Nonsense, everyone knows the earth is actually a torus. Have you seen any of the globes and such that flat-earthists have made? There are honestly some beautiful ones out there.
that's literally any youtube livestream, it's just /b/ but faster if you want real discussion, you should get the various spacex irc channels across the common major networks --- Post updated --- you guys are going about this all wrong you can't argue with flat earthers, because arguments require reason they always have a way to disprove what you consider to be facts, based on their worldview correctness is relative don't even bother
Here's one way to put the definition of earth: Earth is a flat-looking round sphere. It's flat looking because most of us, and those flat earth people most likely don't even go up to space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
500-1000 years is farfetched. We need to get off this planet, and fast. Visiting a near star may be possible within 50 years, using the proposed "Star-chip" This would be a breakthrough in interstellar travel. http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...s/news-story/dcb4ccf95ef56b7687626b0565934362
No, that doesn't work. "I don't believe your 'proof'." See? it's just like those communists on the college campuses they talk about in those news programmes these days
Having an intelligent scientific conversation with a flat earther is like trying to speak to a cow. The cow needs to know how to speak a human language, which it can't, because its a cow, just like a flatearther needs to grasp science at the basic level, which it can't, because its a flat earther.
From what I read, the star chip wouldn't transport people. What I'm talking about is traveling in large spacecrafts like these, that can carry a huge number of passengers. Who knows how much power these things would need to produce to reach systems like Proxima Centauri in about 20 years. Smaller crafts may be possible, but there's still a lot holding us back, like economics, political affairs, and perhaps some of the things mentioned in this thread. I wouldn't be surprised if the low intelligence of Flat-Earthers puts us one step back from achieving advanced travel through the cosmos.
The benefit of private space agencies like spacex is that they sre not held back by the government, like NASA.
Sure, as much as the government probably wants to control them. However, it would still be an expensive venture, which is where my point about economics comes from.
Flat earthers are the really really really loud minority group. No-one would give them a job at any space agency, so it wont hold us back. Also, getting more then a tiny vessal is virtually impossible, at least in this stage. Getting close and taking pictures of another star is such an astronomical hurdle, getting there at all would be insane. With science fiction about, we tend to forget how freaking far away other stars are. Looking back at the earth from Proxima Centauri is the equilivent at looking at a water bear in Florida from the coast of Africa. Thats a long distance.
We should just have all the flat earther's try to walk and find the edge of the planet see how that ends up
Voyager 1, which is i think the fastest man made object, will take 40,000 years to pass nearby stars. So yeah, space is huge.
Couldn't that also apply to Voyager 2? The way I saw it, when a person becomes a Flat-Earther, that means one less person that could invest in studying interstellar travel and other interesting stuff like that, because they can't get past the fact that the Earth is spherical. As for the vessels, that's why I said 500 - 1000 years, depending on what advancements we make in the future. When you tell a sci-fi story, sometimes you can't be 100% factual and correct about the future. It's a hard task. It does sometimes do the job of telling an interesting and fun story, depending on what you watch/read/etc.
It's probably impossible to do that. A spacecraft would probably have to go right to. . . Ludicrous Speed. And there's always that lingering possibility that a spaceship and its passengers would be obliterated by such speeds. We currently are unable to know for sure since we haven't construct such a ship capable of such speeds.
