Water mountains are my new favorite concept
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Show me in the bowl of water how it’s done
I don’t think this guy got the memo: the flat earth argument is that water finds its own level. “Large bodies of water don’t curve” as they say.
They believe that the ships don’t actually disappear and that the strong zoom of a Nikon P1000 can actually bring ships back from behind the “curve”.
They’re a very special set of people 👍
strong zoom of a Nikon P1000 can actually bring ships back from behind the “curve”.
wow, observation effects, these people are quantum idiots.
I thought they only believe their own eyes
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They have to be trolling, right? There’s no way a flat earther thinks water can bend like that.
There’s no way a flat earther thinks
That’s all you need to remember.
water mountains
…water mountains…
like… gotta be a troll. please.
I want to know there isn’t a single person on this planet that is that fucking dumb.
Is a tide not a kind of water hill?
imagine if you could, a water mountain or hill as frozen in time… you could wave at it, right?
Oh you sweet summer child. If they understood basic physics they wouldn’t be a flat earther.
There no way an earther could water bend either, unless they’re the avatar or something.
Goddamn weebs gonna weeb. (Avatar <3 )
It’s an American series I think.
“the earth is flat since water is always level, oh except water mountains”
Actually, i could imagine a flat earther would say that now that i think about it
Yeah, you’re right. Why am I expecting any soft of consistency in their train of thought. lol
What is a tide if not a wide water hill?
Now that you asked, I wonder how flat earthers explain tides.
They don’t
Also nowadays we have such accurate satellites that we can actually see the tiny increases in elevation of the sea level that reflect the topology of the sea floor.
Satellites notice the tiny “water mountains” which indicate the topology of the sea floor, and then they scan the place better with equipment on boats.
But yeah, I really think “water mountains” is a bit on a exaggeration to that phenomena.
Yes. And I love that picture.
The “gummy squirrel”? Damn, marine biologists get to have all the fun naming all these animals on top of spending so much time at sea! I’m starting to regret my life choices.
Snot sea cucumber https://australian.museum/learn/animals/sea-stars/snot-sea-cucumber/
Yo I think I gotta add this to my D&D campaign setting
I’m imagining you ruining your players’ suspension of disbelief by including something that real people in the real world really believe.
I hope it doesn’t! I hope they see it or hear of it and are intrigued. Maybe they wonder if something exciting is going on there, and want to check it out.
Idk yet, but they’re probably resulting from a leak from the elemental plane of water, or a leyline nexus or something there and water magic is stronger there and so there is a flotilla of wizards trying to study it under the harsh conditions. Or it could be a hole in the world and somewhere else there is a big whirlpool, and the wrecks get spit out at the top of the water mountain and there is a whole culture of salvagers who explore the turbulence and dive for treasures. Maybe an empire of sea elves has been magically growing it for decades with the intention of using it as a weaponized tsunami so they can raid and conquer farther inland. I love irl conspiracy shit like this that asks more questions than it answers, because in a fantasy setting the answers get to be cool.
This is such a fascinating concept, because it misses the truth by millimeters. Complete lack of self awareness.
This is what fundamental scientific illiteracy gets you.
When you have no reference point for how the world around you works anything makes sense.
Flat earthers 10 years ago in school: “when am I ever going to need to know the difference between a plane and a sphere in the real world?!”
Nah it’s just trolling and people like you overreacting and feeding the social media machine, Zuck et al. love it
I only feed the Lemmy social media machine. I bet I have cost instance admins entire pennies!
It’s been 10 years, it’s not trolling.
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All mountains are temporary, it’s just a matter of timescale
(edit: fun fact, the Appalachian mountain range is older than trees!)
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Appalachian mountains and the Scottish Highlands predate the Continental Drift, and are technically the same mountain range, they also predate sharks and bones.
Everything is temporary, in fact.
How about permanent?
Not sure how permanent these are nowadays.
The thickest ice mountain in Antarctica is almost 5km high. I believe it will last for a bit.
Bubba & Jimbo said they can roll enough coal in their lifted Ford F-950 to melt all the glaciers this weekend.
Sounds like a plan!
Welp I’ll never see that atrwork the same ever again.
There’s a simple reason why you have to make up water mountains to picture the horizon:
Scale issue.
They probably saw it on Interstellar.
Water mountain, aka an iceberg. Checkmate, atheists.
Hmmm. That would finally explain water skiing.
I really wanted to like Interstellar, but that whole “love can transcend dimensions” thing just really killed it for me. I mean the notion is lovely and so on, but it’d been doing a pretty good job at being a hard scifi story so it felt like a letdown to have that sort of hokey nonexplanation for the big picture, like the Nolans just gave up with the script at some point
If you ignore that one monolog and just accept that the extra-dimensional aliens/future human entities didn’t understand how to communicate with his daughter using only gravity, so they captured her father and had him do it, it makes a lot more sense.
And really that is what the script is trying to say… I think. It’s just very ham-fisted and ranty which does happen in Nolen movies. Basically "these beings have all the power in the universe compared to us, but without knowing (loving) the person they’re trying to reach they can’t find a way to get the message across.
Honestly in my head-cannon, the dude just went from self-sacrificing by falling into a black hole to looking at his daughter when she was trying to convince him not to leave. He’s more than a little emotional and we can’t expect him to make perfect sense.
Ah yeah I get what you mean, that’s a good take on it.
Despite what some people seem to have assumed, I do think Interstellar is definitely one of the best hard scifi movies to come out in recent memory, and I really do like many parts of it. I’ll have to watch it again some day with this reframing in mind
Wow. First time I’ve heard this complaint in the last 10 years. 🙄
What’s your point? Nobody’s allowed to voice their opinions if they’re not unique?
It’s OK for me to not like some parts of the plot and say it out loud even if it’s a common complaint, just like it’s OK for people to like those parts.
Well I’m just fucking sick of hearing this specific complaint again and again and again. Listening to techbros at reddit getting uncomfortable because ‘their’ hardcore sci-fi movie had human emotions, expressed by a woman. I mean, ewww cringe, amirite? Talk about time travel and shit some more. 🙄
I’mm clearly having trouble seeing the mountain for all these ships.
I believe in water mountain. Just one of it. And it’s round. That’s why ships always disappear the same distance away if your height is the same, and why they disappear further away if you’re higher up, again with a predictable relationship. The water mountain surrounds two thirds of the earth, and goes all the way around the round earth.
Yeah, Mount Horizon covers the entire planet
