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The flat earth theory has merit, here's why
Space simulators such as Star Citizen and No Man's Sky and other games simulate gravity and physics artificially through code, but behind the scenes these games and simulators are created on a flat 3D space / grid. If we're living in a simulation, the same rules apply. Gravity is artificially coded, and the universe would be a flat grid. When flat earthers say gravity doesn't exist, they might be right. Because if we're to assume this is all a simulation, then it doesn't exist. It's just advanced code to make us believe we're stuck to a round sphere.
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The Commendatore Jun 30, 2024 @ 1:23am 
Bowl-shaped Earth makes more sense.
Bassturd Jun 30, 2024 @ 1:24am 
The whole flat earth movement is christian propaganda. Has been for hundreds of years.
Yew Nough Jun 30, 2024 @ 1:28am 
Nothing has merit unless it is demonstratable in science fact (and not fiction).

Ideas and theories are nice to think about, but it's fantasy unless proven otherwise.
Originally posted by Yew Nough:
Nothing has merit unless it is demonstratable in science fact (and not fiction).

Ideas and theories are nice to think about, but it's fantasy unless proven otherwise.
Yuri had agreta time prving the grass on the shin of a donkey was big enough to tickle the floor and that floors have feelings.
The Earth is round but not the sun and moon, those are flat as a pancake. :os_pancakes: :csd2smile:
permanent name Jun 30, 2024 @ 1:42am 
but if we weren't in a sim and instead were under the thumb of a deus ex machina that ChatGPT coded, then they would take 3d space and alter physics to make it seem more 2d.
Originally posted by Yew Nough:
Nothing has merit unless it is demonstratable in science fact (and not fiction).
Science has never been fact, it's only theories. We know nothing of how things really work, despite we think we do.

https://corespirit.com/articles/scientists-admit-everything-they-know-about-physics-is-likely-wrong
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ulia Jun 30, 2024 @ 2:27am 
Originally posted by 76561198062744270:
Space simulators such as Star Citizen and No Man's Sky and other games simulate gravity and physics artificially through code, but behind the scenes these games and simulators are created on a flat 3D space / grid.

I'll entertain this despite it being a silly turdpost. A "flat 3D space" still perfectly supports three-dimensional bodies. Curvature of 3D space is a support for general relativity and measuring the size of the universe. It does not say "stellar bodies need to be pancakes". Curiously though the universe has in fact been measured to be just as flat as the cartesian 3D space we use in game engines, though whether we lack the resolution to truly map it out remains (and will eternally remain) unanswered.

Originally posted by 76561198062744270:
Gravity is artificially coded, and the universe would be a flat grid. When flat earthers say gravity doesn't exist, they might be right. Because if we're to assume this is all a simulation, then it doesn't exist. It's just advanced code to make us believe we're stuck to a round sphere.

Gravity indisputably exists and the relevant question is whether it's a force or an emergent property, which is where GR and quantum mechanics start to clash. Science aside though, it makes little sense to exclude gravity in particular as "non existant because it's code" when you're proposing that everything is a simulation: if everything is code then ostensibly nothing "exists", therefore pointing at specifically psuedogravity as the key to supporting your theory is nonsense.
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Sek-Raktaa Jun 30, 2024 @ 2:28am 
The flat, disk-shaped earth has been debunked ages ago. Everyone knows that that the Earth is cube shaped... except those heretics who believe the Earth is Pyramid shaped but that's just ridiculous... or is it?

:-P
Originally posted by Sek-Raktaa:
The flat, disk-shaped earth has been debunked ages ago. Everyone knows that that the Earth is cube shaped... except those heretics who believe the Earth is Pyramid shaped but that's just ridiculous... or is it?

:-P
Earth could very well be cube shaped. Developers often simulate planets via cubes turned into spheres in code as it's much easier to implement planetary LOD's with heighmaps on a cube than a sphere.

Originally posted by ulia:
Long pointless post.
- Anime avatar.
- Trying to sound intelligent.

It's only a theory, lighten up.
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Tito Shivan Jun 30, 2024 @ 3:14am 
Originally posted by Trump Derangement Syndrome:
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When you start talking about flat earth but you end up defining the simulation hypothesis
Originally posted by Trump Derangement Syndrome:
Originally posted by Yew Nough:
Nothing has merit unless it is demonstratable in science fact (and not fiction).
Science has never been fact, it's only theories
look up "scientific theory", you still won't get it, but I'll have done my part

I'll even add this as suggested reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/structure-scientific-theories/
Last edited by the vampire of time and memory; Jun 30, 2024 @ 3:20am
ulia Jun 30, 2024 @ 3:22am 
Originally posted by Trump Derangement Syndrome:
Long pointless post.
- Anime avatar.
- Trying to sound intelligent.

It's only a theory, lighten up.

Damn you give up that easily huh :steammocking:
Last edited by ulia; Jun 30, 2024 @ 3:23am
The only flat thing are their brains.
secuda Jun 30, 2024 @ 3:43am 
Problem with flat earth thought experiement (i refuse to call it a theory at this point) is that you dont question it. Because as soon as you do it falls apart.
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