The Earth is Definitely Not Flat

Anti-science mentality is rampant in this day and age, and one of the more peculiar aspects of this trend is the current fad that is the Flat Earth model. There exists a group of people who believe that against everything we have come to learn throughout the scientific revolution, the world is actually flat, and the center of the universe. That's not all, there's a big cover up, with NASA, and all the governments, like some real sci-fi stuff. Let's go through some of the talking points of this model and see if we can deconstruct it, shall we?
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[@user-rx3cg3ul3t]

- Your documentary about the Flat Earth has received an international movie award. - What award? - The Golden Globe.

[@kazti5206]

Best comment I have seen all month

[@magolor8105]

The irony

[@LeighDWYC]

What a kick in the teeth that would be

[@fake2]

A participation award~

[@ReimuHakurei0]

this comment is gold, literally.

[@jobdone3700]

A flat earther dies and is waiting at the pearly gates. St Peter says to the man, before entering heaven you may ask God one question. The man asks God , is the earth flat or a globe. God replied, the Earth is most definitely a globe . The man exclaimed, holy crap , the conspiracy runs deeper than I could have ever imagined.

[@chunkybuttz844]

Brilliant ! !

[@SomeOne-gm5md]

You certainly got the job done!

[@drybonesmunchakoopas5143]

this is genius

[@jobdone3700]

@@JacobLM42 and the free masons

[@khodibritton8368]

@@jobdone3700 And by Big...uh...Big Astronomy?

[@rileyywhited]

I used to be a flat earther for three years. Then I turned four.

[@antoniothegunexpert5955]

You had me in the first half😅

[@historymythologyscience]

😅

[@Pill0w686]

Ha! Gottem!

[@Mr._Bellic]

Nah, forget pancake earth, let’s look at MINECRAFT EAR- oh yeah we have spherical earth to live on.

[@MrW582]

😂😂

[@bouncyblight2001]

I find it hilarious how the ancient Greeks found out the Earth was round based off of the shadows of pillars. Now we have satellites, rockets, and other forms of viewing the Earth from a God’s eye view and people still think the Earth is flat

[@hor80]

Only very naive people think that and some crazy con-men exploit this naivity.

[@brizzle3903]

It’s all CGI remember 😂 I had a flat 💩 tell me that even the ancient civilizations had CGI They’re demented

[@ChaosXeronix]

the greeks men... the greeks.... all part os nasa and the arctic wall lizard people shit :D

[@user-dk4cq9pz4i]

Yeah, some people have brains the size of 0.004 millimeters

[@doncomputer5931]

@@brizzle3903 Exactly. Ancient greek Nasa has been lying since the dawn of mankind.

[@zipfy6]

Professor Dave went from teaching kids-teens about chemistry to teaching middle aged men basic astronomy

[@ilyas_elouchihi]

So sad

[@epiccollision]

This isn’t even basic Astronomy this is basic basics…

[@Comuniity_]

I'm pretty sure he was a professor not a school teacher, I remember him saying he taught what he wanted when he taught and public school teacher can't do that they have a curriculum

[@zipfy6]

@@Comuniity_ true

[@simonvance8054]

Most ‘adults’ are psychological children in reality, still looking to ‘daddy’ (the authoritarian father figures of government and religion) to tell them what to think and do..

[@Jtucker18Videos]

I kinda appreciate flat earthers only for the fact that I've learned so much more about the earth when their stupid theories get debunked

[@jimmythebold589]

heh. same

[@frankmcgovern5445]

You make a good point.

[@oren8699]

actully your right

[@chimp4225]

Wait I thought those guys were trolls

[@oren8699]

@@chimp4225 no. sadly there real.

[@vooveks]

I used to think the earth was round, but then I did my own research, and I still do.

[@desmay2studios]

precisely

[@dogwalker666]

Indeed there is less than Zero evidence for flatopia.

[@V1TheWarMachine]

are you a flat earther?

[@desmay2studios]

@@V1TheWarMachine im not

[@vooveks]

@@V1TheWarMachine Are you asking me that question?

[@AJ-wg4rz]

Just converted my long time flat earth dad with this video. 🙏 thanks Dave! There was nothing I could say to convince him until I showed him this. You have no idea how satisfying it was to hear him say “yea you right… it’s round. There’s no way it’s flat”

[@dovelee4136]

Yay!! Congrats🎉

[@insertusername132]

I really respect your dad for not being ignorant and accepting the truth. Finally someone who isn't stupidly ignorant.

[@Lessthanthreeedm]

So, one video is all it took for him to believe? What.

[@user-mr2do5vr1v]

@@Lessthanthreeedm in this one video, it shows how you can empirically demonstrate th earth's shape of a globe. These are thing you can do personally. FE has zero science which is why flerfs will believe flat earth videos because they are too ignorant to realize that FE is faith-based and not evidence-basec

[@patrickpastor8041]

Anti-Flat Earthers: STOP COMMENTING!! I can't find the Flat Earther comments to laugh at them!

[@patrickpastor8041]

@@shaneshane4376 Wait. Are you being serious?

[@normalperson2121]

Shane Shane We Caught one boys!

[@Alice-gr1kb]

Shane Shane you're the one who thinks the world is flat

[@patrickpastor8041]

@@normalperson2121 I was going to say, "FOUND ONE!!!!!", but, alas, I don't have the rudeness of other users. Besides, just when I was going to do so, you beat me to it.

[@patrickpastor8041]

@@shaneshane4376 I may be against flat earthers, but I'm going to advise you now to do what the Allies did in Russia in 1919-20: Pull out now, before this gets messy. It's not so much me, it's the others, and you know how KZbinrs are. (In other words, this could get real ugly).

[@amongus_pvp]

when you breathe the atmosphere and not the atmosflat

[@spookbag24]

lmao

[@Zone_Tan]

oh ffs. I shouldn't had laughed.

[@ripnob]

atmoflat u mean xd

[@amongus_pvp]

@@Houseofarrowsnice, I don't really care about flat earth (or round earth to be honest) but these videos are really cool and they are *very* binge able. The comment i made was a joke that crossed my mind mid-video. So yeah

[@spookbag24]

@@Houseofarrows Okay, so long story short, you're not a flat earther, not a round earther, but a Christian. Cool.

[@willfire0310]

I love how dave started off one of the most ruthless annihilation of a giant scam with a very good faith video aimed to educate people. The flat earth’s said lets go to war, Dave said, “this isn’t war, its pest control.”

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a strange sci-fi short story, "the claw and the clock", where someone said that after witnessing a VERY one-sided battle, where a large fleet of big warships full of crab-like aliens were wiped out VERY quickly by a small group of small ships that moved around VERY fast...by slowing or speeding up TIME.

[@stylesrj]

@@ericb3157 I want to look up some of these stories you refer to... so I tried "The Claw & The Clock" and all I get is the Speculative Fiction Database that tells me where it was published... but not the actual story. Do I have to purchase the publication or something?

[@ericb3157]

@@stylesrj it's been a while since i read it... i think it was in a collection of short stories by Orson Scott Card. i borrowed it from a library.

[@CinderedCaelus]

Calling flat earthers pests is an insult to all pests

[@GG-ou2tz]

Everyone just says flat earthers "are idiots". I took the time to listen and understand what they believed and I've come to the conclusion that indeed they're idiots

[@toywrench1]

It is deception conjoined to confirmation bias. It happens to the best of us.

[@shinuseikatsu8111]

They had us in the first half ngl

[@olivergookindscher]

R U stupid?

[@Ziobbe]

Not just idiots! Idiots who need to be smarter than everyone else and have total aversion to bettering themselves. Just claim you have the secret ancient truth, and now you're smarter than everyone!

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

this controversy is so stupid why dont we debate the existence of the Easter Bunny instead

[@Yes-gz9qs]

Asked a flat earth women if she'd like to dance. She said no because she refused to believe we were at the ball.

[@themolasser9110]

Now that, is a joke.

[@volcanic3761]

Good one.

[@Monkeh516]

If it's something I get is jokes on the comment section

[@McCaroni_Sup]

"Asked a flat woman if she'd like to dance."

[@dogwalker666]

@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter show some evidence for space pizza world or shut the eff up, spamming is against the TOS reported you for that too. Coward.

[@brianna_r_larsen_]

Anyone else looking through the comments to find stupid flat earthers comments?

[@jakubvenetianer]

Yeah! I just pause video cuz I want to see if someone type something stupid like '' yEah sO, hOw yOu exPlaIn GraVitY??? '' :D

[@cuberz9807]

@@jakubvenetianer They tink the earth (flat) is going up How sad😢

[@kleozane2781]

Just take a flat erthaer in space smh

[@SuperPhunThyme9]

@@jakubvenetianer ....really that's still a relevant question fundamentally, but yeah

[@zeten___9908]

Yup

[@thetherrannative]

“Rather than mocking them,” he says, immediately aging this video. Seriously, we love Professor Dave’s savage mockery of these idiots.

[@Khamthegoblin]

he tried to be nice-enough at first, but they just.. they just.. they started making prof dave lose a few too many braincells 🥺

[@billsmith1361]

@@Khamthegoblin Asshole is the word you're looking for lol (the responders I mean if that wasn't clear)

[@cryptojihadi265]

Hey, he TRIED to be nice. But didn't take him long to realize these idiots aren't interested in truth or sound reasoning.

[@Kate-rj6ys]

Bruh

[@John-es7zn]

Flat earthers are stupid and don't like being debunked as it doesn't fit their stupid narrative.......

[@enderawesome4521]

Honestly I love how Professor Dave just uses this means to draw out the flat earthers so he can roast them. I both respect that and find it extremely entertaining.

[@liamwanless8467]

he didn't do it to draw them out but I think it makes it better(he just did it to sum up the astronomy he had taught so far) they just made the mistake to take the bait that wasn't even there

[@sneakpeakmaster]

"They're evolving, just backwards"

[@timotejmares]

Evolution doesn't have a direction ;-)

[@TheLuckierbruh]

@@timotejmares or does it?

[@jamesmerkel1932]

Now now, lets not devolve this comment section 🤣🤣🤣

[@StaThinkTite]

Haha Pew's

[@siddharth9947]

ayyyyyy pewds fan

[@fgnmghdshd6056]

scientists in 1900's: we just discovered that their are particles beyond neutrons and protons Scientists now: For the last time, the earth is *round*

[@GuardianSoulkeeper]

@jim 2075: For the last *FUCKING TIME:* Fire HOT!

[@mahtorta2095]

Scientists now: bleach is not medicine or a tasty beverage

[@qwertyuiop-tn8qn]

Scientists in the 1600s: For the last time, the earth is round! Religious leaders: *excommunication and imprisonment*

[@chrisjohngrima9761]

Year 4000 scientists: FOR THE LAST TIME COCA COLA IS NOT PLANTS

[@Cingearth]

the earth is flat !

[@dhans9662]

Professor Dave wasn't kidding when he said that he already tried the nice guy approach, the "meaner" tone he uses in most of his other flat earth videos makes perfect sense.

[@FireSonicYT]

if you think you're dumb, just remember flat earthers exist.

[@Inset_tomato]

Yeah obviously velociraptor earth

[@versamax6307]

One of his videos was shown in class. I assumed Dave was just another school teacher boring channel, and then i stumble upon this, holy shit. Didn't know Professor Dave made a living off of curb stomping flat earthers with logic and steel capped boots

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Haha if you think this is rough you should see my other flat earth debunks, they get progressively saltier.

[@TexZenMaster]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Your "saltiness" (AKA rudeness) hurts your cause.

[@fallendown8828]

@@TexZenMaster eh whatever they deserve it because they really did believed this model which somehow Southern Hemisphare is bigger and protected and everything falls to Earth because of density? Yeah they really don't deserves a calm explanation but deserves a video that crushes their stupidity and makes everything they thouth they knew it pointless. I just don't want some one as stupid as they are being treated like a normal person (unless they are under 18 so they can be easyly tricked and they will understand that kind of sh*t believed in their past which is OK because everyone belives to everything while they are young)

[@futuregmchess1561]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Nice videos you make. Flat Earth = Nonsense

[@mufin6930]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Lmao your flat earth videos are so funny. Took a fat dump on the flat earth model.

[@OliveTakahashi]

When I was a teenager I was like a joking member of Flat Earth Society, not because I really believed the Earth is flat but rather because I just found it fun to try to come up with increasingly convoluted means of explaining phenomenon on a flat world. I had no idea for years that people really believed this shit.

[@politecat9183]

Lmao the world population is around 7 billion not too hard to find some unique specimens i met one who claimed gravity is a conspiracy 😂😂😂

[@FreedomDoesGames]

Same boat lmao

[@TrenchcoatNinja3]

Kinda makes you think the flat earth thing is a psyop.

[@pugasaurusrex8253]

@@TrenchcoatNinja3 Kinda perfect Keep conspiracy nuts on blatantly false theories, throw them a cookie or two once in a while so that they don’t lose their ego, and now you have several groups that not only bring attention away from legitimate conspiracy’s but also get in the way of media reporting.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

The theories get more and more rediculous I wonder when Santa and the Easter Bunny will play into them

[@adamhouse6205]

"Goes to comment section, sets comments to newest to look for flatearthers"

[@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280]

Sorting by newest always shows you the crazies, regardless of the video's content. You could be watching a video about peeling potatoes, and what do you know, 5 minutes ago Lovemykids68 posted a comment quoting scripture and babbling incoherently about how God prohibits potato peeling.

[@adamhouse6205]

@@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280 "God prohibits....., the government is lying about......, you're brainwashed....." etc

[@mrsamsun912]

​@@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280lmao

[@grinmace4834]

I love doing this exact thing.

[@rosestar1324]

Lol this is exactly what I did.

[@Tidnro]

Idk why I love rewatching all your disproving flat earth videos. It’s weirdly calming and it makes good background music. The 1.7M views are just me rewatching it over, and over, and over again

[@safron2442]

Cant believe I had to do this, but I gotta thank you. I have a friend who I always knew was on the dimmer side, but I didnt learn he believed in the flat earth until a few weeks ago. I found this video and showed it to him. He is actually pretty good at math and such, so he checked over the (very obvious) things that you stated in the video. He is no longer a flat earther, and frankly feels stupid for believing it for so long.. Now I just gotta convince him the moon landing was real imo. Thank you though, helped out a lot man.

[@bigkoi1015]

i wish other flat earther was like your friend. Skeptical but not stupid

[@jazmihamizan4987]

@@joopmoop4089 sometimes it happens that the set of information he had at the time makes a flat earth model seems sensible. People like this aren't stupid (like we know who) but is basically lack of information. They can digest new knowledge and correlate with what knowledge they have. But it happens that the poor guy stumbled upon the flat model first, before his good friend provided him with a source of information for the guy to rethink the earth model. Its like how school teach really basic science stuff like if you put static on an object, it can attract water because water is a polar molecule. Very simple to prove water is a polar molecule. Its replicatable. Later down the line in education, you discover more stuff about intramolecular forces, and electrostatic forces. You now realise that while it is true that water is polar because surface tension of water is caused by hydrogen bonding, the forces aren't enough to curve flowing water. And its simply electrostatic charge on the object that curved the water. Still simple and coherent and replicable.

[@dragur3077]

If you wanna prove that the moon landing was real, go show him Adam Ruins Everything’s moon landing video kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJnTXnmKjrh6m5o

[@okboing]

At least he admits to being a sheep.

[@okboing]

@@dragur3077 omg I saw this lol It is simple undeniable proof

[@-WhizzBang-]

The video that triggered flat Earthers all around the Globe!

[@virginiarailfannoah5415]

By the way: Did you hear about that time the FES Tweeted "The Flat Earth Society has members all over the globe!"

[@cuberz9807]

I like how the FEs like the word globe more than flat Earth

[@james_with_a_z]

Slow clap for that phat meme

[@frankmcgovern5445]

@u little shit No it's not. At least not purposeful satire.

[@frankmcgovern5445]

@u little shit NO, it's NOT. Cite it. Cite them claiming that they are satire.

[@astronautnr7]

I have never seen an comment section/ a KZbinr so active on an 3 years old video. That really impressive Professor! Keep it up!!

[@tyronfoston7123]

The follow up to this video is still the greatest flat earth debunking video in all of KZbin.

[@frankiesaupp9971]

NASA should release a "photo of flat earth" and get them all excited that they were right, then come out a day later and say it was photoshopped 😂

[@niallsomething3469]

And the Flat Earthers will say that photoshop was a lie created by the giant space turtle who was born from Shrek's armpit and their "proof" will be: "There have been NO published documents saying that photoshop WASN'T created by the space turtle, born of Shrek, so that must mean that it WAS".

[@jimmythebold589]

@@niallsomething3469 Praise Almighty Shrek, Lord of Trolls and Ogres! Blessed be His Hairy Armpit of creation!

[@jimmythebold589]

@@cupcakechronicles4551 ahhh. i would LOVE it if NASA did ANY kind of flat-earth prank on 4/1

[@niallsomething3469]

@@jimmythebold589 In our mass today, we contemplate the hairiness of our Saviour Shrek's Armpit. Let us pray. **pause** Oh Shrek, blessed be Thou of creation of photoshop. We live in joy, for we have been given Your gift - to be able to digitally manipulate photographs. Let us also pray for Your child, the Space Turtle, who gave this gift to us. Amen. Mass is ended, go in love of Shrek, and go in the hope in being able to digitally manipulate photographs.

[@dejaporter7338]

@@niallsomething3469 😭😭

[@rundllx3228]

It is still unbelievable to me that people really believe in flat earth

[@sidgent8296]

I used to be a flat earther Then I turned 3

[@vinith8669]

@zwady nah just nah

[@lgnd2k3]

@zwady Demonstrate a working model of a flat earth first.

[@lgnd2k3]

@zwady then people might believe you.

[@Jambuc829]

They have to let go of their comforting fiction known as the Bible in order to adopt a spherical shaped earth orbiting the sun.

[@Aresenal1739]

Just the fact that there have been no whistleblowers and the government would go through so much effort for something so pointless to our everyday lives is enough to destroy the theory

[@firebladetenn6633]

I was talking to my alien friend, and I told him "I guess we're not as advanced as I thought. Some of us still believe the Earth is flat." He turned to me on confusion, and said "But the Earth IS flat..." ...Damn fourth dimensional beings...

[@dwo356]

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

[@breeze787]

Dan E - BULLSEYE!

[@dwo356]

@@breeze787 For the record, that is a quote from philosopher and professor Sir Karl Popper. I don't want to take his credit.

[@breeze787]

​@@dwo356 That quote so profound and so spot on. Myself & Sir Karl Popper thanks you for putting that quote up which just explains the flat earther movement & Christian fanatics to a tee.

[@jonathanconnor7920]

@Bayonne Blasphemer _"refusal_ to acquire it (as in knowledge) is what wilful ignorance means.

[@SethPylad]

Spot on, Dan E (or Karl Popper)! :-D

[@fredderf3323]

Dave- “But what is up?” “Hey Vsauce, Michael here.”

[@BoomsTheGoblin]

I was looking through the comments for this exact comment lol A+

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

"Down here".

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

But witch way is down

[@beemoviejazz317]

The sky

[@dinamosflams]

"…down here. But which way is down?" And beggins my favourite Vsauce video of all time

[@melsop54]

I can't get over the fact that a group of folks who, mostly, are terrified of the UN...use their logo as the flat earth map...

[@Krugis]

I think it's even more fun that flerfs are almost universally ignorant to the fact that the UN logo is an azimuthal projection...and part of a set of such projections :D

[@Tornadopelt]

@@Krugis Hiya!

[@brianharris136]

It’s called TRUTH hidden in plain site. The know the ignorance and deceptions within humanity has and still runs deep smh

[@Tornadopelt]

@@brianharris136 If you have a friend in the Southern hemisphere, ask them which way the sun sets during January. If they say "south of west", then you knwo Earth isn't flat, as that naked-eye observation would not comport with the Flat Earth. Hell, sunsets by their very nature disprove a Flat Earth.

[@brianharris136]

@@Tornadopelt Why do you think that as soon as you enter pre-k class or day care there’s a Globe in there. It’s because their programming children to a lie right from the beginning. This Whole World is a Pagan system created by the Roman’s and Beast system to deceive. The Spirit of God reveals all TRUTH not man. The True word of God reveals a Flat earth. Several scripture say the earth shall not move nor be moved. Several scriptures say to the “Ends of the Earth.” So God created a Firmament over a globe😂😂😂 Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstools. Please show me anybody that uses a spherical footstool to stand on when they can’t reach something please🤣🤣🤣 It can be any shape as long as it’s FLAT sitting on PILLARS. Humanity and the Worldly system had done a number on you people. Eyes to See and Ears to Hear is spoken by Christ for a reason. Peace🤦🏽‍♂️

[@thegalacticfederation1212]

Here's my question if the Earth flat, why would everyone lie about it? Why would governments lie about this? What do they gain from tell you the Earth is a different shape?

[@ericb3157]

of, a few of them say, "THE government is trying to hide god." utterly absurd. if "THE" government wanted to "hide god" they would ban churches and bibles, not lie about things that ANYONE can see for themselves just by looking from a tall building!

[@scottplumer3668]

Consistency isn't flat earthers' strong suit. "Hiding God" seems to be the most common answer, but when asked directly, most of them tend to avoid answering and give responses like so they can keep funneling money to NASA or something like that. They seem to think atheists are much more numerous and powerful than they really are.

[@abhiruproy1170]

​@@ericb3157So according to them, the governments are more powerful than God?

[@rayopeongo]

The other argument is that everyone in on the "globe earth conspiracy" makes money by splitting up NASA's budget.

[@thegalacticfederation1212]

@rayopeongo But still raises the question of why haven't any government spilled the beans. Plus, there's other space agencies(?) Like SpaceX, ISRO, or The Canadian Space Agency, or every other space agency, why are they splitting money only with Nasa?

[@ThomasGutierrez]

It is so fun to go back and watch this first beautiful and clear flat earth video in Professor Dave's playlist done in the innocent and friendly style of his other pedagogical videos. To future people: watch the gradual progression of Professor Dave on this issue as he butts heads with the flat earth and pseudoscientific community, particularly during the COVID era. It is like watching the Great Cthulhu awaken from its long slumber. It is beautiful and terrifying to witness in its own right as Professor Dave eventually just takes the gloves off and pummels relentlessly with Science.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Haha the origin story of the debunk monster I have now become!

[@maxfan1591]

Yep, it's like seeing the original Mark Rober video...

[@dogwalker666]

He is in training for the sweet destruction of DIRTh David Weiss.

[@Tornadopelt]

@@dogwalker666 Good lord, it was a massacre.

[@darrylgonzalez5251]

Read his book IS THIS WIFI ORGANIC? Pure debunking GENIUS! Hat's off to you Professor Dave Explains!

[@dorism5779]

POV: you're trying to find the flat earthers in the comments 💀

[@99999bomb]

Yep ikr

[@arturdias8462]

yes

[@oneeyedgent3733]

Yes

[@its_aj251]

Found some.

[@reaper4369]

I have found at least 6

[@loganhitchcock2640]

The earth isn't flat or round, it is the shape of a dino nuggie duh!

[@kaiwilliams2181]

Fax

[@monkael1438]

yeah like the long neck ones

[@kaiwilliams2181]

@@monkael1438 dipolocolus

[@HardToBeAPoopGod]

​@@kaiwilliams2181diplodocus?

[@kaiwilliams2181]

@@HardToBeAPoopGod yes I misspelled it

[@will3890]

The fact that this even has to be explained in this day and age is insane.

[@Lord_Volkner]

A massive failure of the educational system.

[@guenthersteiner9252]

@@Lord_Volkner I don't know an educational system that teaches about flat earth, except maybe religion based educational systems

[@Skywarslord]

@@guenthersteiner9252 I think he’s referring to the failure of the education system to teach basic science, as those with a secondary school level science education would be able to debunk flat earth%

[@tevans5144]

will3890: IIIISAAANNNE! You think with technology people would get smarter but the opposite seems to be happening and people need to the question "why"? (Observant are critical thinkers already know! 😉)

[@flaviopinhota]

True…. 🙄

[@sabatian1138]

"Outside the box" thinking is one thing, and is always encouraged. However, 'outside the brain thinking' is called "CRAZY."

[@blairblue6769]

what does this even mean

[@spookbag24]

*observes comment* is this a flat earther?

[@gumtoonistbeats7842]

@@spookbag24 im pretty sure its not, as the point of the comment is to call flat earthers crazy.

[@spookbag24]

@@gumtoonistbeats7842 am stupid

[@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463]

@@spookbag24 At least your not a flat earther.

[@shok24199]

Ah, young, innocent Dave. To think you once thought this was simply about the science. If only your younger self could see you now, wielding knowledge and logic like the sword of Damocles, protecting our little blue marble from the flat Earth menace.

[@phuquangao6857]

True, he doesnt need to get his hands dirty with this type of degenerate FEarth society. But he just did it.

[@adriantheo7654]

Flat earth is just a joke,. But people start to spread the joke. So don't believe in hoax

[@HeartsofSound]

Actually his agenda is to vaccinate the entire globe. Dave's agenda is not to debunk flat earth but to attack anyone that questions whether vaccinations are safe or not. He's just using the flat earthers to smear what he calls "anti-vaxers". This whole agenda is to smear anti-vaxers. Dave uses the same technique that flat earthers use of guilt by association in order to achieve this without actually arguing the vaccination issue on merits. Mr. Dave is using the same technique flat earthers use but because you don't notice he's using baseless rhetoric to smear antivaxers just like the flat earthers use baseless rhetoric to smear those who know and can prove the earth is a globe. Why don't you notice it? Because he's deliberately hiding it by using real science to debunk flat earthers so that you'll trust him -- so that when he attacks "anti-vaxers" (his way of smearing people that dare to ask questions about the safety of vaccinations) you won't notice he's doing it because he first gained your trust by using real science to (correctly) discredit flat earthers. This has CIA written all over it. The average person is not that clever. Not that Dave is necessarily doing what he's doing knowingly -- he's probably just an unwitting asset.

[@caiopereira1289]

They are only a menace if they discover how to reproduce

[@FritzSchober]

@@HeartsofSound You really need to get some Polio, Tetanus, Smallpox, Hepatitis B and A, Rubella, Hib, Measles, Whooping Cough, Rotavirus, Mumps, Chickenpox and Diptheria. And then you can think with your last dying breath how very very stupid your ideas about a global conspiracy have been and how nicer it would be to be immune to all these diseases with a simple vaccination.

[@monke413]

If the earth is flat why is there no bedrock I you mine like 5 blocks under it, and also where are all the slimes spawning?

[@Elytri0]

Lol

[@southernbrain691]

Because its not superflat!!!

[@gdenfix9938]

To flat earthers: 1. Show me a picture of the edge of the earth. 2. Look at a normal picture of space. 3. Attatch a camera to a weather balloon, and review the footage after the ballon pops. 4. Show me what the bottom of your "flat earth" looks like. 5. Have common sense. 6. Try to learn a bit of science. To round earthers: Nothing, you are all right about the shape of the earth!

[@prplt]

it's all just censored by NASA 😂

[@gdenfix9938]

@@prplt ?

[@BlakeGamer-qy6ve]

@@prplt I've asked you this question twice on two videos, why are people like the globebusters still around? (They left for a year before you pull that card) or how you still have your channel, or maybe how there are several flat earthers in comments of videos? if you can't respond to that then It's probably best to shut up.

[@BlakeGamer-qy6ve]

@@prplt And prove nasa is even doing what you say they are in the 1st place!

[@penguin82875]

@@BlakeGamer-qy6ve prplt is just trolling. He’s known to make fun of flerfs by making very very stupid and outrageous claims and laugh as flerfs blindly start repeating them.

[@justadexdpup]

I love how in their mind an american company controls antarctica. When america was founded, spherical earth already was proven - its discovery was based on it.

[@avpaavcomics1299]

True.

[@terrabite87]

Actually we've known the Earth was round since the days of ancient Greece. Columbus wasn't trying to prove the Earth was round he was trying to find a faster path to India, which is why he thought the native Americans were indians. Columbus was an idiot.

[@avpaavcomics1299]

@@terrabite87 Yup. But no. His discovery was amazing!

[@terrabite87]

@@avpaavcomics1299 ummm, he quite literally didn't discover anything. The vikings knew about the Americas hundreds of years before the rest of Europe. As a matter of fact, the Americas are actually named after an Italian guy, Amerigo Vespucci.

[@avpaavcomics1299]

@@terrabite87 Yeah. So he(colombus) was an idiot.

[@blehblehhh1755]

I like how this guy sounds slightly annoyed that he has to make this video😂😂😂

[@magenterprise6340]

Everything on your list is fine except "12 walked on the Moon" never happened!!! Start here>>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5nbhaqZqNGZebs

[@MrU4theChillWind]

@Bleh BLehhh He sounds even more annoyed a few weeks later, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHXcamiVmrODsK8

[@MrU4theChillWind]

@@magenterprise6340 @KennyGman Waters "Start here" Start here? What do you mean START here??? JP lays it ALL down, and his video is the beginning and the end. No more watching needed after that one!

[@calibcarmichael6356]

@@magenterprise6340 I can not agree because this man says the earth is flat at the end of the video

[@user-xc4no5hd7d]

@@calibcarmichael6356 No he doesn't, he says the Earth is round.

[@doddermodd]

It's comical how much damage control they had to put out when you uploaded this.

[@darklord7479]

mind if i see this damage control

[@doddermodd]

@@darklord7479 This one's pretty funny. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ7UdmWZh6uVhrc

[@thunderd7904]

Dave, I need some mental support. I debated with a flat earther for over a week, giving him mountains upon mountains of evidence, explanation after explanation, challenge after challenge, but in the end, he was still adamant that the Earth was flat. And it seems to me like there is no shortage of these people. Please tell me that there is still hope for mankind to live past this century?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

They're fewer in number than you think. Fuck 'em.

[@cuberynth3079]

Some comments helped me realised that common sense isnt actually that common

[@AyaansCornerYT]

Rare-sense

[@ejosjek52.87]

Uncommon sense

[@Graknorke]

Common sense is a fake idea that exists to just let people smugly say some things are obvious, when a lot of the times they're not obvious at all. It's not something we should ever rely on.

[@ronanregan1478]

@@Graknorke yes we should, it's common sense that you can't breath without oxygen 🗿🗿

[@Graknorke]

@@ronanregan1478 No it's not, it's common knowledge. People before the discovery of oxygen were plenty sensible but couldn't have told you that.

[@roggeralves94]

It's so sad that we even have to explain this, in the 21st century.

[@niallsomething3469]

No, this is secretly the 123rd century, space is secretly a piano, dinosaurs cause vaccines, the Earth is a velociraptor, planes cause chemical clouds which create the sun, DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER, global warming is an armchair, science is a potato.

[@jimmythebold589]

@@niallsomething3469 as a piano player, i approve this message . i never knew that part about chemtrails creating the sun, i love science! and potatoes!

[@niallsomething3469]

@@jimmythebold589 you see, the connection between science and potatoes is that people LIKE them. This shows that they are the exact same thing. It's scientific proof.

[@nowhereman4319]

Are you really surprised?

[@zoologistvince2664]

@@niallsomething3469 you idiot the earth is a triceratops. not a velociraptor. smh.

[@Bambuskus505]

I love that call-out you made when saying they all want to feel like we're in the matrix and that they want to feel like the "heros".

[@twocyclediesel1280]

As I watch this, I’m impressed with Dave’s knowledge and ability. I also can’t believe we’re having this discussion. And just think, when the day comes when average folks can save up and take a ride into space, all this will go away.

[@alliedanchor8864]

Let me guess, you're also looking for angry flat earthers

[@russiandude1295]

Yessir 🤣🤣

[@exoticpal2626]

Yup

[@emamantova9772]

ye

[@iamTheSnark]

It's easy. Look for comments with many answers. That's where they are.

[@davidsloan2439]

😂🤣😂 I can't believe I assumed I was the only one that was here to feel better about my own intelligence

[@Bwaffle7826]

Does it annoy anybody else seeing how flat earthers go out of their way to combat actual science but don't put an ounce of that same scepticism toward their own arguments? No matter how crazy it sounds?

[@Bwaffle7826]

@@kurtsloop2462 every flat earther is trolling and dont actually believe the earth is flat? Is this what you're saying?

[@windowsvistasuxalot]

How about bowl shaped with Antarctica at the edges?

[@Bwaffle7826]

@@kurtsloop2462 so you're using a single example based on personal experience to reflect all/most groups? Regardless these people deserve to be made fun of and saying most of them may be trolling could be true on internet forums, but groups often attach their real names to their beliefs and that isn't a sign of trolling. Trolling often hides your identity or is fairly obvious sarcasm. Groups in this regard don't really do either.

[@jonnykrivan6840]

Haha you got trolled silly

[@thomashaeyen6942]

@@jonnykrivan6840 *Shut up! QUIT! Before i knock-a you SILLY!* The person being trolled, 2021-

[@flickerleaf2465]

I think I found a new favorite pass time. Sorting by recent on Dave's debunking videos and watching him ratio morons. It is really cathartic to see him take off the gloves on some of these lmao.

[@Hudoi-1]

Same lol. I do this all the time.

[@Aresenal1739]

I love how if he sort by newest first you can just see professor Dave roasting flat earthers

[@michaelnelson1270]

Once had an older friend who was brilliant but had formal education only through elementary school (in the 1910's). He had unparalleled knowledge of human nature but knew no science. One day he argued for flat Earth based on the following argument: "Let's say I leave my house, go have a meal at a restaurant, a drink at a bar, and have sex at her house with the cute girl I picked up, and come home and my house is still here. If the earth moves, how is that possible?" He was utterly convinced by my counter argument: "Let's say you are in your seat on the train going from LA to Chicago. You go have a meal in the dining car, a drink in the club car, and have sex in a berth in the sleeping car with the fine woman you met. Then you go back to your seat and it's still where it was when you left. Does that mean the train didn't move?" A light went on in his head and he understood. At the age of eighty he became an eager science student, learning everything I could teach him. He lived to 101, getting to see the new millennium, having been born in the last few days of the nineteenth century. Rest in peace, Tony.

[@heavyrain5949]

Aww, that's a sweet story not gonna lie. My condolences.

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

F for Tony

[@michaelnelson1270]

@@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832 I'm curious why you said that.

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

@@michaelnelson1270 I don't know. I Just like saying F.

[@Pallenquin]

By saying F it means to give respect.

[@RileyD125]

Can you explain where babies come from? I'm still stuck on the stork theory. EDIT: Apparently my parents were lying to me this whole time. Babies come out of the belly button. MIND BLOWN

[@flookd5516]

Under gooseberry bushes. With the decline in home births it has become apparent they aren't brought in the doctors' black bags.

[@CookieJar2025]

The birds and the bees go round and round, round and round, round and round

[@pleasedonotthecat6976]

they come from a moms ass and be born

[@ledaclytemnestra6962]

Religion is toxic： god = devil the essence of foolishness：faith, hell, demon, freewill, sin, curse, afterlife, soul, heaven, god etc., ↓ chat.whatsapp.com/LT8eYjMxtza7uZ9tnqgZkf

[@CookieJar2025]

@@ledaclytemnestra6962 wut

[@maybemysecondchannel4772]

The flat earthers look at all of our science and discoveries and say "nuh uh"

[@FutureWorldX]

Don't forget the other statements from flerfs: "oh please" and "yeah whatever".

[@CinderedCaelus]

Oh god, do you remember that show where Dave and that flat earther Dave went to debate, I remember at one point Prof. Dave had to explain basic shapes to the Flat Earther and the Flat Earther just said "Good luck with that"

[@elementofepic1338]

I'm so glad that so many of us still come back to these videos xD this one I especially like due to how Dave puts flat earth through an academic lense to see if ot holds any ground (it doesn't, but I enjoy education surrounding an idea lol)

[@sander3130]

question for flat earthers - *why are there no pictures of the other side of your flat earth?*

[@markgallagher1790]

Devious all they need is a space shuttle

[@tremedar]

@@markgallagher1790 But how do they get outside the snowglo- _ahem_ *Firmament* ?

[@brithanyhernandez8007]

@Octavio Lopez that would mean that there is no gravity on the other side of the supposed disk, all they would need is the space shuttle as it can move where their is gravity

[@robertwarner1160]

why no pictures from the moon?

[@brithanyhernandez8007]

@@robertwarner1160 there are pictures of the moon, though I hardly think you will accept them as authentic

[@yoowtf4277]

How to trigger a flat earther 101: Ask Questions

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

@@yoowtf4277 As a Christian, I think that's ridiculous because I have never come across such a verse. The only thing that comes close is the Bible's version of the idiom: to the ends of the Earth....which everyone KNOWS is an idiom, even the people at the time used it, and never literally meant 'ends'.

[@ningkon3787]

Flat earthers will ban you from groups, or block you if you ask questions.

[@berniediveley625]

@@ningkon3787 I’m a flat earther. I don’t block people. ✌️

[@ningkon3787]

@@berniediveley625 good, but I'm still really disappointed in you.

[@codysmith8639]

I’ve become fascinated with your channel over the past few weeks; thanks for such high quality videos!

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

It is shocking that anyone should have to explain any of this, since the reality of the Earth's spherical shape and axis is easy enough for a layman to explain. In any case, there were some scientific facts here that I didn't know about, so it was definitely worth the watch!

[@pNsB]

I was never taught or ever believed in flat earth, but I can't believe I've learned more about geography, physics and astronomy from flat-earth-debunking videos than I did in school

[@dogwalker666]

That's the difference normal people learn, flurfs just say its lies.

[@osml]

It could be explained by science being "dumbed down" because we had to learn a lot in such a short time. Learning about this was also compulsory, so that might have caused disinterest.

[@cesarefildani5023]

Their one good deed.

[@cesarefildani5023]

@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter have you ever seen the flat earth from up high for your self?

[@shok5045]

@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter Basically, learn math, which is the most exact science there is, and then you'll find out why the earth isn't flat

[@surfk9836]

Aliens : Let's check up on humans. Humans: The earth is flat. Aliens: They're going backwards!

[@nomeruim1957]

We say to then humans can have mental diseases, they gonna understand

[@mattivanbosseghem9290]

LMAO

[@hellothere1216]

@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter how do you know the earth is flat? that everything revolves around the earth? have you been to space to look at earth and verify what it really is? have you proven the shape of the earth and the flat earth conspiracy theory anyhow yourself?

[@dogwalker666]

@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter Spam man show proof for flatardia or go back to nursery school and learn some science.

[@user-yh6dq2hl2t]

​@vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter lmao the same dumb logic can be said for flat earth too. did you not watch the fucking video? Also prove to me how santa and the tooth fairy are real

[@myronchan8568]

I had my education up to high school in Hong Kong for 18 years, I then moved to the US to continue my studies because why not. One day I had the idea of asking my friends in the US of what they thought about the earth. Surprisingly, 2 of them arent convinced that the earth is round. You know what I did after year 1, I returned to Hong Kong.

[@lizziedanse8335]

Smart. We do not take education seriously at all here. It's sad.

[@henrikschmidt3964]

It is truly baffling that flat earthers exist in this day and age. I am amazed at your patience and knowledge.

[@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

I find it hilarious that every Flat Earther won't believe any scientist of professor, but will believe any conspiracy theory on the internet 🤣

[@zeendaniels5809]

Confirmation bias. They will believe anyone who tells them what they want to hear.

[@optillian4182]

_"Question everything, except my beliefs! Those are objective facts and denying them makes you a part of the conspiracy!"_ -Flattards

[@jefferykeown8834]

They need to feel victimized. Makes them feel like they're fighting for something. Everyone wants to be a hero, and the best way to be a hero is to invent a villain to struggle against.

[@milonewton8379]

@@jefferykeown8834 they just have a deep sense of insecurity about their intellect I feel, and the flat earthers just pander to them, saying “ no no you are the ONLY smart person, everyone else is too dumb to see this” and they bite

[@Treron_Sinclair]

@@debradavis8875 So sad. Think about the time it took to create that YT account, create another email address, another password, google a profile picture of an old lady, and put it all together. It took more time to create that alt account today, than it did to actually make your comment. Yes, we all can see that you created that account today, just to be a spaz troll. (and a horribly transparent one at that) So sad kid. FAIL.

[@milkyway8514]

The flat model looks like a pretty snowglobe! Do flat earthers think that when it snows it's because God gives it a good shake?

[@enhaxed7839]

In a word yes, that's a pretty accurate description of their view.

[@thekachigga9255]

Haha that’s pretty funny. You get a like from me

[@milkyway8514]

@giovanni larrayoz HAHAHA thank you you just changed my life! XD Even the aesthetic of their model is called a globe, I did not even realise while I made my joke!

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

I tried to shake a flat earther's brain Sounds so empty lol

[@bruh____784]

@@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621k

[@l3ftward]

i just wanna let you know that my 8th grade science teacher played your flat earth debunk vids all the time in class! he also would play metal versions of pop songs on his bass for his classes so do with that what you want

[@FriendlyDawn135-kn5wq]

When I try to discuss this with my dad, you can never say the word gravity because he completely believes it doesn't exist, he believes the law of density keeps us down. But there is a pretty good explaination for why it isnt the law of density.

[@rhetoricalquestion6009]

I guess it would be no use to show him that objects or bubbles don't sink or rise in water on the space station (or in falling water bottles here on earth).

[@lucas411_]

Wait till he learns the “law of density” is literally just gravity 😭

[@kadengundersen498]

He knows nothing about density then as density only matters because of gravity. I'm sorry your father has been led so poorly astray

[@FriendlyDawn135-kn5wq]

@@kadengundersen498 facts lol he’s an interesting man that’s fs

[@radioaktivman8661]

Huge respect to professor dave for doing this and not going insane because of the stupidity of some humans. And even more respect that he still answers stupid comments

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I heard a guy describe Flat Earth on the radio when he said "Antarctica is just a ring of ice around the edge" it was so bizarre I couldnt even picture it wow

[@serpentsepia6638]

@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 I used to troll flat earth videos back in the day. Flat earthers would say, Antarctica surrounds the Earth to keep the oceans from pouring off. They also say that there's secretly even more Earth beyond Antarctica that only the elites know about. These people are nuts.

[@dragonssinofwrath2548]

Scientists before flat earth: every year making new discoveries Scientists now: FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME THE EARTH *IS NOT FLAT IT IS A SPHERE*

[@huzzzer6083]

The sad thing is that the flat Earth theory has never really disappeared. It just made a huge comeback with idiots _all around the world_ getting access to the internet.

[@bobfels5343]

round doesnt exclude flat ;)

[@dragonssinofwrath2548]

@@bobfels5343 READ IT BETTER IT SAYS SPHERE

[@bobfels5343]

@@dragonssinofwrath2548 nice edit

[@milorules2729]

@@bobfels5343 Earth is still a sphere

[@Laure__Line]

If I may, we’ve known it for a few millenaries, not a few centuries. The earth being round is not a modern discovery.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Correct

[@kimjongun4343]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains bro checks comments years later, absolute chad

[@dogwalker666]

Indeed well over 2500 years infact.

[@DemonDrummer]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Thank you for all you do. I’m not exactly sure how you have the patience to keep this up (educating those who suffer from Identity-Protective Cognition), but well done! 👏🏽

[@fotnite_]

@@kimjongun4343 I really don't understand how he responds so quickly to literally every flat-earther, and then still answers regular questions, on all of his videos going back years even though he has millions of subs

[@wobbit5661]

Legend says that if you say something really really stupid, you can summon professor Dave to this 4 year old comment section.

[@Handkaes_mit_Musik]

I love this comment section. It is so entertaining. We also have a flat earth community in Germany. But it is nothing compared to your experts in the US. I could listen to them the whole day. It's just fascinating to see, what can happen to a physical healthy brain. Greets from germany

[@ruor1984]

We do have this in Germany, too? oO

[@axlnewe]

@@ruor1984 Have you never heard of Astro Toni? He's one of the leading German mirrors of FE. Regurgitating everything from English channels and praised by his fans although there's nothing original presented by him. Do I need to mention that every comment that does not praise him is deleted? While claiming in the description of his videos that there are absolutely no critical comments in the first place because the "truth" leaves no room for criticism...

[@DBSG1976]

Greetings from the USA, I have family in Wurzberg und Ich will laufend besser werden die Deutsche sprache zu sprechen.

[@axlnewe]

@@DBSG1976 One of the main differences between a flatearther and an intellectually honest person is that the latter is happy to learn from his errors rather than being pissed or insulted. That being said, here's a tiny lesson in German: nouns are always written with capital letters in German. Therefore it's "Sprache", not "sprache". 😉 And now how about a quid pro quo? How can I improve my English?

[@axlnewe]

@@DBSG1976 Do you mean "Würzburg"? How nasty that your family lives in city with a letter that you probably don't have on your keyboard! 😆

[@maddoxmonteza]

the solar system according to flat earthers: ⚫⚫__⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫

[@anokiyoussou]

Flattards think planets is just a bunch of light in the dome.

[@Dina-dm4un]

@@anokiyoussou LOL I never heard of the term flattards until now and I’m now using this to refer to flash earthers. Thank you for making me laugh

[@Dina-dm4un]

Oops I meant flat* earthers

[@SCP--ir1ms]

XD

[@issyaboi9000]

@Harshyuuu nah this isnt ok don't be racist man....

[@FourByteBurger]

Some English artillerymen in 1918: "To accurately and easily strike the correct German encampment i have to account for the velocity of my weapon and the curvature of the earth!" People in 2023: "Well y'see,the Earth is flat because some guy told me so on the Internet,and nobody lies on the Internet!"

[@stylesrj]

The Flat Earther will then call the artilleryman a liar because "My dad works for the artillery company and he says they never account for the curve!"

[@oak3ns]

wait, but Professor Dave & Flat Earth KZbinrs are both on the internet, so whos telling the truth?!? A real mystery

[@rehmanzed]

KZbin has a unique reputation than other social medias, youtube is full of library and different contents out of the box. Thats amazing.

[@PM-wt3ye]

Its a shame, that there are about 25% thumbs down. Are people really that stupid??

[@willfishing5605]

you have to consider nearly 100% of flat earthers came here and disliked, while a very small percentage of normal people came here... so we're still in good shape, don't worry

[@boredasfuuck]

Yes

[@sd8313]

Prolly just aussies who likes the vid

[@boredasfuuck]

@@sd8313 im asian and i liked the vid

[@phildavenport2467]

@@rap1df1r3 Well, you'd know what dumb is. Just look in a mirror.

[@scottbrady443]

This is brilliant. Thanks. As a science teacher, I try my best to instill scientific literacy into my students. It is so important that our youth grow understanding not only how the natural world works, but more importantly, how to question and problem solve without bias. I was just thinking, I bet there are not any Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Rocket Scientists, Planetary Scientists, Meteorologists that believe in the flat earth. There is no mathematics in the flat earth model that would allow a rocket to travel into space, to use the gravitational pull of the earth for acceleration, and to reach another body in space.

[@markvicferrer]

The older flat earth concept is far more interesting: a flat earth rests on 4 elephants standing on the shell of a turtle.

[@vietnamesenoodle3280]

virgin flat earther vs chad turtle elephant earther

[@JohnHazenhousen]

It also inspired one of the greatest series of books of all time - Discworld.

[@Krugis]

Tbh a lot of the older theories about the world's shape are pretty freaking cool- flerfs like to claim that all ancient civilizations thought the world was flat.. actually looking at ancient maps of the world though? We have realms which pass through each other ethereally, a world of mountains and streams upon the back of a great god or beast, the entire world existing upon the side and base of a mountain, "traditional" flat earth (hilariously, even unpopular at the time due to being incompatible with navigation), and so many more. We have worlds of rings, small pocket worlds created by divine pantheons, and even worlds born out of the battles of primordial gods, but flerfs chose "it is a pancake kinda" out of all of them? Laaammee

[@ericb3157]

@@Krugis reminds me of something in a book, based on a setting in a D&D game. one of the "outer planes" that Demons come from is an infinite flat plane... *tilting at a steep angle* ! at the end of the book the main villain ends up tumbling downhill FOREVER.

[@rubbegameing5370]

@@ericb3157 Sounds cool. What book?

[@loulabelleparsnips4127]

I appreciated this tutorial a lot and liked the way Dave avoided the vitriol usually flung at Flat Earthers. I think you're correct Dave about why it's exciting for some people to enjoy living in a mystical shadowy underground where they are one of the few who really know what's going on. It's like when I was a kid, running around with my twin brother in our neighborhood making up ways in which we could 'identify' alien beings from space (:D). It was so much fun and ended up involving kids living within many square blocks of us. Anyway, thanks for this education and for being kinder to those trying to work up some excitement in their humdrum existences!

[@TheDoRoBouNeko]

Flat earthers are just 2D people who will never understand the concept of 3D. XD

[@durriellhumphrey]

That’s like the most perfect explanation. Lol People like that, who don’t know how to think outside of the box and always take things so literal, give me a damn headache. It’s unbelievable how we are where we are today.

[@resmiunnikrishnan2462]

Dude that is so correct

[@goldenknight578]

Are you trying to say that flat earthers have no depth?

[@TheDoRoBouNeko]

@@goldenknight578 Well, isn’t that the very definition of ‘flat’? XD

[@vetolishterror6241]

Your just closed minded

[@sdupont73]

Hi Dave. I just found your videos a couple days ago, and love them. You have an amazing skill at explaining science simply and clearly. Thanks for all your videos. In this day and age of growing pseudo science, we need them! I'm looking forward to wearing the t-shirt I ordered.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

thanks for getting one! they are not very popular i'm afraid, haha

[@peepo9552]

Super wholesome

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Check my anti-vaccine debunk I put out last month.

[@codexcodexcodex]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains I discover your channel yesterday and I really love your content.

[@jj65jj65]

@vermelon all vaxxes are poison as are virtually all petro chemical medicines

[@SparkLabReal]

There's a mistake in this video - On the Coriolis effect in the Northern Hemisphere it spins counter clockwise and in the Southern Hemisphere it spins clock wise. Yet on the video its flipped.

[@petroleumalley]

In the northern hemisphere the deflection of airflow, caused by the Coriolis effect, is clockwise. Hurricanes rotate for that reason counter clockwise.

[@Krush00]

Like other conspiracy theories, flat earthers 1) begin with a conclusion, then 2) work to find "evidence" that supports that conclusion, then 3) ignore any other evidence that doesn't support that conclusion, or simply chalk it up to "government".

[@oppalus]

The government wrote this comment Proof: BECAUSE I Said So🤑👽👎👌👈🥵🥶😱🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@LineOfThy]

great way to describe this scenario!

[@adamr2977]

Nothing wrong with number 1, but 2 and 3 are real bad.

[@dark_unit2409]

"Earth is definitely not flat" Me: yes and the sky is blue

[@dark_unit2409]

@@boterlettersukkel lmao🤣

[@BallMuncher555]

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[@mr.fuhrman1114]

in the wall is made out of wall

[@huzzzer6083]

It's pretty fucking sad actually that this sentence has to be repeated over and over again in the 21st century.

[@dark_unit2409]

@@huzzzer6083 my guy, no one cares

[@zhaya5255]

I'm a hobby (astro)physicist but psychologist by trade and I thought of a psychological model to go with the flat earth society and why it is so much more prevalent in very meritocratic societies - i.e. the USA. A large part of US culture is Calvinistic in essence saying with hard work come more blessings. This translates into the "American Dream" where anyone can become anything regardless of heritage only depending on their own talents and efforts. Unfortunately this also puts a lot of blame on those who, well, don't get very far on the social hierarchy. The mind is wonderful at compensating for negative thoughts and emotions, rationalising them away unconsciously in amazing ways. My hypothesis is now, that most flat earth followers are a special type of narcissist personality who fail to reach a societal level they think they deserve. You can then either reevaluate your self-image (which is painful) or you re-evaluate society. By subscribing to a conspiracy theory you not only elevate yourself to an elitist, enlightened level only attained by few, you also simultaneously degrade every person that you previously had to "look up to", e.g. academics, politicians and "smarter" people. Furthermore, you find others with exactly the same mindset and company is always good. That is also the reason why challenging any flat earth follower with rational arguments will most likely amount to nothing, because following your logic they would have to challenge their self-image and re-evaluate their social standing. And the unscientific part of me relishes the thought of a perfect trap where you either have to get down to the bottom with your argumentation or admit you fit into the diagnosis of an anti-authoritarian narcissist... But that is really just a side note.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Remarkably well-articulated.

[@zhaya5255]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Thank you! I think you did a wonderful job in your video, too - it's really sad it most likely will not move any conspiracy nut to overthink their perspective. But I enjoyed it very much.

[@zhaya5255]

@Pete is never wrong Of course, this is an overly simplified model and yes, the poor education definitely plays a part since, if you were taught scientific deductive thinking, it'd be hard to not notice the wild incongruities of this model. Sadly, my current research focuses on autism spectrum disorders and I don't have the time or funds to actually work on this scientifically.

[@phildavenport2467]

@@zhaya5255 There is plenty to work with, and there are other likely mechanisms to consider, such as a belief in complex conspiracies that keep these poor simple folk in their place. We have seen the power of individuals who coalesce these nebulous feelings and provide a simple scapegoat as cause, which can lead to mass action directed towards a "solution". Invariably, the people driving that bus are not stupid, unlike the herd that they mobilize, and no special skills or education are required to participate. Oh yes, it has happened, and if it sounds familiar, you're right.

[@zhaya5255]

@@phildavenport2467 Of course. As I said, it's a simplified model, much like the one about addiction as an inherited personality trait. There's never just one cause for a given behaviour or personality development. I can't count how often I heard my lecturers' favourite word "biopsychosocial" in my studies. 😅 Much as in addiction and abuse, there is a vulnerability in some individuals and there are people who have the ability to single out these targets and make use of their susceptibility.

[@shanesmith6815]

it fascinates me that people still try to argue that the world is flat

[@nathanielkhoo3460]

I feel like most of them come from kansas

[@bigredxxx]

Lol that's funny not a lot of people will get it

[@GhostLink92]

I love how KZbin still feels the need to add their "context" panels to this.

[@1SLMusic]

I’ve probably watched this series a million times over, but I still find myself coming back to it. It’s easily one of my favorite series on this platform, hands down.

[@KeinUberMech]

Agreed

[@1SLMusic]

@@thefalcondj6718 Go outside and look at the moon for fuck’s sake

[@zHydro12]

@@thefalcondj6718 what

[@iAmPurpleBeepBoop]

@@thefalcondj6718 what

[@cyberanon2463]

​​​@@thefalcondj6718🤡🤡🤡😂😂😂

[@VulpesChama]

I once listen to a woman who said: "If the world isn't created by God, then why does it take exactly one year for the earth to go around the sun?" - You know, even if people accept scientific observations, they still can mess it up terribly.

[@mistergarabaldi4845]

Der Schurkinist when archaeologists dug up dinosaurs, how did they know their names? When astronomers were cataloguing the planets, how did they know to call Venus Venus and mercury mercury, ect? Checkmate, globeheads.

[@scptime1188]

I saw a video that tried to prove god, and one of the proofs was "why are atomic clocks so precise?" No shit...

[@dexterjettster3683]

I legitimately am worried for that woman

[@muchotexto4248]

It doesn't even do that... We are legit adding a day each four years because it doesn't do that AND IS NOT EVEN ENOUGH

[@pierremainstone-mitchell8290]

@@mistergarabaldi4845 And your question is?

[@farkasmactavish]

Additionally, if the Earth is flat, where are the edge of the world tourist traps?

[@catrybou123]

They believe that NASA is guarding the “ice wall” on the edge of the Earth to “hide the truth”.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

​@@catrybou123they definitly dont know that nasa doesnt have a military...as it is a non militarized governmental agencu

[@tacoscatsandmangos512]

​@@guilhermecastro9893they think that's a lie

[@guilhermecastro9893]

@@tacoscatsandmangos512 bro they think the son is just above the clouds oyu htink i care about what flat earthers think?

[@mikloskallo9046]

It's just mind boggling, that these things need to be explained.

[@ice891]

Aliens: let's check up on the humans Us: the Earth is flat Aliens: I thought they got past this level centuries ago

[@Lh0000]

Aliens: hang on let’s check again Us: the earth is flat! Also us: no it’s not! Aliens: ooooh they started doing drugs again, that explains it!

[@rat4289]

@@Lh0000 how aliens know what drugs are?

[@brainwashedbyevidence948]

@@rat4289 LSD is universal as a drug!

[@JoseFernandes-js7ep]

You have found the reason!!!! Flatearthers are trying to convince aliens that we are too stupid for them to worry about us.

[@rat4289]

@@JoseFernandes-js7ep Holy shit you right!

[@Hazwaste63]

21st century and we're still trying to convince some people that Earth is round. Unbelievable.

[@jormungandr9251]

Hazwaste63 It's a first-world problem, for sure.

[@mistylover2082]

You might 100% say that this is the emotional embarrassment of the education system that failed completely since the first time of existence of the very little sec of the universe creation... It's not healthy... But I agree with the religious when they claim this planet and universe needs a great savior.... And that savior should be PROPER EDUCATION of reality and science... Too bad they love the kids and youth to keep our species from evolving and progress of the future...

[@mistylover2082]

@@progrockrules religious beliefs

[@mistylover2082]

@@progrockrules I don't in a way respect them due to the religious evil history but acknowledge the religious beliefs... Check out bitchspot blog channel

[@patricktaylor8173]

Haha right! I don't want to love on this planet anymore!

[@BigDThatsMe]

So they say there is no gravity. That the earth is constantly moving upwards. Then what keeps the earth from smashing into the sun and moon? Are they also being projected upwards? What keeps the sun and moon anchored? If there were no gravitational force, they would just float off into space.

[@dogwalker666]

Nothing makes sense on space pizza world.

[@The_Logical_Gamer123]

They claim that literally everything accelerates and can't explain why things would not fall down due to the constant acceleration.

[@italianball6653]

I love how Dave still comes back to roast the flat earthers😂😂😂