how can the earth be flat if my life is continually going downhill

As a South African, I'm just a tad bit surprised to learn that where I live doesnt exist

My flat Earth friend first said there are really no flights between Africa and Australia but he changed that to "they have them but the passengers are all put to sleep and are awakened upon arrival, never knowing how long it really took." That's even more ludicrous than the first excuse.

People, keep in mind that some flerfers don't even believe ariplanes are real, that should give you an idea of the caliber of insanity we're dealing with here!

"We have a lot of members AROUND the GLOBE." - Flat Earth Founder

man this guy is harsh and I appreciate it lol

As a Brazilian I can confidently confirm that all of the southern hemisphere is indeed located on mars

6:01 - Hey, did you just claim that the Easter Bunny isn't real? That's fighting talk. Next you'll be claiming there's no Tooth Fairy 😮

Also, the idea that an airplane should *dip its nose* to go down is the most idiotic ever. Have they even seen an airplane landing in their entire life? :D

The real problem here is that I don't know which comments are real and which are trolls.

Sorting the comments by new was a mistake

A flat earther just told me gravity doesn’t exist

As an Australian I can confirm the southern hemisphere actually doesn't exist

Flat Earthers be like: “No! You’re wrong!” Me: “Why?” Flat Earthers: “Idk you just are!”

POV: you're looking at the newest comments to find more flat earthers to laugh at

You can't convince idiots with science. If they understood science there would be no flat earthers

As someone who lives in the southern hemisphere, it is quite a shock to learn that I don't exist 😱

1. Watch this video 2. Go into comments and sort by new 3. Lose faith in human intelligence

How come no plane has ever flown to the ice wall and taken pictures????? Maybe because it doesn't exist??? Ya think??

When I flew to Germany from Calgary Alberta we took a "short cut" over Green land. That route coupled with the surprising short flight time totally debunks flat Earth.

Winning an argument against a genius is hard, but winning an argument against an ignorant is impossible. Bees don't waste their time at explaining to flies that honey is better than sh*t.

Please, Dave, go to a flat Earth conference and ask them questions they can’t answer! I bet we would all love to see that 😁

Since I know this information already and I’m not a flathead, it gave me the opportunity to notice your very cool Led Zeppelin picture on your wall. Nice!!

1. Seasons 2. Day & night in different places 3. Time zones 4. How come no one discovered the edge of the earth 5. Why are the sun moon and other planets spherical when we see them in the sky? Why haven’t we seen a square planet

Winning an argument against a smart person is difficult. Winning an argument against a dumb person is impossible.

I joined the flat earth forum and I saw someone bringing this argument: one actually replied "they drug you to distort your perception of time"

the reason they don't travel over antarctica is because they have to be close enough to make an emergency landing in case things go wrong

it's absolutely insane to me that you need to make this video in the first place

The fact that this video needs to be made honestly hurts my soul.

The great circle argument also holds for flights in the Northern Hemisphere. On my very first transatlantic flight from New York to London, the pilot announced that we were flying over Scotland at the time and were about to start our descent to London. Everyone knows that Scotland is way north of London. I wondered why we didn’t just fly due east from N. America to London. A few years later, I began a career as an airline steward for Pan Am. They explained about the great circle routes in our training. Because of the curvature of the Earth, the distance is shorter to fly in an arc to a lower latitude, lessening the distance.

I’ve flown from the U.S. to Australia, and from Australia to South Africa. Both flights were close to the same length - within an hour or two. I made this comment on a flerfer forum once, and I was told all sorts of crazy things: 1) I’m a liar. There are no flights from one part of the Southern Hemisphere to another. 2) The plane - a 747 in both cases - flew much faster from Australia to South Africa. MUCH faster. 3) Everyone on the plane from Australia to S.A. was put to sleep with some sort of sleeping gas, so the flight only seemed shorter because everyone slept through half of it…plus we slept through a refueling stop somewhere in between in a 747 wouldn’t have the range to fly that distance on the FE map. 4) Australia and South Africa were actually places in the Northern Hemisphere and we were all fooled into thinking we’d flown to the Southern Hemisphere. These were all ridiculous, of course. 1) I have actually made those flights, although they were several decades ago. 2) If 747s could fly twice as fast as they do from L.A. to Sydney, why wouldn’t they go twice as fast on ALL over-water routes? Cutting a 14-hour trip to seven hours would be wonderful! 3) Funny, but my watch - and all the clocks in both countries - said I was on the plane for about 15 hours. Do they reset the clocks for everyone at your destination just to fool the passengers from one flight? Plus, if we could be safely gassed and put to sleep with zero ill effects on planes, why not do it for all long flights? I’d happily consent to it if it meant I wouldn’t have to sit in that uncomfortable seat for 14 hours, unable to sleep since I can’t ever fall asleep on planes. I’d consent to it on short flights, too! 4) As an astronomy buff, I spent quite a lot of time studying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere. Orion was upside-down and there were many constellations not visible at all from the Northern Hemisphere. Everything rotates around the southern star, too. These claims that flerfers make are easily verified or debunked. Just get on a plane> I guess flerfers are all too poor to afford plane tickets.

Flat-earthers living in the northern hemisphere: "the southern hemisphere doesn't exist!". Flat-earthers living in the southern hemisphere: ...

"No amount of evidence, will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain.

It feels like some of these "Flat Earth commenters" arent actually part of Flat Earth they just want to be insulted and talked down to, im not juging, whatever flies your planes guys.

I was disappointed that we had to teach this to fully grown adults, but after thinking about it a little more, it’s even more disappointing

This argument won't work with a flat earther because it uses logic and reason.

Pro tip: sort comments to ‘newest first’ to see all flat earth comments.

Come across a woman in an FE Facebook group who said she knew a pilot, that multiple members of her family worked for NASA and had been pilots in the air force and all were FE belivers. I was literally gagging at the smell of the bullshit! 🤦‍♂️😂

"By looking at objects and thinking with their brains" Slow down there man. You're asking too much from these people

I find it funny how teleportation, reality distortion and a multi-trillion dollar conspiracy are in the mind of a flat earther, less absurd than the idea of the Earth being the same shape as the rest of the shit we see in the night sky.

I knew the earth was a ball since I was 3, and I love how you wrecked flat earth 8 times in total.

Dear Dave. I just finished watching the video where you trash a flat earth bald guy. Then realized, by googling your name, that you are the same dave that refreshes my physics back from college, gives me useful tips to address my own teaching and reminds me why I was trapped by the wonder of science. I usually turn to your channel when the traffic on Mexico City wants to drawn me, and you give a good amount of oxygen to the situation. On behalf of my students, my kids and miself, thank you for your kind and serious dedication to explain things. You make the world a better place.

The fact that this topic is even up for debate is a depressing sign for humanity. Eventually, these people will have kids that learn from them. Sad really

An antarctic scientist on a flat earth: 👁️_____________________________👁️

QF28 flew over Antarctica twice in as many days last month

Reminds me of that guy who insisted Australia wasn't real

Toddler: 😭 The Easter bunny isn't real Flat Earthers: 😭 The Southern hemisphere is real

Flat earther : Southern Hemisphere is didnt exist!!! Flath earther in SouthernHemisphere : 😐

I don’t think flat earth ears know how seasons work

As an Aussie, I can confirm that I do not exist. Therefore neither does this confirmation.

I find it amusing to hear flat earthers make references to the northern and southern hemispheres. You know, the hemi*spheres*. LOL.

Just the fact that flat earthers exist blows my mind.

There's an interesting reason why airlines aren't allowed to fly over Antarctica that has to do with safety of twin-engine planes (which nearly all are these days because they're more fuel efficient than four-engine planes). There's a regulation called ETOPS where two-engine planes have to be certified to be allowed to fly for up to a certain length of time away from the nearest airport on a single engine. Modern Boeing and Airbus planes are certified for up to ETOPS 330 (ETOPS 370 for the Airbus A350 XWB), which means the engines and other components are considered reliable enough to fly that many minutes away from the nearest airport (and there are mandatory ETOPS inspections before such flights). That's why there are twin-engine flights between Hawaii and the continental US or Tokyo, or between Santiago and Sydney or Auckland, that are almost entirely over water. The only absolutely no-go area under ETOPS 370 is directly over Antarctica. Theoretically, airlines could fly four-engine planes over Antarctica, but there's no demand to send the limited number of big four-engine planes like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 on such routes.

These newest comments are either trolls or people who genuinely think the earth is flat

Flat Earther: People in South Hemisphere doesn’t exist Philosopher in South Hemisphere: Yes you are right

As someone from the Southern hemisphere i can confirm, we don't exist

Sometimes I see Flat Earthers complain that "You need to get permission of the government/UN/God in order to fly to Arctic/Antarctica/The Edge" And I'm like... "Umm... isn't it standard procedure for any flight, anywhere? That you ask for permission to fly anywhere?" Why do they expect somehow Antarctica to be any different? Because no one owns it? They still need permission of your ATC to use their airspace in order to get there. Because we all know those Flat Earthers are not going to be launching planes out in international waters.

looking at the azimuthal equidistant projection, you would expect a flight from perth to sydney (west to east coast) to take three times as long as a flight from new york to LA. but since we live on a sphere, it's not. it's an HOUR SHORTER

"Thinking with their brains" See, that's where this whole thing goes off the rails............

their argument is. "all pilots are ex military just remember that". Like every member of the military is some kind of paid secret keeper....

Isn’t it crazy how the world actually works. The fact people exist who believe the world is flat is mind blowing

"Southern Hemisphere doesn't exist!" 150M people living in Java Island: *JANCOK KON* (equivalent to FU)

POV: you are looking for flat earthers counter arguements

If you’re a flat earther go find the edge, you’ll be renowned you’ll be a hero, you’ll become a millionaire. Now people are saying an army guards the edge, go take pictures of the army guarding the edge you’ll be a super hero,

Thanks. I'm from Chile and I traveled from Santiago to Sidney on 2015 (my final place was Japan).... and yes, it was a straight and smooth flight for 12 hrs.

If the earth is flat, what is a nautical mile? 🤔🤔

probably my favorite line tweeted by the OFFICIAL flat earth society on twitter, "We have members all around the globe", and you can guess what the internet had to say ab that

As a South African I am very proud to be living on the hemisphere that blatantly destroys the flat earth concept. I'm not even going to call it a theory.

RIP Bob. "A 15 degree per hour drift" Thanks Bob.

The best one I like is that they use distances that are less than 1% of the "suggested circumstance."

I find it hilarious that if something doesn't align with their theory, they just deny it's existence

No joke a flat earther told me that propeller planes legit can't fly, even after I've told them that I've flown in one

bold of you to assume flat earthers have brains to begin with

I love that you still answer those stupid comments tree years later 😂

When flat earthers realize they’ve been breathing from the atmosphere & not the atmosflat. 🤔

I use to be a flat earther. I started doubting it after many said it was round. So I studied more and more, it wasn't until I graduated Kindergarten did I mean the earth is round.

Even if the earth was magically cut in half and the southern hemisphere disappeared, the most south part of the north hemisphere will become the new south. How distorted would things be then? BTW love your videos keep up the amazing work 👍

I am a retired airline pilot with a 38-year career flying airplanes worldwide. The calculations we used to complete transcontinental or trans-oceanic flights were absolutely based on a global world using mostly Lambert Conformal Conic projection to convert the sphere into navigation charts. We used Great Circle Routes to shorten flight distances and times. Great circle routes do not exist on a flat earth. I have yet to see a flat earth map that would provide accurate distances, times, and headings for any long-distance flight. In fact, were I to plot such a course and use the headings provided by a flat earth map, God knows where I’d end up, and likely the distance and therefore the time would be wildly in error. Imagine an air transport industry using such folly.

As a cyclist, I can assure you the wind always knows which way I’m going. It’s always a headwind heading out, and a headwind when I turn around to come home.

Why does this even have to be explained to other human beings?

All those videos taken from space and space stations, flat earthers call them all fake, filmed in water, they are using hair spray and all that crap. But there are no videos of flat earth, even fake ones. How come?

I have a meme from facebook where a flat earther is actually quoted as saying "flat earthers are all over the globe." something like that.

I was looking for a flight path and I found this video that put them in my face. Thank you for making it.

Being an astrophysicist I can almost feel physical pain when flat eathers put their stand. I mean did I just waste my countless nights staring at holographic stars and planets😫.

As a Brazilian, I can say that the southern hemisphere exists

The earth MUST BE flat, cause my tiny brain can't get it's a globe.

I feel we're saving the "if you go to the edge would you just teleport to the other side" thing for later

If the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now

As a Christchurch resident "not a major city" offence taken 😂

This was well done. We all knew this information, but you demonstrated it so well. Thanks.

My brother’s been on Concorde and seen the curvature of the earth. A flat earther who drinks in his local pub still wouldn’t back down 😂😂

In the Netflix documentary called “Behind the Curve” the flatearthers proved themselves wrong with their own experiments

On behalf of the Southern Hemisphere, I would like to say that we are honoured to be the reason why Flat Earthers can't sleep at night.

I have been reading the new comments on here and I'm surprised to see that you still respond on a video that is 2 years old. I haven't looked properly on your channel but have you spoke to a flat earther who changed their perspective and thinks the world is a globe now? If so, was there a specific point that made them think twice about their perspective? But I'm loving the videos!

It's actually crazy to think think that so much effort needs to be put into convicing people that the earth isn't flat in this day and age.

5:10 I've went around the world, and lived in Australia for 3 years. I can positively say that during the flight, I did not disappear from existence.

There was one FB group called Flat Earthers, so a Bosnian guy joined and in some time got elected an admin, he than changed the group name to ROUND EARTHERS. They couldnt change back for 28 days! Hilarious!

What do flat earthers think would happen if you reached the end of the flat Earth? Or do they just hide behind the idea that we’ll never reach it because of the water?

I love that you are still replying to comments on this video dave

Best line ever: "How does the wind know which way the plane is going?" 👍😁🏆