{"article":{"id":88665,"heading":"Scientific Fact: The Earth is Flat","author":"Janey Morrison","created":"2003-10-14 01:16:13","modified":"2003-10-17 00:21:38","last_modified":"Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:21:38","article":"

Come and enjoy been with likeminded people at our annual gathering. The evil, pernicious and heretical doctrine that the Earth is a sphere must be countered by the Enlightened ones.

We welcome new members, anarchists and Marxists are especially welcome - we know you'll fit right in.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"flatearth.meetup.com","address":"Flat Earth Society","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Come and join us for our annual Flat Earth Society meet-up day.","numcomment":16,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/10\/88665.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":88667,"heading":"Hmmm.. I've read this on Indymedia so it's probably true","article":"I mean, we can.t trust the government and scientists - what if they've been lying to us about this?","author":"Educated Anarchist","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 01:42:47","modified":"2003-10-14 01:42:47","fileurl":""},{"id":88675,"heading":"My uncle said that his flight to China took a 90 degree turn....DOWN.","article":"Them government aliens want to hide the facts. The earth is a big old cube. We aint never been to the moon, and them aliens which done crashed at Roswell are behind all of it. VARMITS!","author":"Jethro","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 02:52:30","modified":"2003-10-14 02:52:30","fileurl":""},{"id":88708,"heading":"Nuckleheads","article":"I guess NASA has faked a lot of photos and video tape of the cube planet....gads what NUCKLEHEADS !","author":"Frasier","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 13:30:14","modified":"2003-10-14 13:30:14","fileurl":""},{"id":88728,"heading":"The New X","article":"umm... i guess creationism is false too.\r\n\r\nwonder what old dubya would think of that","author":"The New X","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 17:22:38","modified":"2003-10-14 17:22:38","fileurl":""},{"id":88730,"heading":"Tired Cliche","article":"How many times have we heard someone say "I wonder what so-and-so would think of that?"","author":"tc","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 17:36:31","modified":"2003-10-14 17:36:31","fileurl":""},{"id":88733,"heading":"flights of fancy","article":"A plane flies on a straight course, and not on a small incline down, otherwise it would crash...A bullet shot from a gun can be precisely targeted for miles, without taking into account the heretical-spheroid-earth crap...einsteins relativity is further proof...why aren't cars built with a slight curve?---There is more to this than any of us know!--or maybe a few ultrarich, evil corporations are controlling things?","author":"A.S. Houle","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 18:15:26","modified":"2003-10-14 18:15:26","fileurl":""},{"id":88745,"heading":"^","article":"Some people know just enough science to be dangerous to themselves.\r\n\r\nHey, A.S.: Don't put instant coffee in the microwave. You'll go back in time.\r\n\r\n ","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 20:28:49","modified":"2003-10-14 20:28:49","fileurl":""},{"id":88746,"heading":"what","article":"you people have got to be joking me","author":"the...","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 20:43:53","modified":"2003-10-14 20:43:53","fileurl":""},{"id":88747,"heading":"Listen to my program for more details","article":"Tune into my regularly scheduled program, 'Socialism Now,' on Pacifier Radio.\r\n\r\nWe will continue to expose the corporate interests who benefit from perpetuating the myth that the Earth isn't flat. \r\n\r\nIt is our contention that 'Bush knew!'\r\n\r\n","author":"Amy Nogoodman","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 20:56:04","modified":"2003-10-14 20:56:04","fileurl":""},{"id":88750,"heading":"beetles","article":" nonanarchist_re: instant coffee in the mike--you should turn the mike upside down in the noon sun(during vernal equinox is best) to come back...don't forget...\r\never notice VW bugs were the only rounded car for years? probably trying to tell us something about the proven flatearth which has been denied us for centuries! wouldn't you agree?","author":"A.S. Houle","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 21:17:48","modified":"2003-10-14 21:17:48","fileurl":""},{"id":88756,"heading":"Silly!","article":"You know as well as I do that microwaves don't work upside down. All the energy drains out of the magnetron and pools in the top of the oven, causing a severe blast of radiation to the poor fool who opens the door....usually at crotch level, with attendant unfortunate side effects.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, operation of a microwave during the vernal equinox causes the oven to produce MACROwaves, which have been proven to mimic scalar weapons and HAARP effects, only more in the "lavender" shade. Additionally, macrowaves cause an increase in chihuahua diarhhea, male pattern baldness, and invocation of the infield fly rule. To be fair, these same effects can also be caused by listening to too much Pacifica radio, especially Amy Goodman. \r\n\r\nSo don't EVEN try to talk science with ME, buddy boy. Yer outta yer league.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 22:40:48","modified":"2003-10-14 22:40:48","fileurl":""},{"id":88758,"heading":"Hey A.S.","article":"You were saying "Einstein's Realtivity is further proof..." and then you just kind of trailed off.\r\n\r\nTel us more, we need to know the facts.!!!","author":"Highly amused","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-14 22:45:24","modified":"2003-10-14 22:45:24","fileurl":""},{"id":88888,"heading":"spec.theory of relativity","article":"Light always travels in a straight line, even with gravitational effects warping space---which is why we don't comprehend the flatness of our world!\r\nWhen we view the earth from space it appears round, and this is due to gravity and the smoggy atmosphere(corporations). The seeming bending of light waves which encircle the flatdisc, due to gravity, and the illusion we see from outerspace has been played on us for centuries, but for what?--$$$$$$$$....and who does this??","author":"not einstein or A.S.","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-15 20:23:54","modified":"2003-10-15 20:23:54","fileurl":""},{"id":89143,"heading":"last ditch effort","article":"of the right wing extremists to spam an entire article to strengthen their make believe world.\r\nThey are so afraid of those pesky terrorists...\r\nTHEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!!!\r\n\r\nIts pretty unfortunate though.\r\n\r\nRemember those Time Life books and commercials about Nazi Germany?\r\nThe questions they asked at the start of the commerical.....\r\n\r\nHow could a nation be taken over by a\r\nschitzophrenic (flash Hitlers face)\r\na drug addict (flash Gobbels)\r\na paranoid (flash Goring)\r\n\r\nWell, how did it take place.\r\nanswer that and you will know the truth......","author":"nation of sheep","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-17 00:05:47","modified":"2003-10-17 00:05:47","fileurl":""},{"id":89145,"heading":"What has this got to do with terrorism?","article":"Amigo?\r\n\r\nNo one mentioned terrorism but you - I think I see one outside your window (I'm the guy in the unmarked van).","author":"Hessian","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-17 00:08:40","modified":"2003-10-17 00:08:40","fileurl":""},{"id":89149,"heading":"...........","article":"oh yeah i see you.....\r\nright through my crosshairs.\r\n\r\nfeeling froggy eric?","author":"---X---","parent_id":88665,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-17 00:21:38","modified":"2003-10-17 00:21:38","fileurl":""}]}