Response to Globebusters - The Earth Still Isn't Flat

Last week I posted a video about how we know the Earth is round, from the perspective of modern astronomy. The Flat Earth community did not like it one bit, and the channel "Globebusters" decided to talk for three hours on their livestream about how stupid my video is, and how stupid I am. I didn't really appreciate that, so I decided to make a video about their video to illustrate precisely how little they know about science, and to further reinforce how utterly absurd the Flat Earth "model" is, as well as some of the finer points about the conspiracy. Enjoy!

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[Elrond_Hubbard_]

It's like playing chess against a pigeon. Doesn't matter how good at chess you are, the pigeon is just going to knock all the pieces over, shit on the board and declare itself the winner and fly away.

[thomasbel]

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts. While the stupid ones are full of confidence." -Charles Bukowski

[TheSlyWeeb]

Neutron stars must be jealous of how dense flat earthers are

[epicendo]

How to be flat earther
1. Dont graduate elementry
2. Say science does not actually exsist
3. Make up random stuff
4. When counter-argued againt made-up stuff, say what they are saying is silly
5. Think your correct and always correct even againt indisputible evidence

[quanchuloo]

i like how their only counter-argument is to say “i knew you would say that dave”

[eklectic]

Man, I wish “quantum calculations” were fake. That semester of P-chem was brutal.

[patgregory]

To be completely fair the flat earthers made a very compelling point when they said “maybe I’m just a stupid flat earther.”

[Ulysses-xlpv]

“You don’t need to make up an invisible shadow government to be mad at you can be mad at the actual government”-Milo Rossi.

[daanbos]

one things flat earthers can't explain
1. flat earth

[snakething]

I love how their argument boils down to: “fuckin magnets, how do they work.”

[kabirvariava]

Their response to everything: "electromagnetism, DAVE." the way they said Dave made me chuckle.

[ethanmiller]

The thing about the “shooting a bullet at a lighthouse” thing that makes it so funny to me— for long-distance shooting, like military snipers, you actually *do* have to account for the Earth's rotation.

[sockducttape]

99% of the flat earther's arguments are: I dont understand this therefore it must be impossible

[erictopp]

As much as they frustrate me, I have to admit that it's because of flat earthers that I'm constantly becoming more educated about physics, ecology, astronomy, and debate

[zappyapp]

"I didn't research flat earth enough"
It's impossible to research flat earth, every flat earther has a different view on it and they almost always contradict each other

[NoticesUrBulgaria]

So I checked. As far as I know, this is the first episode with the modern haircut. This was the episode that split the classical and modern Dave. The modern haircut symbolizes that he means BUSINESS to these science deniers. This is where the good professor became a legend.

[Matuse]

Fun saying I heard once:
Biology is really chemistry.
Chemistry is really physics.
Physics is really math.
Math is really hard.

[dimtheblender]

I failed physics but wow, these people really make me feel a lot better about my own intelligence

edit: After a little over a year I feel it's worth mentioning that this was during the pandemic. I suffered from a pretty bad depressive episode and lost a lot of motivation to do well in school, and this class was the one that affected me the most. Normally I really enjoy science, but a bad teacher can certainly ruin a potentially enjoyable subject and crush your hopes and dreams about anything remotely concerning it. The physics teacher I had wasn't a good person and his teaching style was very incompatible with mine. I wasn't on a 504 or IEP, but it wouldn't have mattered anyways because my friends who have accomodations for their learning disabilities/chronic health issues who had his class mentioned that he didn't give accomodations and believed them to be unfair to other students. Obviously you are LEGALLY REQUIRED to offer accomodations for students who are eligible for them. I'm not too sure what the hell he was thinking, nor how he had been teaching for a past decade whilst thinking of all of the other past students who needed accomodations but never got them.

In fact, he was so unempathetic during remote learning that he kept his already strict standards for grading. Many other classes had tried to make their grading more lenient because people had been struggling during remote learning, but him? Oh hell no. He failed nearly a quarter-third of our graduating class, and while I get that physics is a difficult subject, if a disproportionate amount of kids are failing your class or are even trying to purposefully avoid doing your work knowing how it wouldn't matter, there is a reason for that.

There are other reasons why I *mildly dislike* my freshman year physics teacher: like I said, he wasn't a good person and he openly complained about his middle son in front of class and often used his children as frames of reference to compare our work to his. For context, I live in Massachusetts and we are required to take MCAS, which is our version of standardized testing, and pass it in order to graduate. If you score in an advanced range in all of your subjects, then you are eligible for a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship which provides tuition for up to eight semesters for undergraduate education in a Massachusetts state school. He made it a point that his other children had gotten the scholarship, except for his middle son. On a surface level, this just seems like something that was mentioned in passing, but it revealed a lot about him to me. Normally you shouldn't use your children as frames of reference for comparing your students' work to them. This was also what I only witnessed during the times I bothered to pay attention in his class; people in other classes had talked about how he'd call his middle son a disappointment.
I went on a bit of a tangent there, as this was supposed to be more as to why I got a less than ideal grade in freshman physics, but it's something I feel very strongly about.

Of course, I can't deny that my depressive episode wasn't a factor as to why I didn't get a good grade, (My grade for the year was actually a D-, . but I failed one of the quarters) but before then I had been a straight-A honors student and I've worked very hard to try and get my GPA back up to what it was. I've been driven by a lot of spite to be more successful than my physics teacher, but I know I have to let it go eventually. Being a straight-A student gives students a bit of a complex, and I heavily dislike how the school system elicits such competition within students which leads to lots of stress. At that point, school isn't necessarily about learning anymore, it's just a reflection of how hard you can work and get a good grade as a result. Failing physics made me feel like shit about my intelligence for a long time, which is why I said "make me feel a lot better about my own intelligence" as if I didn't think of myself highly in that aspect.

So, moral of the story, if you are a teacher and you have a student that needs accomodations, FOLLOW THEM. Also, if you're a student and you have a crappy teacher, speak up about it with other people. Don't beat yourself up about your intelligence, as there are many other things that you excel at apart from that one subject you failed freshman year of highschool. If I can get through it, so can you.

[DeanCole]

The best line of the video, "I am sorry that astronomical events don't conform to your lifespan"

[weebscp]

So if Flat Earth physics are real,

..couldn't I backwards longjump?