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sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:38 AM Mar 2019

This Promises to Be the Dumbest Cruise Ever - The Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC)

https://www.fodors.com/news/cruises/this-promises-to-be-the-dumbest-cruise-ever

And now this unfortunate trend is headed into the open ocean. The Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) has just announced that it will be holding its 2020 conference on a cruise. Details on the cruise are scarce (much like their evidence that the Earth is flat) but a banner on the FEIC’s website promises that it will be the “biggest, boldest, adventure yet.”

Compounding the joke is where they’re not going. If you were to hazard a guess as to what a yet-to-be-named destination for Flat Earthers taking a cruise might be, you’d be foolish not to guess Antarctica. It is, after all, where you go to prove that the Earth is flat, according to Flat Earthers who believe that we all live on a flat disc. At the edge of that disc is the continent of Antarctica which acts as a barrier that keeps us from falling off.

The only thing that Flat Earthers need to do to legitimize their existence is to take a cruise to Antartica and sail around it. But, while they have yet to announce where they’re going, in a statement to the DailyMail.com, FEIC founder Robbie Davidson said Antartica is the one place they won’t be going. The 2020 trip is “just a cruise” and the group isn’t on a mission to find the ice shore at the end of the world “yet.”

The fact that Flat Earthers aren’t in a hurry to prove the very thing that defines them and would rather upgrade to that premium beverage package and luxuriate under Caribbean rays (which, according to them, emanates from a sun that rotates parallel to the Earth around the North Pole) doesn’t make the matter less ironic or embarrassing. Someone should check on Galileo’s severed fingers because they’re surely spinning in their glass jars.
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This Promises to Be the Dumbest Cruise Ever - The Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Mar 2019 OP
But...but.... SoCalNative Mar 2019 #1
Beat me to it! smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #12
I guess the joke would be on us Lindsay Mar 2019 #2
They should make a real adventure of it: an around-the-world cruise. lagomorph777 Mar 2019 #3
i want to see all their faces when the sun sets..'where did it go??' samnsara Mar 2019 #4
wouldn't a plane 'prove' that too nini Mar 2019 #5
This has to be an Andy Kaufman joke, right? nolabear Mar 2019 #6
Right. marybourg Mar 2019 #14
"Send your thoughts and prayers so we don't go over the edge!" struggle4progress Mar 2019 #7
May their boat sink after hitting the edge of the Earth. java108 Mar 2019 #8
Can I set up a shop to sell them parachutes? TCJ70 Mar 2019 #9
Like Pyramid Power believers. Refuse to learn. BSdetect Mar 2019 #10
A stray thought: happybird Mar 2019 #11
now *that* is what i call "feic news"! unblock Mar 2019 #13
If only the ship could fall off the edge malaise Mar 2019 #15
Or they could flip the ship! csziggy Mar 2019 #17
One way cruise? keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #16
The captain should refuse to leave port until they can show him how to navigate muriel_volestrangler Mar 2019 #18

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
3. They should make a real adventure of it: an around-the-world cruise.
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:43 AM
Mar 2019

They could stop at all the flat earth hot-spots and prove their theory.

samnsara

(17,636 posts)
4. i want to see all their faces when the sun sets..'where did it go??'
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:43 AM
Mar 2019

..or when it rises..'where did THAT come from?'

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
6. This has to be an Andy Kaufman joke, right?
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:44 AM
Mar 2019

It has to be. An ultimate in joke. Snickering behind their hands. Reveling in the suckers buying it. Right? RIGHT???

happybird

(4,627 posts)
11. A stray thought:
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:56 AM
Mar 2019

What do flat earther idiots think about climate change? If that ice barrier melts all of Earth's water will run off like bath water going down the drain. Scary.


muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
18. The captain should refuse to leave port until they can show him how to navigate
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 06:28 PM
Mar 2019

a flat earth, with evidence. Can't use the stars, since they're the primary evidence for a globe. Can't use a magnetic compass, since where's the magnetic south pole in their model? Can't use GPS, because that uses satellites, which Flat Earthers say don't exist. Can't use maps and charts drawn in the last 1500 years, since they all assume a globe.

Better stay within site of the home port, just in case. After all, Flat Earthers think you won't lose sight of that for a long time, since there's no horizon from any curvature of the Earth's surface. When they lose sight from near the waterline, they could then be taken up to the highest point possible of the ship, and then asked if they're familiar with the idea of lookout posts and crow's nests in ships ...

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