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'Flat Earthers' Prepare for a Cruise to Nowhere

Posted April 06, 2019 12:00 AM by M-ReeD
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Pack your bags.

Flat Earthers, that group of folks who even in the face of scientific evidence believe that the Earth is a flat disk shape, are reportedly preparing to embark on a party cruise that will set sail sometime in 2020 to dispel the NASA-perpetrated myth that the Earth is round.

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Announced by the Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) — a collection of what I can only hope are mischievous folks just hoping to have a go at the rest of us — the cruise destination is the Antarctic “ice wall,” otherwise known as the wall of ice that allegedly keeps the ocean back (not to mention white walkers out) and marks the ends of the Earth.

“If you take a globe and you squish it down, the Antarctic would go all the way around the Earth. It’s kind of like an ice shore and it’s very, very large. It’s not like you just go there and you can just peek over it,” Robbie Davidson, FEIC’s founder said.

Described by the FEIC as "the biggest, boldest adventure yet," some might argue that the FEIC celebratory cruise will become less so when it is discovered that most global positioning and other navigational systems likely directing their efforts rely on the Earth being…well…round.

But let’s not spoil the party for them. I’m sure they’ll figure it out on their own considering how well they come to creative conclusions.

For now, details about when and where the FEIC will set sail are unavailable.

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04/06/2019 12:48 AM

Oh boy, will they be furnishing Dragonglass swords or do you bring your own???

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04/06/2019 8:02 AM

What's underneath the turtle? It's turtles all the way down...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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04/06/2019 1:24 PM

Why am I thinking that AOC should be the leader of this group...

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04/06/2019 10:53 PM

Perhaps because the AOC quote will live in infamy; "I think that there a lot more people concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right."........

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04/07/2019 12:22 AM

She seems to be a kind of female Don Quixote, who has been brainwashed by reading too much left wing propaganda, and travels about fighting the forces of reason...

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04/06/2019 11:45 PM

Have the Trump's booked?

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04/07/2019 6:17 AM

If the earth was really flat cats would have knocked everything off of it already. Truly a trip to nowhere!

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04/07/2019 9:57 AM

They are the lucky ones, they are going off on a party while we all sit at work. Not so dumb after all. Is this a one way trip or a round trip?

I am also pretty sure the Antarctic already does go around the earth, at the south pole end. I don't want to go down to check in case I fall off the edge.

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04/07/2019 11:10 AM

From what I dug up they need to circumnavigate the South Pole and if it's 25000 miles? ...the Earth is round and if it's 64000 miles then the Earth is flat so ..there you go.. as Tony beets would say.

Maybe it's kilometers maybe I'm off but that's the gist of it.

Is there not planning on doing the full circumnavigation it's A wasted trip and they don't believe in their cause.

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04/07/2019 2:00 PM

How many legislators are attending this cruise on a 'fact finding mission'?

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09/05/2019 2:52 PM

No sure how many legislators, but, I believe Trump is the keynote speaker!!!

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09/19/2019 7:52 PM

FAKE NEWS! HONEST!

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04/07/2019 2:11 PM

I wonder if they will get stuck in the ice at the south pole, and if the fake news media will report that they fell off the planet.

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04/07/2019 2:48 PM

Ignorance is alive and well here living in your's and other's infantile, unknowing mockery!

What happened to keeping politics out of CR4??????

Apparently, it depends on who is sewing the ignorance!

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04/07/2019 6:18 PM

I was careful not to mention politics. I was fully aware of the mockery though. It is you who identified fake news as belonging to your political party.

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04/09/2019 5:19 PM

Edge denier....

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04/08/2019 2:37 PM

Now that is hoping for too much!

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