. I hope one day the pseudoscientist like, unexist themselves to stop spreading thier brain damage.

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

But also believes in God

[@puakagrinder2766]

🤣🤣🤣

[@duaneborgaes7449]

shit... no really.

[@Pier77Tampa]

Brian: “Good morning” Him: “you moron you were supposed to prove the Earth is a globe!!!!” 😱

[@existenceghost9701]

Was gonna like this but it's at 69 likes and I feel like id be doing a disservice. lol

[@adamekcar]

@@existenceghost9701 I just sent it from 80 to 81 so feel free to join in now.

[@adamekcar]

IKR. The guys acts like this is a college lecture.

[@josephrodriguez2780]

Yeah that kind of makes me laugh why would anybody who knows that the world is round have to prove it actually it's on anybody who says it's flat they got to prove it's flat cuz I'm not going to stand and say dude wow I think I'm going to go check it out. hey flat Er I see you failed eighth grade and many years later you're still failing it. PS I know it's bad grammar but I right the way I talk

[@josephrodriguez2780]

He never met Philip he's never even seen him before in real life he's lying just listen to what he said and you'll understand I actually pride myself in catching people my uncle was a cop and I lived in New York for 30 years I've heard it all.

[@SpikeMoby]

PHD vs KZbin degree 😂 Dunning Kruger at its finest.

[@criskity]

That's because PhDs are given out to loyal shills by "they"! In order to hide gawd from teh sheeple! /s

[@Gleem]

QUESTION: Why does someone with a "youtube degree", aka me, school the likes of PhD Tony and Professor Phil Bell in Lorentz Transforms? Odd no? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXLLl5Wqn9-ca6c PhD Tony "I want to make a couple of points" 1/. "Lorentz DID NOT develop the Lorentz Transform [to rescue ether from MMX]....the Lorentz Transform was actually originally Woldemar Voigt...[blah blah blah] ON A FACTUAL BASIS" " *Lorentz did not adopt this transformation* , as he found in 1904 that only the Lorentz contraction corresponds to the principle of relativity. Since Voigt's transformation preserves the speed of light in all frames, the Michelson-Morley experiment and the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment can not distinguish between the two transformations. *The crucial question is the issue of time dilation. The experimental measurement of time dilation by Ives and Stillwell (1938) and others settled the issue in favor of the Lorentz transformation* ." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Voigt And: "It is also important that Lorentz and later also Larmor formulated this transformation in two steps. At first an implicit Galilean transformation, and later the expansion into the "fictitious" electromagnetic system with the aid of the Lorentz transformation. *In order to explain the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment* , he (1892b)[R 12] introduced the additional hypothesis that also intermolecular forces are affected in a similar way and introduced length contraction in his theory (without proof as he admitted). The same hypothesis was already made by George FitzGerald in 1889 based on Heaviside's work. While length contraction was a real physical effect for Lorentz, he considered the time transformation only as a heuristic working hypothesis and a mathematical stipulation. In 1895, Lorentz further elaborated on his theory and introduced the "theorem of corresponding states". This theorem states that a moving observer (relative to the ether) in his "fictitious" field makes the same observations as a resting observers in his "real" field for velocities to first order in v/c. Lorentz showed that the dimensions of electrostatic systems in the ether and a moving frame are connected by this transformation:[R 13]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lorentz_transformations Phil is absolutely clueless that Lorentz Transforms are embedded in Aether and were used to form Space-Time in Relativity. machearth.1ness.co.uk/ProfPhilBellWrongRelativity.PNG Bit of a paradox no? Kinda like "This should only happen in the other multiverse" type crazy no?

[@SpikeMoby]

@@Gleem googling wiki articles is schooling nobody...

[@mrxmry3264]

@@Gleem no, you are NOT the smartest critter on the planet (and neither is any other flattard) so STOP PRETENDING! if you were anywhere near a smart as you pretend to be, you would be more than smart enough to understand why the earth simply CAN NOT be flat. time to grow a brain.

[@Gleem]

@@SpikeMoby "googling wiki articles is schooling nobody..." I didn't google them before I schooled them, I knew them from reading the letters between Lorentz and Einstein knowing that you are all talking a load of tosh about Lorentz Transforms... The wiki is just to show the citations to their papers confirming this! I guess you are stuck too...

[@lowresgamr]

I love how Professor Cox always looks excited about what he's talking about while sounding so stoic. He comes off as a calm excited person.

[@emsydacat9707]

I completely agree! The flat earther was going off about how "egotistical" he seems, and I'm just like... he seems to love his study, which is wholesome to see?

[@devonsanders9242]

In the interview he did on Joe Rogans podcast he made everything he talked about seem so interesting and easy to understand while not sounding condescending.

[@lowresgamr]

@@devonsanders9242 I wish he would give physics lectures at my university, he's really cool.

[@milotheham9678]

I wish it was possible to have him and mr Roger's at the same birthday party! Imagine the pure joy!

[@josephrodriguez2780]

It's probably his love for finding out the unknown I mean isn't that really cool what's out there.

[@alexklein2029]

Not even one hour after Dan posted this, LEO already took down the video. :-DDD That was a flawless victory !

[@9fmradisapratama]

Man what a shady level earth observer. I'm sure he's milking helpless flat earthers.

[@davidc8077]

Well, nearly flawless anyway. He did post but if Dan can come up with a way of shutting these morons up for good, then we have something! Until then Dan has to keep sharpening his swo....er wit.

[@niallevans2375]

Hate to tell you - one month later, it's still there, and still as stupid.

[@alexklein2029]

@@niallevans2375 it was really not available for the public for some time. :-) but good for us that we can let him know about how hilarious he is.

[@niallevans2375]

@@alexklein2029 Interesting. He is hilarious. Like many others, he has a defect in his "maybe these people know more than I do" response.

[@ronaldtorbert133]

Brian Cox is such a happy & positive person. I love listening to him.

[@rossthomson1958]

If flat earthers understood physics the flat earth wouldn't be a problem.

[@ceejay0137]

Well, strictly speaking the flat earth isn't a problem, because earth isn't flat. If flat earthers understood physics they (probably) wouldn't be flat earthers.

[@aaronmicalowe]

If I thought flat earthers had one honest argument worth discussing, I'd discuss it, but they have zero intention to *_ever_* be honest about anything, especially themselves. They're no better than Trump con artists.

[@RickReasonnz]

If flat earthers understood physics there wouldn't be flat earthers.

[@TheOneSin7]

They can't make up working physics for their model, they can't even agree on one model, they simply can't even.

[@RickReasonnz]

@@TheOneSin7 The Big Problem they have is simply; no model of theirs can accurately predict future geological and meteorological events, whereas the actual model... well... can.

[@PureChaos]

Since he has such a great telescope, he should be able to see Polaris from Australia, right?

[@Darryl.M]

Should be no problem. Not like there is a planet in the way or anything like that.

[@lorditsprobingtime6668]

Don't ruin his deluded dreams that he's some sort of genius debunker but, that telescope his parents gave him when he was 5 is actually a kaleidoscope, shhhhhh.

[@thomasmathew13]

Australia doesn't exist though.

[@hop6343]

@@thomasmathew13 ikr 😙

[@ComradeJehannum]

If he has such a good telescope, he should be able to see the Southern Cross from the UK is the correct analogy.

[@DJ22292]

Love that Brian went on a light-hearted show to promote his new program and this guy isn’t happy because he didn’t give a full on physics lecture 😂

[@the_kraken6549]

Yeah, most of LEO’s objections can be answered with “this is a 3 minute promo.”

[@katieheys8564]

Haha even if he did and clearly showed firm evidence LEO would just proclaim "My Nikon 100 shows different"

[@CraggRock]

Yes, but LEO is one of those ignorant tw@ts that 'debunks' science books, not realising that the only books they can 'debunk' are the ones that are produced for primary school children. Any scientific literature that is produced to inform anyone above that level of education blows their tiny mind.

[@Acheron666]

He just threw insults and made himself look incredibly stupid…….So he passes the Flat Earther verification test 😂

[@borano2031]

Not difficult to listen and then understand the misery in LEO´s life.. Rgr

[@caine7877]

Insults are all what they are doing when you ask them a question. Never seen any proof of the things that they are talking about.

[@Acheron666]

@@caine7877 Their blatant stupidity is the biggest insult to me.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@Acheron666 I know he's English as well and had access to a good standard of Education, what a waste.

[@Acheron666]

@@nealgrimes4382 You give the UKs school systems way too much credit 😂🤣 All I learned how to do at high school in the UK, was how to smoke weed, buzz lighter gas, fight, drink alcohol and find drug dealers…….Some schools are good….But the majority are public schools peddling the woke ideology and full of drugs.

[@deanmoncaster]

"I don't understand much and I think that a man who does is wrong" Is the essence of this video.

[@skankhunt3624]

Also flat-earth observer seems kind of like a bit of a dick.

[@John.0z]

@@skankhunt3624 "like a *bit* of a dick"?

[@AlbertGuilmont]

@@John.0z Yeah, just the tip skin.

[@codymiller5731]

my favorite part is him thinking that Brian Cox is using this interview to prove the Earth's shape. One of the last things on Cox's mind is the shape of the Earth.

[@MasterofFace]

To be fair, that OP comment is a possiblity in science, you just actually need to prove the experts wrong rather than what we got here lol

[@nathanmiller9918]

"I thought we were proving the globe." That was 1000's of years ago.

[@markokriegel5787]

And never the purpose of that video he focussed on...

[@hoggy077]

yeh, the video is "why the earth is round" which Brian explained, this is a new piece of evidence to support the claim "flat earthers cannot read"

[@AlexDuWaldt]

STOP THIS BULLPUCKY INTERVIEW! WE HAVE TO DEVELOP THE TREBUCHET, INVENT THE COTTON GIN, AND RESEARCH THE CURE TO POLIO!

[@Jaya365]

Could someone tell me what the purpose of "them" and Nasa keeping the truth from us? I just don't get why a knowing scientist - just one out of the thousands that are in on it wouldn't expose the biggest scientific lie in history, even if it were just for the fame. I mean even if the exposure happened, yes there would a big upheaval for a while but only because people would demand to know why they were lied to, it makes no difference to anyone to know whether the earth is flat or round, we as people still must interact with it the same way and have absolutely no influence on the science or physics. The whole thing just blows my mind illogical, people pretending to be logical by trying to trip up people that have spent their lifetimes becoming academics to further science, by using theories they have basically just daydreamed up.

[@nathanmiller9918]

@@Jaya365 Their claim is "to hide God." I cant defend it as an intelligent claim, but that is their claim. Yup, even the religious governments...

[@edheal3246]

This guy come across as very jealous of Brian. I think Brian is rather good looking, intelligent and comes across as a very nice person.

[@franl155]

lol I'll bet LEO can't even play a keyboard - he brought it up enough times to show jealousy.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@Ed Heal Without question - the jealousy is oozing out of every pore.

[@MrNegativecreep07]

Shame that Brian's Twitter politics have made me lose a lot respect for him, as he kept coming across as extremely smug and arrogant. A brilliant scientist, but fails to realise that being an expert in one field does not make you an expert in all fields.

[@Neil-Aspinall]

There is no doubt Brian is a pretty boy.

[@davefave4351]

​@@MrNegativecreep07 People with critical thought have the mental capacity to learn anything. Do you know what a 'Polymath' is?

[@vincentskywalker8479]

I have noticed in all my years of debating topics that those that don't have strong counter arguments often times resort to derisive name calling and verbal abuse or even sometimes slander in hopes of turning the tide of the debate to their favor. I find it absolutely appalling and despicable

[@dickfitswell3437]

That is Leo . Confession thru projection. Everything he accuses others of he is actually saying about himself. I don't think he believes in flat earth. I think he likes the attention. He was one of those dorks growing up with no friends. He now feels powerful thru the Internet and makes good money. He has never and will never provide any evidence the earth is flat other than "yew dink we lib onuh bowlin bawl"

[@TheNightKing22]

Imagine being a kind man with a degree in particle physics, who is down talked by a bozo who has literally done nothing in his life but poorly insult people.

[@coldeb8911]

At a Barbecue party once several years ago ,I witnessed a guy who works as a trolly runner at a local garden centre try to argue with a fully trained pilot with over 25 years flight experience, how to navigate...i'm serious, she tore this little flat earth fruit cake to bits, his embarrassed mate had to remove him and take him home, everyone was laughing at him as they took the long walk down the garden path and out of the gate 😂😂

[@TheNightKing22]

@@coldeb8911 Pahaha 😄 the words *classic* and *savage* come to mind. Along with the phrase "get owned son" some peoples kids ey? They do it to themselves most of the times.

[@terryboot7777]

@@coldeb8911 Did you say the pilot was a women? Some men CANNOT handle that a woman is more accomplished than they are. Sad.

[@laggyfilms4768]

@@terryboot7777 Lol don’t think them being a women has anything to do with it,but maybe that’s just my POV. I’m pretty sure it’s just that he is stupid lmao. And I mean,if they work as a trolly runner for a living what did you expect 👁 👄 👁

[@laggyfilms4768]

@@terryboot7777 But maybe it does idk.

[@wizardsuth]

5:47 "You say it in such a matter of fact manner" -- That's because he's literally talking about matters of fact.

[@DecodingWithJordan]

I don’t understand why anyone in their right mind would ever believe they are living on a flat and stationary earth when it’s every so obvious that we are living on a magical spinning ball covered in water flying through infinite space. How any human being could believe the earth is flat and stationary just as it seems when we have smart people telling us the opposite, is beyond me.

[@quickfingers5979]

Coincidentally, he is also talking about facts of matter.

[@1010xxx33]

@@DecodingWithJordan That's how I imagine a flat earther would be like, I notice things only falls downward, the plane I'm living on is flat no matter where I look, so It should apply to anywhere at any scale, and they don't see the need to ask deeper question like why things are falling downward. And holy shit these videos are driving me into depression seeing how stubborn or outright retarded people can be. Like how are we differ from the monkeys when we look at the world just the same way they do. ooga booga monkey sex and eat in the concrete nest like there are outstanding individuals and great minds but most of us are denser then the muffins under my shoes.

[@1010xxx33]

no returning to monke, we are the fucking monke

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@1010xxx33 Well.. Primate!

[@ruor1984]

Funny, LEO now plays the victim claiming people were so mean to him. Somehow it's fine if he calls people morons in his video but he is quite sensitive when being called one himself. "Being the victim" is another typical conspiracy theorist tactic.

[@dogwalker666]

He calls every one who disagrees with him 77th he is sad deluded individual.

[@Hamartia64]

Rewatching this months later, I just wanna say that I really love how excited Brian Cox gets about science.

[@frankowalker4662]

Yeah. I never miss The Infinate Monkey Cage, him and Robin Ince work so well together.

[@dxjxc91]

My favorite part was: "a man surfed up a river..." *pause* "what does that have to do with the shape of the earth?" *unpause* "...which can only happen because the sun and moon lines up." *silence*

[@JaveriaYousuf]

I got a migraine.

[@randomloser5271]

I got typhoid.

[@shadowlegend455]

@@randomloser5271 I got actually typhoid literally

[@jmfm-r2q]

@@shadowlegend455 I don't have typhoid but that sucks man are you okay

[@breakingbald2230]

you don't have enough brain power to understand what Brian is talking about

[@crazycranners]

Typical flat earther! “I don’t understand, therefore it’s not true!” Is he actually for real? This guy cannot be serious, if he is I really feel sorry for him...

[@kaliban4758]

yes LEO is for real

[@nathanlloyd774]

Mathematics doesn't exist

[@thunderflare59]

Pretty sure he doesn't believe sex is a thing.

[@crystalgiddens7276]

lame

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@Cranners79 I don't feel sorry for the guy...not in the slightest. He's had every opportunity to reassess his position. A lot of people have tried a myriad of methods in order to get him to see sense...see reality. Not only does he refuse to listen, but he throws their help back in their faces. I'd feel sorry for him if he was making an attempt to understand the World we live in, but was struggling to grasp it, however that's not the case - like some of his contemporaries, he believes in his intellectual superiority. Don't feel sorry for the likes of LEO - they've got nothing but contempt for you.

[@michaelthomas6570]

This dude doesn’t debunk anything. He just pauses every once in a while and says he doesn’t like what Cox just said.

[@meschinca]

It's a "react video". He seemed surprised when the source video ended abruptly about 3+ minutes in. Buy that's pretty much what every flat earther debunking video is about, they react to reality with zero prior research or investigation.

[@ericwilliams1659]

Flat earthers also think if they 'disprove' current ideas than they automatically are right. Flat earthers don't realize they have to prove the earth is flat along with disproving others.

[@patrickfreeman9094]

That's Flerfistan for ya...

[@AlienResidents]

Not just what Cox says, but also Cox himself.

[@CL-gq3no]

Not to mention that the conversation he is "debunking" has nothing to do with the flat/globe earth topic. They are having a casual conversation about science in general and this guy is just pausing and yelling, "where is your proof that Earth is a globe??" He might as well have been "debunking" spherical Earth against a cooking channel show about angel food cake.

[@lizardlegend42]

Honestly I just watched this video to see some more Brian Cox. Such a fantastic human

[@BenB2005]

Dara, is that you?

[@lightsource9263]

When you aren't smart enough to hold an intelligent and calm conversation, always resort to name calling.

[@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh]

Basically all flat-earthers

[@jarrygarry5316]

Ad hominem attack in a nutshell

[@accountlol7409]

@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh yes

[@adib3011]

Or combine name calling with ur proofs to absolutely bash ur opponents😀

[@accountlol7409]

@@adib3011 well you first need the proofs,that flat earthers don't have

[@Baerisings]

20 mins in and he already put his vid in privates. We did it bois!

[@buzzmann3971]

Pwoor widdle LEO can't take the criticism. Whaaaa 😥

[@mrxmry3264]

@Maxx Kroes yep, thats what flattards are good at.

[@JasonSpamulusUtting]

He had is channel banned once, why has he put another one up

[@Baerisings]

@@JasonSpamulusUtting probably to get banned again :D

[@rascal3042]

The entire video consists of a moron projecting. Id keep that up private too

[@XellithUS]

*Flat earther* "YOU'RE MEANT TO BE PROVING THE EARTH IS ROUND! DO IT!". *Reality* "Brian is here to talk about his new show".

[@Jehannum2000]

Yes, that gives us a good glimpse into LEO's mind.

[@shanethrelfall416]

Thanks for donating to Mind Had some help from the in the past, absolutely brilliant charity

[@robertfelton8374]

Yes LEO, we are on a ball hurtling through the vacuum of outer space. No matter how many times you say it a derisive manner it will still be true.

[@darkiee69]

"My equipment is crap, so I can't see what the big boys can. Therefore it's fake" His video have been made private.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

Alternatively - “I don’t know what I’m doing so my results don’t match what competent people get. Therefore I must be right and they all must be wrong”.

[@Darryl.M]

For about $1000 Australian you get get equipment good enough to take photos of Jupiter and watch it rotate.

[@erikblaas5826]

Quote from Leo: "... got a powerfull camera and a halve-decent telescope... " My thoughts completing the sentence: "... and you still has not figured it out how to use them properly, have you"

[@darkiee69]

@@erikblaas5826 Translation: I have a p90 and a telescope I found on sale at Tesco.

[@brentpolk2431]

These child minds have a unhealthy sexual obsession with not believing or even understanding anything that's beyond their toddler like ability to grasp.

[@darrenpokorski7756]

If that ain’t the truth..........

[@michaelleifels2004]

At least a toddler would be curious enough to learn and understand more and more and develop- so no, his abilitiesare not toddler like, not even bacteria like. I guess the abilities of flat earthers are best described as “none at all”.

[@thudthud5423]

Toddlers have a natural curiosity. You don't normally see toddlers pointing at everything saying: "That's not real. I don't understand it and I hate it."

[@rustycherkas8229]

There's something comic and ironic in a video about "Flat Earthers" when, at 00:44, Earth is portrayed 'flat' in the ad for Surfshark... Okay... a quasi-Mercator projection... But, then the 'locations' marked on that map don't seem to correspond to 'interesting population centres'... (Not many hub servers on Baffin Island...) Congratulations, though, for not omitting New Zealand!

[@jimalprice9225]

Merry Xmas. I love the fact he is comparing his telescope to nasa. He probably looks though it with out even taking the lens cap off.

[@theturtlemoves3014]

He's probably wondering how to get the auto-focus to work...

[@sharifmohamed3125]

This made me chuckle

[@kennethterrell1167]

Please do not make fun of his $60 Tasco.

[@happyhippo2767]

His telescope is when you make a fist with your hand and look through the hole in the center.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@theturtlemoves3014 You like sci man dan, so i know you have taste. Can you recommend me some cool youtuber? Science, mainly?

[@avoidth3boyd]

Nothing but ad homs. That's how you know you've won the debate, they start with the logical fallacies.

[@ningkon3787]

I insult everyone because it's funny, I'll tell a flat earther that they're wrong, prove it, then call them retarded. I'm still right.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@ningkon3787 yeah calling someone names isn't a fallacy. It just makes you a meany. Calling them names and saying that's why their arguments suck is a fallacy though.

[@ewarwoowar9938]

@@ningkon3787 Except that's not what Level Earth Observer is doing. He hasn't proved anyone wrong, so his insults are ad hominem fallacies as they're basically all his video is. And even he did make actual, good, points his personal attacks would still be fallacies as they're nothing to do with whats being argued. They're irrelevant. The argument isn't about Brian Cox's music career, for example, so why bring that up? At least an attack on, say, his intelligence MIGHT be relevant, and so I could see how it could be argued that doing that isn't a fallacy, but I fail to see how his past as a keyboard player has any relevance to the issue at hand. The only reason to attack things like that like that is if you have no argument, and in doing so you pretty much debunk your own side of the debate.

[@trigonzobob]

And a lot of argument from incredulity.

[@GameTimeWhy]

@@Lamster66 I think so. I don't know that one quite as well but if I remember correctly it's sort of like whataboutism but with more emphasis on "well I may have done this -insert issue- but your hands aren't clean either!"

[@khamsinshamal7988]

Compliments for supporting a mental health care project. After listening to flatearthers, it is clear many (most?) of them would benefit from professional help. Merry Christmas, Dan. 🎄😊

[@takenserious4554]

If I'm being completely honest, this guy just gave me the incredible idea to view everything I ever watch again as though it's primary purpose were proving to me that the earth is a globe. I found it completely hilarious every time he said "you're supposed to be proving the earth is a globe"

[@johnfraser9942]

That wasnt debunking, that was just insulting, nothing more!

[@dogwalker666]

That's all LEO ever does he hurls insults and never answers questions just like all ignorant flerfs.

[@dogwalker666]

@@Lamster66 well drivel is all LEO ever has.

[@andysmales69]

Grrr, you beat me to it. It was just a character assassination of a professor of particle physics, clearly not a moron. There was only one moron in this video, wasn't there, Leo.

[@MaxTheDragon]

Imagine what a vile, subhuman waste of space you have to be to attack a kindhearted and honest scientist like Brian Cox for nothing more than the innocent act of explaining the world to us.

[@nayannbg6314]

He explained it so simple for us to understand ever for everyday layman, like if you stack few books the bottom of the book feels the most pressure and when the object is large enough to hold into it then it collapses on itself to form a sphere. That guy calls Brian Cox a moron with no understanding how anything functions

[@MrShanester117]

@maxTheDragon You don’t know him. You don’t know if he’s kind hearted and honest. It’s super creepy that people pretend like they know what’s in the hearts of strangers

[@MaxTheDragon]

@@MrShanester117 Brian Cox is not a stranger.

[@PeerAdder]

@@MrShanester117 no, what is super creepy is the paranoia you must be suffering that prompts you to treat people you don't know as if they weren't kind hearted and honest. What a world you must live in.

[@tomcameron96]

Talk about the perfect Christmas gift, trying to debunk The Mighty Brian Cox is like trying to provide any evidence that the Earth is flat... impossible. Thanks and Merry Christmas SciManDan. 😊🌲

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

Reminds me of Christian apologist Frank Turek trying to debunk Stephen Hawking. LOL!

[@joyfulzero853]

What an utter pillock. The way he goes on about Brian Cox is such a personal thing. He has not the slightest concept of what is required to be a Professor in this country.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

So, LEO takes an issue with having to "imagine the gravity". Well, we do have to imagine LEO has an actual brain inside his head - though we haven't seen it in action yet :P

[@invisiblekincajou]

Why do i hear alarm sirens when hes talking?..

[@MisterRorschach90]

Science has the technology to look inside he head and prove nothing is there. We can also rebuild him. Make him less stupid. Though we can’t erase all of it. Especially not the accent.

[@iguiste23]

lmao.

[@heliocentricprophet4457]

I don't assume anything, especially about LEO since it makes an ass of u and me!

[@mojobag01]

Translation: "I'm idle and noisy, notice me"

[@mustardeetee]

LMAO

[@erikblaas5826]

I'll second that. ( and even thirth if needs be )..

[@dogwalker666]

@@erikblaas5826 I will "Third" it. LEO is a dishonest idiot "ding"

[@paulnolan4971]

Sounds to me like he's speaking from personal experience and watched it n destroyed his TV. Idk if this guy is gonna sway me now.

[@tonymchugh443]

Well put.

[@crowttubebot3075]

"I've never seen spherical planets." So, I bet he didn't look up through his telescope at the Jupiter/Saturn convergence a few days ago.

[@paulmayer7453]

He may have his telescope round the wrong way?

[@Angel-nl1hp]

He probably doesn't know how to focus properly, flat earthers always seem to have an issue with that.

[@paulmayer7453]

@@Angel-nl1hp especially with their telescopes, but also with facts

[@srpark85]

He probably bought the telescope at a toy store for $30.

[@jkausti6737]

Hmm... wouldn't that convergence be a good place for the flat Earthers to prove their model? I mean get a flat Earther in every four corners (so to speak) of Earth and if Earth is flat they should spot Jupiter and Saturn at the same time, since the planets wouldn't be behind the horizon at any time. Too complex of a test for the flat Earthers to do or even think of, maybe?

[@unreasonable-man.bsky.social]

If I had a nickel for every rock musician with an advanced science degree named Brian/Bryan, I'd have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened 3 times.

[@KylesMonitors]

Someone got me a shirt for Christmas that says "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.". I need to find out where they got it so I can send one to Dan.

[@erikblaas5826]

I don't get it.... What, the shirt?..... no, the text on the shirt! ... lol

[@corleth2868]

Google finds it pretty easily www.zazzle.co.uk/i_can_explain_it_to_you_but_i_cant_understand_it_t_shirt-235576382600828034 £25, seems like a bargain.

[@rocoe9019]

@@corleth2868 he's just looking for attention

[@who9387]

A Flat-earther mentioning "observable reality" - that is just sooooooooooooooo funny

[@Lystr0saur]

Yeah

[@reformationinc.3376]

Your sense of humor is delightful

[@asakad21]

Flat-Earther: You don't have a proof for that. meanwhile.. Globers: *Yodeling*

[@DeathBYDesign666]

There is no such thing as a goober, there are only people who prefer to not deny reality.

[@glasshorse6893]

@@DeathBYDesign666 globers? More like normal people of the modern world

[@davidc8077]

@@DeathBYDesign666 There are too goobers, I have a bag of unsalted, unshellded in my cupboard! Also my nose gets full sometimes and.....

[@rigierish3807]

Globe earthers are more into trying to prove the existance of primitive black holes and figuring out what "dark energy" and "black matter" is made of (for the macroscopic current problems). So we're pretty far from proving the earth is flat, it was done 400 years before J.C. by brilliant geometers and mathematicians.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

@@davidc8077 Yeah I deserve that one, but I decided to leave it because it does make it more funny. Didn't proofread that one get well. Lol

[@reachandler3655]

So his idea of 'debunking' is to just insult, and Brian Cox effectively shows how gravity creates spherical shapes in a way that a child can understand, which he fails to understand! 🤯

[@marvinko6610]

Let me summarize the flat earther's arguments: "Watch out, big shot who knows stuff coming through. I am very good at the knowing stuff."

[@davidc8077]

When is he running for PM?

[@amnril]

Sounds like a certain orange American

[@woopwoop2601]

"I do a lot of observing" - no, LEO, you don't.

[@jollybodger]

he confused "observing" for "obsessing"

[@woopwoop2601]

And just general arrogance.

[@Qzopr1]

He sits high up in his crane looking at a globe he can’t explain and doesn’t want to understand. All massive bodies achieve hydrostatic equilibrium. That is to say, they become a sphere. All measurements, observations and experiments confirm the spherical geometry of the planet. When they measure something different, then we can talk (maybe).

[@Captain_Pudding]

My dog loves to sit in the window and "observe" traffic, but I don't think he understands what a car is.

[@sirtanon1]

The only thing he does a lot of is DERPing

[@rockycoffee]

I can debunk Brian Cox, he once took part in a song that said things can only get better Brian dude, welcome to 2020, things definitely did not get better

[@RickReasonnz]

Well, they can only get better from now, right? Right? Please?

[@rockycoffee]

@@RickReasonnz hmmm, I hope so, but iv been doing a lot of hoping this past year and it hasn't done much good

[@RickReasonnz]

@@rockycoffee The only thing that could make this worse is if a meteor comes to say hi.... *watches the skies intensely*

[@Forest_Fifer]

Well they did at the time. Then they got a while lot worse

[@nenmaster5218]

@@RickReasonnz 4:00-5:00: I dont know about you, but dont you agree that this is Deflamation and worth going to his channel and flagging him? ?

[@foogod4237]

"All you've done in this video is expose your colossal misunderstanding of Physics" Actually, I'd say what he's really done is expose his colossal misunderstanding of _the purpose of daytime TV programs._ I mean, seriously, this is akin to complaining that cooking shows don't "prove" that eating food is biologically necessary to live, or that Game of Thrones doesn't "prove" that real people once lived in castles. Nobody ever made any claims that those programs were even supposed to prove any of that! That's entirely _not the point_ of why they're on TV in the first place. He's so wrapped up in his own fantasyland where only his own flat-earth debates matter that he's lost the ability to even conceive of the possibility that somebody somewhere might actually even try to _talk about something other than that debate_ for even a few seconds.

[@Marc-uk1gr]

SciManDan PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE try to get Prof Cox on your podcast. I/we beg you!!! Edit: Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine. Hope it’s a good one!

[@PhDPhony]

Ok, so when did Brian say "Today I will be proving the shape of the earth?"

[@cryoraptora303tm2]

"Look at the state of him" Coming from the guy sitting behind a screen who won't show his face. Big man

[@G36645]

“Flay earth trying to debunk Brian cox” This is were the fun begins

[@parsival]

No one can debunk Brian. That man is a national treasure.

[@Prog4Prog]

Merry Christmas to all globe apologists! 😂😂. Imagine being that arrogant you dismiss Brian Cox as a moron. Lmao. These people! Keep em coming Dan!!

[@pook2830]

Why is it do you think, that LEO has since taken his video down?

[@nixutps]

Merry Christmas 🌲🤗

[@vh5507]

@@pook2830 I think it was youtube that took it down. He actually said on his page that youtube has discontinued his channel. At least they are trying to keep some liars off the internet.

[@Prog4Prog]

@@pook2830 amazing! Finally some censorship I approve of!! Thanks for the update and have a wonderful Xmas everyone!

[@pook2830]

Merry Christmas all... wherever you are on this lovely globular planet. -3C here... British central heating really shows it's crapness when it gets to below zero... going back to bed for a bit LOL

[@AndRew-vo9bz]

I love the look of Brian's face the sheer enjoyment of science and learning is amazing I love it

[@bleedgoat]

Kind of want to take the guy out for a pint and just enjoy his passion for science. What a brilliant guy.

[@jennymckenzie5304]

I don't understand how these people can legitimately not understand gravity. I dropped out of highschool and I can still trust physicists know what they're on about.

[@jameslucas8660]

"Stupid and egotistical". I think this flat earther is projecting!

[@tonymchugh443]

Yep, just what I thought

[@mkf0rbes]

Flat earthers seem to be a fan of projections

[@brendandmcmunniii269]

So on the one hand we have Brian Cox, a full Professor at a leading university. And on the other ?

[@Virtualblueart]

The avatar of the gods of Incredulity, ignorance and stupidity.

[@dogwalker666]

On the othe a fake crane driver.

[@dogwalker666]

@Jensen indeed if we only had flurf technology we would be back in the stone age.

[@pm1660]

On the other a jealous lunatic.

[@stevemack7110]

Ah, but he never proved that universities exist, so they don't.

[@thealien_ali3382]

I met Brian Cox at my graduation, when I graduated from Huddersfield university, I met him there when he was given a doctoral from sir Patrick Stewart, whom I actually met aswell another awesome individual🥳 I still have the dvd of my graduation and pics of that day, I love Brian Cox he's freaking awesome, hearing the flat earther throw abuse at him kinda hurt me on that one ngl

[@stevegates2228]

The arrogance it takes to say "i know every thing so if i dont understand it then it cant be true" is made even worse when its said by people with an extremely low I.Q

[@Pete_R63]

"That was painful wasn't it?" YES! Indeed it was! Can't believe how lost that guy was- he never had a clue.

[@UnstablePax]

Flat earthers: why ain't no expert actually proving the globe? Expert appears. Flat earthers: ah, now they are going to lie to us.

[@radarlockeify]

Merry Christmas Dan, LEO once again fails to understand reality.

[@chrishowick485]

To understand reality you have to live in reality......

[@dbcvisuals]

LOL Flat Earthers are the equivalent of 3 year olds explaining how babies are born.

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

He switched the video to private. Guess he can dish it out but can't take it.

[@erikblaas5826]

What a shame, making a vid to "attract" commenting from others ( like Dan, Creaky, Catz, Stick, Sceptic and more ) ... and then blocking it from commenting. Living in denial is such a b**h.

[@davidc8077]

As Raylan said to Dickie; "Outlaw lifes hard, ain't it"!?!

[@connarkent282]

Same with one person he covered. He posted a comment bitching about how much of a liar Dan is lol

[@erikblaas5826]

@@connarkent282 My almost standard reply to science deniers sounds like this... Flat earthers: Science and teachers are lying to us. Me: Science and teacher telling us 2 + 2 = 4, if that's a lie what should the answer be? Flat Earthers: The Earth is flat. Me: So 2 + 2 = the Earth is flat ??? .... now who was lying again? ( replace "Flat Earthers" with "Science deniers", "Evolution deniers", "Moon landing deniers".. etc where appropriate )

[@erikblaas5826]

@Josh I can run the original vid from LEO again, guess it was too heavy for him on his "private" parts.

[@LonzosSprayPainting]

I was actually a flat earther for 3 years... and then i turned 4.

[@rigierish3807]

Damn, you're a genius for thinking about things like the shape of the earth at the age of 1 ! I only did that when I was 2 years old

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I first learned the world was a globe when I saw a desk globe. My earliest memory of that (or much anything else, actually) is around 6 or 7 years old.

[@snububub]

i live in sweden where we speek swedish. until i was 5 i thought that in the capital city Stockholm they spoke english. I knew that the earth was round cince i was like 4.

[@celestialangel666]

“Just to recap” Me: you didn’t listen to anything and wasted everyone’s time by not understanding what you were watching?

[@BCGknowsmore476]

DAMN......I was 10 with a telescope and able to see planets.....they WERE ROUND !!!

[@bernhardschmalhofer855]

Except Venus

[@DanLoudShirts]

“I can’t see it so it doesn’t exist.” Probably believes in God. The irony.

[@ranjithbenedict9498]

Show me the god.

[@arturama8581]

Ever seen a billion Dollars?

[@Spoon80085]

Of course the guy with the family guy pfp is a Reddit atheist

[@penguincommando1088]

@@Spoon80085 what's a reddit atheist?

[@jboss119]

Do you see the wind or just the effects of it?

[@misterocain]

4:35 the siren get's closer as the men in white coats prepare to take LEO away to the funny farm.

[@admiralsquatbar127]

"The larger and heavier an object is, the harder it is to lift." I would've thought that a crane operator would understand that simple concept.

[@Vahisofficial]

I Hope flerfers never go away, they provide so much Joy and entertainment.

[@firebladetenn6633]

Schoolyard bullies grew up without learning anything in school except how to be schoolyard bullies, and became conspiracy theorists, because their skill sets haven’t changed since they were children. That’s my new conspiracy theory.

[@qcontinuum514]

Makes more sense than "every other object in the vacuum is spherical, but earth is flat".

[@AlienResidents]

I agree with the sentiment 100%. I would add though, when I was growing up, schoolyard bullies knew not to be schoolyard bullies during specific periods of time. Often they discovered many times, over and over, that there was a force more capable than they could muster, or bring to bear. I was that force while in school before I dropped out 2 weeks into my 10th grade year. See it as good or not, and definitely not against the sentiment in the parent comment, but I was a Bully's bully, and I enjoyed every moment of it.

[@clarewillison9379]

Are you obliquely confessing to having been a school bully...? 🤔😉

[@firebladetenn6633]

@@clarewillison9379 Please explain your reasoning, because that was not my intention, and for the most part, I always did my best to avoid being mean or dominating to anyone.

[@firebladetenn6633]

@@clarewillison9379 I also subscribe to no unwarranted, or untestable claims on blind faith, and do my best to use reason in my everyday life. I also try to think out my reasons why I disagree with something, and say things that have some level of weight to them instead of just making fun of people for being stupid because, and for no other reason than, they don’t agree with me. I was bullied in school for years, as were many of my close friends, and am incredibly familiar with how bullies think and act and justify their actions. I have debated people online with the express intention of trying to convince them, or learning from them where I am wrong, and on multiple occasions, I have been wrong in an assertion and apologized online, or been friendly with somebody I disagree with. In school, I was unpopular and easy to make fun of, so the kids got onto me for being different and an easy target, the teachers got onto me for disrupting the class by being quiet and as far in the corner as I could get, and in later years, I latched onto anything that resembled a friend until I had to realize that letting people laugh at you under the guise of hanging out with you wasn’t worth it. By the end, when I was popular in my own group, I still remembered how it felt, and tried never to make anyone in our group, or in any other group feel bad, and carried that over into my regular life. So no. I was not confessing to having been a school bully, and the accusation is not really amusing to me, so please....what is your reasoning?

[@dadsleftfoot]

I absolutely love how he keeps saying “where’s the evidence” when they’re talking about a programme of that literally shows the evidence

[@emberpowertcg7692]

..and then they would say it was faked XD

[@nicielunar542]

Watching this video makes me laugh, depressed, and sad at the same time.

[@nenmaster5218]

4:00-5:00: I dont know about you, but dont you agree that this is Deflamation and worth going to his channel and flagging him? ?

[@nicielunar542]

@@nenmaster5218 maybe, but I'm not interested in flat earth anymore.

[@anomalymusic1]

When I was like 8 or 9 my dad showed me the moon with a telescope, then he showed me Mars. Pretty cool, Pretty round.

[@ranjithbenedict9498]

Brain Cox: Explaining gravity 13:03 : Noise inside leo's brain trying to understand it..🤣🤣🤣

[@CyanLightning]

(Clicking on the link of LEO's original video) This video is private. Me: I wonder why? Edit: LEO made it available again.

[@felixrr7381]

I now see it available again actually

[@admiralsquatbar127]

He's hiding from me.

[@infidelcastro5129]

Professor Brian Cox Vs a bloke who doesn’t know the definition of the word ‘theory’.

[@marylynne9104]

Do you know the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?

[@shaggybaggums]

@@marylynne9104 Yep, I can reliably spell one of them.

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@marylynne9104 yes I do 😊

[@cy-one]

@ippos_khloros Completely correct, but (just for completion's sake) more easily worded as: "In science, a hypothesis is an idea of how something could be explained and a theory is an explanation that has been supported by observations, experiments and peer review (aka, facts)."

[@rbfarmer4522]

Why doesn’t one of these flat earthers get a boat and float it off the edge of the world and I’ll pay for the drone and camera.

[@thomjanson9644]

You know when someone’s out of their depth when they just hurl “insults” at somebody for no apparent reason.. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@josephrodriguez2780]

I think this guy would probably fail the aptitude test to get into kindergarten.

[@josephrodriguez2780]

Sic man Dan I'll go with the concept of understanding anything cuz he does not and if anybody wants proof you already watching it.

[@josephrodriguez2780]

I don't think this gentleman understands that it's people with imagination that have found some of the greatest things we've ever known and I just can't wait for the next generation of those people with imagination makes you wonder what they'll find.

[@paulmayfield9709]

@@josephrodriguez2780 you will not like what they find which I’m sure it found them

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

Brain Cox is really smart and knows a lot of his field of study. I like him.

[@paulnolan4971]

He's a national institution in the UK :)

[@GSimpsonOAM]

Was that a Freudian slip? In a positive way.

[@InsaneMonk3y]

@@GSimpsonOAM Not sure it was. I think Paul means he is viewed in the same way in which Sir Attenborough is viewed. Highly personable and well liked.

[@johninwaynenewjersey5253]

I always hoped his productions would get a response similar to Carl Sagan's "Cosmos". Professor Cox probably has a lot of content we are not familiar with, here in the States. His "Wonders of ..." series' are really stunning and packed with information and he has such an easy going manner about him that I'm surprised they didn't garner the worldwide attention they deserve. He still has plenty of time to pull it all together for a grand summary of his work. With the right team I think it would be spectacular.

[@GSimpsonOAM]

@@InsaneMonk3y Brian vs Brain.

[@bungiecord6207]

LEO spends half the time saying "where's the globe stuff" when in reality the whole interview was not about the globe but about Brian's new program

[@hraharahra]

Yes! It is astonishing how demented flat eaters are!

[@erikblaas5826]

LEO is so selfcentered and selfabsorbed, he thinks reality must "step aside" for his mindset of how reality should act... And when he founds out those 2 things are not compatible with eachother, he blames reality for it.

[@martyndyson9501]

Because in his twisted head he actually believes that we are all worried about the flat earth problem, when in fact no one apart from themselves are, they think their actually relivent but more people are worried about if they have left the iron on at home than is the earth flat! Flatheads are very sick mentally!

[@Robert08010]

Exactly. He's so wrapped up in his little world, he presumes everything is about the globe.

[@jasondalton1980]

Ask him to use his telescope to look at the Southern Cross, from wherever in England he lives, lol

[@allhailjager7796]

This guy just puts a bad name to people from Britain

[@seanswales1813]

Don't be silly, the southern cross can't exist! He can't see it through his telescope!

[@mellowgrellow1375]

I'm in England and can clearly see the Southern Cross - it's my local pub !

[@tahu1013]

Ignorance is the source of all entertainment

[@Gleem]

Very True Statement

[@ComradeJehannum]

@@Gleem yup and you are still one of the leaders #2. you constantly cherry pick stuff that you think supports your claim when in actual fact it doesn't. Oh have you looked at Wallys chanell recently? He did a proper job on dealing with your OMO failure.

[@Gleem]

@@ComradeJehannum Wow you are scarred by me no?? Wally got owned by Hamish the Director of OMO who stated clearly the path did have a dogleg when Wally stated its a straight line. Whatever attempt he has done to rescue his credibility is his business, and whatever you believe him on is your loss, the guy is a proven liar and is too scared to debate me live over it! Hmm I wonder why!! machearth.1ness.co.uk/WheresWallyScaredToDebate.PNG Maybe the same reason why you lurk in the comments section and never crawl out of your rock to debate me live! You literally are a 100% comment dwelling troll...

[@ComradeJehannum]

@@Gleem HAHAHAHAHA!!!! No one is "scared" of you? As for someone who is "scared" to debate someone, WE ALL REMEMBER you running like a little coward when Team and FTFE put out the offer for Wally and Wolfie to come on a debate against you. LOL no #2, you was SCAMMED and Wally shows how you fell for the bull HOOK, LINE AND SINKER!!!! Just like taboo did with "Mike from QANTAS".

[@ComradeJehannum]

@@Gleem Oh btw, found ANY SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT that actually PROVES that your pixie dust exists? Not something that displays ZERO POINT ENERGY, or any other NON pixie dust name? So far you've claimed that about 6 experiments "prove it", but when in actual fact THEY DON'T.

[@I-Luv-2-Hack]

Thank you Dan for donating to MIND, I'm involved with them as this is my first Christmas without my children. 😪

[@DeathPetalArt]

"There's a hint of the mannequin about him" You mean he's attractive, LEO? Cause yeah, I can see it 😅

[@apollo1573]

I too am attracted to mannequins

[@damedusa5107]

@@apollo1573 that’s a thing apparently. Horses for courses I suppose

[@erikblaas5826]

Yep, I was looking for an item to agree on with LEO, as for most of his part he is spewing b.s., is not listening to what is actualy said by Brian and only assumes things he heared and replying to that what he thinks he hears. Yes, there is something "nice" about Prof Brian, we can all agree on.

[@k8la65t2qvpbl]

You know what's painful? He believes in such horribly ordinary, easy to grasp concept of living on one sided piece of flat disc, instead of cherishing an amazing achievements of us probing space from a small insignificant blue ball of water and rock. What a tool.

[@jakehague1]

Ah Dan. I've been subbed from day dot and I'm so happy to see you getting sponsors and making BANK. Have a lovely new year, brother.

[@8ballout]

Prof. Brian Cox is just amazing to watch, his excitement while he is educating others is so wonderful to see.

[@Krazyk007x2]

He's doing an interview on a morning talk show. Did this dude really expect him to walk out there & address a topic that was settled millennia ago - without being asked? Read a book bro.

[@Hoganply]

Physics teacher: The heavier the object, the more the force is required to pick it up. FEO: The heavier the object, the more imaginary force we need to apply, is that right, teach?

[@trevormustey4418]

The scary thing is that LEO is a tower crane operator!!😖

[@mjrdainbramage]

So basically LEO's best argument is "You don't agree with me so you are a poopy head"? Just trying to estimate the level of care he needs.

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

snug fitting sweater with cuff straps?

[@NS-ks5qc]

I think level earth observer is talking about himself.

[@Kualinar]

Absolutely. He's a champion at projecting.

[@bshugks4350]

I think he is

[@EternalDetracting]

Merry Christmas Dan :) be safe this holiday season :) love from Canada 🇨🇦

[@xx7secondsxx]

11:50... I love u SciManDanny boy!! You say exactly what were ALL thinking n kno! And I love the wit in which u deliver it!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚