Denying science via technological devices? I haven't quite figured it out either other than people just being dumb as fuck.
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Shaq believes in a flat earth. Edit: Claims he doesn't believe in a flat earth
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Again, I am fairly sure Shaq is trolling here, but there are actual people who believe the earth is flat. What blows my mind is that there is more photographic "evidence" of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster than there is of a flat earth.
Is there any explanation out there for why the edge has never been photographed? I'd go looking myself but I place a lot of value on the minute amount of functioning brain cells I have left.
Is there any explanation out there for why the edge has never been photographed? I'd go looking myself but I place a lot of value on the minute amount of functioning brain cells I have left.
I saw Shaq in a grocery store in Orlando yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?" I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning​ it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning​ it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
The illumy narty won't let us near the edge!!
StrangeRoboMemory
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BigJonsson
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I think I recall Shaq talking about his team going on a hot streak and pulling a 360 when he really meant a 180 so maybe he isn't joking here?
wesleyshark
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It's just a cardboard cutout duh
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
That was Jason Kidd
7DollarHagane
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I love the idea of flat Earth because it's so weird and all the nonsense that people come up with to justify it.
I like the idea of it as a science fiction thing basically. The same way I love the idea of a ringworld.
I like the idea of it as a science fiction thing basically. The same way I love the idea of a ringworld.
fuck, you're right. that coupled with too much infetterence would make it impossible for a plane to fly in that area. can't believe i didn't think of that...
bruh, why do you think he looks so pissed
Sweeney Tom
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lmfao
Ben Carson is a doctor who has done actual brain surgery, and he's a bigger nutbar than any average flat earther
King Tubby
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Is flat earthism the new Scientology for ballplayers? Because I can't
How About No
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That Shaq got sucked into the left shoe, current Shaq came out of the right shoe
This is mind boggling and completely true.
i would be surprised if Shaq really believes that. He loves attention. Everybody will talk about him. Charley Barkley will make fun of him. Inside NBA wins.
I refuse to believe that people with enough money to fly around the world actually believe this.
Do they believe Felix Baumgartner's freefall few years ago where you could clearly see the curvature of the earth is fake too?
I refuse to believe that people with enough money to fly around the world actually believe this.
Do they believe Felix Baumgartner's freefall few years ago where you could clearly see the curvature of the earth is fake too?
wesleyshark
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That was because of the camera lens...
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
air traffic controllers know
this is one of the best analogies ever made🙌
That's like saying it would make sense if people who play a lot of frisbee think the Earth is flat.
Wait, do people who play a lot of frisbee think the Earth is flat?
Ball is life
Earth is life
Earth is ball
I used to do martial arts, which is why I believe that the Earth is belt-shaped. The bulk of the human race lives on the knot.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The General hired some high school students to do their animation. You know they probably offered Shaq a discount on his insurance. How the mighty have fallen.
Prototype Viktor
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He's just trying to talk his way to SpaceX's trip to the moon
AntraxSuicide
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The ancient Greeks even got really close to the exact diameter of the earth using the angles that the moon made relative to the earth at different locations.
Danis Saur
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Too much Youtube, man.
I've seen those videos, they're interesting but with a bunch of errors.
Although I do find the stories about there being land beyond Antarctica fascinating because the Earth is flat.
I've seen those videos, they're interesting but with a bunch of errors.
Although I do find the stories about there being land beyond Antarctica fascinating because the Earth is flat.
Ninja Scooter
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Pretty sure University of Phoenix gave him a PHD in exchange for free advertising.
M.W.
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A lot of NBA players are morons.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
How can the Earth be flat if it's hollow...
LookAtMeGo
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The moon is a spaceship. Aliens live in it. Why do you think Obama bombed the moon?
The flat earth is just some christian shit trying to make people believe that the Earth is extra special. Like life isnt special enough.
The flat earth is just some christian shit trying to make people believe that the Earth is extra special. Like life isnt special enough.
CloudyTuba
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Good fucking god it's like second grade never happened. Does nobody know how clouds work? Or what combustion engines produce? Or how weather happens at all? If these people knew these things, this wouldn't even be a question. And Shaq. Fucking Shaq.
Education has failed.
The last time some jackass brought this up I did the math.
poppedcollar69
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He's just trying to get some heat before he puts the big show over at the ultimate thrill ride, wrestle mania
Tezzeractor
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I can't accept that he's serious. That's worded way too sarcastically.
EDIT: That Hayden Panettiere tweet though...
EDIT: That Hayden Panettiere tweet though...
Sweeney Tom
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https://twitter.com/grantmemerson/status/843330615198007296 :jnc king idiot shaq
notworksafe
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i don't believe it
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
You're really quite fond of that emoji, aren't you?
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