I remember a time when people said, "you guys have the internet, with unlimited knowledge. How can you not know everything." We were so naive to think that the truth would be more popular than fiction.

0:40 DOES WISECRACK KNOW THINGS!? What do they know? Do they know things? Lets find out.

Let me make this easy for you. If the earth was indeed flat, or even close to being flat, you could mount a telescope on a building in New York, and look across the Atlantic to see Big Ben in London. The actual line of sight between those two points is a straight line that enters the ocean before the horizon and continues until it is thousands of feet below the surface, and continues in that straight line until it reaches Big Ben. A flat earth would mean that line of sight would never enter the ocean.

The mental image of a group of people passing around a swan is something I find highly amusing

I never thought I'd see the legend behind Garyx Wormuloid

Garyx's human cosplay is good if a little upsetting, a bit uncanny valley

I had a two-hour debate with a flat Earther this weekend. He could never explain sunrise/sunset or the eclipses. I told him there is a lunar eclipse on 5/15/2022 and for him to go outside and explain the curved shadow that he'll see.

Flat earthers will never debunk anything.

For fuck's sake, now my youtube feed will be filled with Flat Earth videos...

"How do we know that we know shit?" is actually epistemology.

10:21 "A 15° per hour drift" Thanks Bob!

All I see whenever I see any flat earther rally or reunion is a bunch of 50 years olds too stubborn to admit that they are wrong.

Scientists: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out. That would be a killer tv show

1:05 "...let's get real nerdy about the philosophy of science..." Me: Yes! Entire rest of video: Never once mentions the word epistemology. Me: NOT NERDY ENOUGH!

That’s the guy who said you can see Seattle from Canada! I’m afraid not. All line of sight angles from Canada have the city obscured by mountains and islands. There is no way to see Seattle from Canada without gaining considerable elevation first.

2:20 "and probably after this video, Wisecrack" HAHAHAHA I LAUGH SO HARD SO TRUE

Garyx is good looking and normal and I don't like it and it makes me weirdly uncomfortable. Speech not working.

We need to teach kids critical thinking from kindergarten on

I love the Garyx Wormuloid cameos! He's so handsome, and i always forget that until he appears, so it always is a nice surprise :)

Didn't Flat earthers spend $40,000 to try to prove that the Earth was flat. Ended up proving it round. That made me laugh

Legend has it that when Schroeder transitions into his character, Garyx, all the facial hair on his face would climb up towards his forehead and turn into the alien's iconic brows...

90’s scientists: We’ve cloned a sheep and put a robot on Mars Today scientists: The Earth is round.

*Simple questions for flat earthers* If the earth is flat it has 2 sides who lives on the other side? Why can't we communicate with them? If no one lives there why not? Do they have a sun and moon also? If there is no sun on the other side do mushrooms grow there? Are we on the wrong side? If so why don't we notice we are upside down? If I go over the edge in a bathtub will I reach the other side or get stuck on the edge? Does anyone live on the edge? Why not? How thick is the edge? *Enquiring minds want to know*

The simply nature of physics and the way water behaves should be all the evidence anyone would ever need to prove that the earth is indeed a sphere. A single water droplet does not form a flat plain when dropped. When not under the influence of any other object, it naturally forms a sphere. This simple truth is undeniably.

This is the best video Wisecrack has ever done in my opinion. It takes an apparent silly topic as flat earth and is capable of reaching the root of a major problem in modern society. Congratulations to be capable of going beyond "flat earth is stupid" and give a brief and well explained description of what modern science is, how it operates and its shortcomings according to solid authors like Karl Popper.

"I think that the scientific method is the best way to get to the truth." Says the guy who has scientifically proven the Earth to be spherical at least twice but keeps on claiming it's flat.

As that famous dead guy once said, "the unexamined life is totally the best life and supernormal". Perhaps conspiracy theorists are the only philosophers left in a pool full of golems.

I agree there needs to be more access to science fields. I grew up with an Electrical Engineer as a father, asking questions turned into lessons in the field. I not only got to understand how and why something reacts the way it does but also the history of testing and our foundation of knowledge being applied and it working in front of me. At the age of 10 I was able to help him solve problems on wire diagrams. I find it very frustrating that people are believing in all kinds of insane non-sense.

You're really touching on a significant broader yet very specific human problem with the "moms against" joke.

Elon Musk sent the flat earth society a tweet asking if they think other planets are flat as well They responded and said other planets have been observed as round not flat

The only thing Flat Earthers have to fear is sphere itself...

If the Earth is flat, I would like to see an expedition to the edge of the world. If we are really in a dome, that is.

As the great philosopher Thor said, ”All words are made up”!

I like to imagine that flat earth theory is a troll that went too far.

“Flat earthers are a little bit scattered in their beliefs” You’re being kind

There’s always an aura of “insult” and “sarcasm” in the air when people speak of the flat earth theory rather they’re against it or not. Just because we know the terms and memorized what was taught to us, measurements and all that it doesn’t mean that all that stuff was true or correct because science for the most part are theories anyway. I think the hardest think for people to want to consider the flat earth is that it means since childhood we’ve learned and become emotionally attached to something that wasn’t true. Some of us went to school for it, we have kids now and we don’t want to teach them something that they aren’t learning in school. I take all that emotionality into affect when I hear someone who believes in the globe. They get emotionally triggered and even angry at you for believing in this

My belief is that natural sciences have gone way beyond what most people understand or comprehend, and in that ignorance and an inferiority complex the conspiracy theories grow.

Honestly, one of my favorite videos you guys have released. Incredibly nuanced and well thought out. Nice work. Also, could we please get a What Went Wrong or a Deep or Dumb focusing on Tron: Legacy?

The thumbnail: they will never find out that its upside down Me: i think this is upside down My hands: go now My brain: you have learned nothing it's not upside down (lies) My head: let's go upside down Thumbnail: (KNOWLEDGE)

Whoop whoop the fact that you threw icp in there with those miracles references is SUPER dope

This is basically a breif "what is knowledge?" using flat earth as an example

Unfortunately most adults are too invested in their existing beliefs to discard them, no matter how much contrary evidence you present.

We have NASA video from the 60's, long before digital imaging became available. My question would be, "why do you choose to not believe the earth is a sphere". What difference does it make to you. Why has there never been a photo taken of the edge of the flat earth. Don't you think that would be on Google Earth.

All you need to do the prove the earth is not flat, is ask how the moon phases work and why most of them are round... or even the moon phases.

I’m a medievalist (Ph. D. and all), and the constant irritating repetition of the entirely incorrect idea that people living in the Middle Ages believed the world was flat makes me extra-special-super crazy. No, they did not - just for one tiny example, Columbus and his peeps were concerned about running out of supplies, a very realistic concern, not running off some edge - also see the design of basic scientific tools of the time period such as astrolabes in which the earth is represented by a sphere - the world had been considered to be round, a spherical shape, since the Greeks (at least). There are references to the earth as a “globe” everywhere in the Middle Ages, including in the works of our best known writers of the time period. So leave the Middle Ages alone, fearthers.

Any scientist will tell you: "Question everything" and "Don't put blind faith into talking heads." They will also tell you (as in the video), don't wholesale throw out the working model until you have a better working model.

"Lies Exposed & Truth Revealed" is a must read for all Christians

Nuts will watch hundred of hours of bullshit and won’t watch five minutes of this.

“Newton also invented calculus” Man don’t do my boy Leibniz like that

the real reason we're arguing about the shape of this "planet" is because seeing that our "planet" is actually the great Cthulhu will cause all to go mad

Flat earthers reminds me of how I think when I was 5 years old

On 4th December there was a total solar eclipse which was visible only in extreme South locations, particularly Antarctica. It was streamed live from the Union Glacier Base near the shores of the Weddell Sea, which is basically south of South America, on several websites including NASA's. In addition to over 70 people who travelled there to watch it, two plane loads of eclipse chasers, from Western Australia and Chile (on opposite sides of the disc) flew South to get a good view of it from 30,000 feet. It was also observed as a partial eclipse from South Africa and Melbourne. When it was observed in Australia it was just before sunset and people looked West to watch it. In contrast, folks in South Africa had to look Eastwards as it was early morning. But here's the BIG THING. The people observing it from the Union Glacier Base watched it when it was technically around midnight! At this time of the year the sun doesn't set in Antartica. It just goes around in circles about 15 degrees above the horizon. And to film the eclipse, the cameras streaming it were pointed SOUTH! Over the South Pole! In the opposite direction to the "centre of the disc"! When totality was happening over Antarctica, it was around noon in India. The sun would have been at it's highest in the Indian sky. How is all of this, happening MORE OR LESS SIMULTANEOUSLY, explainable in the flat earth model? Try mapping this out on the flat earth disc! Then there is the stunning "eclipse over Antarctica" image from the NASA climate satellite, orbiting around a million miles from earth, that photographed the totality shadow over the Weddell Sea. You can clearly see how the global earth model clearly explains this in it's entirety. What will flat earthers say to explain this? All fake? How? Why?

I can't tell you how vindicated I feel when I essentially hear "debate isn't about winning"

In "Behind The Curve" they (flat earthers) conduct two tests to prove flat earth. You guessed it. It showed a globe earth. Did it change their minds? You guessed it.

This is really high quality content. Keep it up.

16:57 love how that says "flights to australia always make a stop in india" but neither of those red lines are touching india

WIX spelt backwards is NASA. Swans are black in New Zealand!!

Modern calculus was developed independently in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. I think saying that is very important for this discussion, especially because 2 different guys from 2 different countries came to the same idea.

I am late to the party but 8:35 is a profound statement and one that all flat earthers do.

The lack of a person, or group of people, that a majority of people believe is one of the biggest problems facing our species right now. The difficulty in changing a person's opinion is made even harder without a revered data source.

Might be a bit niche, but "Philosophy of 'The Onion'" would be great

This video is basically a Theory of Knowledge presentation on the sciences, I appreciate that

a flat earther says the firmament is a glass ceiling, the firmament is all the planets and other objects held by the sun's influence, everything outside the sun's influence is outside the firmament where objects travel freely, one example are comets that have very long elliptical orbits that are under the sun's influence, are part of the firmament since they orbit the sun.

The craziest idea I saw by a flat earther was the wooden motorcycle. You could give it a nickname "the splinter" We learned a long time ago not to make things like that out of wood.

The problem is that people think access to Google makes them just as knowledgeable as actual experts.

Very clever young man, but I'm afraid that it's turtles all the way down.

You would need to be 12,064,800 feet above the earth to see it as a full disk (or globe) since you'll need to construct a right triangle where one angle is 60 degrees (half of 120 degrees), "d" is the distance to the earth, and "r" is the radius of the earth, then d = r/tan(60) = 6371 km/1.732 = 3678 km = 2285 miles. This says that you would have to be 3678 km (2285 miles) away from the earth to see it as a full disk. And since 5,280 feet make a mile you multiply that times the 2,285 miles to arrive at the distance.

This is grade school math. I ran the numbers. Mt Everest is roughly 9000 meters high and 12000km away from me in Columbus Ohio. Looking in the direction of Detroit, I should see My Everest poking up from the skyline .72cm on a ruler 1cm from my eye. I can hear you already saying the trees are in the way.

I JUST finished watching the Flat Earther documentary on Netflix and youtubed "flat earth" and this video was uploaded 23 mins ago.... proof the Earth is flat.

The Earth is not flat or round, it's a Hyperdodecahedron contained in a 3 dimensional Icosahedron. Obviously...duh.

If you scrutinise religion the same way as flat earth the results are eerily similar

Remember, there's no "roll" in "troll".

Do Philosophy of Metalocalypse I will continue to comment this even if it takes dozens of videos for this to get seen

I was surprised that there was no mention of the dunning-kruger effect.

Can you please explain why a flat earther has never ever gone to the edge of the flat earth and taken pictures to prove that there is an edge? Can you tell me about the other planets, are they also flat? How come all of the other planets look like round globes, and their rotation can be observed? Why are all of the other planets different from our planet? What holds up the sun so that it can go around in a circle above the flat earth? What makes the sun move? What holds the moon up in the sky and why do the sun and the moon never collide as they are circling in the sky over the flat earth? Can you please explain how thick is the disk, and what is on the other side? If I drill all the way through the disk what would l see on the other side? We know that volcano's spew out molten magma but where does all of that hot magma live when it’s not actually blowing out of a volcano and what heats it up so that the rocks melt? You tell us that there is no gravity, and you tell us that everything can be explained by density and buoyancy, but how do they work without gravity? What makes a lighter thing rise, and a heavier thing fall if there is no such thing as gravity? What explains the phases of the moon and why does the moon go through the different phases every 28 days? How did the Japanese airforce manage to fly from Japan to Pearl Harbour for the attack in Sunday, December 7, 1941, this flight would need 4 times the fuel any of the planes could carry so how did they do it ? If water finds its own level how do you explain the tides? Simple mathematics and geometry for you here, at sea level at 6ft tall the horizon is 2.98miles away, with a telescope it is still 2.98miles away, just enlarged, at 250meters above sea level the horizon is 30 miles away, this alone shows curvature surely?

Interestingly in the myth of Varaha, at least ca. 600s BCE, says Vishnu in his form as the boar pulled the earth (which was a ball) out of the cosmic ocean and placed it in the sky. There’s also a phrase “kimvantu jagati prasoothuh” which is like “it spins on its own” (loosely).

I completely lost it at "chucky cheese truthers" 😂😂

Behind the curve is actually a love story about Mark and Patricia and I found it quite touching ha ha Ha

“You should barely be able to see the tops of those buildings” yeah that’s why your camera had to zoom in super far because you can barely see the top of those buildings

20:40 I think that at least 3,000 flat-earthers have watched this video at the time of writing this comment

In my experience with Flat-earthers, I've noticed it usually comes with a heavy dose of religiosity. When you strip away the layers of it, most of them cite an extremely literal interpretation of the Bible as their reason for believing the Earth is flat. In that regard, it's basically young Earth creationism 2.0

A better education in history couldn't hurt. Americans are specifically really misinformed in general about historical processes. Ask a high school or college student in America about the American Civil War or the Vietnam War and get ready for deafening silence. Ask them their opinions of The Last Jedi, the MCU and GoT and stand back. Let alone a history of ideas. But a history of how we think what we think, provided it wasn't simply empowering niceties or accusations, has a much greater effect. I've tested this myself.

05:42 - This man’s model shows the sun and the moon as opposites, when you can clearly see the moon in the sky on the daytime, they are not tidally locked!

The fact that Anchorage airport is the best route for Comercial (not passenger) flights to trade goods from Asia to America and even Europe is because the distance is pretty short, because the earth is round...

Also, our scientific knowledge has been gained through cumulative effort. It's not just one person that has brought us to our current understanding of reality.

I personally believe the Earth is a hollow cylinder.

okay, please cite the music video... "water fire, ..." that was dope AF and I need to hear the whole thing.

They made this *before* Covid.

Some crazy woman: "I don't believe in anythig unless I can see it." *WHY ARE YOU BREATHING, YOU CAN'T SEE AIR.*Aside: The flat earth theory isn'y even a theory, there isn't any falsifiable, or demonstrable evidence that even hints ait their model. so even calling it a theory in the sense that it's a potable question in an insult to every language ever.

Oh my God the veil of the illusion is been lifted, what the hell. Now I know and my alien reviewer would look like as the Human, I don’t know if I can continue with life. Keep up the great work.

I'm glad you picked up on the irony that Patricia Steele has been accused of being part of a conspiracy and she can't prove it's wrong.

It was wisecrack all along they started the flat earth movement in order to make this video

İf world aint flat it is sharp (music theory intensifies)

If Earth was flat, every single pilot and air traffic control man would have to be in on it...

one wonders how these flat earthers ever drive over a bridge that was built by the government

Great job. Helps understand why ~7% people collectively are 500 years back hoping for an Inquisition of NASA, I mean Galileo.

What. You believe that the earth exists? Wake up Sheeple. The earth doesn’t exist.

BUT WHAT IS HOLDING UP THE TURTLE???? IS IT.... Turtles all the way down????

JAQing OFF is my favorite new MANTRA.

Considering all of the red herrings and confusion of cosmology at least you had that second law of thermodynamics meme at the beginning