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Can't argue with that logic (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Water mountains are my new favorite concept

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[–] Lemminary 51 points 4 months ago (6 children)

They have to be trolling, right? There's no way a flat earther thinks water can bend like that.

[–] ignotum 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"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

[–] Lemminary 24 points 4 months ago

Yeah, you're right. Why am I expecting any soft of consistency in their train of thought. lol

[–] davidagain 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

What is a tide if not a wide and mobile water hill?

[–] Dasus 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/more-than-5000-new-species-discovered-in-pacific-deep-sea-mining-hotspot

But yeah, I really think "water mountains" is a bit on a exaggeration to that phenomena.

[–] davidagain 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. And I love that picture.

[–] Lemminary 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] marcos 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Now that you asked, I wonder how flat earthers explain tides.

[–] CeeBee_Eh 2 points 4 months ago

They don't

[–] mojofrododojo 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] davidagain 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is a tide not a kind of water hill?

[–] mojofrododojo 3 points 4 months ago

imagine if you could, a water mountain or hill as frozen in time..... you could wave at it, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There no way an earther could water bend either, unless they’re the avatar or something.

[–] Lemminary 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn weebs gonna weeb. (Avatar <3 )

[–] feedum_sneedson 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's an American series I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yup, Nickelodeon original.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Oh you sweet summer child. If they understood basic physics they wouldn't be a flat earther.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

There's no way a flat earther thinks

That's all you need to remember.